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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
WOW!
An AMAZING book on Love, Life, Sex, God, Abuse, Non-conformism, Feminism, Equality, Friendship and Family.
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
^Here are some shades of purple.
“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.
You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
I've had many people tell me this was an amazing read; I remember my girlfriend posting an excerpt out of the book, something about two women having a conversation about God in very broken English. I remember liking what I read but since I didn't have any context I couldn't bring myself to love it. When I reached that part of the book I had to put it down because what I read was too much for me to contemplate in the back of my head. I had to give it a moment to seep through, it was eye opening to say the least.
“...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 other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
Those few pages on God and the last few pages on Love made me fall for this book. I'd been meaning to read something introspective for a while and this did a lot more than just deliver.
I invite anyone wanting to read something more on the contemporary genre to give this a go. It truly is a classic and was un-put-downable!
Everybody needs a Shug Avery in life
PS: I finished this one at work. Programming in Java can get monotonous at times.
PPS: Reading this while playing the 'reading' playlist on www.stereomood.com was a wonderful experience.
An AMAZING book on Love, Life, Sex, God, Abuse, Non-conformism, Feminism, Equality, Friendship and Family.
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
^Here are some shades of purple.
“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.
You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
I've had many people tell me this was an amazing read; I remember my girlfriend posting an excerpt out of the book, something about two women having a conversation about God in very broken English. I remember liking what I read but since I didn't have any context I couldn't bring myself to love it. When I reached that part of the book I had to put it down because what I read was too much for me to contemplate in the back of my head. I had to give it a moment to seep through, it was eye opening to say the least.
“...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 other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
Those few pages on God and the last few pages on Love made me fall for this book. I'd been meaning to read something introspective for a while and this did a lot more than just deliver.
I invite anyone wanting to read something more on the contemporary genre to give this a go. It truly is a classic and was un-put-downable!
Everybody needs a Shug Avery in life
PS: I finished this one at work. Programming in Java can get monotonous at times.
PPS: Reading this while playing the 'reading' playlist on www.stereomood.com was a wonderful experience.