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I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.