I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

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

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

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.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

Every heartbeat a syllable for words I can’t speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

People are fools, not monsters

Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.