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

About this book

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . ever