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The Color Purple Quotes
- SparkNotes: The Color Purple Important Quotes Explained
- "Well, us talk and talk about God, but I’m still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?)..." -Celie
- "Us sleep like sisters, me and Shug." -Celie
- BookRags: The Color Purple Quotes
- "He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and git used to it. But I don't never git used to it. And now I feels sick every time I be the one to cook." -Part 1, pg. 11
- "I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive." -Part 1, pg. 29
- "First time somebody made something and name it after me." -Part 2, pg. 75
- "Oh Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. Pray for us." -Part 4, pg. 169
- "Yeah, I say, and he give me a lynched daddy, a crazy mama, a lowdown dog of a step pa and a sister I probably won't ever see again. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgetful and lowdown." -Part 4, pg. 175
- NovelGuide: The Color Purple Top Ten Quotes
- “[Shug has the] nasty woman disease” -Mr. __'s father
- "The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men." -Nettie
- “You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need” -Celie
- "Not being tied to what God looks like, frees us." -Nettie
- Wikiquote: The Color Purple Film Quotes
- "The more things change, the more they stay the same." -Celie
- "See Daddy, sinners have souls too." -Shug Avery
- "Girl child ain't safe in a family of men." -Sofia
- "I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me." -Sofia