FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF

By Shange, Ntozake Shange

First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with...

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf

By Ntozake Shange

A Choreo-poem Reflecting The Views Of A Black American Woman About The Women Of Her Race. Poems By Title-dark Phases-graduation Nite-now I Love Someone More Than-no Assistance-i'm A Poet Who-latent...

Sassafrass, Cypress &Amp; Indigo

By Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon ....

Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel

By Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza

Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family. Opening dramatica...

Nappy Edges

By Ntozake Shange, Shange, Ntozake

In her first book since, "for colored girls...." Ntozake Shange establishes a new voice - passionate, whimsical, lyrical, daring. Listening to "how the words fall & leap / or if they dawdle sit dow...

Liliane

By Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress And Indigo

By Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon ....

Sassafrass, Cypress And Indigo

By Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon ....

Coretta Scott

By Kadir Nelson, Ntozake Shange

Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King...

Freedom'S A-Callin Me

By Ntozake Shange

A collection of poems brings to life the treacherous journey of the travelers on the Underground Railroad, in a universal story about the human need to be free.