The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

by Toni Morrison

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men’s ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment. Thus he chose to remember Hamlet’s abuse of Ophelia, but not Christ’s love of Mary Magdalene; Hamlet’s frivolous politics, but not Christ’s serious anarchy.