Toni Morrison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.