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"Sure, she was the poor girl who everyone called ugly and who had such a hard life, but there is something inside of Celie that you can really admire", said actress Jeanette Bayardelle in an interview with the Chicago Sun Times. She played Celie in the Chicago production of the musical "The Color Purple" which started in May 2007.
When I was working on the quilt I was thinking about what made Celie so strong ... and I came to the conclusion that she always tried to find such a "color purple in a field". Only the singer Shug Avery made that perfectly clear to her and was able to put it into so fine words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQ-cyGFE5o
Therefore I stitched the following quotation from the novel into the quilt:
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it..."
I wrote that in a "shy" way to mirror that process: we have to look very closely and intently to discover "a color purple in a field", and when we found something like this it is important to honor that it's there.
great music, great dancers here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVSP7jS470&feature=related
