The Color Purple

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

"I'm a lesbian. But I love God."

"Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did."

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

"It hurt too much to talk about it, so we didn't."

"All my life I had to fight. That's all I've ever done."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook, like they say, but I'm here."

"We sisters. We sisters in spirit."

"I choose myself now, and that changes everything."

"God is love. Love is God."

"I came to myself through loving her."

"Every woman deserves to know what pleasure feels like."

"I made pants instead of dresses. I made myself instead of waiting."

"The distance between us don't matter. My heart is always with you."

"I started understanding that women need to take care of themselves."

"Our love was an act of resistance."

"I was shaped by silence, but I chose to speak."

"What God give you meant to enjoy."

"I found my voice, now I can't nobody tell me nothing."

"Forgiveness is deciding to love yourself again."

"The same way you know the color purple, you know God."

"I'm black, I'm poor, but I'm somebody to myself."

"Being alive is the most important work you can do."

"I love her in a way that done made me whole again."

"The thing I want most in the world is to know my own child."

"I ain't gon cry no more. I'm gon laugh instead."

"You can't make yourself feel something you don't feel, but you sure can block yourself from feeling something you do."

"I know I can do anything and be anybody."

"She help me see the world different."

"We ain't safe nowhere."