I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, Iām going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.
Toni MorrisonIt's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.
Toni MorrisonI don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.
Toni Morrison