All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get... - Toni Morrison
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."
"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races."