Ntozake Shange

Fearless poet, playwright and award-winning author has given women and girls of color honest, inspiring visions of themselves. Ntozake Shange teaches us all to find the strength and courage to “walk like a lion.”

“Ms. Shange has a good ear for language and a sharp eye for behavior and customs of black people; there is intelligence at work in Colored Girls, but more important, there is texture, the feel, and raw emotions of the modern black woman who, against great odds, fights for her integrity and her self-respect ” - Edwin Wilson, The Wall Street Journal

Best known for Obie Award-winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Shange is first and foremost a poet, she has extended her talents into other realms
including film and celebrated novels, Sassafrass, Cyprus and Indigo, Ellington Was
Not a Street, and Some Sing, Some Cry

Embracing her responsibility to those young, aspiring artists who strive to add their
talents to the creative landscape, she has devoted much of her time in the realm of
education serving as guest faculty and lecturer at universities across the
United States .