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Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

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All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

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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 matt...more

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Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

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What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why...more

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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you t...more