As an epigraph a T. S. Eliot verse appears at the beginning of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination:
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.T. S. Eliot
from “Preludes, IV”
Why did Morrison choose this verse and how does it connect with the rest of the chapter Black Matters?
