![]() ![]() She claims that she chose the first line of The Bluest Eye, "Quiet as it's kept," for its conspiratorial quality, for the phrase signified that between "black women conversing with each other" at the back gate, a "secret" was about to be shared, some "secret between us and a secret that is being kept from us," a "conspiracy" both "held and withheld, exposed and sustained" ("Unspeakable Things" 21). Toni Morrison acknowledges that the secrets of violence are safeguarded within the African American communities she writes about. ![]() It's a slaughter without the blood" (qtd. Love, in the Western notion, is full of possession, distortion, and corruption. ![]() violence in writings by black women-not bloody violence, but violence nonetheless. Morrison, who claims that "aggression is not as new to black women as it is to white women," has written that "there's a special kind of. Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) teems with violence. ![]()
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