Shange, Ntozake

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

a novel
1996
The story of three African-American girls from Charleston, South Carolina who go out into the world in their various directions without losing their sense of family.

For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf

a choreopoem
1977
A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race.

Betsey Brown

a novel
1985

Nappy edges

1978
Fifty-five poems grouped under five headings: "things i wd say," "love & other highways," "closets," "& she bleeds," and "she whispers with the unicorn.".

For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf

a choreopoem
1997
A theatrical celebration, in verse and prose, of being female and Black incorporates the triumphs, joys, griefs, and losses of Black women in America.

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

a choreopoem
1989
A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of an African-American woman about the women of her race.

Freedom's a-callin me

2012
Reimagines the journeys of the brave men and women who made their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad in fifteen poems.

Coretta Scott

2009
An illustrated biography of Coretta Scott King, describing her childhood in the segregated South, her marriage to Martin Luther King, Jr., and her civil rights work.

Ellington was not a street

2004
Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were instrumental in changing American culture and society.

Muhammad Ali

the man who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
2002
A pictorial biography of boxer Muhammad Ali, following him from his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, to his fame as heavyweight champion of the world. Includes a time line that highlights significant events in Ali's life.

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