This play is for girls of color, for girls who are suffering from oppression and need a voice and another woman to talk to 'identify. These women who considered suicide only considered it, they did not act on it. When the Rainbow is Enough is explained at the beginning of the play when the lady in brown develops the title: “displaced to the ends of their own rainbows” (20). This shows that the play is going to be performed by women who have found their rainbow, they have found the voice that they had lost for so long. Not all black women have been so lucky, Sarah from Funnyhouse of a Negro ends up committing suicide at the end of the play as she is torn between her white mother and her black father, her English heritage and her African heritage. This comes as a shock to the reader, because he has been so intimately drawn into her world and its irregular divisions by this half-white, half-black girl. The reader trusts Sarah and empathizes with her, then is totally baffled by her selfishness and dishonesty. This piece is also a powerful statement for women and men who find themselves at a mix of two