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By chart42

July 15, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

I like the film better. The musical did not contain any of the music from the film. Some parts of the musical were good (the Juke Joint with Shug), and the Harpo and Sophia characters in the musical were really on point. Celie was pretty good in the musical also, but Mister left something to be desired.

By Hotlanta

July 15, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

It’s gon rain on your head.

By Hotlanta

July 15, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

It’s gon rain on your head.

By Kimi

July 15, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

**”I ain’t never asked you for NOTHIN! Not even your sorry ass hand in marriage!”

AND

“Everything you done to me, already done to you”** … or something like that LOL! In other words, you reap what you sow, what goes around comes around MISTER!

Tell it Miss Celie!

By Tay

July 15, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Sophia to Miss Celie..”I loves Harpo, God knows I do, but I’ll kill ‘em dead ‘for I let him beat me!!!”

By D'LO

July 15, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

“You told Harpo to beat me?”

By Orlando

July 15, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Celie: This life be ova soon, Heaven last foreva

Sophia: Girl, you betta bash Mista head and think about Heaven lata.

By Miss Manners

July 15, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

“I sat and sat and sat in that chair and almost rocked myself to death.”

“The dead has arisen”

at the juke joint the pianist “ut oh I gotta go”

By em2

July 15, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

HELLO??!!

“DAMN YOU SHO IS UGLY!!!!”

By Shank

July 15, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Squeak: Harpo, who dis woman?

By MissD

July 15, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

“You wanna dead son-in-law, Ms.Celie? Then you’s keep on’ advisin’ Harpo the ways you do!”

By MissD

July 15, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

“You wanna dead son-in-law, Ms.Celie? Then you’s keep on’ advisin’ Harpo the ways you do!”

By ShugAvery

July 15, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

I’s married now! I’s married now!

By serqet

July 15, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Mayor’s Wife: “Oh the children are so clean! Would you like to be my maid?”

Sofia: “Heyll Naw!”

Mayor: “What did you say”

Sofia: “I said, ‘Heyll Naw!’”

By southside girl

July 15, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

“next time I’ma put a lil Shug Avery pee in it” When Celie gave Mista’s dad and drink of cold water after she spit in it then stirred it with her finger! LOL

By southside girl

July 15, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Here’s another one;

“how he die?”

“on top of me.”

By Shawn

July 15, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

By Miss Sophia: “Get my babies outta here…”

By Lacrecia

July 15, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

“Harpo, who dis woman?”

By MissCelieFan

July 16, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Nothing but death can keep me from her. Miss Celie and her sister being forced to separate by Mr._

AND

Where’s Celie? She’s finna shave Mr.__

By MissCelieFan

July 16, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Nothing but death can keep me from her. Miss Celie and her sister being forced to separate by Mr._

AND

Where’s Celie? She’s finna shave Mr.__

By MissCelieFan

July 16, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Nothing but death can keep me from her. Miss Celie and her sister being forced to separate by Mr._

AND

Where’s Celie? She’s finna shave Mr.__

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

How did he die? On top of me.

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

How did he die? On top of me.

By Kim

July 16, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

My favorites - Squeek to Sophia- “You just a big ol’ heffa - ha, ha, ha!”

Mayor’s wife to Sophia, when she offers to have her sister drive her home - “I don’t know her either.”

By red

July 16, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

There are just so many lines!!

What us gone do? We gone go to my room and put em in order by da post mark.

Chilren needs a paw.

Who dis paw? Who dis?

He just climb on top of me and do his business.

Well then Mis Celie. You still a virgin.

She been spoiled tho. Twice.

You ain’t my mammie!

Get that thang to fix me sumthin to eat.

You bet not tell nobody but God. It’d kill yo momma.

N E T T I E !!!!!!!!!! ………. celie

I don’t know huh either. UUHH look at me. I’s drivin.

By Stephy

July 16, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Looks like Mista done brought his maid…I ain’t seen a hat like that since my momma’s funeral.

You just a big fat heffa! I said, “fine with me”.

By Cola

July 16, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

I’m poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here. I’m here

By tim

July 16, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

I’m poor, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here. I’m here.

By RiRi

July 16, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Listen woman can’t a man dance with his wife if he wants to?

I ‘members that day in the store with Miss Millie - I’s feelin’ real down.

