There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since wh... - Toni Morrison

"Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."

"Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."

"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."

"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."