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Shange’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Goes to Broadway & Movies

Literanista July 22, 2009

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange still has staying power. It’s headed to Broadway and is under contract for a film next season (with Tyler Perry). ” via www.cnn.com

Jasmine Guy and Nicole Ari Parker about their work on the play that includes Robin Givens:

I have yet to meet a female poet or writer or yet any writer of any gender who has not been inspired by this classic collection of poems.

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