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.
Toni MorrisonIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
Toni MorrisonThe formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.
Toni Morrison