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Sunday, July 22, 2012
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
I watched parts of a filmed version that originally was a theater production (the author provided bookends) of Ntozake Shange's collection of poems. Some powerful stuff perhaps best seen in small doses like you read poems one at a time. Alfre Woodard and Lynn Whitfield's perfs stood out.