Top 17 Quotes About Celie

#1. He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

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#2. He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, frogs is what they stay.

Alice Walker

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#3. I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Glenn Miller

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#4. It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike

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#5. I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor.
"Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?"
"I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure ... a great deal of manure."
Rolf started to laugh again.

Jessica Day George

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#6. Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Alice Walker

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#7. Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M ... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism ... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.

Tom DeLay

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#8. Do me a favor, Princess," he whispered, his breath warm against her mouth. "The next time someone says they're going to kill you, don't just let them." She

Marissa Meyer

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#9. Happiness was just a trick in your case.

Alice Walker

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#10. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Alice Walker

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#11. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years, I realise I must enjoy walking that edge; I keep doing it.

Mark Harmon

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#12. If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

Darrell Hammond

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#13. I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know?

Nicki Minaj

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#14. The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#15. Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

Yogi Berra

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#16. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

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#17. Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation ...

Henry James

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