The Color Purple (1985 film)

"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"