He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires. Hating her, he could leave himself intact.
“We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us—all who knew her—felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used—to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a purée of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“From deep inside, her laughter came like the sound of many rivers, freely, deeply, muddily, heading for the room of an open sea.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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