The Color Purple Quotes

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Old Mr.: [referring to Shug] She black as tar, nappy-headed, got legs like baseball bats, and I hear she got that nasty women's disease.

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Old Mr.: Boy, you goin' let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss you out like that? You sittin' at the head of your own dinner table and actin' like the waiter!

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Old Mr.: Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.

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Shug: [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving] Celie is coming with us. Albert: What? Shug: Celie is coming with us to Memphis. Albert: Over my dead body. Shug: You satisfied? That what you want? Albert: [to Celie] NOW What's wrong...

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Sofia: [after telling Celie she knows how she feels] Oh... Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.

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Squeak: You just a big ol' heifer!

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Celie: [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna' set around and whip your ass.

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Celie: [to herself, after Shug shouts Albert's first name when she throws the burned food out of the bedroom] Albert?

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Sofia: You told Harpo to beat me?

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Shug: I's married now! I's married now!

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Squeak: Hapo! Who dis woman? Harpo: Now come now, you know who this is. Squeak: She best'a leave you alone. Sophia: Fine with me. Harpo: [to Sophia] You ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my jut-joint. Squeak: [to Harpo] You said dis here our jut-join...

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Old Mr.: [Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.

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Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me, be my maid? Sofia: Hell no.

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Shug: Do you mind if Albert sleep with me? Celie: Do you like sleeping with him?

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Shug: That means you still a virgin. Celie: Yeah, because don't nobody love me. Shug: I love you.

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Celie: Most time I pretend I ain't even there. He don't know the difference.

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Celie: He just climb on top of me and do his business. Shug: "Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you. Celie: That's what it feel like. Shug: Why then, Miss Celie... that means you still a virgin!

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Shug: You sho is ugly.

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