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Black Queer Love and God

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Samira Wiley says is her favorite line from Alice Walker’s benchmark 1982 novel, . Wiley is intimate with the text now that she’s recorded the novel for Audible, voicing different characters in the story, including its protagonist, Celie; her lover, Shug; her sister, Nettie; and

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