The Color Purple - Key Quotes
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- Created on: 04-05-13 21:35
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- The Color Purple
- A strong Central Character
- Shug Avery
- "Shug Avery finally say, Good thing i ain't your damn wife
- Nettie
- Good education
- Went to Africa
- Sofia
- If she talking when Harpo and Mr- come in the room, she keep right on.
- Shug Avery
- Exploitation of Women
- "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't.
- "He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and git used to it."
- "He look at me. It like he looking at the earth.
- "Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me.... Cause she My wife."
- "All women good for - he don't finish"
- "Harpo want to know what to do to make sofia mind."
- Religion
- "Dear God"
- "Long as i can spell G-O-D I got somebody along"
- "And God done fixed her"
- "You said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk to god, you had to write it,"
- "But leave it all to God"
- "I don't write to God no more, i write to you."
- "I ain't got religion"
- "Amen"
- Racist Society
- "Not a finer looking on in the county. white or black."
- "Or wind up in some white lady kitchen"
- "She too black."
- "Brother must like black, Shug Avery black as my shoe."
- "You're a trifling ******,"
- "Harpo so black he think she bright, but she ain't that bright."
- "she black as tar"
- A strong Central Character
- Exploitation of Women
- "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't.
- "He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and git used to it."
- "He look at me. It like he looking at the earth.
- "Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me.... Cause she My wife."
- "All women good for - he don't finish"
- "Harpo want to know what to do to make sofia mind."
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