

“I kept quiet and pretended to love this womanhood that was not mine to wear”
― Womb City
― Womb City

“I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple

“And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple

“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple

“Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes. Your dear, large, clean and beautiful eyes.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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