1Jean Strouse. Toni Morrison' s Black Magic. Newsweek 30March, 1981.
2托尼·莫里森.最蓝的眼睛[Z].Washington Square Press,1972.
3Toni Morrison. Letter to Students at Head Royce School, Oakland, California, 30 June 1980. Quoted from W.D. Samuels and C. Hudson-Weems, Toni Morrison (Twayne Pulbishers,1990).
4Robert Stepto. Intimate Things in Place: A Conversation with Toni Morrison, 19 May 1976. See Danille Taylor-Guthrie ed.,Conversations with Toni Morrison (University Press of Mississippi, 1994).