"It sort of feels empty, not like I'm swollen with words." — Ntozake Shange, poet and author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, who is battling a neurological disorder.
For Colored Girls Destined To Polarize

Tyler Perry's latest, For Colored Girls, opens today. Writes Betsy Sharkey for the LA Times: "It is a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it."
When The Rainbow Is Enough
[New York, June 2. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
Is Tyler Perry The Right Man To Tell Black Women's Stories?
Variety has broken the news that Tyler Perry has been asked to "write, direct and produce an adaptation of the 1975 play " 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.' " I can't say I'm thrilled.