Although I'm just now seeing For Colored Girls the Movie I bought the book about a month ago from my local Walmart...$9.60
This Book and Movie truly touched my soul
Below is a excerpt from the book/movie:
Graduation Nite
It was graduation nite and I was the only virgin in the crowd
Bobby Mills Martin Jerome and Sammy Yates Eddie Jones and Randi all cousins
all the prettiest niggers in this Factory town
carried me out wit em
in a deep black buick
smelling of thunderbird & ladies in heat
we rambled from camden to mount holly
laughing at the afternoon's speeches
& danglin our tassles from the rear view mirror
climbing different sorta project stairs
moving toward snapping beer cans and
GET IT GET IT THAT'S THE WAY YOU DO IT MAMA
all mercer county graduated the same nite
cosmetology secretarial pre- college autoshop & business
all us movin from mama to what ever was out there
that night raced a big ol truck from the barbeque stand
trying to tell him bout the party at Jacqui's
where folks graduated last year was waiting to hit wid us
i got drunk and couldn't figure out whose hand was on my thigh
but it didnt matter.....
FOR THE REST OF THE POEM PLEASE PURCHASE NTOZAKE SHANGE'S BOOK TITLED
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW ISN'T ENUF
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