# Quote — Alice Walker, The Color Purple

> I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

- Author: [Alice Walker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker.md)
- Book: [The Color Purple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/the-color-purple.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Walker#The_Color_Purple_(1982)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/the-color-purple/i-think-africans

## More from this book

> Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/the-color-purple/us-sing-and.md)

> They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/the-color-purple/they-calls-me-yellow.md)

> I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/the-color-purple/i-think-us-here.md)