Ntozake Shange

Inspiring. Emotionally charged. Ground-breaking - BERNARDINE EVARISTO A revelation. I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us and showing us how beautiful we can be - JESMYN WARD Encompassing, it seems, every feeling and experience a woman has ever had - NEW YORKER The Lady in Red has adored her lover for eight months, two weeks,...

I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. In the late 1960s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal,...

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's classic, award-winning play that encompasses the wide-ranging experiences of Black women. This edition includes introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award-winning For...