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Celie Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“ [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna set around and whip your ass.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Threat
“[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.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: poor, Black, ugly, perseverance
“[to herself, after Shug shouts Albert's first name when she throws the burned food out of the bedroom] Albert?”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Mistaken Identity
“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Jail, Threat
“Shug like honey. And now, I's just like a bee.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Honey, Bee
“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 color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Celie: You 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 Miss Celie, I feels like singing!”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: Bible, Purple, Singing, Dancing
“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: You satisfied? That what you want?

Albert: [to Celie] NOW What's wrong with you?

Celie: You 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.”
— Celie, The Color Purple
Tagged: memphis, over my dead body, dirty dog
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