I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Don't live off your past successes or failures, live for the next big pursuit.

The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.