Quotes from Alice Walker The Color Purple

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Did I mention my first sight of the African coast? Something struck in me, in my soul, Celie, like a large bell, and I just vibrated. Corrine and Samuel felt the same. And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried --- and lived and died --- to see again.