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Maya Angelou's poem "Phenomenal Woman" in the collection Chicken Soup for a Woman's Soul celebrates the spiritual and physical aspects of black female identity.
Nikki Giovanni's poem "Ego Tripping (There May Be a Reason Why)'' (1970) in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, is another celebration of black female identity.
A book of seven poems describing seven "common" women in The Common Woman by Judy Grahn (1970) served as a model for Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the...
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