If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
Toni MorrisonIn Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.
Toni MorrisonI couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
Toni Morrison