I don’t think that has happened.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylorisnt just aware of the criticism surroundingThe Color Purples central queer romance, she agrees with it.
“The Color Purpleis a book about Black lesbians.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Taraji P. Henson and Fantasia Barrino in ‘The Color Purple’.Mat Hayward/Getty Images; Everett Collection
I knew that watchingMargaret AverykissWhoopi Goldbergwas astonishing, exciting, and affirming.
It showed me the possibility of myself and the possibility to love a woman who loves me in return.
I’ll never get over that.
Whoopi Goldberg and Margaret Avery in ‘The Color Purple (1985)'.Everett Collection
It lives with me.
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Alice Walker wroteThe Color Purplewith intention because she was writing about herself, Ellis-Taylor said.
I want people to walk away fromThe Color Purplethinking, I just saw a movie about Black lesbians.
I don’t think that has happened.
Emphasizing the longevity of the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, she continued, Somebody has to be brave.
Also, you have to have Black women and Black queer women in the making of it…
The first one was written and directed by a white man.
The remake was written and directed by a Black man.
I think the writer might be a queer man, but it ain’t the same.
For her part, Walker has expressed some satisfaction with the relationship’s portrayal in the latest film.
We really needed to see that love is love.
You know, that people love whoever they love, and it is their right to do that.
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