Toni Morrison

by: Toni Morrison - Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
December 8, 1993 at at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures.

"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise."