More quotes by Toni Morrison

"Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]"
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
"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."