![]() I had some connections with other people. We used to go to hear Latin music, jazz and symphonies, to see ballets … I was always aware that there were different kinds of black people all over the world … So I knew I wasn ’t on this planet by myself. ![]() ” Shange explained her parents ’ influence to Claudia Tate: “My parents have always been especially involved in all kinds of Third World culture. Richards described in African American Writers as a “childhood blessed with material security and loving parents who traveled widely, maintained an international set of friends, and transmitted a pride in African and African American cultures. Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams, the oldest of Paul and Eloise Owens Williams ’s four children, in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey. Her works are often angry diatribes against social forces that contribute to the oppression of black women in the United States combined with a celebration of women ’s self-fulfillment and spiritual survival. ![]() With this “choreopoem “ -a performance piece made up of a combination of poems and dance -Shange introduced various themes and concerns that continue to characterize her writings and performances. Ten years later, it was still being produced in various theaters throughout the United States. ![]() When Ntozake Shange ’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem appeared on the theater scene in New York City in 1975, it achieved immense popularity. ![]()
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