The Color Purple (1985)

Oprah Winfrey: Sofia

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• Sophia : 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 men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!

• Sofia : 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.

• Sophia : I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.

• Miss Millie : You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me, be my maid?

  Sofia : Hell no.

• Sofia : [after telling Celie she knows how she feels]  Oh... Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.

• Celie : [lunging towards Albert with a knife]  I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!

  Sofia : Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.

  Shug : Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.

  Sofia : He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.

  Albert : Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!

  Celie : Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!

  Grady : It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye.

• Sofia : You told Harpo to beat me?

• Squeak : Harpo! Who dis woman?

  Harpo : Now come now, you know who this is.

  Squeak : She best'a leave you alone.

  Sophia : Fine with me.

  Harpo : [to Sophia]  You ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my juke-joint.

  Squeak : [to Harpo]  You said dis here our juke-joint!

  Harpo : Listen woman, can't a man dance with his wife if he wants to?

  Squeak : Not if she a heifer!

  [to Sophia] 

  Squeak : And not if he my man! You just a big ol heifer. Ha Ha Ha.

  Sophia : [to Squeak]  Like I said, fine with me!

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

• Sofia : Sofia's happy now.

• Harpo : This is scandalous! A woman with children in a jook joint!

  Sofia : A woman need to have a little fun, Harpo.