There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni MorrisonThe past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.
Toni MorrisonMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
Toni MorrisonEverybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison