The Color Purple quotes

23 total quotes

Celie
Old Mister
Shug Avery
Sofia

View Quote Shug like honey. And now, I's just like a bee.

View Quote I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.

View Quote [Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.

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

View Quote [to Shug] He (Albert) beat me when you ain't here. He beat me for not being you.

View Quote The more things change, the more they stay the same.

View Quote See Daddy, sinners have souls too.

View Quote Girl child ain't safe in a family of men.