5/13/2023 0 Comments The blue eye toni morrison"I loved Beloved and I love you," she wrote. “I knew if I cracked the first page, you’d have me and there would be no letting go.” movie,” wrote Angelou in a 1987 handwritten letter to Morrison about her novel. “I have been late reading Beloved because I’ve been struggling to finish a screen play–T.V. The book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old Black girl, who prays to be blond and blue-eyed believing it will free her from the abuse in her life and that her family will love her. “Your book is so great, your perception so deep and clear and your poetry-ah your poetry while reading, no better, being in your book, I was entranced, hypnotized yet aware. “‘The Bluest Eye’ is just closed and while your magic is still living here around me, I’m obliged to write you,” stated scholar, poet, filmmaker, and writer Maya Angelou in a 1971 letter of Morrison.
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