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Quotes from The Color Purple — Alice Walker

born 1944 United States

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8 quotes

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The Color Purple (1982)

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

The Color Purple (1982)

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?

The Color Purple (1982)

We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?

The Color Purple (1982)

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.

The Color Purple (1982)

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

The Color Purple (1982)

Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

The Color Purple (1982)

The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

The Color Purple (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Walker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.