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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, [3] the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. [4]
Here are 13 more of Toni Morrison’s most powerful quotes. "If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." - 1981 speech before the Ohio ...
Near the end of his remarks, he quoted the late Toni Morrison about what it means to survive. In 2001, she said, “Sometimes, you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part.But the grandeur ...
Toni Morrison was seen as a surprise choice. The strongest candidates according to the Swedish press were Hugo Claus, a Belgian poet, playwright and filmmaker who writes in Flemish; Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet who has been a front-runner for some time (awarded eventually on 1995); Bei Dao, a Chinese poet in exile; and the Syria-born Lebanese poet Adonis.
Toni Morrison, iconic author and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel prize, passed away at age 88. Before her passing, Morrison, born in Ohio on February 18, 1931, was regarded as one ...
The Origin of Others, published in 2017, is a non-fiction book by Toni Morrison, published in the U.S. by Harvard University Press with a Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates. [1] As the review from The Guardian notes: "This is a book not about racial difference (there is, after all, as Morrison notes, only one human race) but about the possibilities ...
Toni Morrison did not write her first book until she was 39, but by that point, she had been in literary spaces long enough to see that the expansive beauty and complexity of Black womanhood were ...
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, published in 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., is a non-fiction book by Toni Morrison, in which are collected 43 pieces of writing, structured into three sections: "The Foreigner’s Home", "Black Matter(s)" and “God's Language". [1]
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