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There's a lot of debate about the movie adaptation for Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" because of Tyler Perry's attachment to the project. Folks are either supportive or straight up mad.

That's the Catch-22 of turning literary works into movies. It's great that books, and in this case, choreopoems, are getting attention. It's great that there's a possibility that even more audiences will be introduced to the work. But then there's the flip side where things get lost in translation when, well, trying to translate one artistic form into another. And there's the risk that the powers to be involved with the movie will mess everything up, especially if the original writer isn't part of the process.

But I'm not nervous or skeptical about the recent news of two books by black women that will become films. I'm quite giddy.

Learn about the books by black women that are being turned into movies.