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"From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp&#8217;s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award&#8211;winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange&#8217;s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for &#8220;encom&shy;passing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,&#8221; for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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