The Color Purple

"Don't let nothing stop you. If you want something, go on and get it."

"I love you like the way I love God."

"Us sleep like sisters now."

"I don't need you to love me. I just need you to know I'm here."

"I am here. And I am black."

"You must leave everything that you have and follow me."

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

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook."

"Everything you done to me, already done to you."

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

"Us should start a business."

"The Lord never speak to me, just the devil."

"I'm a woman now."

"Every lick you hit me you hitting yourself."

"I love Shug and God love Shug."

"Anything you do to me is already done to you."

"I'm here. I'm here."

"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we're like other people."

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

"Us sleep like sisters, me and Shug."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook."

"You better not never tell nobody but God."

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

"If I ever hurt you, you'll never know it."

"I'm just trying to teach Harpo to listen to reason."

"Squeak got to have a say so in what happen to her."

"I never felt like I had a home, til now."

"I won't say nothing if you won't say nothing."

"When you see something beautiful, you ought to know it."