"The Truth Hurts"
            
             Ntozake Shange is an American post modern writer who has found, through her personal occurrences, the desire to write almost as an advocate for women against oppression and their identity. This is demonstrated in the relationship between "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide," "With No Immediate Cause." and "Someone Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff." Ntozake Shange utilizes true-to-life experiences to demonstrate women's oppression and identity. Women have taken on male oppression and at the same time supported their man because of society. She attempts to replace women's identity in her poetry, as it is repeatedly ripped away. She typically writes in a monologue style of dialect poetry. Although roughly structured, Shange has a unique technique that is not only unrefined and realistic, but often vicious. Through this style she connects with the reader to exhibit cruelty against women. This new self determination gave her strength to focus on herself and identity. She became aware of other women's oppression and their need to reaffirm themselves. Her stories encompass every intense, brutal, and honest feeling and experience a woman has ever had. Shange has become an advocate for these types of women through her poems and stories. Since her reaffirmation, she has sustained a triple career as an educator, a performer/director and a writer.
             In the play, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide," Shange has seven woman dancers portray different situations in a poetic form. These situations are dramatized to recall encounters with classmates, lovers, rapists, abortionists, and dormant killers. The women survive disappointing situations and abuses brought upon their lives. They recognize the promise of a better future while dressed in different colors. These colored outfits represent
             Shange's personal rainbow. ...