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Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture 1993
Written in 2019. The law may have changed since, so give me a call before relying on it.
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Although its poise is sometimes in displacing experience it is not a substitute for it. It arcs toward the place where meaning may lie.
From Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture, 1993.