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Shay Youngblood


Born
in Columbus, Georgia, The United States
October 16, 1959

Died
June 11, 2024

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Georgia born writer Shay Youngblood is author of the novels Black Girl in Paris and Soul Kiss (Riverhead Books) and a collection of short fiction, The Big Mama Stories (Firebrand Books). Her plays Amazing Grace, Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery and Talking Bones, (Dramatic Publishing Company), have been widely produced. Her other plays include Black Power Barbie and Communism Killed My Dog. She completed a radio play, Explain Me the Blues for WBGO Public Radio's Jazz Play Series, featuring Odetta and the music of Olu Dara. The recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pushcart Prize for fiction, a Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, an Edward Albee honoree, several NAACP Theater Awards, an Astraea Writers' Award for fiction and a 2 ...more

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Black Girl in Paris

3.83 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions
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Soul Kiss

3.94 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions
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Mama's Home

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The Big Mama Stories

4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery

3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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A Family Prayer

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Talking Bones

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Hotel Stories: Erotica

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Black Power Barbie

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Winter Prophet

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“The world ain't ready for true black genius. In every nigger is a cup of African blood from kings and queens of divine nature, mathematicians, craftsmen, men and women of the land. I have known some sisters and brothers would scare Einstein back into East European caves with the magnificence of their minds. We are a people with a practical nature and great vision. We have built nations, discovered treasures for everyday use. Our people are a great race of people, and though the Europeans raped and plundered, we have kept inner riches. You got a cup of African blood and that mean something, means you got a responsibility to be proud of it and use your talents or suffer self-destruction.”
Shay Youngblood, Black Girl in Paris

“There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain...It was there all the time, just waiting for me.”
Shay Youngblood

“Art is just as important as food, 'cause if your soul ain't nourished, you one empty mutherfucker.”
Shay Youngblood, Black Girl in Paris

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