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Clips from The Color Purple (1985)

"But if this does not get to him..."
The Color Purple (1985)
"...one thing I want you to know...."
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"I Iove you..."
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"...and I'm not dead."
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"The lady you met in town is named Corrine."
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"Sanctified, religious and very good to me."
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"Their only sorrow in the beginning was..."
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"And they have been brought up in love."
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"...to protect and cherish them..."
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"...to lavish all the love I feel for you on them."
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"BOTH: It's a miracle, isn't it?"
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"And no doubt impossible for you to believe."
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"Olivia and Adam are with me..."
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"...all growing up together..."
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"Your loving sister, Nettie."
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"I got two children..."
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"And they's alive."
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"ALBERT: I love her as much as you, probably more."
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"[MEN CHATTERING]"
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"I's getting real tired of this cat."
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"He coming back soon."
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"SHUG: This doesn't look nothing Iike me."
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"Celie."
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"There's so many of them."
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"What us gonna do?"
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"...one of the missionaries that was supposed to go with Corrine and Samuel..."
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"NETTIE: I wrote a letter to you almost every day on the ship."
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"On my first sight of the Africa coast..."
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"It has been a long time since I had time to write, but always..."
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"...no matter what I'm doing, I'm writing you. Dear--"
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"Do you know what a jungle is?"
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"Trees and trees and then more trees on top of that."
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"NETTIE: We're up at 5:00 for a breakfast of millet, porridge, fruit, then morning classes."
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"We teach the children English, reading, writing..."
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"...history, geography, arithmetic, and the stories of the Bible."
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"The older children are used to coming to the mission school."
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"The smaller ones are not."
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"They're all boys. Olivia's the only girl."
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"There is a little African girl called Tashi."
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"Why can't Tashi come to school? she asks me."
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"I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls."
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"Like white people at home who don't want black people to learn."
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"She is sharp, Celie."
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"When Tashi can get away from her chores her mother assigns her..."
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"...she and Olivia hide in my hut."
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"To Olivia right now, Tashi alone is Africa."
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"Everything she learns, she shares with Tashi. Sound familiar?"
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"NETTIE: At first, there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest."
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"A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging."
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"Then the scent. Some days there's smoke."
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"...all we hear is chopping and scraping and dragging."
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"And every day we smell smoke."
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"NETTIE: Dear Celie, the white man is building a road."
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"They have instructions to continue the road for another 30 miles..."
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"...and continue it on its present course right through the village of Olinka."
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"But the worst is yet to be told."
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"...we'll all be coming home once we work something out with U.S. lmmigration."
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"They don't know if we're American, African, or missionary."
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"ALBERT: What's with you? I was calling you for an hour!"
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"Now get my shave and don't keep me waiting!"
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"CHILDREN: Left, right! Left, right! Left, right!"
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"- Where's Celie? BOY: Home fixing to shave Mister."
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"The longer I'm married to you, the slower and dumber you get."
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"Celie! Ain't that razor sharpened yet?"
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"Get on out here and do me right now! Get on out here!"
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"[YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]"
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"[CHATTERING]"
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"SQUEAK: How you feeling, Miss Sofia?"
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"Confused."
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"Maybe."
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"- Now come the time for me to tell you. - What?"
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"It's time for us to go."
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"You're such good people. Salt of the earth."
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"It's time to move on."
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"- Celie is coming with us. - Say what?"
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"You a lowdown, dirty dog, that's what's wrong."
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"It's time for me to get away from you and enter Creation."
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"Your dead body be just the welcome mat I need."
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"You knew she was the only somebody in the world who loved me."
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"But Nettie and my kids are coming home soon."
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"And when we all get together, we're going to whup your ass."
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"[SQUEAK GIGGLING]"
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"I got children. My children are Iiving in Africa."
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"Africa!"
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"Learning different languages."
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"They'll turn out better than these fools you never tried to raise."
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"- Hold on, here! - No hold on, Harpo."
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"If you hadn't tried to rule over Sofia, white folks wouldn't have got her."
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"HARPO: That's a lie! CELIE: A Iittle truth in it."
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"Y'all was rotten kids. You was. You was rotten kids!"
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"Made my life here hell."
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"Your daddy ain't nothing but some dead horseshit."
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"[LAUGHING]"
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"Shut up! It's bad luck for a woman to laugh at a man!"
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"[SOFIA LAUGHING]"
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"SOFIA: I had enough bad luck to keep me laughing the rest of my life."
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"Sat in that jail till I near about done rot to death."
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"I know what it like, Miss Celie."
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"Want to go somewhere and can't."
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"I know what it like to want to sing and have it beat out of you."
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"[CRYING] I want to thank you, Miss Celie..."
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"...for everything you done for me."
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"I was feeling real down. I was feeling mighty bad."
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"And when I see'd you..."
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"...I knowed there is a God."
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"I knowed there is a God, and one day I was going to get to come home."
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"You won't get a penny of my money. Not one thin dime!"
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"Did I ever ask you for anything? Did I ever ask you for anything?"
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"I never asked you for nothing! Not even for your sorry-ass hand in marriage!"
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"Nothing. I never asked you for nothing!"
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"[SOFIA LAUGHS]"
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"Old Sofia home now. Sofia home."
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"Things are going to change around here."
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"I'm fixing to sing."
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"- Listen, Squeak-- - My name ain't Squeak."
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"- What? - My name is Mary Agnes."
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"I thought it was Squeak."
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"Hush, you old fool! Always meddling in somebody's business."
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"Sofia home now. Just hush up!"
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"She'll be back. Shug got talent. She can sing."
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