Which color am I ? And which color are you ?

This week I have read and seen the movie to book For Colored Girls by Ntozake Shange. Even though the books title is for colored girls, I think the book can address most females in the world no matter the color or race. I read the book before I watched the movie because outside of school, I have a club and our assignment was to read the book so we can all go see the movie together.


When I read the book it was not anything like the movie the book was filled with poems that told stories in very interesting ways. To me they weren’t just poems or stories to me it spoke out like it was a special book all written for me that’s how good the book really grabbed my mind and ran with it. I loved all the little details she added and the words she used to describe a scene or how one of the characters felt, it was not just good it like a perfect fit to what the poem described. In addition, at the end the poems all came together as if they were teaching a lesson. The book made me dig deep down in my mind and think about what this mean or what she meant by saying that. I have come up with so many thoughts and ideas about what she may have wanted us to think and I realized that every girl is supposed to take the book differently. Some may take it as I did and really connect it to how the girls handled certain situations. Moreover, some probably cannot connect themselves to the situations at all because they have never been in them.



While watching the movie I saw how different it was from the book. The movies came to surface with, the struggles the characters went through are what some or most women in American go through in there daily life. It was like the book came to life and everything was graphic and you could get a better understanding. The movie did fill in many blank pieces I had about the book. The movie wasn’t to different from the book as in plot wise but as in the actual movie to me it really was about how women go through hard times in life due to men, death or just dealing with the struggles in everyday life. To me the movie was better then the book because even though it was a movie, they still recited the poems and showed which scene went with each poem. My favorite part of the movie was at the end when all the girls collaborated on the last poem and they shared there struggles and the lesson they learned from it.


Overall the movie and book would have to be my favorite movie and book so far this year another thing I learned from the movie was the title colored girls didn’t mean what I thought I meant its not race colors its colors as in blue yellow … etc. the colors represented which color each character was. At the end of the movie, it had me thinking about which color I was.

Am I a bright yellow?
A dull gray?
A pure white?
Or a bright pretty pink?

I could not come up with an answer, but you tell me. What color do you think you are? Because we are all colored girls.