More quotes by Toni Morrison

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
"Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."