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The Color Purple

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.

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“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

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“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

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“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

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“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”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

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

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The Color Purple (1982)

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

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

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“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.”

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The Color Purple (1982)

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“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.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)