32 quotes found
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
“And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.”
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
“Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
“Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she dont, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.”
“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a goo...”
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never kn...”
“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ai...”
“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it jus...”
“And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Ne...”
“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”
“What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a m...”
“He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, fro...”
“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I...”
“I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.”
“Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. Thats the reason they call what us sing the devils music. Devils love to fuck.”
“Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I ain't there. He never know ...”
“But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nett...”
“Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.”
