Celie

"But I don't want to."

"She make me happy."

"I love you, God. I love you."

"Nothing happen without God's knowledge."

"But I finally know it all."

"I'm brave again."

"I feel like a snake that done shed its skin."

"Us sit on the porch, waiting."

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

"Dear God, I am sick."

"I have already given him everything I can stand to give."

"I was so happy to see you I could cry, and I will, I'll just take a while."

"The world didn't give me nothing."

"I'm glad I ask you the question, cause I been wondering."

"She prettier than God now."

"I never knew what it meant to be happy."

"I done learned to love myself."

"The quilt tell our story."

"I spent near thirty years trying to dress like a man."

"Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy."

"I ain't no fool. I know what he want."

"I finally feel like somebody."

"All these years I thought I wasn't good enough."

"She say God is inside you and inside everybody else."

"I wanted to be anybody but who I was."

"I forgive you for all the pain."

"She bring light into my life."

"I done found my voice at last."