Shug Avery

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

"Look at this tree, Celie. Look at this tree."

"The preacher man talk and talk. But he don't say nothing about God."

"I'm a sinner and I know it. But I ain't no fool."

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

"Celie, tell me how you know what you know."

"I love your hair when it kinky and wild."

"Everything you been taught a lie."

"Everything you have ever been afraid of has already happened to you."

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

"Anything you do to us, we already know. But what you do to yourself, nobody know but you."

"I love myself. And I love you. Independent of your love for me."

"I don't come to you to ask for anything, I come to give you myself."

"I'm a lesbian. Do you know what that mean?"

"God is not a he, God is not a she. God is a it."

"I just know what I like to feel."

"Nothing wrong with admiring yourself. When you do that, everybody else respect you."

"You can't make yourself feel something you don't feel, but you sure can block yourself from feeling something you do."

"Being alive is the most important work you can do."

"The same way you know the color purple, you know God."

"What God give you meant to enjoy."

"Every woman deserves to know what pleasure feels like."

"God is love. Love is God."

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

"Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did."

"I'm a lesbian. But I love God."

"Maybe God just enjoy different things."

"Each number is a room, I make up as I go."

"God don't love nobody more than anybody else, I think."

"Everything want to be loved."