Inspirational Shorts
Welcome to Inspirational Shorts in todays recording we look at the poet/writer Ntozake Shange.
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for her Obie Award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985) Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother a psychiatric social worker. Cultural icons such as Dizzie Gillepsie, Miles Davis, and W.E.B. DuBois were regular guests in the Williams home. more HERE
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She is one of my favorite writers and today we look at her poem Mood Indigo. I encourage you to look at some of her other work, and you can find additional links to books on AmazonMood Indigo - it hasnt always been this wayellington was not a streetrobeson no mere memorydu bois walked up my father’s stairshummed some tune over mesleeping in the company of menwho changed the worldit wasnt always like thiswhy ray barretto used to be a side-man& dizzy’s hair was not always greyi remember i was therei listened in the company of menpolitics as necessary as collardsmusic even in our dreamsour house was filled with all kinda folksour windows were not cement or steelour doors opened like our daddy’s armsheld us safe & lovedchildren growing in the company of menold southern men & young slick onessonny til was not a boythe clovers no rag-tag orphansour crooners/ we belonged to a whole worldnkrumah was no foreignervirgil aikens was not the only fighterit hasnt always been this wayellington was not a streetBYNTOZAKE SHANGE
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