Status Updates From The Bluest Eye

“Maybe that’s why the women were sad: the men left before they could make a baby.”

The way the author is describing the fascination of pulling apart the white baby dolls to see what makes them so special and likening that to human white girls is so striking. All she’s asking for is a little humanity.

“They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds–cooled–and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.”

rereading this is a PRIVILEGE