"I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that."
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet best known for for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Her work combined poetry, drama, and performance in influential ways.