For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's classic, award-winning play that encompasses the wide-ranging experiences of Black women. This edition includes introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.

From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century.

First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf will be read and performed for generations to come.

Now featuring new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and including one poem not featured in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem. It resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.