Quotes About Shug

#1. [W]e've learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

Bill Clegg

#2. Even on Earth, there were people with money, and then there were people with money.

James S.A. Corey

#3. First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

Alice Walker

#4. All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

Alice Walker

#5. Occasionally I'd tune in to a music station, but I always preferred the sound of people talking, even if the subject was something I didn't care about

David Sedaris

#6. Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Alice Walker

#7. Don't ye know it's magic? Ye know, ye'll never beat nine in a row!" sang Tam as he and Shug collided and then began to meander though the village dusk.

Hugh Bradley

#8. Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.
The Gospel According to Shug

Alice Walker

#9. Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it.

Alice Walker

#10. I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#11. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take none of her rights.

Alice Walker

#12. As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

Heather Headley

#13. First time I think about the world.
What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr - - . Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.

Alice Walker

#14. Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

Doug Henning

#15. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Alice Walker

#16. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It. Shug a beautiful something,

Alice Walker

#17. Make love or make war shug, but make something happen.

Jenny Han

#18. It must have taken years of inside meaness to soak to her outside, because she had a bad case of ugly.
---Shug

J.B. Hamilton Queen

#19. Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.

Alice Walker

#20. Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.

Alice Walker