This is seen when Shug tells her, “God created [your feelings]. Look, God loves everything you love – and a lot of things you don’t like” (196). Shug says that if God loves the things she loves, so if what she feels matters to the divine, then its importance is unquestionable. Shug teaches Celie about self-confidence, which is also seen when Shug tells her that she is part of God and that makes her special for contributing to such a vast ideology. Shug said: “Here is the thing, […] The thing that I believe. God is in you and in everyone. You come into the world with God. But only those who seek it within find it. And sometimes it shows up even if you're not looking or you don't know what you're looking for. […] Doesn't look like anything […] It's just a spectacle of images. It's not something you can look at in isolation from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, Shug said. Everything that is, was or will one day be. And when you can feel that and be happy to feel that, you have found it” (195). This way of presenting Celie with her true potential allows her to understand that she deserves to be happy because she is an exquisite creation of God. Hami's thesis of Celie's empowered identity speaks to the improvement of Celie's life through Shug's influence. He says: “Since childhood, Celie was only a subordinate of others and was not capable of fighting. Through