The Color Purple

"I never knew I could feel this way. And now I know I will never be the same."

"Sometimes you got to git mad. Sometimes you got to let somebody know they done wrong you."

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

"What is it mean when you feel like you falling? And you don't know how to stop?"

"I never knew what it was to be happy. And now I do. And I know who to thank for it."

"I don't know nothing bout tending to a man. But I learn."

"I ast God to strike me dead but he didn't. He just keep on living."

"You know what? Nobody ever say it was all right for me to be happy. But I'm gon be happy anyway."

"Now I see what I must do. I must leave this place."

"Everything you ever done to me, I forgive you. I forgive you completely."

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

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

"I ain't never heard of such a thing. But then I think, why not?"

"I ast God what is a good thing to pray for, and he say, What you want to pray for?"

"Maybe I'm mean. But I'm honest. And I love my sister."

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

"I'm tired. I'm so tired of this life."

"I done read everything I could get my hands on."

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

"She ask me what would I do if I was free? And I never thought about it."

"I'm poor, I'm black, I may be ugly, but I'm here and I will survive."

"The more I wonder... maybe it don't matter. Maybe it do."

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

"I love you. God knows I do. But I will kill your ass if you bring another woman in this house."

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

"I was asked who I believe in. And the answer come out before I know what I'm saying. I believe in God. I believe God is everything."

"A woman can't be a woman less a man around, I heard this all my life."

"I'm here. I'm black. I may be poor and ugly, but I'm here."

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

"Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I'm just tired of doing the same thing every day."