Oprah is evidently a postmodernist for whom objective truth is an illusion of bourgeois society;
What’s my connection to Donna Jeanne Haraway, besides an unpopular 1970s name that rhymes with mean, queen, spleen, social hygiene?
The past is such a retreat for me. I go there eagerly, shaking off the cold present and the colder future.“
“I would never write any ‘ist.’ I don’t write ‘ist’ novels… . 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. I detest and loathe [those categories].”
-Toni Morrison, on the word feminist
sameness is also a drama
