“If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The years have come and gone without a single word from you. 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.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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