Will I ever be able to understand the hurt and pain of living as a colored sister in America? Ntozake Shange , for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf , expresses the obstacles of colored woman living in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. Modern day America pushes them into being outcast and feeling less than whole. Ntozake Shange brilliantly describes the situation of seven colored girls struggles with loneliness, oppression, and sexism in everyday life through short poems filled with rich details. The poems are filled with different topics that range from interactions with men in large cities, the myriad threats of domestic abuse, struggles with identity, cruelty, and indifference in black culture.
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As a civil engineer, she is one of the only women in her profession. However, if it was had being the only woman—Also , she is a women of color. A women of color in a profession that is heavily white-male based. In the poem “ no more” the lady in the yellow expresses, “"bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma/ I haven’t conquered yet"(pg.59). The lady in yellow is being honest unlike the lady in blue about the struggles of being her race and gender. Over time, women have felt as if they are still being oppressed by racist in society and still living in a patriarchal society. Society is being seen as racially-charge and very patriarchal. While all women of the book didn’t feel the same way about race, gender, and societal divides. During the Civil Rights movement, many women activist were involved in work that rejected the thought of male leadership solely. In the SNCC Position paper, white women criticized the idea of men being superior and understood that there was a problem. The paper states , “ average white person doesn’t realized that he assumes he is superior…he doesn’t understand the problem of paternalism……...assumptions of male superiority.” ( Marable, 399).One must say that being a colored women in society carries a sort of challenges. A colored woman must worry about having her voice heard in a society that tries to silence …show more content…
The power of love is must stronger than obstacles in life. Even though you might not agree with everything somebody does, love is stringer than it all. One must search to love someone more than searching to understand someone. However, one must learn to love them fully before they can love others because one who doesn’t love them can not fully love. In the poem ‘ somebody almost walk off wit alla my stuff” the lady in green proclaims, “somebody almost walk off wit alla my stuff/ & I waz stand in there/ lookin at myself / it waznt a spirit took my stuff/ waz a man whose ego..”(pg.64). Shange 's poems about relationships all have a very similar theme. Most of the poems are about a man’s deceitful, lying ways in a relationship. The relationships struggle with abuse, lying , cheating, drugs, and in the end-forgiveness. However, the lady in the green has reached a revelation in this poem. The lady in the green realizes that she is too good for her man and wants her life back for herself. The lady in the green want ownership of her life back and identity. She no longer wants to be trapped in a cycle of what a man wants. She has reached the idea of self-empowerment. The idea of self- empowerment is important in every person a life. A person must not feel as if there identity is formed through another person. A person most understand what they believe and why. Many people in recent times let their spouse or loved ones make decisions for
As a civil engineer, she is one of the only women in her profession. However, if it was had being the only woman—Also , she is a women of color. A women of color in a profession that is heavily white-male based. In the poem “ no more” the lady in the yellow expresses, “"bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma/ I haven’t conquered yet"(pg.59). The lady in yellow is being honest unlike the lady in blue about the struggles of being her race and gender. Over time, women have felt as if they are still being oppressed by racist in society and still living in a patriarchal society. Society is being seen as racially-charge and very patriarchal. While all women of the book didn’t feel the same way about race, gender, and societal divides. During the Civil Rights movement, many women activist were involved in work that rejected the thought of male leadership solely. In the SNCC Position paper, white women criticized the idea of men being superior and understood that there was a problem. The paper states , “ average white person doesn’t realized that he assumes he is superior…he doesn’t understand the problem of paternalism……...assumptions of male superiority.” ( Marable, 399).One must say that being a colored women in society carries a sort of challenges. A colored woman must worry about having her voice heard in a society that tries to silence …show more content…
The power of love is must stronger than obstacles in life. Even though you might not agree with everything somebody does, love is stringer than it all. One must search to love someone more than searching to understand someone. However, one must learn to love them fully before they can love others because one who doesn’t love them can not fully love. In the poem ‘ somebody almost walk off wit alla my stuff” the lady in green proclaims, “somebody almost walk off wit alla my stuff/ & I waz stand in there/ lookin at myself / it waznt a spirit took my stuff/ waz a man whose ego..”(pg.64). Shange 's poems about relationships all have a very similar theme. Most of the poems are about a man’s deceitful, lying ways in a relationship. The relationships struggle with abuse, lying , cheating, drugs, and in the end-forgiveness. However, the lady in the green has reached a revelation in this poem. The lady in the green realizes that she is too good for her man and wants her life back for herself. The lady in the green want ownership of her life back and identity. She no longer wants to be trapped in a cycle of what a man wants. She has reached the idea of self-empowerment. The idea of self- empowerment is important in every person a life. A person must not feel as if there identity is formed through another person. A person most understand what they believe and why. Many people in recent times let their spouse or loved ones make decisions for