always and always and always and always in need

“The book that I did, the lectures, ‘Playing In The Dark’, was an examination of how Melville and Twain, and Hemingway and Flannery O’Connor, and all of these people got - brilliantly or not - alot of mileage out of wrestling with those questions about the presence of african-americans in this country.”

TONI MORRISON, “JAZZ” INTERVIEW (1993).