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A Girl of Many Colors, an Atom of Many Lights: For Colored Girls and the Spectrum Within

Tekiah El Atem
Oct 21
1 min read

by TAKIA PARHAM

Gold-edged cards fan across a black ground, none shown whole, moving from torn portraits lit in flame-orange to a figure in deep purple holding glowing atoms in each open hand. Newton's prism sorts white light into seven colors, every element signs its name in bright lines, and Bohr's stairway sends out one pure color at a time. Beneath them run Ntozake Shange's for colored girls, the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana and the Katha Upanishad, where many colors become one light.

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