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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
somebody almost run off wit alla my stuff/ & i waz standin there/ lookin at myself/ the whole time
A quick read that took me just under an hour to finish, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf examines the blunt, seemingly unending wickedness of the world that all women know (whether they want to admit it or not) and offers up the possibility that yes, evil endures but so does beauty, love, community and mercy. Through her creative, sometimes flowery poetry—the stylization isn’t for everybody, I myself would’ve not wanted to read more than 200 pages of this so it worked out that the book wasn’t very long—Shange lays down the idea that yes, the world can be bleak but joy and hope and community exist. And they matter.
i found god in myself
& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
All of the ladies repeat to themselves softly the lines i found god
in myself & i loved her: It soon becomes a song of joy, started by
the lady in blue. The ladies sing first to each other, then gradually
to the audience. After the song peaks the ladies enter into a
closed tight circle.
between the heavy tension of reality, which sometimes seemed overly harsh but is, in actuality, only a mirror into the world of today and yesterday and probably tomorrow, Shange calms the reader, especially the black woman reader (whom in her forward she says this book is primarily for<3) with stunning, tender reminders that through it all, light remains.
I wish I’d read this book way earlier in my life (I’d seen some of the PBS production hears ago, Lynn Whitfield’s performance especially, was dazzling to me) but I’m so glad I finally got to it now. She spoke #real and I saw my own life bleeding from the pages; I need to go find the PBS production and watch it in full.
A quick read that took me just under an hour to finish, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf examines the blunt, seemingly unending wickedness of the world that all women know (whether they want to admit it or not) and offers up the possibility that yes, evil endures but so does beauty, love, community and mercy. Through her creative, sometimes flowery poetry—the stylization isn’t for everybody, I myself would’ve not wanted to read more than 200 pages of this so it worked out that the book wasn’t very long—Shange lays down the idea that yes, the world can be bleak but joy and hope and community exist. And they matter.
i found god in myself
& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
All of the ladies repeat to themselves softly the lines i found god
in myself & i loved her: It soon becomes a song of joy, started by
the lady in blue. The ladies sing first to each other, then gradually
to the audience. After the song peaks the ladies enter into a
closed tight circle.
between the heavy tension of reality, which sometimes seemed overly harsh but is, in actuality, only a mirror into the world of today and yesterday and probably tomorrow, Shange calms the reader, especially the black woman reader (whom in her forward she says this book is primarily for<3) with stunning, tender reminders that through it all, light remains.
I wish I’d read this book way earlier in my life (I’d seen some of the PBS production hears ago, Lynn Whitfield’s performance especially, was dazzling to me) but I’m so glad I finally got to it now. She spoke #real and I saw my own life bleeding from the pages; I need to go find the PBS production and watch it in full.