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Sofia Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Now you want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? You just keep on advising him like you doing.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Son-In-Law, Warning
“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 in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Fight, Misandry
“[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, The Color Purple
Tagged: new leaf
“Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me, be my maid?

Sofia: Hell, no.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Clean, maid, Condescension
“I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threats, Domestic Violence
“As for traveling: everyone dislikes traveling until they actually go on a trip.”
— Sofia, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: travel, First-time Travelers
“You told Harpo to beat me?”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: harpo, Domestic Violence
“All intelligent men are uncomfortable on vacation.”
— Sofia, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: vacation
“Squeak: Harpo! Who dis woman?

Harpo: Now come now, you know who this is.

Squeak: She best'a leave you alone.

Sophia: Fine with me.

Harpo: [to Sofia] You ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my juke joint.

Squeak: [to Harpo] You said dis here our juke joint!

Harpo: Listen woman, can't a man dance with his wife if he wants to?

Squeak: Not if she a heifer! [to Sofia]

Squeak: And not if he my man! You just a big ol heifer. Ha Ha Ha.

Sofia: [to Squeak] Like I said, fine with me!”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: juke joint, Dancing
“Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you 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 you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!

Celie: Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!

Grady: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Goodbye.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threats, Domestic Violence, Black, poor, ugly, Woman
“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 you done for me. I 'members that day in the store with Miss Millie—I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I seed you—I know'd there is a God. I know'd there is a God.”
— Sofia, The Color Purple
Tagged: Jail, God
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