Quotes from Alice Walker

He strong in body but weak in will.

She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

Our women are respected here said the father. We would never let them tramp the world as American women do. There is always someone to look after the Olinka woman. A father. An uncle. A brother or nephew. Do not be offended, sister Nettie, but our people pity women such as you who are cast out, we know not from where, into a world unknown to you, where you must the struggle all alone, for yourself.

White folks is a miracle of affliction, say Sofia.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

I say it cause I'm a fool,' I say. 'I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't.

Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.

There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.

If he [God] ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

I smoke when I want to talk to God. I smoke when I want to make love. Lately I feel like me and God make love just fine anyhow.

I'm getting tired of Harpo, she say. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog.

She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.

Yo creo que estamos aquí para cavilar. Para preguntar. Y que preguntándonos por las cosas grandes encontramos respuestas para las pequeñas, casi por casualidad. Pero sobre las grandes te quedas como al principio. Y cuanto más cavilo y me pregunto, más amor siento.

Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.

Some womens can't be beat.

To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.

He was in the jovial mood, as he sometimes phrased it, of the literarily inclined escaped convict.

The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit.

Sound like death approaching, angels can't prevent it.

What happened to the man I love?'... 'Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. Us had the kind of love couldn't be improve. That's what I thought.