The Color Purple (1985)
Whoopi Goldberg: Celie Johnson
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Quotes
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Celie : [on leaving the farm in Shug's car, shouting to Albert] I'm poor, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here!
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Celie : The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.
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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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Celie : Shug like honey - and now, I's just like a bee. I's follow her everywhere, want to go where she go. What life like for her? And why she sometime get so sad? So sad, just like me.
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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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Celie : The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Celie : [to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail.
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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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Celie : [Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna' set around and whip your ass.
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Celie : [to herself, after Shug shouts Albert's first name when she throws the burned food out of the bedroom] Albert?
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Celie : Most time I pretend I ain't even there. He don't know the difference.
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Celie : I got children. My children, they're living in Africa. Africa. Learning different languages. Fresh air and plenty of exercise. And they're gonna turn out a heap better than these FOOLS you never tried to raise.
Harpo : Now hold on here!
Celie : No hold on here, Harpo. If you hadn't tried to rule over Sofia, white folks never would have gotten her.
Harpo : That's a lie! Now that's a lie!
Celie : It's the truth isn't it? Y'all was rotten kids. You was. You was rotten kids. Made my life here hell. Course your daddy ain't nothing but some dead... HORSESHIT.
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Celie : She said she write, but she never write. She said only death could keep her from me. Maybe she dead.
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Celie : Folks don't like nobody being too proud or too free.
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Celie : Everything you done to me, is already done to you.
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Celie : The more things change, the more they stay the same. Me and Shug, I smile. But us still longing.