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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

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1451624158

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Sing a Black Girl's Song

The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

By: Ntozake Shange

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Sing a Black Girl's Song

The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

By: Ntozake Shange

GMA’s 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine’s September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023 LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, curated by National Book Award winner Imani Perry with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Tarana Burke. In the late ’60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know them, each verse, dance, and song a love letter to Black women and girls, and the community at large. Sing a Black Girl’s Song is a new posthumous collection of Shange’s unpublished poems, essays, and plays from throughout the life of the seminal Black feminist writer. In these pages we meet young Shange, learn the moments that inspired for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf…, travel with an eclectic family of musicians, sit on “The Couch” opposite Shange’s therapist, and discover plays written after for colored girls’ international success. Sing a Black Girl’s Song houses, in their original form, the literary rebel’s politically charged verses from the Black Arts Movement era alongside her signature tender rhythm and cadence that capture the minutia and nuance of Black life. Sing a Black Girl’s Song is the continuation of a literary tradition that has bolstered generations of writers and a long-lasting gift from one of the fiercest and most highly celebrated artists of our time.

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Legacy Lit

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0306828537

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9780306828539

Daddy Says

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Daddy Says

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Simon and Schuster

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0689830815

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9780689830815

Three Pieces

By: Ntozake Shange

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Three Pieces

By: Ntozake Shange

In these three plays, the author brilliantly recasts traditional traditional forms to capture the essence of the lives of black people.

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St Martins Press

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0312802803

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9780312802806

The Sweet Breath of Life

A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family

By: Frank Stewart

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The Sweet Breath of Life

A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family

By: Frank Stewart

Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1967, to Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, collaborations between writers and photographers have been important in African American culture. These books examine the issues of identity and representation that have been so central to this group's efforts to thrive. The Kamoinge Workshop photographers who contributed their work to this inspiring collection consist of names that have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and more. Names such as Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Ming Smith Murray, Beuford Smith, John Pinderhuges, and many others. The Workshop’s mission was a response from the bias portrayals of African Americans in the media. They sought to shed positive light on their subjects, as well as to demystify Black life in America. And The Sweet Breath of Life does exactly that.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451616341

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9781451616347

Dance We Do

A Poet Explores Black Dance

By: Ntozake Shange

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Dance We Do

A Poet Explores Black Dance

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In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame as a writer, poet, performer, dancer, and storyteller, she was an untrained student who found her footing in others’ classrooms. Dance We Do is a tribute to those who taught her and her passion for rhythm, movement, and dance. After 20 years of research, writing, and devotion, Ntozake Shange tells her history of Black dance through a series of portraits of the dancers who trained her, moved with her, and inspired her to share the power of the Black body with her audience. Shange celebrates and honors the contributions of the often unrecognized pioneers who continued the path Katherine Dunham paved through the twentieth century. Dance We Do features a stunning photo insert along with personal interviews with Mickey Davidson, Halifu Osumare, Camille Brown, and Dianne McIntyre. In what is now one of her final works, Ntozake Shange welcomes the reader into the world she loved best.

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Beacon Press

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080709188X

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9780807091883

A Photograph

Lovers in Motion

By: Ntozake Shange

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A Photograph

Lovers in Motion

By: Ntozake Shange

It is about a young Black man who is trying to make it as a professional photographer and is surrounded by caricatures of Black people gone wrong. The exception is a girl friend who is a free and sovereign spirit. The young man's confidence is shattered when he is turned down for the grant he has counted on.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573614512

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9780573614514

Liliane

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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Liliane

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

... A young black woman growing up in North America in the '60s and '70s [experiences]... the last moments of legal segregation in Mississippi and the beginnings of a class war in the black community of Queens " --Back cover.

