Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself