If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Speech to the Ohio Arts Council (1981)
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Toni Morrison quotes
1931-2019 · Writers and poets
American novelist and Nobel laureate, author of Beloved.
4 quotes, 4 traced to where Morrison said or wrote them.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Beloved (1987)
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993)
Definitions belonged to the definers, not the defined.
Beloved (1987)