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Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

The Bluest Eye is sepia.
And it is evergreen.

The writer and scholar Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop spoke of the importance of young people having not mirrors and windows in their literature. Norris so that they can see reflections of themselves in the books they read. Windows so that they can see outside their own lives and into the experiences of others.