Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stMore Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.More Toni Morrison quotes [07/26/2011 04:07:47]

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.More Toni Morrison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]