#thelitbit // The Color Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

As Alice Walker describes in the preface, this is a story of coming into awareness, rebirth, and Oneness. Two sisters separated by life’s circumstances - one a child wife in the South and another a missionary in Africa. With deep compassion and revelation, we’re brought along in their loyalty to one another despite separation by time, distance, and silence.

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Noteworthy excerpts:

"People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back…It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect it."

"My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I’m a woman."

"Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand."

“God love everything you love––and a mess of stuff you don’t. But more than anything else, God love admiration...Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”

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