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.

The context here makes this really cool. Celie is realizing how angry she is.

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.

powerful self-discovery

He sure do. He out there in the field from sunup to sundown. And clean that house just like a woman.

I wonder if this is an anima/animus thing?

Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister’s letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.

Analyze the results of Celie's curse on Mister

They are square, though, she’d say. More like our church and school than like our homes, which Olivia thought very strange.

Home shape and composition is mentioned often