Ntozake Shange, 1948-2018, was a renowned playwright, poet, theater director and novelist. Her body of work includes Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Some Sing Some Cry with Ifa Bayeza, and the posthumous Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance and I Am an Old Woman. Among her numerous accolades are the Langston Hughes Medal for Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America's 2018 Shelley Memorial Award and three AUDELCO awards. Ms. Shange's work has been nominated for a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.
"Celebrates the capacity to master pain and betrayals with wit,
sister-sharing, reckless daring, and flight and forgetfulness if
necessary. She celebrates most of all women's loyalties to women."
-Toni Cade Bambara, Ms. Magazine
"Extraordinary and wonderful...Ntozake Shange writes with such
exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message."
-The New York Times
"Ntozake Shange's extraordinary "choreopoem"...is a dramatic elegy
for black women with an undercurrent message for everyone. Its
theme is not sorrow...but courage. Its strength is its passion and
its reality....An unforgettable collage of one woman's view of the
women of her race, facing everything from rape to unrequited
love....Wisdom and naivete go hand in hand. Wounds and dream
intermingle; strong passions melt into simple courage." -L.I.
Press/Newhouse Newspapers
"These poems and prose selections are...rich with the author's
special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely
honest and personal." -New York Post
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