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Sofia
- Sophia: All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!
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- Sofia: Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything you done for me. I 'members that day in the store with Miss Millie - I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty bad. And when I seed you - I know'd there is a God. I know'd there is a God.
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- Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me, be my maid?
- Sofia: Hell no.
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- Sofia: [after telling Celie she knows how she feels] Oh... Sofia home, now. Sofia home. Things is gonna be changin' around here. Pass me them peas, boy.
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- 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.
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- Squeak: Harpo! Who dis woman?
- Harpo: Now come now, you know who this is.
- Squeak: She best'a leave you alone.
- Sophia: Fine with me.
- Harpo: [to Sophia] You ain't got to go nowhere. Dis here my juke-joint.
- Squeak: [to Harpo] You said dis here our juke-joint!
- Harpo: Listen woman, can't a man dance with his wife if he wants to?
- Squeak: Not if she a heifer!
- [to Sophia]
- Squeak: And not if he my man! You just a big ol heifer. Ha Ha Ha.
- Sophia: [to Squeak] Like I said, fine with me!
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- Sofia: Now you want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? You just keep on advising him like you doing.
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