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"Shug like honey. And now I's just like a bee."
"I'm poor, black; I may even be ugly. But dear God! I'm here! I'm here!"
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
"[to Albert] The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in."
"See Daddy, sinners have soul too."
"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."
"[to Celie] You sho' is ugly!"
"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 mens, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!! I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me..."
"I done had enough bad luck to keep me laughin' the rest of my life. Sat in that jail. I sat in that jail til I nearby done rot to death. I know what it like, Ms. Celie, to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat outch'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, 'fo everything you done for me. I 'members that day I was in the store with Miss Millie - I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I see'd you — I knowed there is a God. I knowed there is a God. And one day I was gonna get to come home."
"[to Albert] Boy, you let this ol' nappy-headed girl cuss you out like that? You sittin' at the head of your own dinner table and actin' like a waiter."
"Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house."
"[Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen."
"It's about life. It's about love. It's about us."
"Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story."
"I loved [the book]The Color Purple. The movie disappointed me because so many people I do love were bowled over by it. I felt it was a romantic treatment that perhaps could have been dealt with more honestly."
"Danny Glover - Albert"
"Whoopi Goldberg - Celie"
"Margaret Avery - Shug Avery"
"Oprah Winfrey - Sofia"
"Willard E. Pugh - Harpo"
"Akosua Busia - Nettie"
"Desreta Jackson - Young Celie"
"Adolph Caesar - Old Mister"
"Rae Dawn Chong - Squeak"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.