The Bluest Eye quotes

I have finally finished the bluest eye and I would like to share some of my favorite quotes from the book. The first one is found on pg 48 when pecola goes to buy some candy from Mr. Yacobowsi she says "He does not see her, because for him there is nothing to see. How can a fifty-two-year-old white immigrant storekeeper with the taste of potatoes and beer in his mouth, his mind honed on the doe-eyed Virgin Mary, his sensibilities blunted by a permanent awareness of loss, see a little black girl? Nothin in his life even suggested that the feat was possible, not to say desirable or necessary." Another of my favorite quotes is found on page 177 in Soaphead churches letter to god he says "In retaining the identity of our race, we held fast to those characteristics most gratifying to sustain and least troublesome to maintain. Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we belieed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school. We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. We raised our children and reared our crops; we let infants grow, and property develop. Our manhood was defined by acquisitions. Our womanhood by acquiescence."