Quote of the Day

"Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”

- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

When Morrison was about two years old, her family's landlord set fire to the house in which they lived, while they were home, because her parents could not pay the rent. Her family responded to what she called this "bizarre form of evil" by laughing at the landlord rather than falling into despair. Morrison later said her family's response demonstrated how to keep your integrity and claim your own life in the face of acts of such "monumental crudeness”.