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This groundbreaking work of literature was originally written as an extended choreopoem, debuted on Broadway in 1976, and is an upcoming star-studded movie. For the first time, it is brought to live in audio in this powerful and moving performance by one of the film's stars, acclaimed actress Thandie Newton.
Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.
Thandie Newton, from the movies Crash, The Pursuit of Happyness, and W., captures each emotion with heartbreaking honesty in a fearless, passionate, and inspiring performance of the author's vivid and lyrical language. The New York Times says "Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message."
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Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams, too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate'—a certain word from a saleswoman, that visit to the cinema, the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus—are always there.
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A beautiful novel
- By Marc E. DiPaolo on 08-25-23
By: Gwendolyn Brooks, and others
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Black Against Empire
- The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
- By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the US, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the US government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism.
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the explanation of rise and fall Black Panther
- By Antwine Hurst on 03-24-17
By: Joshua Bloom, and others
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Sister Citizen
- Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
- By: Melissa V. Harris-Perry
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking book, Melissa V. Harris-Perry uses multiple methods of inquiry, including literary analysis, political theory, focus groups, surveys, and experimental research, to understand more deeply black women's political and emotional responses to pervasive negative race and gender images. Not a traditional political science work concerned with office-seeking, voting, or ideology, Sister Citizen is an examination of how African American women understand themselves as citizens and what they expect from political organizing.
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Great Book
- By Msafiri on 06-27-13
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.
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Wonderful
- By Tad Davis on 11-14-21
By: Leo Tolstoy, and others
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
- Womanist Prose
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury.
By: Alice Walker
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Men We Reaped
- A Memoir
- By: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life - to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly Black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write, she realized the truth - and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
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Tough but important
- By Jermell Powell on 09-26-21
By: Jesmyn Ward
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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Perfect!!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-21-16
By: Charlotte Brontë
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The Darkest Child
- By: Delores Phillips
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's 10 children, but she is also the darkest complected. The Quinns - all different skin shades, all with unknown fathers - live with their charismatic, beautiful, and tyrannical mother, Rozelle, in poverty on the fringes of a Georgia town where Jim Crow rules. Rozelle's children live in fear of her mood swings and her violence, but they are devoted to her. Rozelle pulls her children out of school when they are 12 years old so that they can help support her by going to work.
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The Darkest Child
- By Beguiling on 04-02-18
By: Delores Phillips
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God Don't Like Ugly
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Denise Burse
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In God Don't Like Ugly, she weaves a powerful tale of devastating abuse, the strength of friendship, and the burden of terrible secrets. Shy, overweight Annette Goode is only seven years old when Mr. Boatwright, a boarder in her house, begins sexually abusing her. She keeps this information to herself for years, until gorgeous, self-assured Rhoda Nelson becomes her new friend. Annette confides in Rhoda and finds the strength and courage to survive to adulthood.
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A great listen
- By Tamela on 12-29-12
By: Mary Monroe
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of 15 essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
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One of the most important things I have ever listened to.
- By Jayrod on 11-16-16
By: Audre Lorde
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Girl, Woman, Other
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
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smart, compassionate, confronting and enjoyable
- By Kelly on 12-20-19
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-24-23
For Colored Girls
👊🏾 I need to do more for my black sisters. This brought me back to when I wrote poetry so will do that.
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- Tina
- 02-20-24
The story that hits your soul
I loved all of this book. The emotions were so raw. It was such a powerful read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-18-19
Awesome Experience
I enjoyed the book, I was also cast for the production and played the lady in Orange which Ntozake herself played in the broadway version of the show in 1976. During our shows Ntzokake passed away and brung new meaning to our remaining presentations.
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- Cocoa
- 12-27-23
Breathtaking
This was truly amazing. It felt like love, pain, and liberation all at once. I wish I would’ve read this sooner.
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- BeautifulGoddess
- 02-03-20
00:02:25 and I am LOVE IT!
I just began listening and I love it, I love her voice and the energy she adds to the words. I will update my review when I finish listening the book.
****Toodles!**
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- Junette
- 01-17-11
Interesting
I am not into poems and only bought this as Tyler Perry used this as a basis for his movie. Thandie did a great job bringing this work to life. Easy to follow! Entertaining.
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- Latoya storey
- 08-05-18
such a powerful read
This book empowered me in so many ways, I loved every min of it. This was much better than the movie
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- Janice E Taylor Miller
- 07-15-20
Years
After all these years this book is still a great read I would recommend it .
thank you
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- Mz_Sunshyne
- 10-31-18
Bone chilling.
I love this screen play... it is overwhelmingly emotional. Each character's story comes thru and touches you in a way you can understand and relate. Very powerful.
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- Ashley Peart-Brown
- 07-07-20
"Somebody almost walked off wid All my stuff"
Let me just say that, that chapter was felt on spiritual level in regards giving oneself to another and not receiving the love that was being given to that person. That pain, the energy and the emotions were felt in her voice. A play on words demonstrating how they take not only tanigible items but also intangible items that make up the person you are as a colord girl but guess what, WE WANT IT ALL BACK. Truly worth every single minute. Take a listen my BLACK QUEENS.
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