I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays Atlanta For there is a dark

For there is a dark force growing in Otera—a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop

while the rest can’t ever seem to break away from it

she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine

she’s willing to overlook the cousins’ misdeeds if they help her with a problem of her own

and Black joy

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays Atlanta For there is a darkSonia Sanchez is a prolific, award winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchezs plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well being of the black community, and her