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Ntozake Shange
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born
October 18, 1948
in The United States
gender
female
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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
  4.18 avg rating — 4,853 ratings
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published
1975
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21 editions
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Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
4.05 avg rating — 663 ratings
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published
1976
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15 editions
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Ellington Was Not a Street
by Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson 4.17 avg rating — 295 ratings
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published
2004
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5 editions
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Some Sing, Some Cry
by Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza   3.73 avg rating — 283 ratings
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published
2010
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10 editions
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Betsey Brown
3.72 avg rating — 215 ratings
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8 editions
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Coretta Scott
by Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson 4.01 avg rating — 194 ratings
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2008
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Liliane
3.59 avg rating — 147 ratings
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published
1994
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4 editions
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Nappy Edges
4.18 avg rating — 84 ratings
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3 editions
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The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga
4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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2 editions
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A Daughter's Geography
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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published
1983
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3 editions
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“one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“without any assistance or guidance from you
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work
charmin charmin
but you are of no assistance
i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selifsh i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair
this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work
charmin charmin
but you are of no assistance
i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selifsh i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair
this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
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