“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.” PeopleLoveThe Bluest Eye Book:The Bluest Eye Source: The Bluest Eye
“Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself. She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking. Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground. Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live.” Toni MorrisonTeen PregnancyThe Bluest Eye Book:The Bluest Eye Source: The Bluest Eye