TONI MORRISON ON LANGUAGE.

We die.
That may be the meaning of life.
But we do language.
That may be the measure of our lives.   
                                -- Toni Morrison

Words matter.
The only intelligent response to the opposite of that,
'words don't matter,' would be silence.
Because you can't even say
'words don't matter' ... without words.                              
                                -- Toni Morrison