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Imagine looking around yourself and seeing images of "beauty" that look nothing like you. Even within your own community, you feel (and are told you are) ugly because you are darker than your peers. Imagine believing that if you just had blue eyes, you would be beautiful.
This story grows out of a real, schoolyard conversation that Toni Morrison had with a childhood friend. She nurtured and processed that memory until it became The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970. In the edition I read, ther ...more
This story grows out of a real, schoolyard conversation that Toni Morrison had with a childhood friend. She nurtured and processed that memory until it became The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970. In the edition I read, ther ...more
Jun 17, 2009
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