Цитаты из книги «The Color Purple»
«White people busy celebrating they independence from England July 4th, say Harpo, so most black folks don't have to work. Us can spend the day celebrating each other.»
«DEAR GOD. DEAR STARS, DEAR TREES, DEAR SKY, DEAR PEOPLES. DEAR EVERYTHING. DEAR GOD.»
«If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.»
«I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.»
«When the missionaries got to the part bout Adam and Eve being naked, the Olinka peoples nearly bust out laughing. Especially when the missionaries tried to make them put on clothes because of this. They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they was naked. Their word for naked is white. But since they are covered by color they are not naked. They said anybody looking at a white person can tell they naked, but black people can not be naked because they can not be white.»
«Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars.»
«I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.»
«Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.»
