Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

Your mind is the biggest uninvented gold mine. Dig it

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

The boy was painted in his pain

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.