More quotes by Toni Morrison

"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."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
"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."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."