![]() While earning an MA degree, she reaffirmed her personal strength based on a self-determined identity and took her African name, which means “she who comes with her own things” and she “who walks like a lion.” Shange would go on to a successful triple career as an educator, performer/director, and writer whose work drew heavily on her experiences of being a Black female in America. Shange’s college years were difficult, however frustrated and hurt after separating from her first husband, she attempted suicide several times before focusing her rage against the limitations society imposes on Black women. Shange attended Barnard College and the University of Southern California, earning both a BA and MA in American Studies. DuBois were regular guests in the Williams home. Cultural icons such as Dizzie Gillepsie, Miles Davis, and W.E.B. Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother a psychiatric social worker. Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams into an upper middle-class African American family. ![]()
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