Toni Morrison quotes
5 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Toni Morrison wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.
Writing before dawn began as a necessity.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.
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