The Color Purple

Book · 5 characters · 523 quotes · 1976

Quotes from The Color Purple

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"I'm a woman. I'm supposed to stay home and have babies."
Nettie Freedom
S
"God is inside you and inside everybody else."
Shug Avery
C
"The more I wonder, the more I love."
Celie Love
S
"Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did."
Shug Avery Faith
C
"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook."
Celie
S
"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles."
Sofia Strength
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Shug Avery
C
"God mad at ugly people"
Celie
C
"You saved my life"
Celie Gratitude
C
"I never know what to say"
Celie
C
"I got to leave"
Celie Change
S
"Everything happen for a reason"
Shug Avery Faith
C
"Nettie my heart"
Celie Love
S
"This what a song look like"
Shug Avery Art
C
"I ain't got nothing"
Celie
C
"You got a mean face"
Celie
S
"We all got choices"
Shug Avery Freedom
C
"I tell you, it not so bad"
Celie
C
"What God done for me already"
Celie Gratitude
C
"I don't see no light"
Celie
C
"He beat me like he beat the children"
Celie
S
"I'm going to help you get your children back"
Shug Avery Justice
C
"Trying to fight my battle"
Celie
C
"Babies come"
Celie
S
"I been married before"
Shug Avery
S
"The stars looking good tonight"
Shug Avery Nature
C
"I don't know why he do this to me"
Celie
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"Celie got a lot of sense"
Mr. (Albert)
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"I don't know if you truly want to know"
Nettie
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"Dear God, that all I can say"
Celie