The Color Purple

"... Listen, God love everything you love-- and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.

You saying God vain? I ast.

Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

What it [God] do when it pissed off? I ast.

Oh it [God] make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it [God] always trying to please us back.

Yeah? I say.

Yeah, she say. It [God] always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect."

(pg.191)

Wow. Thick theology in a small bit of dialogue. The speaker says "it" instead of he or she because God obviously doesn't have a gender. And the release of having an icon or picture of what God looks like brings freedom.

Being that this is a book, I love the character description for God. The creator of all things good. Why did he create the color purple? Because he loves us. And I LOVE him [it] for creating the color purple. (and for a lot of other reasons too)