The Color Purple (1985)
Margaret Avery: Shug Avery
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Quotes
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Shug : More than anything God love admiration.
Celie : You saying God is vain?
Shug : Nah, nah. Not vain. Just wantin' to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and you 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!
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Shug : See Daddy, sinners have souls too.
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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. Your 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. Good-bye.
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Shug : [to Celie] You sho' is ugly!
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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 : 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.
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Shug : I's married now! I's married now!
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Shug : Oh, Celie. Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile? Show me some teeth. Show me that pretty smile. Oh, girl, you need a smiling lesson.
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Shug : What you staring at? Never seen a naked woman before?
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Shug : Never knowed a child to come out right unless there's a man around.
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Shug : [singing] Now God made him an elephant, Made him stout, Wasn't satisfied till he made him a snout...
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Shug : Whoo! The song I'm about to sing is called, "Miss Celie's Blues." Because she scratched it out of my head when I was ailing.
[singing]
Shug : Sister, you've been on my mind, Oh, sister, we're two of a kind, So sister, I'm keeping my eyes on you, I bet you think I don't know nothing, But singing the blues, Oh, sister, have I got news for you, I'm something, I hope you think, That you're something too...
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Shug : [singing] Yonder go your Papa, Runnin' down a field, Slippin' and a slidin', Like an automobile, I hollered at Papa, And told him to wait, Slipped away from me, Like a Cadillac snake...
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Shug : There something you got to say? What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
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Shug : You see, Miss Celie, you gots a beautiful smile.
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Shug : Lord, have mercy! Firemen ain't gonna get it, somebody call the Iaw! You can light a fire without a match. You can catch a fish without a hook. You can make a blind man see. Oh! Now do your shimmy. Shake your shimmy, girl! Come on! Yeah! Show me your stuff!
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Shug : Us two married Iadies now. Two married ladies, and hungry! What us got to eat?