Ntozake Shange Sits Down with Harriete Cole of The Root

Literary icon Ntozake Shange sits for a brief interview with The Root's Harriete Cole. In the 10 minute clip, Shange discusses:

• -How For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf made it Broadway
• -How she forbid Madea from making an appearance in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls
• -Her writing process
• -How She's overcome her recent health challenges

Shange's latest novel Some Sing, Some Cry (written with her sister Ifa Bayeza) is now available in hardcover.