Shug Avery

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

"Here is the thing, Miss Celie: don't never know how something come out til you try to make it."

"A woman can change anything that don't suit her."

"We could make our own happiness."

"Now, you know, the world still on its axis and we in it to stay."

"When you actually got it, you just notice the world don't understand it at all."

"Men look at themselves in the mirror. But what do women look at?"

"God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God."

"To love a place, a person, you got to love it the way it is, not the way you want it to be."

"Love is what we gon spend the rest of our life waiting for, and at last we find it."

"I believe a good roll in the hay never hurt nobody."

"I believe God is in this country too. In this grass. In this air."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

"I'm a woman every way a woman can be."

"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in myself."

"God sure loves colored people."

"I love you, Celie."

"I love to hear myself sing sometimes."

"I can not tell you enough how much I love the way Celie be acting."

"Once you know what you know, you can't ever go back."

"Everything want to be loved."

"Don't never let nobody make you feel like you ain't good enough."

"That what I love about you, Celie, you so strong."

"Sing a little song."

"That the gift of love from God."

"God is inside you and inside everybody else"

"Celie, you got to do what you got to do"

"Nothing wrong with you"

"Miss Celie never know nothing"

"The stars looking good tonight"