Toni Morrison dies at 88
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Rest In Peace Ms. Morrison
A true legend. RIP Queen
Rest in peace. Condolences to her many loved ones.
dammmnnnn
R.I.P Elder thank you for all your great contributions..
R.I.P Elder thank you for all your great contributions..
R.I.P Queen
damn
RIP
RIP
I've posted this quote on here before.
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." - Toni Morrison
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." - Toni Morrison
Rest in peace to that divine woman.
I totally disagree. There is no one in letters who can touch Toni. She is arguably the greatest writer of our time.
Ether!
Beau-ti-ful breakdown. I absolutely love that.
She was one of those BRILLIANT and unafraid warriors amongst genius artists whose spirit was not chained to this Babylon. Her love and allegiance to her regality and sacredness of her heritage was pure. In that aspect, she puts me in the mind of other great and bold geniuses like Nina Simone and Paul Robeson.
RIP
RIP Queen
Wow. I'm not gonna ruin this thread with negative energy, but man is that a lesson in the privilege and tone deafness of whiteness. Spike used to get asked similar questions about his movies in the late 80s, and he gave a similar response. Angrier, less eloquent and more pointed, but also (like Toni) coming from the place of an unshackled mind.
Rest In Peace
A true queen and master of her craft
thank you
A true queen and master of her craft
thank you
Beloved Author Toni Morrison Has Died at 88
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah
Photo: Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images
The celebrated novelist Toni Morrisondied Monday night, according to her publisher, Knopf. She was 88 years old. According to Knopf, the author died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, following a “short illness.”Born Chloe Ardella Wofford, Morrison was best known for her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel Beloved, whichwon the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among her other memorable and influential novels were Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1997); the three books make up a loose trilogy. Just after the last of them was published, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first black woman of any nationality to do so. The Nobel Committee celebrated her as an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” By then, she had already written six novels; she would go on to write five more. Her latest, God Help the Child, was published in 2015. She wrote through the toughest of times, including the death of her son in 2010. “I stopped writing until I began to think, he would be really put out if he thought that he had caused me to stop,” Morrison told Interview magazine around the release of her ninth novel, Home, in 2012.
Before she was a world-renowned author, Morrison broke barriers as an editor for Random House, where she worked for 19 years, publishing a new generation of black writers, including Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and Angela Davis. She was also the chair of humanities at Princeton, where she taught from 1989 to 2006.
“We die,” Morrison closed her Nobel Prize address. “That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah
Photo: Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images
The celebrated novelist Toni Morrisondied Monday night, according to her publisher, Knopf. She was 88 years old. According to Knopf, the author died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, following a “short illness.”Born Chloe Ardella Wofford, Morrison was best known for her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel Beloved, whichwon the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among her other memorable and influential novels were Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1997); the three books make up a loose trilogy. Just after the last of them was published, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first black woman of any nationality to do so. The Nobel Committee celebrated her as an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” By then, she had already written six novels; she would go on to write five more. Her latest, God Help the Child, was published in 2015. She wrote through the toughest of times, including the death of her son in 2010. “I stopped writing until I began to think, he would be really put out if he thought that he had caused me to stop,” Morrison told Interview magazine around the release of her ninth novel, Home, in 2012.
Before she was a world-renowned author, Morrison broke barriers as an editor for Random House, where she worked for 19 years, publishing a new generation of black writers, including Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and Angela Davis. She was also the chair of humanities at Princeton, where she taught from 1989 to 2006.
“We die,” Morrison closed her Nobel Prize address. “That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”