The Color Purple
Alice Walker, 1982
A young Black woman in the Jim Crow South writes her way from abuse toward love, sex, and a God who looks like everything.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker coined the term 'womanist' in 1983, a year after The Color Purple; she also helped revive Zora Neale Hurston's work.
Feels like identity, faith and hope.
Where do you look for God when prayer stops working?
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don’t know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain’t a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don’t look like nothing, she say. It ain’t a picture show. It ain’t something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. Books by Alice Walker
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