Black Girls Can Be Fragile Too

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Pecola Love is a Dark Skinned Girl with Kinky Coily Hair and Brown Eyes, who lives a life parallel to misery. Her AfroCentric features set her opposite of her peers and make her a set target for torment.

Pecola Love’s home life is just as stained, with having to endure trauma inflicted by abuse, anhedonia and poverty.

Pecola Love craves a reality where she could view the world through the eyes of beauty , comfort and love. The Bluest Eye.

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly […]”

Motifs: Restricted by Youth and sex , Fights paralleled by pleasure, Being lonely is better than being alone? , Love is never better than the lover