The color purple by Alice Walker
"You ask yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ask why you here, period.
So what you think? I ask.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love."
"a very good place for dreaming."
"That Which Is Beyond Understanding But Not Beyond Loving and to say: I see and hear you clearly, Great Mystery, now that I expect to see and hear you everywhere I am, which is the right place."
"Somebody to run to. It seem too sweet to bear."
"We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?"
"unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly."
" 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 care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
"But all things look brighter because I have a loving soul to share them with."
" God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone—a roofleaf or Christ—but we don’t. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us."
"Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don’t take away none of her rights."
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