“The Color Purple” quotes
(1985)
Steven Spielberg
directed this movie
in 1985
Title The Color Purple
Year 1985
Director Steven Spielberg
Genre Drama
Year 1985
Director Steven Spielberg
Genre Drama
Plot – During the 20s in Georgia there's still a pro-slavery and racist mentality. Celie, a teenager, is raped by the man who's supposed to be her husband. Her children are taken away and she's sold to another man, who is even more brutal than the first one and harasses Celie's sister Nettie, who rejects him firmly. When Nettie is kicked out, Celie accepts her life as a slave. Only many years later she'll be able to see her children and sister again.
All actors – Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh, Akosua Busia, Desreta Jackson, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Dana Ivey, Leonard Jackson, Bennet Guillory, John Patton Jr., Carl Anderson, Susan Beaubian, James Tillis, Phillip Strong, Laurence Fishburne, Peto Kinsaka, Lelo Masamba, Margaret Freeman, Howard Starr, Daphaine Oliver, Jadili Johnson, Lillian Njoki Distefano, Donna Buie, Leon Rippy, John R. Hart, David Thomas, Carrie Murray, Juliet Poe, Katie Simon, Ethel Taylor, Marcus Covington, Marcus Liles, April Myers, Maurice Moore, Lechanda Latharp, Drew Bundini Brown, Arnold F. Turner, Jeris Poindexter, Hawthorne James, Sonny Terry, Greg Phillinganes, Roy Gaines, Paulinho Da Costa, Nana Yaw Asiedu, Clarence Avant, Bayo Martin, Ndugu Chancler, Jeffrey Kwashi, Pete Munzhi, Aniijia Rae Schockley, Maria Howell, Gayle King, Madison T. Shockley Sr.
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“My God, the dead has arisen.”
“- 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)“I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!”
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.”
- 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!“You sho' is ugly!”
“My God, the dead has arisen.”
“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?”
“Everything you’ve done to me, I’ve already done to you.”
“This life we’ll be over soon. Heaven lasts always.”
“- Miss Millie: Your children are so clean. Would you like to work for me, be my maid?
- Sofia: Hell no.”- 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!“I love Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.”
“- Shug Avery: More than anything God loves admiration.
- Celie Johnson: You saying God is vain?”“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”
“Sinners have souls too.”
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