Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?

Sarah Sundin
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When the main character in "The Color Purple" is raped again, she is so distraught that she says, "Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?" The color purple is similar to the color of blood, but more specifically it means being stained or tinged with sorrow. The Color Purple is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker.

Source: A Memory Between Us

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