The Color Purple

With God or without God, what is the effect, what is the consequence for others, of the story we have chosen to follow? Cruelty or kindness? Hatred or love? Contempt or understanding?

of freedom expressed in this spiritual?

Nettie and he—a sort of perseverance, a persistent understanding. Where would Nettie have found strength for the unremitting concessions of daily life? She was precipitated from delight to lamentation without logical sequence, as though life were too short; she must cram everything in and perhaps sort it out later.

He preached again on Lazarus and Dives. (“Hell is the pain you inflict upon yourself for refusing God’s grace.”) “I want you to go back and tell our brothers and sisters to wait until the next morning—don’t give up too early,”