Jan 1, 2010

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | Themes

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"When I die, I will not be guilty," Shange proclaimed in an interview with Claudia Tate in Black Women Writers at Work, "of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves." Shange has expressed a desire to make for colored girls..., a play that explores the pain and promise of "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored," available—on library and school bookshelves or given as a gift—to young women coming of age in America. This play is to supplement the widely available...