Harpo: Who this, Pa? Who this? Albert: The woman that shoulda been yo' mammy.
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Menno Meyjes
Menno Meyjes (born 1954, Eindhoven) is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director and producer.Meyjes moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the 1985 film The Color Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker. In 1989 he gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with George Lucas and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño del mono loco. In 2002 Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max.He attended San Francisco Art Institute; there he studied with George Kuchar, James Broughton, and Larry Jorda
[as he snatches away Celie newborn daughter] You better not tell nobody but God. It'll kill yo mama.
Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.
Young Celie: Write! Nettie: What? Young Celie: Write! Nettie: Nothing but death can keep me from it!
[Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.
[referring to Shug] She black as tar, nappy-headed, got legs like baseball bats, and I hear she got that nasty women's disease.
I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
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 the waiter!
See Daddy, sinners have souls, too.
I's married now! I's married now!
[to Celie] You sho' is ugly!
Most time I pretend I ain't even there. He don't know the difference.
Shug: That means you still a virgin. Celie: Yeah, because don't nobody love me. Shug: I love you.
[to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail.
[to herself, after Shug shouts Albert's first name when she throws the burned food out of the bedroom] Albert?
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…
Shug: That means you still a virgin. Celie: Yeah, because don't nobody love me. Shug: I love you.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
[Celie confronts Albert] Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna set around and whip your ass.
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!