The Color Purple quotes

"I don’t fight, I stay where I’m told. But I’m alive."

• Celie

• Sofia

• Nettie

• Harpo

“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."

• Celie

• Shug

• Sofia

• Nettie

"You don’t want her here, just say so, he say. Won’t do no good. But if that the way you feel..."

• Fonso

• Albert

• Harpo

• Celie

"I won’t leave, she say, until I know Albert won’t even think about beating you."

• Celie

• Nettie

• Carrie

• Shug

"It just a scandless, a woman with five children hanging out in a jukejoint at night."

• Albert

• Shug

• Celie

• Harpo

"What you mean, Dis her house? She walk out on you. Walk away from the house. It over now, she say to Sofia."

• Harpo

• Mary Agnes

• Celie

• Shug

"i say what yall told me to say. Bout Sofia not being punish enough. Say she happy in prison, strong girl like her."

• Shug

• Mary Agnes

• The Warden

• Albert