The Color Purple

"I been wanting to tell you about God."

"The more you know about yourself, the more you can grow."

"Nothing wrong with admiring yourself. When you do that, everybody else respect you."

"I just know what I like to feel."

"Say what you want, but I am free now."

"I came back to myself through her eyes."

"I make myself. I create myself. What I do today changes me."

"God is not a he, God is not a she. God is a it."

"I'm a lesbian. Do you know what that mean?"

"I don't come to you to ask for anything, I come to give you myself."

"You supposed to be here."

"Let's make a quilt out of all our scraps."

"I love myself. And I love you. Independent of your love for me."

"Being grateful is the best thing I ever learned to do."

"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 am here. I am black. I am beautiful. I am."

"Anything you do to us, we already know. But what you do to yourself, nobody know but you."

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

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

"Everything you have ever been afraid of has already happened to you."

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

"Now I know what it mean to be truly free."

"I found peace with you."

"Us talk til the stars come out."

"God probably git tired of listening to folks beg."

"I'm satisfied that I do the right thing by staying with you."

"Everything you been taught a lie."

"I got smart for once in my life."

"My heart begin to break."

"The world don't want no part of me."