The Color Purple (The Color Purple Collection, #1)

by Alice Walker

Let ’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

Don’t look like nothing, she say. It ain’t a picture show. It ain’t something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It.