The Color Purple

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

"We started to talk, after years of not being able to."

"I am black, I am poor, I am a heathen."

"Dear stars, dear trees, dear God."

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

"I love to hear myself sing sometimes."

"Shug, you do have a pretty face though."

"Thank you, thank you."

"I may be black, but I am here."

"What God ever intended for us to know so much, to be happy like that in the flesh?"

"I am here."

"Help yourself, help yourself."

"All my life I had to fight."

"Forgive my heart, I have no choice."

"You better hush now, cause somebody might hear you."

"I love you, Celie."

"God sure loves colored people."

"I'm tired of acting like I don't know nothing."

"I don't know how to fight, that's all."

"If you want to know about my life, just listen."

"Dear God, I am sick."

"It took me a long time to realize I was worth more than a brown penny."

"I wanted to share this joy with you."

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

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

"We are sisters. We have to take care of each other."

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

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a thing but I'm here."

"Until you do right by me, everything you touch will crumble."

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