Celie

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook, like she say, but I'm here."

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

"I am here. I am black. I am beautiful. I am."

"Being grateful is the best thing I ever learned to do."

"Let's make a quilt out of all our scraps."

"I make myself. I create myself. What I do today changes me."

"I came back to myself through her eyes."

"Say what you want, but I am free now."

"She help me see the world different."

"I know I can do anything and be anybody."

"I ain't gon cry no more. I'm gon laugh instead."

"I love her in a way that done made me whole again."

"I'm black, I'm poor, but I'm somebody to myself."

"Forgiveness is deciding to love yourself again."

"I found my voice, now I can't nobody tell me nothing."

"I was shaped by silence, but I chose to speak."

"Our love was an act of resistance."

"I made pants instead of dresses. I made myself instead of waiting."

"I came to myself through loving her."

"I choose myself now, and that changes everything."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook, like they say, but I'm here."

"It hurt too much to talk about it, so we didn't."

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

"Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl."

"The more I wonder, I wonder more."

"Shug, how come you so good to me?"

"You suppose to take care of me. Why you want to kill me?"

"I know what it is to want something and not get it."

"Mama would be alive if she had known she deserved it."

"We finally home, I told him, on the day when we married at last."