Ntozake Shange Quotes
I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of 'for colored girls' was often frightening.
Shange, Ntozake. Lost in Language & Sound: Or, How I Found My Way to the Arts: Essays. St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Pride, sense of dignity and self-respect are powerful and dynamic forces that have been constantly underestimated by occupiers and invaders throughout history. In the case of China, it was not the foreign militaries per se that were responsible for the resentment but the diplomats, merchants and missionaries using the protection and threat of the foreign military that did most of bullying.
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for her Obie Award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl runaway from home. Among Shange's honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced it had acquired Shange's archive. Shange lived in Brooklyn, New York. Shange had one daughter, Savannah Shange. She was married twice: to the saxophonist David Murray and the painter McArthur Binion, Savannah’s father, with both marriages ending in divorce.
