For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange 1975

Written to “sing a black girl’s song … to sing her rhythms/ carin/ struggle/ hard times/ [to] … let her be born,” this play is a compilation of twenty poems performed by seven African American actresses. The poems are unified by a series of similar shared experiences of the actresses, who present a collage of experiences that articulate what it means to be a young black woman in the modern world. The play addresses the physical and emotional violence that is committed against women of color as well as addressing all women’s potential to triumph over the...

The Author continually revised and refined the poems and the movements in her search to express a female black identity. Improvisation is central to her celebration of the uniqueness of the black female body and language,