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A review by niakayjones
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4.0
love love love. so important. sections that stood out:
“I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how come I know trees fear man.”
“And Celie, there is something magical about it. Because the black is so black the eye is simply dazzled, and then there is the shining that seems to come, really, from moonlight.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” !!!!!!!!!!
“I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.”
“You making your living, Celie, she say. Girl, you on your way.”
“It say, because you are who you are, the future look happy and bright.”
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself.”
“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. [..] The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.”
“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.”
“DEAR GOD. DEAR STARS, DEAR TREES, DEAR SKY, DEAR PEOPLES. DEAR EVERYTHING. DEAR GOD.”
“But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.”
sorry to quote so much (again)! so many notable moments
“I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how come I know trees fear man.”
“And Celie, there is something magical about it. Because the black is so black the eye is simply dazzled, and then there is the shining that seems to come, really, from moonlight.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” !!!!!!!!!!
“I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.”
“You making your living, Celie, she say. Girl, you on your way.”
“It say, because you are who you are, the future look happy and bright.”
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself.”
“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. [..] The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.”
“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.”
“DEAR GOD. DEAR STARS, DEAR TREES, DEAR SKY, DEAR PEOPLES. DEAR EVERYTHING. DEAR GOD.”
“But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.”
sorry to quote so much (again)! so many notable moments