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Macmillan

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0312135599

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9780312135591

Betsey Brown

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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Betsey Brown

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains in Betsey Brown. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429956631

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9781429956635

Float Like a Butterfly

By: Ntozake Shange

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Float Like a Butterfly

By: Ntozake Shange

A beautifully illustrated picture book biography of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is considered by many to have been the finest athlete of the twentieth century. Here is a compelling testimony to his courage, resilience in the face of controversy, and boxing prowess by Obie Award-winning author Ntozake Shange. In her own words, Shange shows us Ali and his life, from his childhood in the segregated South, to his meteoric rise in boxing to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World. Edel Rodriguez's stunning artwork combines pastels, monoprint woodblock ink linework and spray paint on colored papers to capture Ali's power, spontaneity, and energy. A timeline and list of additional resources in the backmatter help make this a standout picturebook biography of the man known around the world as "The Greatest." The reissue of this compelling portrait will have readers cheering once again for the late American icon.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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1368012892

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A Daughter's Geography

By: Ntozake Shange

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A Daughter's Geography

By: Ntozake Shange

The noted poet, playwright, and novelist offers a collection of intensely personal poems intended to map out the geography of life and beauty that she would declare for her daughter

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St Martins Press

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031206327X

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9780312063276

Coretta Scott

By: Ntozake Shange

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Coretta Scott

By: Ntozake Shange

Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she gave birth to a vision and a journey—with dreams of freedom for all. This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.

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Harper Collins

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0061253642

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9780061253645

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

By: Ntozake Shange

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If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

By: Ntozake Shange

New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446. Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.

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Beacon Press

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0807021458

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9780807021453

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon . . . pure magic." --Kansas City Star Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shange's rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times).

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429956666

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9781429956666

For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf

A Choreopoem

By: Ntozake Shange

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For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf

A Choreopoem

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

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Bantam Books

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0553273256

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9780553273250

Ntozake Shange

A Critical Study of the Plays

By: Neal A. Lester,Ntozake Shange

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Ntozake Shange

A Critical Study of the Plays

By: Neal A. Lester,Ntozake Shange

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Garland Science

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0815303149

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9780815303145

Liliane

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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Liliane

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

From the award-winning author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf comes Ntozake Shange's extraordinary novel Liliane, about a woman learning to be who she really is. "A daring portrait of a black woman artist re-creating herself out of social and psychological chaos, the fragmentation that haunts our time, our nation. Ourselves."-Los Angeles Times Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes what she knows of herself to the world through her bold and colorful artwork. Gradually, however, Liliane realizes that in order to survive, she must come to terms with what she has kept hidden even from herself. Liliane is extraordinary vision of a woman learning to be who she really is.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429913517

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9781429913515

The Love Space Demands

A Continuing Saga

By: Ntozake Shange

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The Love Space Demands

A Continuing Saga

By: Ntozake Shange

Songs of love and urban tragedy from one of the preeminent African-American writers of our time. Shange's poems express the need to be felt and heard, to be necessary. In this love space, we all wear our desires, t-cells, and hearts on our sleeves and experience all that comes with wanting to get hold of life, or someone to love.

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St Martins Press

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0312076274

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9780312076276

Whitewash

By: Ntozake Shange

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Whitewash

By: Ntozake Shange

A young African-American girl is traumatized when a gang attacks her and her brother on their way home from school and spray-paints her face white. Based on a true story.

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Walker

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0802784909

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9780802784902

Sing a Black Girl's Song

The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

By: Ntozake Shange

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The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

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Simon and Schuster

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1451624158

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Wild Beauty

New and Selected Poems

By: Ntozake Shange

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Wild Beauty

New and Selected Poems

By: Ntozake Shange

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems. In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time. With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”

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Simon and Schuster

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1501169955

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9781501169953

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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A Novel

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St. Martin's Griffin

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Dance We Do

A Poet Explores Black Dance

By: Ntozake Shange

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A Poet Explores Black Dance

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Beacon Press

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080709188X

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Daddy Says

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Simon and Schuster

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0689830815

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If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

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Beacon Press

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0807021458

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Some Sing, Some Cry

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange,Ifa Bayeza

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Some Sing, Some Cry

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange,Ifa Bayeza

Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429959355

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9781429959353

Betsey Brown

A Novel

By: Ntozake Shange

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A Novel

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Coretta Scott

By: Ntozake Shange

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Nappy Edges

By: Ntozake Shange

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Nappy Edges

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

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