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16/07/1978 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf' closes

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Sorry

3:47

A Laying On Of Hands (I Found God In Myself)

3:56

Now I Love Somebody More Than

5:13

Graduation Nite

2:52

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For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece, premiered in 1976. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem.
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