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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

Ntozake Shange

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Ntozake Shange
Age: 70 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 18
Died: 2018
Died: October 27
Actor
Choreographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Trenton
New Jersey
Paulette L. Williams
Paulette Williams
Paulette Linda Williams
Something
Color
Think
Girl
Thinking
Write
Change
Young
Arrive
Live
Brilliant
Writing
Girls
Even
Exist

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