Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't...
In that story I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in the writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity. I had that wonderful feelin...
If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was. Well, now I know what you meant. And w...
Eu unu cred că suntem aici ca să ne mirăm. Să ne mirăm. Să întrebăm. Iar dacă te miri de lucrurile mari şi întrebi de lucrurile mari, atuncea ’nveţi despre alea mărunte, aproape din întâmplare. Da des...
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Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the oth...
Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I’m gon keep from killing him, I say.
Because I know. Grown-up white men don’t want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.
She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.
She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.