Quotes from book

The Color Purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?”

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

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

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

“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”

“… have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“Everything want to be loved.”

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”

“Like I said… fine with me.”

“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”

“Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.”