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  • And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

    Girl   Suicide   Moving  
    "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide". Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, 1976.
  • Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

    Girl   Fate   Thinking  
  • Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.

    Inspiring   Fall   Moon  
    Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan
  • somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

    Girl   Song   Struggle  
    Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

    Funny   Girl   Nba  
  • The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

    Girl   Men   Yield  
  • Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.

    Girl   Block   Party  
  • one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

    Ntozake Shange, “'Sorry'”
  • i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

    Love   God   Healing  
  • I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

    "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.
  • I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator

  • Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  • Where there is a woman there is magic.

    Women   Magic   Tiaras  
    Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan
  • I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

    Girl   Teacher   Want  
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