Margaret Avery movie quotes

“- Shug Avery: Celie is coming with us to Memphis.
- Albert: Over my dead body.
- Shug Avery: You satisfied? That what you want?
- Albert: [to Celie] Now what's wrong with you?
- Celie Johnson: 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...” (continue)(continue reading)
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery
Danny Glover - Albert
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

- Celie Johnson: He just climb on top of me and do his business.
- Shug Avery: "Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you.
- Celie Johnson: That's what it feels like.
- Shug Avery: Why then, Miss Celie... that means you’re still a virgin!
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“You sho' is ugly!”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“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?”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“There were times when I wouldn’t know how to make ends meet and I needed God to hold on to. That was the time I started getting back in church and I wanted my daughter to have a strong foundation in church. It would have been easier to stay with my daughters father or have some man take care of me but God still made a way for me.”
Margaret Avery

“As I’ve got older I’ve felt badly about taking longer to memorize the lines.”
Margaret Avery

“Now that it’s twenty-seven years after Color Purple, I’m thinking for me to still be remembered as Shug after all these years is a blessing.”
Margaret Avery

- Celie Johnson: He just climb on top of me and do his business.
- Shug Avery: "Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you.
- Celie Johnson: That's what it feels like.
- Shug Avery: Why then, Miss Celie... that means you still a virgin!
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“- Shug Avery: More than anything God loves admiration.
- Celie Johnson: You saying God is vain?”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson

“Sinners have souls too.”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery