Shug: I think it pisses God off when Du walk Von the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Shug: Mehr than anything God Liebe admiration.
Celie: Du saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when Du walk Von the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.
Celie: Du saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk?
[they laugh]
Shug: Oh, yeah, this field feels like singing!
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Upon arrival of Shug Avery at Mister's house:
Harpo: Who this, Pa? Who this?
Albert: The woman that shoulda been yo' mammy.
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Celie: The jail Du planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.
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Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until Du do right Von me everything Du think about is gonna crumble!
Sofia: Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.
Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.
Sofia: He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.
Albert: Who Du think Du is? Du can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!
Celie: Until Du do right Von me, everything Du even think about gonna fail!
Grady: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye.
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Upon seeing Celie when she arrives at Mister's:
Shug: [to Celie] Du sho' is ugly!
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Squeak: Hapo! Who dis woman?
Harpo: Now come now, Du know who this is.
Squeak: She best'a leave Du alone.
Sophia: Fine with me.
Harpo: [to Sophia] Du ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my jut-joint.
Squeak: [to Harpo] Du sagte dis here our jut-joint!
Harpo: Listen woman can't a man dance with his wife if he wants to?
Squeak: Not if she left'm!
[to Sophia]
Squeak: And not if he my man! Du just a big ol heffa. Ha Ha Ha.
Sophia: [to Squeak] Like I said, fine with me!
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Old Mr.: [referring to Shug] She black as tar, nappy-headed, got legs like baseball bats, and I hear she got that nasty women's disease.
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Young Celie: Nettie. Write.
Nettie: What?
Young Celie: Write.
Nettie: Nothing but death can keep me from it.
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Celie: [to Shug] He beat me when Du ain't here.
Shug: Who do? Albert?
Celie: Mister.
Shug: Why he do that?
Celie: He beat me for not being you.
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Shug: See Daddy, sinners have souls too.
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Sophia: All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe, sicher in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!
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Sophia: I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.
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Old Mr.: Boy, Du goin' let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss Du out like that? Du sittin' at the head of your own abendessen tabelle and actin' like the waiter!
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Celie: [on leaving the farm in Shug's car, shouting to Albert] I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here.
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Old Mr.: Celie, Du has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.
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Old Mr.: [Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.
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Shug: [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving] Celie is coming with us.
Albert: What?
Shug: Celie is coming with us to Memphis.
Albert: Over my dead body.
Shug: Du satisfied? That what Du want?
Albert: [to Celie] NOW What's wrong with you?
Celie: Du a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.
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Sofia: [after telling Celie she knows how she feels] Oh... Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.
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Sofia: Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything Du done for me. I 'members that Tag in the store with Miss Millie - I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I seed Du - I know'd there is a God. I know'd there is a God.
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Squeak: Du just a big ol' heifer!
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Celie: [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' Home soon, and when they get here we gonna' set around and whip your ass.
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Celie: [to Albert] Till Du do right Von me, everything Du even think about gonna' fail.
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Celie: The Mehr things change, the Mehr they stay the same.
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Shug: I's married now! I's married now!
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Sofia: Sofia's happy now.
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Sofia: Now Du want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? Du just keep on advising him like Du doing.
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Celie: Shug like honey. And now, I's just like a bee.
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Pa Harris: [as he snatches away Celie newborn daughter] Du better not tell nobody but God. It'll kill yo mama.
Shug: Mehr than anything God Liebe admiration.
Celie: Du saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when Du walk Von the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.
Celie: Du saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk?
[they laugh]
Shug: Oh, yeah, this field feels like singing!
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Upon arrival of Shug Avery at Mister's house:
Harpo: Who this, Pa? Who this?
Albert: The woman that shoulda been yo' mammy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Celie: The jail Du planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until Du do right Von me everything Du think about is gonna crumble!
Sofia: Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.
Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.
Sofia: He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.
Albert: Who Du think Du is? Du can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!
Celie: Until Du do right Von me, everything Du even think about gonna fail!
Grady: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye.
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Upon seeing Celie when she arrives at Mister's:
Shug: [to Celie] Du sho' is ugly!
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Squeak: Hapo! Who dis woman?
Harpo: Now come now, Du know who this is.
Squeak: She best'a leave Du alone.
Sophia: Fine with me.
Harpo: [to Sophia] Du ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my jut-joint.
Squeak: [to Harpo] Du sagte dis here our jut-joint!
Harpo: Listen woman can't a man dance with his wife if he wants to?
Squeak: Not if she left'm!
[to Sophia]
Squeak: And not if he my man! Du just a big ol heffa. Ha Ha Ha.
Sophia: [to Squeak] Like I said, fine with me!
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Old Mr.: [referring to Shug] She black as tar, nappy-headed, got legs like baseball bats, and I hear she got that nasty women's disease.
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Young Celie: Nettie. Write.
Nettie: What?
Young Celie: Write.
Nettie: Nothing but death can keep me from it.
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Celie: [to Shug] He beat me when Du ain't here.
Shug: Who do? Albert?
Celie: Mister.
Shug: Why he do that?
Celie: He beat me for not being you.
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Shug: See Daddy, sinners have souls too.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sophia: All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe, sicher in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sophia: I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Old Mr.: Boy, Du goin' let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss Du out like that? Du sittin' at the head of your own abendessen tabelle and actin' like the waiter!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Celie: [on leaving the farm in Shug's car, shouting to Albert] I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Old Mr.: Celie, Du has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Old Mr.: [Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shug: [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving] Celie is coming with us.
Albert: What?
Shug: Celie is coming with us to Memphis.
Albert: Over my dead body.
Shug: Du satisfied? That what Du want?
Albert: [to Celie] NOW What's wrong with you?
Celie: Du a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sofia: [after telling Celie she knows how she feels] Oh... Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sofia: Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything Du done for me. I 'members that Tag in the store with Miss Millie - I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I seed Du - I know'd there is a God. I know'd there is a God.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Squeak: Du just a big ol' heifer!
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Celie: [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' Home soon, and when they get here we gonna' set around and whip your ass.
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Celie: [to Albert] Till Du do right Von me, everything Du even think about gonna' fail.
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Celie: The Mehr things change, the Mehr they stay the same.
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Shug: I's married now! I's married now!
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Sofia: Sofia's happy now.
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Sofia: Now Du want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? Du just keep on advising him like Du doing.
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Celie: Shug like honey. And now, I's just like a bee.
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Pa Harris: [as he snatches away Celie newborn daughter] Du better not tell nobody but God. It'll kill yo mama.
