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

From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem.