Somebody was hiding something—and by somebody, I mean the narrative of the country, which was so aggressively happy. Postwar, everybody was making money, and the comedies were wonderful … And I kept thinking, That kind of insistence, there’s something fake about it. […] I guess every nation does it, but there’s an effort to clean up everything. It’s like a human life— ‘I want to think well of myself!’ But that’s only possible when you recognize failings and the injuries that you’ve either caused or that have been caused to you. Then you can think well of yourself because you survived them, confronted them, dealt with them, whatever. But you can’t just leap into self-esteem.
Toni Morrison - Interview.com (via novazembla)

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