Quotes from book

The Color Purple

“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”

“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.”

“You're all I want! You're all I have! GO AWAY!.”

“I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”

“The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!”

“They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.”

“I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.”