Celie in a sentence

Miss Celie and Miss Shug Avery become dear friends and decide to move away together, and this finally allows Celie to leave her terrible relationship with Mister which she was forced into by her own father.

That moment occurs between Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s, and Shug Avery, a free-spirited jazz-blues singer who is also the longtime mistress of Celie’s husband.

Celie begins to lose some of her faith in God, which she confides to Shug, who explains to Celie her own unique religious philosophy.

Celie's ailing mother dies after cursing Celie on her deathbed.

In allowing Celie to view these letters, Shug supplies her with even more hope and inspiration, letting Celie see that in the end, everything works out for the best.

One night Shug asks Celie about her sister, and Shug helps Celie recover letters from Nettie that Mister has been hiding from her for decades.

Samuel and Corrine have unwittingly adopted Celie's son and daughter (by Celie's father), Adam and Olivia.

Through explaining her experiences to Celie, Nettie encourages Celie to be more enthusiastic and optimistic about life.

He said he wanted to create a film that could tap into not just Celie’s triumph, but also her learning how to love, whom to love and how to forgive.

In the original Sofia reveals a particular fondness for Celie after the latter helped her grocery shop for the Mayor's wife at a time when she had limited mobility.

Though it takes Celie decades to get to this point, the wise words from her beloved sister Nettie help her to one day become her own person.

Throughout “The Color Purple,” the sisterly bond between Celie and Nettie is what keeps the former from succumbing to a life of tragedy.

And so I always say I was carrying my cross and Celie’s cross, and that didn’t feel well.

Omooba lost her role as Celie — a character depicted as lesbian — in the 2019 show, the outlet reported.

Police said the victims, Pueblo resident Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, and student Samuel Knopp, 24, were each shot at least once.

Sold to an older, predatory, and cruel man named Mister when she's just a teen, Celie spends her days taking his abuse and raising his children, longing to be reconnected to the sister her husband cast off decades prior.

As Celie, Adrianna Hicks starts out perhaps too far along in the character’s arc from cowed to courageous, yet she does capture the woman’s awakening to a sense of her own power.

No matter what trials and tribulations Celie endures, we know her story will end in personal triumph and emotional uplift because where else could it go with a heroine who's so lovely and possessed with such a magisterial voice?

Whoopi Goldberg starred as Celie in Spielberg’s movie, which earned 11 Oscar nominations.

After Sofia confronts her, Celie, who was already feeling guilty about what she had done, apologizes and confides in her about all the abuse she suffers at Mister's hands.