Quotes from 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 lesson I was suppose to learn.

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

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.

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.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.