The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. My fourth time around reading this book. It never gets old.
Front flap-
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.Local library or
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While reading The Bluest Eye, two incidents came to my mind:
One day I was in my vehicle listening to a Talk Radio Show. The topic was interracial relationships. A Hispanic woman (happily married to a "black" man for several years) called in and said, 'A "black" woman married to a white man speaks volumes. Just imagine a "black" woman working in Corporate America and her white husband comes in one day, that will do wonders for her career. I can see why Oprah, Gayle, and powerful woman like them married white men.'
Hmmmmm
One day I was in my vehicle sitting at a stop sign. Another vehicle zoomed by and the driver blew the horned and looked back at me quickly. As I was driving, I came to a stop light pulling up right next to that vehicle. The driver, a young brotha with beautiful dark chocolate, flawless skin says with such passion, 'You are so beautiful to be DARK!'
Did I miss the compliment?
Warrior Princess Z. asked, "Mommy what did he say?" I said, "He said that mommy was beautiful." I chose not to tell her the DARK part, because cycles of madness need to be broken, and that starts with the individual.
