What Does It Mean To Be Ugly?
3 min readAug 7, 2022
“I used to like to watch her. You know they makes them greedy sounds. Eyes all soft and wet. A cross between a puppy and a dying man. But I knowed she ugly. Head full of pretty hair, but Lord she was ugly.”
-Mrs. Breedlove, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison