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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was beautiful and devastating, absolutely amazing
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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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“& this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/ but are movin to the ends of their own rainbow”
C’est une pièce de théâtre, avc beaucoup de prosodie donc au debut jme suis demandée si c’etait pas mieux de voir une représentation sur ytb. (À noter que celui-dont-je-n’ose-prononcer-le-nom a fait un film adapté de la pièce mais j’en parlerai + tard). In a nutshell c’est une pièce black women centered, addressing trauma, joys, deceit, life, love, and life again. J’ai appris que c’était en fait plusieurs poemes de l’autrice à la base qui ont été rassemblés en une oeuvre. C’est pour cela qu’il n’y a pas vraiment de continuité, et pourquoi j’ai eu du mal au début.  J’ai eu aussi bcp de mal avec la prose, et savoir quand un poème finit/quand un autre commence mais ça c’est purement personnel. Le contenu était merveilleusement bien raconté imo, les mots semblaient justes, pas forcés, basically a black woman manifesto in a capitalist world. Ce qui m’a particulièrement touché c’est la necessité pour l’autrice (à mon avis) d’inclure des moments où les comediennes s’oublient, dansent, rigolent, chantent car il faut toujours se rappeler qu’elles ne sont pas construites par leurs traumas, et que la joie est parfois un acte de resistance. C’est ce que j’en tire en general. “I found God in myself. I loved her. I loved her fiercely.”
Mtn je vais parler du film. Je l’ai vu une fois, il y a une dizaine d’années. Je ne connaissais pas la pièce de théâtre. Le film a été dirigé par un réalisateur très connu dans le cinema africain-americain, notamment pour des films parfois corny, et pour sa caricature de la femme noire mère de famille nommée madea. Je ne reverrai pas ce film. J’ai conscience qu’il a essayé de mettre un fil conducteur, d’etablir un lien entre les différents personnages, mais je ne me souviens que des scènes les plus+ choquantes, présentes dans le livre, parfois modifiées dans le scenario. Beaucoup de raccolage, bcp de trigger warning, beaucoup de sensationnel, hollywood. J’aimerais bien savoir ce que l’autrice en a pensé. Moi je pense qu’il reste sur sa marque de fabrique où les femmes noires dans ses films sont caricaturales, souffrent, et sont définies par leurs collègues masculins. Fin bref on est pas sur letterboxd
Dernier fun fact pour la fin: à chaque fois aue je tape le nom du bouquin en ligne, la premiere chose qui s’affiche c le su!cidal hotline”
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"let her be born / & handled warmly."

this is such a stunning piece. i need to see this performed live asap.

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One of my most favorite books that I read! Ntozake Shange’s “For colored Girls” is a collection of choreo poems that center around the positive and negative life experiences of black women: Love, desire, heartache, reminiscence. These poems are extremely well written and hard hitting! Once you get done reading it, I’d highly suggest watching the 1982 film from the American Musical Theatre Archives! 
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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read this as a teenager and cried and understood the story so well. As an adult trying to recapture that first read is hard; but the book is still so powerful. To write in such poetic verse, just captures you...

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When I watched the movie For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuff I loved the way the plot flew and the poems...oh the poems were amazing. Two years later I picked the book expecting to find poems in it but what I found was a play. This particular book is not available in Greece so I read it last month in the USA.



I am not really good with reading plays and sceenplays, a reason I never really liked reading Shakespeare, but what I liked was the words. Written freely and with misspelled words and other errors I would consider it a waste of time, but no...the book is meant to be performed and not read, its meant to be seen and not read but above all this play has a story to tell, a very painful one.



''Reading'' about five different girls with the colors of rainbow I saw the difficulties of life, the pain of love and the pain of loss, the crash of hope and the ray of hope through the tunnel in an era of hatred and racism towards black women. This book is art, while reading you can actually visualize and you can hear the songs and see the dances but above all the author asks you to FEEL.



I loved every word of this book and although I had to re-read a few parts in order to comprehend through the slung and errors that did not stop me from finishing this play.
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Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i found god in myself & i loved her/i loved her fiercely.