Anybody else colored he try to call ’em auntie or something. First time he try that with Sofia she ast him which colored man his mama sister marry.

But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes.

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.

So I am an object of pity and contempt, I thought, to men and women alike.

DEAR GOD. DEAR STARS, DEAR TREES, DEAR SKY, DEAR PEOPLES. DEAR EVERYTHING. DEAR GOD.

Look like when I open my mouth the air rush in and shape words.

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

anathema

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It.