The Color Purple

"I'm grateful for every single thing I got."

"God don't like ugly and he don't like mean."

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

"Ain't no point in resisting. The rest of your life is going to be work."

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

"I know what it is for the spirit to be broke."

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

"I don't see how anybody can write about anything if they don't write about what they know."

"Us drink to the health of the dead."

"He beat me like he beat the children."

"Your sister come see you sometimes?"

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

"All my life I had to fight."

"I make myself wood. I'm a tree."

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

"I never knowed what I was missing."

"I be so love it leave me cold."

"Us sit in the trees drinking wine and talking till we drunk."

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

"I am your sister, with love."

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

"Celie, you a tree."

"I spend my life trying to love somebody."

"What it mean to be joyful?"

"She my sister. I love her. But I don't know her."

"I'm not happy. I can't be happy less everybody around me is."

"My first step from the old world to the new."

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

"I love you like God love everything."

"You better not never tell nobody but God."