00:00Oh, let me tell you right now, I'm going to go ahead and say it.
00:06The color purple is the most important queer piece of media that has ever hit the mainstream.
00:16I'm going to go ahead and put all 10 toes down.
00:20Okay, full disclosure, I have 11 toes.
00:21All 11 toes down and say that the color purple is so far ahead of its time
00:29Alice Walker, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, and the list goes on and on and on.
00:39When you see Miss Seeley standing on the steps, paralyzed with anticipation
00:47to finally gaze upon the legend that is Suge Avery,
00:53this woman who has been raped, she has been beaten, she has been maligned,
01:01she has been told she is ugly, and she's going to see the most beautiful woman in town,
01:05the one that everyone raves about.
01:07And she's just waiting to see her because she wants to know how beautiful she really is.
01:11She wants to see it for herself.
01:13And then she walks up the stairs, and Miss Seeley has mud on her face
01:19because the kids have been just covering her in mud and stuff.
01:22The first thing Suge Avery said to her is,
01:24You show is ugly.
01:29It speaks so much, you know, this woman that she was looking forward to seeing
01:33validated all of her negative thoughts about herself
01:36that everyone else was saying is true.
01:39But then she comes around and they fall in love.
01:42But because of who they are, where they are, and when they are,
01:46they can actually celebrate their love together.
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