"A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most
important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange--language,
music, and dance.
"In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on
what it means to be an artist, a woman, "and" a woman of color
through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay. She describes
where her love for creative forces began--in her childhood home, a
place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn't allowed. The
essays tell stories ranging from the poignant origin of her
celebrated play ""for colored girls"" to why Shange needed to
deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from
the intensity of the female experience and the black experience as
separate entities to the difficulty of living both lives
simultaneously; from the intense love of jazz bestowed on her by
her father to a similar obsession with dance, which came from her
mother. With deep sincerity, attention, and her legendary candor,
Shange's collection progresses from the public arena to the
private, gathering along the way the passions and insights of an
author who writes with "such exquisite care and beauty that anybody
can relate to her message" (Clive Barnes, "The New York
Times").
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