Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
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Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the ... See more
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