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

by Alice Walker

But I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look. Now

She look like she ain’t long for this world but dressed well for the next.

That’s the way I felt when I tore them up and sent them to you on the waves.

“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.

And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried—and lived and died—to see again.