Introduction Toni Morrison: When I wrote Sweetness and later God Help the Child, I wanted to examine how love can be deformed by fear, how racism can seep into the very cradle of a child. Mothers, daughters, fathers, lovers—we carry wounds not just in our skin but in our memories, in the ways we learn to withhold tenderness.The conversations you are … [Read more...] about Toni Morrison’s Sweetness & God Help the Child