false <![CDATA[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170490858m/58098.jpg 58098 12 From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning <I>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</I> has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by <I>The New Yorker</I> for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," <I>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</I> will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.<P> 505856 1975 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf total:993|5:453|4:339|3:168|2:30|1:3| 993 4188 1329 96 58098 0684843269 9780684843261 981 95 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170490858m/58098.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58098.For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf 5 1 false Fri Jul 20 10:36:35 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 10:36:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 467242 0613135520 9780613135528 5 1 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem 4.22 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467242.For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf_A_Choreopoem 5 1 false Sun Dec 02 19:08:19 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 19 08:38:09 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 23:04:04 -0800 2007
Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/
a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/
i been tryin not to be...more...]]> 58098 0684843269 9780684843261 981 95 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170490858m/58098.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58098.For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf 4 0 false Tue Jun 05 13:36:04 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 21:20:46 -0700 2007 not my poems or a dance i gave up in the street
but somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff
like a kleptomaniac workin hard & forgettin while stealin
this is mine/this aint yr stuff/
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A tiny bit preachy at times.

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sing her sighs
sing the song of her possiblilties
sing a righteous gospel
let her be born
let her be born
& handled warmly.

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