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Female
Playing Age
Adult
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Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
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Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Start: Somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff Not my poems or a dance i gave up in the street But somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff Like a kleptomaniac workin hard & forgettin while stealin

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End: i’ll give it to ya/ yeh/ i’ll give it to ya/ Round 5:00 in the winter/ when the sky is blue-red/ & Dew City is gettin pressed/ if it’s really my stuff/ Ya gotta give it to me/ if ya really want it/ i’m The only one/ can handle it

Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, Scribner Poetry, 1997, pp. 49-51.

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