Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet whose work often addressed race, Black power and Black feminism. Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975). The novels include Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl who runs away from home, and Liliane (1994).