Toni Morrison Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. February 18, 1931
Birthday: February 18
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.
source: Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
topic: Love, Country, Children, Expressing Love, Grappling
