American writer, Nobel Prize laureate, author of 'Beloved' and explorer of African-American experience.
I write for people whose voices were silenced. Literature gives them a chance to be heard.
Literature is a bridge between generations. Through books, we commune with ancestors and with the future.
I don't regret my mistakes. They made me who I am. But there are things I wish I could reconsider.
Memory is our salvation. When we forget history, we lose ourselves and our identity.
Love is one of the few forces capable of saving us from ourselves.
Each of my books is an act of resistance against oblivion and falsehood.
Race is a category invented by humans. But humanity is a reality that unites us all.