House M.D.
Season 4, Episode 7
“The body doing something it’s not supposed to do is the definition of a symptom.”
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Toni Morrison
Summer, Claudia MacTeer
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it’s much, much, much too late.
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Toni Morrison
Summer, Claudia MacTeer
We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.