My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at five years old. I won that battle, and that drive to express myself and stay true to myself, even as a kid, is why I’m so excited about my partnership with Umbro.
I think that expression is so great. So I’ll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.
I think one of my first jokes – in the black community, there’s people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, ‘You so black, you purple.’ ‘You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.’
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
When I first got turned on to ‘Purple Rain,’ I was just moved by Prince’s charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.
‘Goodnight Moon’ is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ and ‘Madeline.’ These books are just as much a part of mainstream reading culture as ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ and they are passed down from generation to generation.
Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself ‘Remember the purple sky’ when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
If you’ve got a wound, and it’s just about to heal up, and it’s got a nice scab on it, and you think in two or three days, that’s gonna be completely healed, then somebody comes along and pokes it with a stick, and it opens up again. And that’s what happens with the Ritchie-and-Deep Purple situation.
I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal.
Purple and yellow are my colors.
I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.
As I drove westwards along the A8, the purple hills of the Massif des Maures were rising towards a clear bluebell sky. Cradled within the Var between Frejus and Hyeres lies a bewitching hinterland, a low mountain range known in Provencal as Lei Mauro: the Sombre Ones.
My favorite piece of clothing as a boy was a purple Magic Johnson jersey from the Los Angeles Lakers.
I mix my lipsticks a lot. Depending on how I decide to do my eyes, I’ll decide to do my lips. I’ve never really loved wearing only red or purple, and sometimes just pink isn’t enough.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Color Purple’ might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn’t girly or feminine. My mother hated it.
I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It’s when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it’s just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L’Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple – it was horrific. I looked awful; I don’t know what I was thinking!
I’ve never listened to any of Purple Mk III’s records.
The Lilac Rose Collection isn’t just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched ‘The Color Purple.’ I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me – Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
‘Middle class’ used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.
All olives ripen green, then change to rose, shades of purple, and black. According to region, this process takes about four months and, once the fruits are ripe, they can be picked at any stage.
I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they’re iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don’t think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.
The theater community will always remain a big part of my life, and I hope to re-join the cast of ‘The Color Purple’ at some point down the road.
Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren’t really crazy because we’re all still here!
‘Play It Again Sam’s opening shot is the same as ‘Purple Rose’s final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I’ve certainly felt that in my life. I’ve been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.
In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.
My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!
My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it’s not about what you look like or what you do; it’s about who you are inside.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
He asked me whether I had seen the movie ‘The Color Purple.’ I said no she hadn’t. And Bobby said, ‘Well, it’s a terrible picture. They don’t make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.’
My name itself is extremely campy. Violet Chachki literally translates to purple doodad.
Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.
If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain’t never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you’re like, No man, these my colors. You won’t know purple is your color until you try it on.
More than anything, ‘Purple Kisses’ just came about because I’m very hands on, especially in relationships.
Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn’t. We just let people think that in order to promote ‘Purple Rain.’
My mom never let me dye my hair, and I would beg her every single day. When I was 16, I told her I wanted to dye it purple, and she let me – probably because she never thought I’d actually do it. Then I just stuck with it.
We’ve been in a war and a recession. That’s why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They’re optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
The people who come to Purple shows are there for the music.
I do quite a lot of art, with a small ‘a’. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
My hair is always going to be purple; that’s kind of my thing. It doesn’t matter what length I make it, as long as it’s purple.
For me, it’s about making art that’s not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn’t want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn’t think, ‘I wonder what the industry is gonna think about ‘Purple Rain.” It’s just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.
I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple.
I remember the first vinyl I bought: ‘Purple Rain,’ my favorite Prince album, ever.
I was someone who wore bright purple sweatsuits with tall Doc Martens boots. I would iron Hanson decals on my sweatshirt. I was extremely flamboyant as a child.
I just feel that ‘The Color Purple,’ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
