In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She could sing anything - classical, jazz, blues, opera. And people came from long distances to that little church she went to - African Methodist Episcopal, the AME church she belonged to - just hear her.
Toni MorrisonIf writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
Toni MorrisonI wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.
Toni Morrison