For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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…

Why am I not applying for law school? When I graduated high school and on up to my third semester of college, I was a Political Science major determined to go to law school. I even created a vision board with the list of school that I was going to apply to. Now, three years and three major changes later, I find myself applying for a Masters of Arts in English at Wayne State University. English began to alter my plans during my first major specific class. Prior to my Children’s Literature class,…

African American literature has been sustained by the work of Black women. Their works have center the Black community and the era they were in. From Phyllis Wheatley in the slavery and freedom era to Lorraine Hansberry during the Civil Rights Movement, Black women have a significant role in the literature of the time. As the United States transitioned into the 1970s, a new wave African American literature was born: the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. Wanting to alter the depictions of Black…

Self-Actualization: For Colored Girls “I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” (Shange) For Colored Girls is based from a play with poems written by author Ntozake Shange called, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow isn’t Enuf, describing the life of eight women in New York who face tremendous crisis and heartbreaks. Each woman in this film represents a character/color and a poem from this play. From abuse, secret affairs and abortion, to deceit…

“A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature.” – Suzan-Lori Parks The medium of literature allows authors, writers, and dramatists to recreate history and tell the stories of those who have been often overlooked. Suzan-Lori Parks does this by using certain people and events throughout history, including her own life, to retell the black experience in an unconventional manner. Parks is an important figure in American theatre…