I’s feelin’ mighty bad. And when I seed you - I know’d there is a God. I know’d there is a God.

By Sasha

July 16, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

You sho is ugly

By Bruthaman

July 16, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

In the juke joint when Sophia’s about to whoop ole girl.

The Piano Player: “Well time to go”

By Amelia

July 16, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

“Me and you us have one heart, Maki-detta! Me and you us have one heart, maki-detta! Ain’t no ocean ain’t no sea, maki-detta! Keep my sista way from me, maki-detta”

“Yo’ paw luv you, my paw love me. My paw still luv me….he just don’t know it…he don’t know it….”

” Get the molasses outcha @$$!!! Seem like the longer i’m married to you the slower you get, the dumber you get…..GIRL, ain’t that razor sharp enough yet!! Git’ on out her and do me right now!”

By Amelia

July 16, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

“Me and you us have one heart - Maki-detta! Me and you us neva part - Maki-detta! Ain’t no ocean ain’t no sea - Maki-detta! Keep my sista way from me - Maki-detta!”

“Git the molasses outcha @$$! Seem like the longer i’m married to you the slower you get, the dumber you get….AIN’T that razor sharp yet?! Git’ on out here and do me right now!!”

By blakgirl

July 16, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Mista to Sophia: Wheres yo children at?

Sophia: At home. Wheres yours?

Heard she got that nasty woman’s disease.

By MyOpinion

July 16, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Shug: See Daddy, sinners have souls too.

Sofia: Now you want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? You just keep on advising him like you doing.

By Stacey

July 16, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Celie at the dinner table talking to Old Mister about Mister “BOY! Seems to me if he hadn’t been your BOY, he might have made someone a half-way decent MAN!”

By Soulfinger

July 16, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

“we had her! you had her your way, i had her mine, but we had her!”

By Nettie

July 16, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

NOTHING BUT DEATH CAN KEEP ME FORM IT!

By DT

July 16, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

I ‘members that day in dat store with Miss Millie - I’s feelin’ real down. I’s feelin’ mighty bad. And when I seen’d you, I know’d there is a God. I know’d there is a God!

and

When Celie points at Mista and says: Everything you done to me already done to you!

By Ms. Shug

July 16, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Sophia: This my friend, Henry Broadnax is his name, but everybody calls him Busta!

Busta: Hey, I don’t fight my woman’s battles. My job is to love her and take her where she wanna go. Aint that right baby?

Sophia: That’s right Busta!

By Grace

July 16, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

One of my favorite lines is what I think the movie is all about.

I think it p** God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it.

By Pamela

July 16, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

I could kill you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!

By Pamela

July 16, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Boy, you goin’ 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.

By Rodney

July 16, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin’ around here. Pass me them peas, boy.

By Ann

July 16, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

APPLES APPLES YEA CELIA MISTER. (When she was teaching Celie to read and spell.)

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

My favorite Strom Thurmond line from the Mayor’s wife. “I have always been good to you coloureds”.

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

My favorite Strom Thurmond line from the Mayor’s wife. “I have always been good to you coloureds”.

By sharon

July 16, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Kim not only was that my favorite line (You ain’t nothin but a big ole heffa), it was my favorite scene.

By dani

July 16, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

“sho, she be kin now.” When Celie asked Mister if Nettie can stay “a spell.”

By bebe

July 16, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

In one of Celie’s monologues she says of Shug, “Folks don’t like nobody bein’ too proud or too free.” Ain’t THAT the truth, even today!

By Cammi317

July 16, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

You ugly, you sooooo ugly

&

All my life I dun have to fight

By I LOVE YOU GUYS!

July 16, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

On a day when I REALLY needed a laugh, these made me laugh out loud to myself. The thought of Mister finally getting his come-uppance at that dinner table, or Squeak slapping Sofia, or Harpo falling through the roof of the juke joint — CLASSIC AND PRICELESS!!!

Thank you all so much for lifting my spirits — “when I read these, I knowed dere is a God!”

By sharon

July 16, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Hotlanta that was funny as hell when she said that (I have always been good to you coloreds).

By Jodi

July 16, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

You guys are cracking me up over here and that whole movie is funny….I love it!

By DT

July 16, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

See Daddy, even sinners got soul!

