"عندما خلق الله اللون الأرجواني كان الله يتباهى فقط" كتب أليس والكر هذا في "اللون الأرجواني" و وكتبت زورا نالاى هورستون في "مسارات الغبار على الطريق،" "البحث هو فضول بشكل رسمي.
"When God made the color purple, God was just showing off," Alice Walker wrote in "The Color Purple," and Zora Neale Hurston wrote in "Dust Tracks On A Road," "Research is a formalized curiosity.