I'm so excited about this movie!!! The book, a performance poem, honestly and completely changed my life. There are things that we're not allowed to say as Black women -- that we're not supposed to say -- and this book shattered all of that for me. I say and write what I feel, unapologetically ... because if I don't, who will? I appreciate revolutionaries like Ntozake Shange giving "colored girls" like little old me a voice.
The movie, For Colored Girls, was produced and directed by Tyler Perry and is set to open on November 5th.
The movie, For Colored Girls, was produced and directed by Tyler Perry and is set to open on November 5th.
"...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."
Excerpt from For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
