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    Ntozake Shange (/ˌɛntoʊˈzɑːki ˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ/ EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist...
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  • 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the...
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  • American writer Ntozake Shange in a description of her work, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Shange's attempt to...
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    who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, with text by Ntozake Shange. She has won numerous honors for her work including an Emmy nomination...
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  • If i can cook / you know god can (category Works by Ntozake Shange)
    (sometimes known as If I Can Cook You Know God Can) is a culinary memoir by Ntozake Shange. It was originally published by Beacon Press, in Boston MA, United States...
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  • Edgar Award for Best Play in 2009. She is the sister of Ntozake Shange, and directed Shange's A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, which was a part of the...
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  • Shange may refer to: Shan'ge, genre of Chinese folk song Lebogang Shange (born 1990), South African race walker Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), American playwright...
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  • For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide /...
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  • Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (category Novels by Ntozake Shange)
    Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is a 1982 novel written by Ntozake Shange and first published by St. Martin's Press. The novel, which took eight years to...
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  • cultural critic. Thulani Davis is a contemporary of and collaborator with Ntozake Shange. Thulani Davis was born to two African-American educators from Virginia...
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  • Spell No. 7 (category Plays by Ntozake Shange)
    stressed third world people, is a choreopoem written for the stage by Ntozake Shange and first performed in 1979. The story is about a group of black friends...
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  • program was produced and directed by Michael Sporn with a screenplay by Ntozake Shange. Ruby Dee and Linda Lavin provide voices for the animated characters...
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    Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. Rashad said about this work in an interview with Vibe Movies & TV in...
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  • Betsey Brown (category Novels by Ntozake Shange)
    Betsey Brown is an African-American literature novel by Ntozake Shange, published in 1985. Betsey Brown is the story of an adolescent African-American...
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  • Nappy edges (category Works by Ntozake Shange)
    nappy edges is a collection of poetry and prose poetry written by Ntozake Shange and first published by St. Martin's Press in 1978. The poems, which vary...
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  • arts: essays (2011) is a collection of 25 personal essays written by Ntozake Shange. Explored in the collection are topics such as racism, sexism, jazz...
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  • from its founding to the present day. Among the collections are the Ntozake Shange papers. The Barnard Zine Library is a unit of the Barnard Library and...
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    Night, Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, Brecht's Mother Courage (adapted by Ntozake Shange), and Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Foster searched for roles in which she...
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    [citation needed] In 1980 Wilford Leach directed a new adaptation by Ntozake Shange at The Public Theater. This version was set in the American South during...
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    festival celebrating the work of Ntozake Shange at the New Federal Theatre on February 11, 2007. Brooks has directed Shange's Boogie Woogie Landscapes at the...
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  • Gets Too Heavy is a 2021 play by Ryan Calais Cameron, inspired by Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf...
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  • sportswriter, regular contributor on the ESPN show Around the Horn Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), playwright and poet best known for the Obie Award-winning...
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  • 1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic 1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 2018) 1949 – Joe Egan, Scottish...
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    senior at Macalester College. Gurira performed in a production of the Ntozake Shange play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow...
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  • The Sweet Breath of Life (category Works by Ntozake Shange)
    African-American Family is a 2004 photographic poetic narrative by Ntozake Shange and the photography collective Kamoinge Inc. The Kamoinge Workshop was...
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    and that many important "post-Black artists" such as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and August Wilson were shaped by the movement. The Black...
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    colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (BBC Radio 3) 2016: "The Privilege of Being a Mixed Race Woman", Tangled...
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    For Colored Girls as the battered wife Crystal. The film is based on Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide...
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    Schenkkan Murray Schisgal John Schneider Sarah Schulman Sandra Seaton Ntozake Shange John Patrick Shanley Wallace Shawn John Shea Claudia Shear Edward Sheldon...
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    Liliane (novel) (category Novels by Ntozake Shange)
    Liliane: Resurrection of The Daughter is a novel by Ntozake Shange. It was originally published by St. Martin's Press in 1994. The novel tells the coming-of-age...
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