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TCP quotes
Gender
- Harpo 'loves cooking and cleaning'(Pg 57)
- Harpo 'By now he just about her size' (Pg 77)
- Sofia - I loves Harpo, she say... But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me' (Pg 39)
- Squeak - 'She stand up. My name Mary Agnes, she say.' (Pg 90)
- '[Harpo and Sofia] marching, hand in hand, like going to war. She in front a little' (Pg 31)
- Celie - 'When I dream, I dream of Shug Avery. She be dress to kill, whirling an laughing' (Pg 8)
- 'Sofia look half her size. But she still a big strong girl. Arms got muscle. Legs, too... give you the feeling she all there. Solid.' (Pg 33)
- Pa - 'You have to watch her or she'll give away everything you own. But she can work like a man.' (Pg 10)
Violence and Suffering
- Pa - 'You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't' (Pg 1)
- Pa - 'You better not never tell nobody but God' (Pg 1)
- Celie - 'I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive' (Pg 18)
- Sofia - 'Every time they ast me to do something, Miss Celie, I act like I'm you. I jump right up and just do what they say' (Pg 83)
- Celie - 'He pick up a rock and laid my head open. The blood run all down tween my breasts' (Pg 14)
- Sofia - 'They crack her skull, they crack her ribs. They tear her nose loose on one side. They blind her in one eye. She swole from head to foot' (Pg 82)
- Celie - 'He beat me like he beat the children' (Pg 23)
- Celie - 'I make myself wood' (Pg 23)
- Sofia - 'Just about the colour of an eggplant' (Pg 82)
Self-discovery
- Celie - 'I'm pore, I am black, I may be ugly and can't cook...But I am here' (Pg 187)
- Sofia - 'Let's make quilt pieces out of these messed up curtains' (Pg 41)
- Celie - 'It feel like heaven is what it feel like, not like sleeping with Mr—at all.' (Pg 104)
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Race and Racism
- Sofia - 'Hell no' (Pg 81)
- 'Us dress Squeak like she a white woman.' (Pg 87)
- Sofia - 'Too many to kill off, I say. Us outnumbered from the start.' (Pg 93)
- Nettie - 'Millions and millions of Africans were sold into slavery- you and me, Celie!' (Pg 124)
God and spirituality
- 'Dear God, I am I have always been a good girl' (Letter 1)
- Corrine - 'I think we should call one another brother and sister, all the time' (Pg 142)
- Nettie - 'But God, I miss you, Celie. I think about the time you laid yourself down for me. I love you with all my heart' (Pg 115)
- Shug - 'That feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all' (Pg 176)
- Celie - 'And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. Amen.' (Pg 261)
- Celie - 'Dear God, Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God' (Pg 259)
- Shug - 'I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it' (Pg 177)
- Shug - 'Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved' (Pg 177)
- Celie - 'Angels all in white, white hair and white eyes, look like albinos. God all white too, looking like some stout white man work at the bank' (Pg 85)