Sandra Mendonça

“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.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I ain't there. He never know the difference. Never ast me how I feel, nothing. Just do his business, get off, go to sleep.
She start to laugh. Do his business, she say. Do his business. Why, Miss Celie. You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you.
That's what it feel like, I say.
She stop laughing.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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