--- title: "3 Absorbed Beauty Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 3 Absorbed Beauty quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Absorbed Beauty sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/toni-morrison-271_beauty_all-of-our-waste-which-we-dumped-on-her_581877.jpg" --- > [“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/all-of-our-waste-which-we-dumped-on-her-and-which-she-absorbed-and/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/toni-morrison-271_beauty_all-of-our-waste-which-we-dumped-on-her_581877.jpg) > [My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-avedon/my-photographs-don-t-go-below-the-surface-they-don-t-go-below/) [Richard Avedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-avedon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/richard-avedon-10149_beauty_my-photographs-don-t-go-below-the-surfac_805899.jpg) > [“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/all-of-our-waste-which-we-dumped-on-her-and-which-she-absorbed-and-2/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/toni-morrison-271_beauty_all-of-our-waste-which-we-dumped-on-her_3152333.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absorbed-beauty/#itemlist", "name": "Absorbed Beauty Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us—all who knew her—felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. 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