Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious