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Today is a gorgeous day and I am very excited about all the new things going on in my life. Time is being crunched together but I know I can make it work! Today I was reading one of my favorite books - Toni Morrison "The Bluesest Eye". I have to say that almost every time I read just a portion of this well written book, my mind takes me to another place. It must be the immense detail that is implemented. Or maybe it is the enchantment factor of being able to throw myself into such captivating words. I am not one to make a judgment on which it could be. I do know that every witting piece from Toni Morrison reaches a crevice in my mind that opens up my eyes to a world of enthralling intrigue. I would like to share a few excerpts...
"It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth. They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path." pg. 65
"In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap....She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen." pg. 122
"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." pg. 174
*Excerpts from Toni Morrison "The Bluesest Eye"*
I've always said to anyone willing to listen that Toni Morrison is the best that has ever done it. She is a superb writer, capturing the essense of each and every word used. Plus, she has some of the most stimulating storylines.
ReplyDeleteIf you took every writer that ever lived and formed an iceberg with their works, Toni Morrison would be the tip.
I could not agree with your statement more! I am always sharing Toni Morison's Excellence to everyone I come in contact with. I believe that the power behind her words should be given to anyone as mental fruit to be eaten...
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