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“Sweet girl,” Auguste said, but there was something dark in his tone. He sat up, and I could see him staring at me, at the mess I’d made. He drew his fingers out of me and brought them to his mouth, sucking them clean. “Does that feed you
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“i’m a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“one thing i dont need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i dont know what to do wit em they dont open doors or bring the sun back they dont make me happy”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selfish i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair
this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
this waz an experiment
to see how selfish i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair
this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
“The reaction from black men to for colored girls was in a way very much like the white reaction to black power. The body traditionally used to power and authority interpreting, through their own fear, my work celebrating the self-determination and centrality of women as a hostile act. For men to walk out feeling that the work was about them spoke to their own patriarchal delusions more than to the actuality of the work itself. It was as if merely placing the story outside themselves was an attack. for colored girls was and is for colored girls.”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
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