When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
Toni MorrisonArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Toni MorrisonThe language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
Toni Morrison