Then he grab hold my titties."Ĭelie's story won Walker a Pulitzer prize for fiction, the first for an African-American woman. First he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't. The voice Walker establishes for Celie is both insightful and limited, unsentimental and direct, and, controversially when it was published, 25 years ago this Thursday, is written in what Walker calls "folk speech": "He never had a kine word to say to me. It'd kill your mammy" - there are four short paragraphs in them Celie, aged 14, is raped by her stepfather, becomes pregnant, and starts writing letters to God about it. After the first line on the first page - "You better not never tell nobody but God. T he Color Purple has such an uncompromising beginning that many never got any further, including, to Alice Walker's sorrow, her mother.
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