For Colored Girls Quotes

#1. Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

Ntozake Shange

#2. What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

Ntozake Shange

#3. And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

Ntozake Shange

#4. I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions

Ntozake Shange

#5. I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

Margaret Atwood

#6. I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Kerry Washington

#7. Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

Anna Godbersen

#8. She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her the strength life demanded of her - and the humor with which to live it.

Toni Morrison