Celie

"I'm pore, I'm Black, I may be ugly and I'm certainly not going to whitewash to please anybody."

"The more I wonder, the more I love."

"I love you for trying."

"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering about all that, we thinking about more than us here in this little house."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."

"The more I wonder, I wonder if maybe everything that happen, happen to bring peoples together, even if it look mighty strange."

"Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I'm just tired of doing the same thing every day."

"I'm here. I'm black. I may be poor and ugly, but I'm here."

"A woman can't be a woman less a man around, I heard this all my life."

"I was asked who I believe in. And the answer come out before I know what I'm saying. I believe in God. I believe God is everything."

"The more I wonder... maybe it don't matter. Maybe it do."

"I'm poor, I'm black, I may be ugly, but I'm here and I will survive."

"She ask me what would I do if I was free? And I never thought about it."

"I'm tired. I'm so tired of this life."

"I ast God what is a good thing to pray for, and he say, What you want to pray for?"

"I ain't never heard of such a thing. But then I think, why not?"

"Everything you ever done to me, I forgive you. I forgive you completely."

"You know what? Nobody ever say it was all right for me to be happy. But I'm gon be happy anyway."

"I ast God to strike me dead but he didn't. He just keep on living."

"I don't know nothing bout tending to a man. But I learn."

"I never knew what it was to be happy. And now I do. And I know who to thank for it."

"What is it mean when you feel like you falling? And you don't know how to stop?"

"I never knew I could feel this way. And now I know I will never be the same."

"Until you do right by me, everything you touch will crumble."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a thing but I'm here."

"It took me a long time to realize I was worth more than a brown penny."

"Dear God, I am sick."

"If you want to know about my life, just listen."

"I don't know how to fight, that's all."

"I'm tired of acting like I don't know nothing."