Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, is a fascinating work on human fragility and the mature type.
Colored Girls is primarily about Shange’s perceptions of other women of her own race. She writes about the dreams that all black women in her time possessed. According to Shange, many women’s primary motivation was their dreams of love and a better life.
Ntozake Shange’s message or topic is her explanation of what it means to be a black woman in a world of harsh streets, deceptive men, and excruciating loss, which she wants everyone who reads her work to grasp, not just other black women. Regardless of how hard black women worked to achieve their goals, their aspirations were either shattered by a callous lover or destroyed by white people. Ntozake Shange writes with such zeal that anybody, regardless of background, may understand and profit from the message she conveys.
She wants people to realize that black women don’t want sympathy; they want appreciation for the strength it required to survive those difficult times.
They all recognize that their strength derives from something bigger than themselves, despite their imperfections and differences. “The Rainbow Is Enuf,” the second portion of the title, depicts their solidarity because they are a rainbow collectively.
Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf uses a unique aesthetic and compelling substance to give a message of hope and pride to her fellow black women.