Top 99 Famous Quotes From The Color Purple

April 16, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Top 99 Famous Quotes From The Color Purple

Here are the top 99 famous quotes from the book and movie adaptation of “The Color Purple”:

On Love

“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. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.” – Celie
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Shug Avery
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” – Shug Avery
“I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead ‘fo I let him beat me.” – Sofia
“I have a heart that’s been balled up and thrown around like a piece of old dirty rag. I give it to you clean.” – Shug Avery
“You know, one of the hardest things for me to do is to forgive myself.” – Shug Avery
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” – Nettie
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way…I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to… We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful…We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.” – Alice Walker
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Atticus Finch (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I don’t say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don’t fight, I stay where I’m told. But I’m alive.” – Celie
“I am not an unreasonable woman. I just know what I want and I don’t settle for less.” – Sofia
“I am a strong woman. I don’t sit around feeling sorry for myself, nor let people mistreat me. I don’t respond to people who dictate to me or try to bring me down. If I fall I will rise up even stronger because I am survivor and not a victim. I am in control of my life and there is nothing I can’t achieve.” – Unknown
“I’m poor, I’m black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here. I’m here.” – Celie
“I am very interested in truth, in finding ways to be messy and unsure and flawed and incredible and great and my fullest self, all wrapped into one.” – Unknown
“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.” – Alice Walker
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.” – Harpo
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.” – Celie
“I have a right to be angry, but not to spread it.” – Alice Walker
“I’m poor, black, I might even be ugly, but I’m here. I’m here.” – Celie
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” – Alice Walker
“I’m starting to think it’s better to have a few honest enemies than a bunch of fake friends.” – Unknown
“I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey (who starred in the movie adaptation)
“I am a woman, I am a person, I am a human being, and I have the right to be free.” – Unknown
“I don’t ask for much, I just want to be happy.” – Unknown
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m poor, I’m black, I’m ugly, I’m a woman, and I’m in pain. God, I’m in pain.” – Celie
“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration.” – Robert Bresson (quoted in The Color Purple)
“The most important thing is to be true to yourself.” – Ellen DeGeneres (who also starred in the movie adaptation)
“I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.” – Paulo Coelho (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love — for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.” – Maya Angelou (who also starred in the movie adaptation)
“The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.” – Jane Austen (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not a perfect person, but I’m perfectly me.” – Unknown
“I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.” – Johnny Depp (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m learning to love myself. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” – Unknown
“I am a woman and I am African, I am not separate from the world.” – Alice Walker
“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.” – Erica Cook (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not trying to be perfect, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday.” – Unknown
“I am a woman, phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.” – Maya Angelou (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not a one in a million kind of girl. I’m a once in a lifetime kind of woman.” – Unknown
“I am not afraid of my truth anymore and I will not omit pieces of me to make you comfortable.” – Unknown
“I’m not what I’ve done. I’m what I’ve overcome.” – Unknown
“I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.” – Steve Maraboli (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not perfect. But I’m perfectly flawed.” – Unknown
“I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am not your expectations.” – India.Arie (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not a second option, you either choose me or you lose me.” – Unknown
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung (quoted in The Color Purple)
“I’m not a backup plan, and definitely not a second choice.” – Unknown
“I am not a stereotype. I am not someone else’s idea of who I should be. I am me, and I am beautiful.” – Unknown
“I’m not one for resolutions, but I do believe in setting goals and achieving them.” – Unknown
“I am not afraid to speak my truth. I am not afraid to stand up for

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