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Lady in Orange, Lady in Purple, Lady in Blue, and Lady in Yellow all enter together to perform the no more love poems. They enter and dance as if they are catching a disease from the Lady next to them, and then they all freeze. Lady in Orange begins and discusses a love that left her heartbroken. Lady in Purple then tells us about a new love who is opening her up and making her learn to love. Lady in Blue questions the world’s love for black women and decides it would be easier to be white
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Start: Lady in Orange: ever since i realized there waz someone callt A colored girl an evil woman a b#@ch or a nag I been trying not to be that and leave bitterness In somebody else’s cup/
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End: Lady in Yellow: do you see the point My spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul and gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, Scribner Poetry, 1997, pp. 42-45.
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