RadarRedux.com: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Preview of University of Baltimore's production of For Color Girls, featuring Rain Pryor as Lady in Red.

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• For Colored Girls
• University of Baltimore
• Rain Pryor

[joycieswag]

the movie has NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING BLACK or "COLORED". Colored is the representation of the colors the ladies wear which reflect thier moods and emotions and journeys of all the issues they face, the color represents a quality and the resilence each character portrays. IT IS NOT A BLACK THING!

[elmando5]

I'm not a colored girl and I haven't considered suicide when my rainbow is enuf, but I want to see this movie version of the play. Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Anika Noni Rose and Thandie Newton to name a few are going to be fantastic.

[cealchyth]

@joycieswag Have you done any research whatsoever on the play? Obviously you have not, because if you had you'd know that the script, written by Ntozake Shange, is meant for black women. In the title, the word "colored" is used to mean "black". I'm just trying to help you out here, because your ridiculous claim that this play has nothing to do with being black is laughably embarrassing.

[kyoko2zombie]

@joycieswag yes but for colored women is for black women. women of all races can watch the movie and relate but the topics in the movie are things the black community doesn't talk about much. Tyler Perry is basically acting as a muck racker, digging up the bad things that we all should know. so your right about the women wearing the colors to represent their moods but they do that in the movie. each woman wears a certain color.

[atomicsexxxkitten]

Why can't it be an opus that speaks on being both an African-American and a Woman, whether together or separate?! Both groups are oppressed and abused by society (and themselves). 

[m0thland]

@Peachesfolife well i'm what you would probably call white and I've been raped twice, tried to kill myself several times and been homeless before so I think it's pretty much the same regardless of what you look like.

[joycieswag]

@Wpeachesoflife...and that is what I said. the comment I replied to was a comment where a person said she could not relate becasue she was not Black. I know many women of various races who have been been through all these issues, so I was saying that the colors represent an individual woman's delimma, no matter what color she is. So as a Black woman, I don't see this as just a Black thing it's a woman thing.

[Peachesfolife]

@joycieswag Actually it is a "black thing". Shange used the word "colored" as a pun. She includes issues that ALL women face, but the play was written for her "sisters". If it were not for black women, she would have had white actresses in her play, and Tyler Perry would have followed suit by having white actresses in his film. Being a woman is hard... but you have to admit that being a BLACK woman is harder. We sometimes aren't even viewed as women.

[BrittanyHippie]

i just saw this movie...and i have to say...its VERY GOOD!!!!! its powerful, sad, intense and funny..its a must see :)

[inalouisa]

No way can those actors or this movie rival the book or the play. Please! Read the play!!

[flyrtybadgyrl]

wow. how about you buy the play and support the arts@elmando5