CULTURETECHLENSNtozake Shange
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Ntozake Shange (born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1948) is a playwright and poet best known for her first play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975), which won an Obie Award and ran on Broadway (Kennedy Center artist page).
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Ntozake Shange (born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1948) is a playwright and poet best known for her first play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975), which won an Obie Award and ran on Broadway (Kennedy Center artist page).
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Ntozake Shange (born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1948) is a playwright and poet best known for her first play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975), which won an Obie Award and ran on Broadway (Kennedy Center artist page).
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