Celie's Pain

 "You better not tell nobody but God. It'll kill your mammy."

"He took my other little baby, a boy this time."

"He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church."

"He beat me for dressing trampy but he do it to me anyway"

"You to dumb to go to school, Pa say."

"He pick up a rock and laid my head open."

"Dont let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand."

"Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me. Mr.__ say, cause she my wife."

"Wives is like children. You go to let them know who got the upper hand."

"For over a month I have trouble sleeping."