The Colour Purple Quotations

I have always been a good __________.

girl.

You gonna do what your __________ wouldn’t.

mammy

He start to choke me, saying you better __________ and git used to it.

shut up

You better not never tell nobody but __________. It’d kill your mammy.

God

I say __________’s. I don’t know no other man or what else to say.

God

I say God took it… Kilt it out there in the __________. Kill this one too, if he can.

woods

She be my age but they __________. He be on her all the time.

married

I tell Nettie to keep at her __________.

books

He beat me today cause he say I __________ at a boy in church.

winked

I look at women, tho, cause I’m not __________ of them.

scared

She bout ten thousand times more __________ than me.

prettier

When I dream, I dream of __________.

Shug Avery

He beat me for dressing trampy but he do it to me __________.

anyway

She ain’t fresh tho…She __________. Twice.

spoiled

She ugly. He __________.

say

You can do everything just like you want to and she ain’t gonna make you __________ or __________ it.

feed, clothe

And another thing- She tell __________.

lies

Us know we got to be __________ to git away.

smart

I know I’m not as pretty or as smart as Nettie, but she say I ain’t __________.

dumb

He never care that I love it…You too dumb to keep going to __________.

school

When…she see how tight my __________ is, she stop talking and go.

dress

He pick up a rock and laid my __________ open…The blood run all down tween my breasts.

head

His daddy say Don’t do that! But that’s all he __________.

say

Most times mens look pretty much __________ to me.

alike

When they git big they gon fight him..Maybe kill I __________.

say

It nearly kill me to think she might marry somebody like Mr – or wind up in some white lady __________.

kitchen

I don’t know how to __________. All I know how to do is stay alive.

fight

He just brought her here, dropped her, and kept right on running after __________.

Shug Avery

Not so pretty…She too __________.

black

Women work. I’m a __________.

man

I stay where I’m told. But I’m __________.

alive

Cause she my wife. Plus, she __________.

stubborn

He beat me like he beat the __________.

children

Well what she say?…Us ain’t never __________.

spoke

I just be thankful to lay __________ on her.

eyes

I been chopping cotton three hours by time he come.//He chop bout three chops then he don’t chop __________.

again

You better git on back to the __________.

field

His face begin to look like a __________ face. [Harpo]

woman

Whore you ain’t got no __________. He shoot her in the stomach.

place

But I don’t feel nothing for __________.

them

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they _________ open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

legs

Never do what I say. Always __________.

backtalk

To tell the truth, he sound a little __________ of this to me.

proud

Wives is like __________. You have to let’em know who got the upper hand.

children

But it Harpo and Sofia. They fighting like two __________.

mens

I sin against Sofia __________.

spirit

I say it cause I’m jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I __________.

can’t

All my life I had to fight… A girl child ain’t __________ in a family of men.

safe

I’ll kill him __________ before I let him beat me.

dead

He hate children and he hate where they come __________.

from

All the girls big and strong like me…but all the girls stick __________.

together

I can’t even remember the last time I felt __________.

mad

Then I start to feel __________ at all.

nothing

Some kind of nasty woman __________.

disease

Talk bout slut, hussy, heifer and __________.

streetcleaner

The woman should have been your __________, he say.

mammy

She dress to __________.

kill

Like sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it… Then she __________. Sound like a death rattle.

cackle

You sure is __________.

ugly

I don’t need no weak little boy…I need me a __________.

man

They have made three babies together but he __________ bout giving her a bath.

squeamish

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery…I thought I had turned into a __________.

man

Hateful. She weak as a __________.

kitten

I wash her body, it feel like I’m __________.

praying

I work on her like she a doll, or like she Olivia- or like she __________.

mama

She black as tar, she nappy headed. She got legs like __________ bats.

baseball

First time I think about the __________…What the world got to do with anything, I think.

world

For the first time in my life, I feel just __________.

right

His daddy never wash a dish in his __________.

life

I rather be out in the fields or fooling with the __________. Even chopping wood. But he love cooking and cleaning.

animals

I want her to do what I say, like you do for __________.

Pa

Sofia love you. You love __________.

Sofia

All he think about since us married is how to make me __________. He don’t want a wife, he want a dog.

mind

Got to say with him. Else, what you gon __________?

do

Once he git on top of me I think bout how that’s where he always want to __________.

be

Only time I feel something stirring down there is when I think bout __________.

Shug

He git up there and enjoy himself just the same. No matter what I’m thinking. No matter what I feel. It just __________.

him

They all big strong healthy girls, look like __________.

amazons

Wives don’t go to places like that, he __________.

say

Good thing I ain’t your damn __________. He hush then.

wife

I hate the way I look, I hate the way I’m __________.

dress

But Shug don’t love looking at but one of __________. Him.

us

First time somebody made something and name it after __________.

me

For being me and not __________.

you

Most times I pretend I ain’t there. He never know the __________.

difference

Why Miss Celie, she say, you still a __________.

virgin

She whisper back, My children at home, where __________? He don’t say nothing.

yours

It stop with Mr – maybe, but start up again with __________.

Shug

That when I notice how Shug talk and act sometimes like a __________.

man

All the men got they eyes glued to Shug’s __________.

bosom

Harpo say, it just a scandless, a woman with five children hanging out in a __________ at night.

jukejoint

A woman need to be at __________, he say.

home

Make Harpo call you by your real __________.

name

All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my __________?

maid

Sofia say, Hell __________.

no

Sofia knock the man __________.

down

I dream of __________, she say, I dream of murder sleep or wake.

murder

Us dress Squeak like she a __________ woman.

white

They have the nerve to try to make us think slavery fell through because of __________.

us

Have you ever seen a white person and a colored sitting side by side in a car, when one of ‘em wasn’t _________ the other how to drive it or clean it?

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