Bluest Eye Quote by Dorothy Allison Download Open image ““Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”” — Dorothy Allison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
“It's funny, but I always thought I could trust blue eyes. I thought they were safe somehow. All the good guys have baby blues.… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
“He stops rocking and looks into my eyes. We’re inches apart and I’m mesmerized by the tiny flecks of indigo in his blue eyes.… — Lisa Daily Copy Share Image
“I tried to visualize my happy place - a beach with warm, white sand and sparkling, clear blue water. However, the only blue I… — Sadie Allen Copy Share Image
“His blue eyes were brimming with affection. Too much affection. It was painful to look at. Like stepping out of a dark building into… — Susannah Nix Copy Share Image
“Trust your eyes for they can see more than you do" - Return to Finkleton by K.C. Hilton” — K.C. Hilton Copy Share Image
“The blinding colors on his tie resembled a Rorschach test and prompted Jazz to slip on her sunglasses.” — Linda Wisdom Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we’re addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.” I had to talk to her… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
