![]() ![]() She wrote four novels, six volumes of poetry, numerous essays and screenplays, a plethora of critically acclaimed plays, and five children's books. In the Zulu language of Xhosa, ntozake means ''she who comes with her own things,'' and shange means ''she who walks like a lion.'' While she was first and foremost a poet, she constantly extended her talents into other realms. Ntozake Shange (1948-2018), fearless in her quest to affirm the realities of women of color, demonstrated that her name reflected her approach to both her art and her life. “A jubilant celebration of womanhood-as moving as the moon…pure magic.” – Kansas City Star Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston -"too much of the south in her"- who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Listed in the Other category on Art In Fiction, Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) is a rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives told through the eyes of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. ![]()
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