symbolism
“Women, especially black women, have as much right and as much purpose for being here as air and mountains do…. We can minimize those scars or those sores that we don’t want in us. We can modulate them to the extent that they become at least malignant. And we forget that. So that’s what the rainbow is: just the possibility to start all over again with the power and the beauty of ourselves… Rainbows come after; they don’t come before the storm.”-shange
“The juxtaposition of “colored girl” with “rainbow” enables Black women to see the varied tones of their skin as a reflection of the glorious hues of the rainbow, not as a color to be borne in shame. And, though colored girls have considered suicide because they have been abused by white society and Black men,this need no longer be the case.”-carol p. christ
“The juxtaposition of “colored girl” with “rainbow” enables Black women to see the varied tones of their skin as a reflection of the glorious hues of the rainbow, not as a color to be borne in shame. And, though colored girls have considered suicide because they have been abused by white society and Black men,this need no longer be the case.”-carol p. christ