Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.