Felicia Lee speaks to Ntozake Shange and her sister, Ifa Bayeza, about their new co-written family saga Some Sing, Some Cry. Lee also talks to Shange about Tyler Perry’s film adaptation of For Colored Girls:
“For years, filmmakers talked about a movie version, but it came about courtesy of Mr. Perry, the writer and director of a successful string of films (and television series) about African-American life that some observers have criticized as clichéd and racially stereotypical. Much of his work has featured Mr. Perry in drag as the saucy matriarch Madea. Ms. Shange said she explicitly told Mr. Perry that Madea could not be in ‘Colored Girls’.”
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