Quote by: Ntozake Shange

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.


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Author Bio


  • NameNtozake Shange
  • DescriptionContemporary African American writer and performance artist
  • AliasesPaulette L. Williams; Paulette Williams
  • BornOctober 18, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Poet; Author; Novelist; Playwright
  • WorksFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf; Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown; Nappy Edges; Liliane
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship