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- Author: Alice Walker
- Published: 1982
- Won Pulitzer Prize in 1983
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The Color Purple is the story of the life and trials of a young African-American woman in rural Georgia during the early 20th Century.
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About Alice Walker
Alice walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Georgia. She was a good student as a child and earned a full scholarship to attend Spelman College. At Spelman she was inspired by her professor, historian and activist Howard Zinn, to become involved with the Civil Rights Movement. After transferring to Sarah Lawrence College and graduating in 1965 she returned to the south and participated in numerous civil rights campaigns. Walkers first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was published in 1970 followed by Meridian in 1976. In 1982, she published the famed The Color Purple which won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted in a popular film. -
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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
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The Color Purple Quotes Questions
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@thenotoriousjen There's so many quotes from "Color Purple" which we could recite lol. Unfortunately, I can't remember the best lol.
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@ColieBerry it would be you to start the "The Color Purple" quotes smh lol
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