"a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach--could not even see--but which filled the valleys of the mind." Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced by anger. Anger that he was powerless to help her. Of all the wishes people had brought him--money, love, revenge--this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes." Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Stephanie Doty
Women's Issues Matter
February 17, 2014
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