I have always wanted to develop a way of writing that was irrevocably black. I don't have the resources of a musician but I thought that if it was truly black literature, it would not be black because Iwas, it would notevenbe black because of its subject matter. It would be something intrinsic, indigenous, something in the way it was put togetheröthe sentences, the structure, texture and toneöso that anyone who read it would realize.

-Morrison,Toni Chloe Anthony ne¤  e Wofford
Quoted in Paul Gilroy Small  Acts (1993),'Living memory: a meeting with Toni Morrison'.