“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“He had learned enough to hate the destruction that had to come and not all that was going to be destroyed.”
― The Violent Bear It Away
― The Violent Bear It Away
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr’s limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential.”
― The Violent Bear It Away
― The Violent Bear It Away
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