Quotes about Toni Morrison

Milton's Paradise is quite available these days, if not in fact certainly as ordinary, unexceptionable desire.

I am determined to de-fang cheap racism, annihilate and discredit the routine, easy, available color fetish, which is reminiscent of slavery itself (The Origin of Others, 53).

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.