for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange Paulette Linda Williams, born October 18, 1948, is now known by the Zulu name she took in 1971: Ntozake Shange (En-toe- ZAK-kay SHONG-gay). As a child, she was...

For Colored Girls brought to the stage a perspective on what it is to be female and black in the modern United States that many in the Civil Rights Movement era found groundbreaking, especially in the fact that it was, and has continued to be, done in...