QUOTE : Is Celie actually ugly?<br />Asks the charismatic star playing her<br />on Broadway.<br />How many times over the years<br />I have explained<br />this.<br />Celie and her “prettier” sister Nettie<br />are practically identical.<br />They might be twins.<br />But Life has forced on Celie<br />all the hardships<br />Nettie mostly avoids....<br />Endless labor that would<br />demean and soon obliterate<br />the observable loveliness<br />of the most queenly slave.<br />I wanted us to think about<br />how superficial is our understanding<br />of beauty; but, also, how beauty<br />is destroyed.