From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   American playwright and poet.   
   Born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton New Jersey, 1948,   
   to an upper-middle class family who encouraged her interest in the arts.   
      
   Her new name (1970), chosen with the help of two South African friends,   
   is Xhosa, glossed as "She who comes with her own things", "She who walks   
   like a lion" (Wiki).   
      
   Crystal quotes from a poem 'lady in brown':   
      
   de library was right down from de trolly tracks   
   cross from de laundry-mat   
   thru de big shinin floors & granite pillars   
   ol st. louis is famous for   
   i found toussaint   
   ...   
      
   This is about discovering the 18th century Haitian revolutionary leader   
   Toussaint l'Ouverture in the public library in St.Louis, after nothing   
   in the children-and-young-people section seemed relevant to her.   
      
   In 2010 she was diagnosed with a neurological disorder which required   
   her to re-learn or adjust many skills, including writing. In an   
   interview she complained   
      
   "I have a new computer that does things without me asking...I don't have   
   control over it, so the way I used to play with words on a page is very   
   difficult for me now...it also spell-checks me, so I can't write Black   
   English or Spanglish..."   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntozake_Shange   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)