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

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

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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

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.

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

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

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.

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.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

As my doctor said, eventually your eyes do start to give out on you if you're not taking care of them.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.

I don't really say or consider myself that like I won't say "yeah I'm the best, yeah I'm the hottest."

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.