Celie

"Now I want women to wear whatever they want and go wherever they please."

"I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."

"This the first time I ever asked anybody for anything."

"We talk and talk, bout God, but I never really believed."

"When he come, he come with vengeance."

"I use to wonder who I'd be if Shug Avery never existed."

"I am here, and I will stay here."

"I ast God to keep me off the street."

"I write like I talk to God."

"All my days I been black. Even when I was trying to be somebody else."

"Whatever happened to you, I ask Nettie."

"I didn't want to know what they was doing."

"I won't say nothing if you won't say nothing."

"You better not never tell nobody but God."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook."

"Us sleep like sisters, me and Shug."

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

"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we're like other people."

"I'm here. I'm here."

"I love Shug and God love Shug."

"Every lick you hit me you hitting yourself."

"I'm a woman now."

"The Lord never speak to me, just the devil."

"Us should start a business."

"Everything you done to me, already done to you."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook."

"I am here. And I am black."

"Us sleep like sisters now."

"I was fourteen when my stepfather put his hands on me."

"I be so love sick I can't see."