Quote of the Day (Toni Morrison, on ‘A Disrupting Darkness’)

“All of us are bereft when criticism remains too polite or too fearful to notice a disrupting darkness before its eyes.” —American novelist, essayist, editor, and Nobel Literature laureate Toni Morrison (1931-2019), Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)

(Photo of Toni Morrison taken at a lecture at West Point Military Academy in March, 2013. Author of photo: West Point - The U.S. Military Academy.)