By Shai-town

July 16, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

“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 had to fight in my own house. I lo’es Harpo. God knows I do, but I’ll kill him dead ‘fore I let him beat me!”

Squeak: “My name ain’t Squeak. It’s Mary Agnes.” Boy: “I thought it was Squeak.” Squeak: “Me, too.”

“You took my sister, Nettie, away from me. You knew she was the only somebody who loved me.”

Shug: “More than anything, God loves admiration.” Celie: “You saying God is vain?” Shug: “No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it p**s God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it.” Celie: “You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?” Shug: “Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved….”

By font1

July 16, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Sophia: I loves Harpo. God knows I do. BUT I’LL KILL HIM DEAD, ‘FORE I LET HIM BEAT ME!!!

By les

July 16, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

“Why Miss Celie you still a virgin.” ” Yeah cuz don’t nobody luv me.” Why I lus u miss celie” You think I’s ugly. “No I don’t”

“You sho is ugly! and mmm mmm hmm you still ugly!”

By Vee

July 16, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

“Whatcu starin’ at? You ain’t never seen a naked woman befo’?”—Shug

“Whatcu doin’ dat for?”—little boy while Celie was turning ‘round for Mister.

“If you hadn’t tried to rule over her, white folks never woulda got her.” —Celie says to Harpo about Sofia

“I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I’ll kill ‘im dead befo’ I let him beat me.”—Sofia

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

OUCH!!!!OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! When her sister hit Mister in the balls with her books when he was making a play for her. My other favorite when Harpo told Mister “that was a big mule” that kicked him in the eye when Sophia kicked that butt.

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

OUCH!!!!OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! When her sister hit Mister in the balls with her books when he was making a play for her. My other favorite when Harpo told Mister “that was a big mule” that kicked him in the eye when Sophia kicked that butt.

By MS.AMERICA

July 16, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

I gotta go to school CLASSIC

The jail you plan for me is the one you gonna rot in ANOTHER CLASSIC…..LMAO!!!

By OhTheDrama

July 16, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Just couldn’t rest till you got her in your house

By Linda

July 16, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

They say she got that nasty woman’s disease. [Mistah’s Dad talking bout Suge]

By monique

July 16, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

squeak: this here our junk joint

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

PSSSSSSST, when she spit in that lemonade and gave it to his father to drink.

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

PSSSSSSST, when she spat in that lemonade and gave it to his father to drink.

By Hotlanta

July 16, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

PSSSSSSST, when she spat in that lemonade and gave it to his father to drink.

By j-money

July 16, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

Home fittin to shaaaave mista’

By red

July 16, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Suge Avery set the population of Hotwell County a new high!

Ma’am you ain’t well. Im fine!! Just had to eat is all

You gonna have to leave. Before he make his move.

Harpo, where you going in those pants?

By TLuv04

July 16, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

Mister’s Dad “Celie…you has my sympathy. Not too many women let their husband’s h0es lay up in their house.”

By Ricecakes

July 16, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

YOU TOLD HARPO TO BEAT ME!

By Crystal

July 16, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

How can you pick just one line! That movie is amazing.

I love:

It’s gon rain on yo head I wannt marry ya Nettie. I ain’t never looked at the other one. Whatcha doin’ dat fo? Your sister thinking about marriage.

And let us not forget…I’s married now!!!!

By rhonu

July 16, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

I think it p** God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and not notice it.

By rhonu

July 16, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

I think it p** God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

By Monique

July 16, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

When Miss Sophia was shopping in the local food store for Miss Millie, she realized she could not read the labels in order to properly make the purchase, and said to Miss Celie, “And when I seed you, I KNEW dey was a God…I knew dey was a God.”

By MALIcious

July 16, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Suge: You sholl is UGLY.

By Tika

July 16, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Better not tell nobody but God, It’ll kill yo momma!!!

By Mr. B

July 16, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Celie: This life will be over soon…heaven lasts always

Sophia: You betta bash Mister’s head open now and think about heaven later

By Mr. B

July 16, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Celie: This life will be over soon…heaven lasts always

Sophia: You betta bash Mister’s head open now and think about heaven later

By dyrtysouth

July 16, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Harpo: Nigh, Mrs. Ceely, H-Ha c-can a paia of paints d-dat fis Sophia, fis me….LOL

By Jeff

July 16, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

not exactly sure of the lines, but it is when Celie finally gives Mister the what for:

I may be poor, I may be black, I may even be ugly—-But I am HERE, thank God, I am HERE.

