Quotes by Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.Y — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big — Alice Walker, 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. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you thin — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world wi — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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 — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something diffe — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the les — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That’s the reason they call w — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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 ro — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to thin — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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 — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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, c — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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, fo — Alice Walker, The Color Purple