The Color Purple Themes

It too short to be long, too long to be short...I give up, tie on a headrag.

Mr marry me to take care of his children. I marry Mr because my daddy made me.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand.

<p>But I can let you have Celie. She ought to marry first. She spoiled twice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the people left in the compound came to wish them happiness and an abundance of roofleaf forever. Immediately after the wedding we left the compound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She too evil for that. Turn loose my goddam hand, she say to Mr.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She got legs like baseball bats.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr don't say nothing. I drop little spit in old Mr water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It's a nice pattern call Sister's Choice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr drink all through Christmas. Him and Grady. Me and Shug cook, talk, clean the house, talk, fix up the tree.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harpo holding his daddy in his arms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I say God took it. He took it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shut up Harpo, say Mr, us trying to think.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I don't know no other man or what else to say.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She stand up. My name Mary Agnes, she say.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Naw you won't. Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feels something is all.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spose I git sick while I'm singing. Spose my dress come undone?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blow the whole prison to Kingdom come. Shut up Harpo.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It too short to be long, too long to be short. Too nappy to be kinky, too kinky to be nappy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stretch marks go right into the skin, and a woman's stomach stretches enough so that it keeps a little pot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Carving their identification as a people into their children's faces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I have always been a good girl.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Just do his business, get off, go to sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr marry me to take care of his children. I marry Mr because my daddy made me.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the people in the compound came to wish them...immediately after the wedding...riding in a lorry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Besides, she wanted to write books. Her family were against it. Totally. They hoped she'd marry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wives is like children...nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I'm sure Albert still the only one to take mail out of the box.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You a lowdown dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She got legs like baseball bats. I drop little spit in old Mr water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It a nice pattern call 'Sister's Choice'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr drink all through Christmas. Him and Grady. Me and Shug cook, talk, clean the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It just a scandless, a woman with five children hanging out in a jukejoint at night.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr don't say nothing. I drop little spit in old Mr water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harpo holding his daddy in his arms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I say God took it. He took it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shut up Harpo, say Mr, us trying to think.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wives is like children. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I want her to do what I say, like you do for Pa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wives is like children...nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She stand up. My name Mary Agnes, she say.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Naw you won't. Nobody feel better for killing nothing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spose I git sick while I'm singing. Spose my dress come undone?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blow the whole prison to kingdom come. Shut up Harpo.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They fighting like two mens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I say God's. I don't know no other man or what else to say.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Addie Beasley: 'She run off at the mouth so much no man would have her'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first time I git big Pa took me out of school.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He will have nothing more to teach him in this field, having exhausted all his own knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Olivia must learn to take her education about life where she can find it. His offer will make a splendid opportunity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If you say anything they strip you, make you sleep on a cement floor without a light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>So the carving is done by force, under the most appalling conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You got to fight them Celie. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You a lowdown dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I cut my eyes back at Mr. when he say that. Streetcleaner. Someone got to stand up for Shug.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yeah, but Celie going. Spose I git sick while I'm singing. Spose my dress come undone?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yeah, she mad. But what good being mad gonna do now? She not evil, she know Sofia life hard to bear right now.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Go on sing, say Sofia, I'll look after this one till you come back.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She and Olivia secret themselves in my hut and everything Olivia has learned she shares with Tashi.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are upset because she spends too much time with Olivia. She is changing, becoming quiet and too thoughtful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr clam on top of me, do his business, in ten minutes us both sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First time I got sight of Shug Avery...I thought I had turned into a man.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>But that the way it spose to be. I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He duck his head. He ain't so bad looking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr look at me real thoughtful. He not such a bad looking man, you know, when you come right down to it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I seen my baby girl. I knowed it was her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Here come the Amazons. They all come marching in, shaking the Church.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bible say, Honor mother and father no matter what.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I have always been a good girl.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Next week be the fourth of July and us plan a big family reunion outdoors here at my house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Everybody say Pleased to meetcha. Then Shug and Albert start to hug everyone one after the other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They have the strongest, cleanest, whitest teeth!...And in England I was struck by the English people's teeth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are not all mean like Pa and Albert, or beaten down like Ma was.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>And so, one night, the man's store was burned down, his smithy destroyed, and the man and his two brothers dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and hanged.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Say she laugh at the fool she make of the guards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harpo, do you really love me or just my color? But if yellow is a name why ain't black the same.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All your children so clean, would you like to work for me, by my maid?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I spent fifteen minutes with my children. White folks is a miracle of affliction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Say she laugh at the fool she make of the guards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>And so, one night, the man's store was burned down, his smithy destroyed, and the man and his two brothers dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and hanged.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Olinka: 'They want to work for the white people in order to have these things' and 'And then there are the youngsters who want bicycles and British clothes'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I say God's and 'I say God took it'. Feel like snakes. I pray for strength, bite the insides of my cheeks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Every lick you hit me you will suffer twice. Everything you even dream about will fail...and it seem to come to me from the trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Celie trapped by God at the beginning. Celie and Shug's religious debate. Nettie's discussion of the Olinka God.</p> Signup and view all the answers