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The Color Purple (film) Quotes

The Color Purple (film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Color Purple stopped airing in 1970.

It features Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy; Frank Marshall; Quincy Jones as producer, Quincy Jones in charge of musical score, and Allen Daviau as head of cinematography.

The Color Purple (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Color Purple (film) is 153 minutes long. The Color Purple (film) is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The cast includes: Oprah Winfrey as Sophia, Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Margaret Avery as Shug, Akosua Busia as Nettie, Oprah Winfrey as Sofia, Danny Glover as Albert, Ben Guillory as Grady, Dana Ivey as Miss Millie, Whoopi Goldberg as Pa Harris, Willard E. Pugh as Harpo, and Rae Dawn Chong as Squeak.

The Color Purple (film) Quotes

Whoopi Goldberg as Celie

  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "You better not tell nobody but God. It'll kill yo mama."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "He just climb on top of me and do his business."
  • (Margaret Avery) ""Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "That's what it feel like."
  • (Margaret Avery) "Why then, Miss Celie -- that means you still a virgin."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble."
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through."
  • (Margaret Avery) "Come on, Celie, let's go to the car."
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it."
  • (Danny Glover) "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."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail."
  • (Ben Guillory) "It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna' set around and whip your ass."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Albert?"

Willard E. Pugh as Harpo

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Rae Dawn Chong as Squeak

  • (Rae Dawn Chong) "You just a big ol' heifer."

Margaret Avery as Shug

  • (Margaret Avery) "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."
  • (Margaret Avery) "That means you still a virgin."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Yeah, because don't nobody love me."
  • (Margaret Avery) "I love you."
  • (Margaret Avery) "More than anything God love admiration."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "You saying God is vain?"
  • (Margaret Avery) "No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it."
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?"
  • (Margaret Avery) "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?"
  • (Margaret Avery) "Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing."
  • (Margaret Avery) "I's married now. I's married now."
  • (Margaret Avery) "Do you mind if Albert sleep with me?"
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "Do you like sleeping with him?"
  • (Margaret Avery) "Celie is coming with us."
  • (Danny Glover) "What?"
  • (Margaret Avery) "Celie is coming with us to Memphis."
  • (Danny Glover) "Over my dead body."
  • (Margaret Avery) "You satisfied? That what you want?"
  • (Danny Glover) "NOW What's wrong with you?"
  • (Whoopi Goldberg) "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."
  • (Margaret Avery) "You sho' is ugly."
  • (Margaret Avery) "See Daddy, sinners have souls too."

Oprah Winfrey as Sofia

  • (Oprah Winfrey) "Sofia's happy now."
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house."
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "Oh -- Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy."
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "You told Harpo to beat me?"
  • (Oprah Winfrey) "Now you want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? You just keep on advising him like you doing."

Dana Ivey as Miss Millie

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Akosua Busia as Nettie

  • (Young Celie) "Write."
  • (Akosua Busia) "What?"
  • (Young Celie) "Write."
  • (Akosua Busia) "Nothing but death can keep me from it."

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