Bluest Eye Quotes

#1. I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Faye Dunaway

#2. As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Toni Morrison

#4. Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Oscar Peterson

#5. He should not be toying with her this way, drawing her into a dance round the funeral pyre, chancing that she would burn. -- Nicolas, le Diable.

Leigh Winterstine

#6. My beauty secret is ... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Yoko Ono

#7. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

Toni Morrison

#8. 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 as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye.

Toni Morrison

#9. The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

Gloria Swanson

#10. In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Andrew Cohen