The Color Purple

"The more I wonder, I wonder if maybe everything that happen, happen to bring peoples together, even if it look mighty strange."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."

"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."

"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering about all that, we thinking about more than us here in this little house."

"We could make our own happiness."

"I love you for trying."

"It is difficult to hold onto a dream."

"A woman can change anything that don't suit her."

"I just want you to feel you doing the right thing, say what you think."

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

"I'm pore, I'm Black, I may be ugly and I'm certainly not going to whitewash to please anybody."

"Here is the thing, Miss Celie: don't never know how something come out til you try to make it."

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