Quotes about Resilience

She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.

She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

There is a way forward and yes it is with a broken heart but it is our own way collectively convened, pondered, shared.

She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

breaking the heart opens it.

She was beginning to think that human beings had underground selves, always running, limpid, clear, even when everything in the personality appeared used up, dusty and dry.

Every lick you hit me you will suffer twice

Folks crying and fanning and trying to keep a stray eye on the children, but they don't stare at Sofia and her sisters. They act like this the way it always done. I love folks.

She say, Miss Celie, You better hush. God might hear you. Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

I was by myself in this frightening place and SHE WAS NOT THERE! my heart sank. I had never felt more alone in my life, and then, just when I was on the point of dying of loneliness and lack of direction, I wailed: ;I: Oh, Grandmother, you are not here! And she said: But you are.

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.