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T he A meri can B eauty     We strive for //THIS// media type="youtube" key="aDIyygRr0d8" height="344" width="425"  We have been instilled with this idea of perfect beauty ever since our youth  "If she was cute- and if anything could be believed, she //was//- then we were not. And what did that mean? We were lesser." - //The Bluest Eye//, Toni Morrison

 We can't always achieve this beauty, a devastating feeling...   <span style="color: rgb(244, 82, 82); display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 110%;">  <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-size: 50%; text-align: center; display: block;">i539.photobucket.com/.../ comments/jeanharlow.jpg <span style="color: rgb(247, 69, 69); display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 110%;"> Along with the idea of **<span style="color: rgb(244, 82, 82); display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 110%;">romantic love, ** she was introduced to another-**physical beauty**. Probably the **most destructive ideas** in the history of human thought...in equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap" - //The Bluest Eye//, Morrison

**<span style="color: rgb(0, 151, 255);">//"Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes. Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes. Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest's blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes. Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook-eyes.// **


 * Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes."**




 * "The master had said, 'You are ugly people'. They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance. 'Yes,' they had said. 'You are right.'"- //The Bluest Eye//, Morrison**



Toni Morrison's biography http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/morrison.html

Grace's Reflection on the American Beauty

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