Morrison wants us ashamed of how we treat the powerless, even if we, too, feel powerless.
[…]There is somebody in all of us. This fact is our shared experience, our shared category: the human.
[…][A] form of self-regard, for Morrison, was the road back to the human—the insistence that you are somebody although the structures you have lived within have categorized you as “nobody.”Zadie Smith, newyorker.
