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NEW YORK (AP) — "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker's “The Color Purple.” In nature ...
A screenshot of the GTK+ 2 color picker. A screenshot of the Qt color picker. GIMP color picker.. A color picker (also color chooser or color tool) is a graphical user interface widget, usually found within graphics software or online, used to select colors and, in some cases, to create color schemes (the color picker might be more sophisticated than the palette included with the program).
Purple prose is characterized by the excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors. When it is limited to certain passages, they may be termed purple patches or purple passages, standing out from the rest of the work. Purple prose is criticized for desaturating the meaning in an author's text by overusing melodramatic and fanciful ...
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
“The Color Purple,” a movie musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel, 1985 film, and stage musical is slated to premiere in North America on Dec. 25. Why 'The Color Purple' has been a source ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Evelyn Tooley Hunt. Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1904–1997), also known as Tao-Li, was a poet who was famous for writing the poem "Taught Me Purple" [1] which inspired the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. She also was one of the first Americans to use the Haiku poem style. She was born in Hamburg, New York and graduated from William Smith College.
The media mogul, who is among the producers of a new Warner Bros. movie based on the Broadway musical of “The Color Purple,” then shared the video. “When a friend sent me this video, I said ...