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  <name><![CDATA[Ntozake Shange]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) is an African-American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best known for her Obie Award winning play 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf'.
 Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. ]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>10/18/1948</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ellington Was Not a Street]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Betsey Brown: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Liliane: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[nappy edges]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Coretta Scott]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kadir Nelson]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Daughter's Geography]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Three Pieces]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ntozake Shange]]></name>
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