The Color Purple

"I didn't want to know what they was doing."

"Whatever happened to you, I ask Nettie."

"God is not a homophobe."

"All my days I been black. Even when I was trying to be somebody else."

"Celie, you got to take my love with you."

"I write like I talk to God."

"Everything want to be loved."

"I ast God to keep me off the street."

"My sisters and I have always been close."

"I am here, and I will stay here."

"I use to wonder who I'd be if Shug Avery never existed."

"When he come, he come with vengeance."

"Celie, you got to stand up for yourself. Anybody think different, let 'em say so."

"God don't love nobody more than anybody else, I think."

"We talk and talk, bout God, but I never really believed."

"This the first time I ever asked anybody for anything."

"I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."

"Now I want women to wear whatever they want and go wherever they please."

"Each number is a room, I make up as I go."

"We finally home, I told him, on the day when we married at last."

"Mama would be alive if she had known she deserved it."

"I know what it is to want something and not get it."

"You suppose to take care of me. Why you want to kill me?"

"I'm satisfied just to know you alive."

"Maybe God just enjoy different things."

"Shug, how come you so good to me?"

"The more I wonder, I wonder more."

"I think women should stand together and help one another."

"Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl."

"What happened after you told your mama she was a bitch?"