Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning tha…

Toni Morrison
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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ✨ Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
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