Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a renowned poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, best known for her Broadway-produced and Obie Award–winning choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. She wrote numerous works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including If I Can Cook/You Know God Can, Wild Beauty, and Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo.

“boys with hands behind necks,” a Poem by Ntozake Shange

From the Collection Sing a Black Girl's Song

September 13, 2023 By Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

"I wasn’t ready yet for the implications of Black people as interpreters of outer space."

November 23, 2020 By Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

“boys with hands behind necks,” a Poem by Ntozake Shange

From the Collection Sing a Black Girl's Song

Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

"I wasn’t ready yet for the implications of Black people as interpreters of outer space."

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