Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shangeis an American playwright, and poet. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addresses issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 October 1948
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
women magic tiaras
Where there is a woman there is magic.
alive being-a-woman colored-girls
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
dream blood draws
our dreams draw blood from old sores.
sympathy sorry apology
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.
rip nice niceness
nice is such a rip-off.
leaving south
I've never thought of leaving the South, never.
maintain milton people references shakespeare spencer
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.