“Avoir l'esprit ouvert ne signifie pas l'avoir béant à toutes les sottises.”
“Ce que l'objectivité et l'étude de la philosophie requiert n'est pas un esprit "ouvert", mais un esprit actif.”
En anglais : "What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an “open mind,” but an active mind—a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them critically"
“Afin d'être aussi libre que possible dans ma propre imagination, je ne peux pas prendre de positions fermées.”
Interview magazine Salon (février 1998)
En anglais : "In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity."
TONI MORRISON, Salon interview, Feb. 1998