Toni Morrison Quotes about Language

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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Toni Morrison

Lying, Vitality, Language

Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Toni Morrison

And Love, Care, Language

Source: wordmag.com

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."

Toni Morrison

Use, Language, Bigs

Source: theharvardadvocate.com