Artist: Black Star
Album: Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Song: Thieves in the Night
Year Released: 1998
Book: The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Year Published: 1970
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye influenced lyrics about racial oppression in Black Star’s “Thieves in the Night.”
Lyrics/Passages:
“I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye
He looked at me, he thought about it, was like, “I’m clueless, why?”
The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible
Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow”
