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The Color Purple (1982)
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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If a mule could tell folks how it's treated, it would.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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Ain't no way to read the bible and not think God white, she say. Then she sigh. When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus' hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
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We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?
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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.
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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?
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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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.
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Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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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 ain't black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.
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I don't know how to fight. All I know is how to stay alive.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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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.
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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.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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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 just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think.... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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Born:
February 9, 1944
(age 80)
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