By Annie

July 16, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this

A movie that I never liked..again..another play/movie that shows Africian Americans in a bad light even amongst their own kind.(I am not black)…it is time to move beyond the whole slavery mentality and move forward to showing a more positive light in all that “Americans” have achieved and are achieving.We will never move from the past if we can’t run to the future…

By ATL99

July 17, 2008 7:58 AM | Link to this

“(Young Celie in a sad/crying voice reading) For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a sista metac course of treechery and deception……(Voice Changes to Older Celie)For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand.”

By terrence

July 17, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Sophia at the dinner table

I want thank you Mrs. Celie for all you don for me. I was feelin mighty bad when I seed you in that store!! I’s knows theres a God I’s knows theres a God.

By terrence

July 17, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Sophia at the dinner table

I want thank you Mrs. Celie for all you don for me. I was feelin mighty bad when I seed you in that store!! I’s knows theres a God I’s knows theres a God.

By LPP

July 17, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

All my life I had to fight…

By OMG

July 17, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Are you people serious?!?!?!?! Can someone tell us if the play is worth seeing or not?? Does it do the movie justice? I don’t want to waste $65!

By ColorPurpleLover

July 17, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

You a low down dirty dog, that’s what’s wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body’d be just the welcome mat I need.

She black as tar, nappy-headed, got legs like baseball bats, and I hear she got that nasty women’s disease.

Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain’t. I know what it like to wanna sing… and have it beat out ‘ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything you done for me. I ‘members that day in the store with Miss Millie - I’s feelin’ real down. I’s feelin’ mighty bad. And when I seed you - I know’d there is a God. I know’d there is a God

By Linda

July 17, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

I loves Harpo, God knows I do, but I will kill him dead before I let him beat me again.

By keepin it real

July 17, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

@Annie No we can’t just forget about the past that is like telling the jews to forget about the holocost. I know you would like to close your eyes and think that this never happened and we make stuff like this up but guess what we didn’t. How is this showing us in a negative light? What this is showing is reality, the truth, what really happended. Oh i know you are like the wife that sophia had to work for.”Haven’t i always been good to you Sophia?” Lady please get a grip we will never forget where we came from!

By ZsaZsaATL

July 18, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

The Play is FANTASTIC

I saw it back in 2004 at Alliance and am going again (at a MUCH higher price this time but I digress) and I look forward to sharing in the experience with my mother. I say go see it and you’ll love it!!

By Daryl

July 18, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I’s married nah..

By Amen

July 18, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Thank you “Keepin it Real” well said!!!!!

By Lisa Love

July 18, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

You told Harpo to beat me?

By Lisa Love

July 18, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

You told Harpo to beat me?

By ruth

July 19, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

All my lfe I had to fight!

By ruth

July 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

All my life I had to fight!

By Cephus

July 20, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Whar be my Slave’ree repa’rayshuns.? O’bama fo chainj. Down wit Whitey !~

By j9

July 20, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

“any mail fo me?” and to Annie…Sankofa is an Adinkra symbol with a bird looking backwards it means retrieving our past to move forward to the future so it is in this spirit not only will we will NEVER FORGET but we will never let you forget either.

By Nandi

July 20, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Annie, take that crap up with the confederate flag flyers and who cares if you did not like the movie..What is your point..It did not show Blacks in a bad light, it was a realistic light for that time period..There is a host of movie that are appropriate and accurate for the time period…

However, we are still vigiliant for justice for those murdered/lynched during the civil rights movement and of course the death of Emmit Till… forget? Why? after slavery was ended, came the peonage, Jim Crow, intergration etc…Seems like you people carry it on beyond the end of slavery…

My favorite line..When mister told Shug, over my dead body celie is not leaving and Shug told him “Is that what you want” lol

By B2lg

July 21, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Till you do right by Me!

By Sharon

July 21, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Boy, you gonna let this nappy headed gal talk to you like dat at the head of your own dinner table!

By Cali OG

July 21, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

“Bye Pa…” Mister to his pops after his pops tried to convince him that the solution to his trashed household and life was to get himself a “young girl”.

By nina

July 22, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

I’m black, I may be ugly, but dear God I’m here. I’m here.