More quotes by Toni Morrison

"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."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"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?"