"You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these pl… - Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

It would seem that to continue to see race of people, any race of people as one single personality is an ignorance of gothic proportions, an ignorance so vast, so public, and perception so blind and so blunted, imagination so bleak that no nuance, no subtlety, no difference among them can be ascertained. Which may explain in part why in 1975 we are left with pretty much the same mental equipment we had in 1775 — the equipment that hadn’t the curiosity to record the names of human beings in a ship’s manifest, hasn’t the curiosity to examine the medieval minds of scientific racists, theologic [sic] racists, historical racists, literary racists; an intelligence that is so crippled that it could in all seriousness ask W.E.B. Du Bois, in 1905, in pursuit of some study as a White professor from Clark University did, whether colored people shed tears.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.