Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
Toni MorrisonBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
Toni MorrisonWord-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni MorrisonTrue the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.
Toni Morrison