The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, 1970
A Black girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes, while the people around her teach her what beauty and love cost.
Toni Morrison
Morrison was nearly 40 when her first novel appeared; in 1993 she became the first Black woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Feels like unease, love and power.
What love reveals about the person doing the loving.
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye. Books by Toni Morrison
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