The Color Purple (1985) Poster

(1985)

Margaret Avery: Shug Avery

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Quotes 

  • Shug : More than anything God love admiration.

    Celie : You saying God is vain?

    Shug : Nah, nah. Not vain. Just wantin' to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and you 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. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention - except walk?

    [they laugh] 

    Shug : Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing!

  • Shug : See Daddy, sinners have souls too.

  • 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.

  • Celie : [to Shug]  He beat me when you ain't here.

    Shug : Who do? Albert?

    Celie : Mister.

    Shug : Why he do that?

    Celie : He beat me for not being you.

  • Shug : [to Celie]  You sho' is ugly!

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

    Shug : "Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you.

    Celie : That's what it feel like.

    Shug : Why then, Miss Celie... that means you still a virgin!

  • Shug : [after telling Albert that she and her husband are leaving]  Celie is coming with us.

    Albert : What?

    Shug : Celie is coming with us to Memphis.

    Albert : Over my dead body.

    Shug : You satisfied? That what you want?

    Albert : [to Celie]  NOW What's wrong with you?

    Celie : 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.

  • Shug : I's married now! I's married now!

  • Shug : That means you still a virgin.

    Celie : Yeah, because don't nobody love me.

    Shug : I love you.

  • Shug : Oh, Celie. Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile? Show me some teeth. Show me that pretty smile. Oh, girl, you need a smiling lesson.

  • Shug : Do you mind if Albert sleep with me?

    Celie : Do you like sleeping with him?

  • Shug : What you staring at? Never seen a naked woman before?

  • Shug : Never knowed a child to come out right unless there's a man around.

  • Shug : [singing]  Now God made him an elephant, Made him stout, Wasn't satisfied till he made him a snout...

  • Shug : Whoo! The song I'm about to sing is called, "Miss Celie's Blues." Because she scratched it out of my head when I was ailing.

    [singing] 

    Shug : Sister, you've been on my mind, Oh, sister, we're two of a kind, So sister, I'm keeping my eyes on you, I bet you think I don't know nothing, But singing the blues, Oh, sister, have I got news for you, I'm something, I hope you think, That you're something too...

  • Shug : [singing]  Yonder go your Papa, Runnin' down a field, Slippin' and a slidin', Like an automobile, I hollered at Papa, And told him to wait, Slipped away from me, Like a Cadillac snake...

  • Shug : There something you got to say? What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?

  • Shug : You see, Miss Celie, you gots a beautiful smile.

  • Shug : Lord, have mercy! Firemen ain't gonna get it, somebody call the Iaw! You can light a fire without a match. You can catch a fish without a hook. You can make a blind man see. Oh! Now do your shimmy. Shake your shimmy, girl! Come on! Yeah! Show me your stuff!

  • Celie : You ought to wait for Mister.

    Shug : If I was to wait for Albert, I'd wait till Christmas.

  • Shug : Us two married Iadies now. Two married ladies, and hungry! What us got to eat?

  • Celie : He coming back soon.

    Shug : You crazy? He in the jook joint.

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