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

by Alice Walker

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.

Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live. But I did not say this.

:’(

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Oh...

But the worst was yet to be told. Since the Olinka no longer own their village, they must pay rent for it, and in order to use the water, which also no longer belongs to them, they must pay a water tax.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

What a sweet way to put it.

been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.

am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

so true!

In plowing under the Olinka’s yam crop and substituting canned and powdered goods, the planters destroyed what makes them resistant to malaria.

😔

appreciate some of the things God was playful enough to make.

the color purple!

She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don’t take away none of her rights.

!!!

Shug act more manly than most men. I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. Mr. _____ think all this is stuff men do. But Harpo not like this, I tell him. You not like this. What Shug got is womanly it seem like to me. Specially since she and Sofia the ones got it.

What a good paragraph

If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.