“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” —Toni Morrison, in an...

Link of the Week: “The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison”

  At 84, she sits comfortably as one of the greatest authors in American history, even as her uncompromising dream for black literature seems farther away than ever. The opening to a feature on Toni Morrison in the New York Times Magazine describes her as one of...