Sylvia Plath

“Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick. Sicker than anybody I ever seen. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.”
― Alice Walker The Color Purple, The Color Purple

“Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple