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[existentialthoughtswithlitha]

"I destroyed white baby dolls... To discover what eluded me: the secret magic they weaved on us. What made people look at them and say "Awww" but not for me?" This character captured by Toni Morrison, explaining the complexities of being a black girl and being thrust with dolls that looked nothing like you which made u feel ugly in comparison. Yikes. Ku deep. #bluesteye #bookstagram #tonimorrison (at Seattle Coffee Brooklyn)

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Our mug features Toni Morrison an African-American novelist, editor, professor and activist. She was noted for her examination of black experience (particularly black female experience) within the black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Front of mug: an illustration of Toni Morrison Back of mug: “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” #tonimorrison #bluesteye #blackhistory #blackwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/B1bQakQF8JS/?igshid=1kc3q3ggx9u7c

[centerednscholared]

What can I do to help promote this?! For those that know her and for those that have yet to meet her. Her- Toni Morrison. I received these supplies in the mail a few days ago! WE NEED EVERYONE TO TURN OUT FOR THIS! @tonimorrisonfilm #tonimorrisonfilm #tonimorrison #sula #songofsolomon #bluesteye https://www.instagram.com/p/Byn7PXODKjr/?igshid=1lqbsprhqxhtw

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[nanietudie]

6 November 2016 IB English / AP Literature Reading Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. It's about a girl who think everything in her life would get better if only she had blue eyes. It's our 6th book this semester. I could feel my pockets running empty on book money. Cries.

[bww-au16]

Sugar-coated Whores

Whore is not a bad word. A whore is simply a prostitute. Three prostitutes named China, Marie, and Poland are proud to be whores. Proud of their profession, proud of how they make a living, proud of how successful they are. These women do not have a “sob story”—a gruesome, complex childhood on how they became prostitutes. When Pecola is there during one of her frequent visits, Marie states, “Girl when I found out I could sell it—that somebody would pay cash for it, you could have knocked me over with a feather” (Morrison, 55). China, Marie, and Poland were not sensitive, nor sloppy with their work. They knew their fate, and cultivated their craft.

Is it possible for women who are not whores to have control of their lives? These women are living unattached. They do not answer to a pimp, usually a man who controls the money they make, who they have sex with, and where and when they perform. China, Marie, and Poland are 100% in control of how they wish to work.

Is there a difference between a whore who performs sex for money and a wife who has sex with her husband to keep the peace in her household, to fulfill a civil duty? Is she a glorified, “sugar-coated” whore? Is there a difference between Geraldine and China, Marie, and Poland?

“Fuck Me Pumps,” a song by Amy Winehouse from her 2003 debut album, Frank, alludes to the fascination of the term gold diggers: Without girls like you There’d be no fun We’d go to the club and not see anyone Without girls like you There’s no nightlife All those men just go home to their wives

Gold diggers are people who dates others purely for wealth gain, to become wealthy. Gold diggers are mostly equated with women. Women who seek men with money to take care of them. Is there a difference between a woman who goes to a night club and finds her husband and a woman who goes to her university’s library and finds her husband? The first scenario may not be as magical story to share with their children, but both have the potential to have successful marriages.

These women, China, Marie, and Poland, in my opinion, never want to marry. It is a form of control in their 100% independent lifestyle. I do not think they want to have children, either. To be responsible for the wellbeing of another life would be tiring. They share their explicit stories with Pecola, a mere tween. They do not sugar-coat their feelings about their business, and do not paint it to highlight a stance. I do not feel they encourage nor discourage Pecola to follow their footsteps. Would a “good” mother tell their share with the daughter the details of her nights? What is a “good” mother? Who defines what it is to be a “fit” mother?

--Ursula Hussey

[yaya9278]

 work in progress with a bluest eye collection inspired by the book the bluest eye by toni Morrison in my paintings i really wanted to show Pecola struggle with racism and how the thought of not being good enough can hurt someone not only mentally but physically. 

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Reaction to the End

The Bluest Eye; by Toni Morrison was such a beautifully sad book. It was poetic in its prose and simply mesmerizing. The last sentences of the novel really left the reader, or in this case-myself, in awe. The fact that some characters development was actually halted by their external conflicts really present a written reality that I personally am not use to seeing or reading in books. Pecola, in simplest terms, became crazy. The fact that she was described as a flower that was never meant to grow is both haunting and sadly true. In this novel, you see that the underdog, never really had a chance at survival. She was the least nourished and the fact that even she had loads of self loath, really allows the reader to understand that hatred will bound you. I was most surprised with the fact that after she was raped, and pregnant with her fathers baby, that no one (except Frieda and Claudia) took the side of Pecola. For some odd reason, it was Pecola’s fault that she was impregnated by the same man who gave life to her. The Bluest eye is a great analyzation of many African American Communities, and the trophs and stereotypes that become the reality for many people, even today.