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[G]oodness is not only better and good for you, but it is also more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite.

— The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

You, all of us, struggle to turn data into information into knowledge and, we hope, into wisdom. In that process we owe everything to others. We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships with family and colleagues, our ability to defy social conventions as well as support those conventions. All of this we learned from others.

— The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man.

— The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

The matrix out of which these powerful decisions are born is sometimes called racism, sometimes classicism, sometimes sexism. Each is an accurate term surely, but each is also misleading. The source is a deplorable inability to project, to become the “other,” to imagine her or him.

— The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison