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Toni Morrison's Writing Wisdom


Toni Morrison Quotes on Writing: The Complete Collection - Adazing

Toni Morrison's timeless quotes on writing are also an incredible source of wisdom and strength, especially for anyone who aspires to venture on the same path ...

Toni Morrison Dispenses Sound Writing Advice: Tips You Can Apply ...

Morrison discourses on subjects ranging from her personal routine and history, to her identity as a writer and a woman, to the larger ...

Author Toni Morrison's Most Inspirational Quotes Through the Years

Late author Toni Morrison quotes on writing, love, life, and race that show why she was so beloved · "Love is divine only and difficult always.

Toni Morrison Can Still Teach Us - Sarah Ruffing Robbins

... presence now. Even in her absence, her written wisdom can speak to us. Morrison and her writing have been much on my mind recently. In a…

The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison - The New York Times

“What I'm interested in is writing without the gaze, without the white gaze,” she told me. “In so many earlier books by African-American writers ...

Toni Morrisson: Forget Writing About What You Know - Open Culture

If you'd like to get Morrison's writing advice in a neatly-packaged format, please see our previous posts: Toni Morrison Dispenses Writing ...

Toni Morrison, A Champion of Black Literature - Sojourners

It has been Toni Morrison's mission to write for a black audience, to write for her people in the same way that white writers often write for ...

"The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom ...

As Zadie Smith writes in her introduction, "what mattered even more than her writing was the fact of her." This compact book collects and juxtaposes quotations ...

Writer Nadia Owusu on how Toni Morrison was a sort of mother

Black literature, she wrote, has an oral quality. It can equally be enjoyed silently and aloud. There is an expectation of participation, of ...

'Survival Math' author Mitchell Jackson honors Toni Morrison's wisdom

There's a poet, Safiya Sinclair. Her book is Cannibal. It is about young black womanhood. It shows the power of literature. She is a lyrical ...

Toni Morrison's Writing and Listening When Others Speak - Segullah

Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice ...

Remembering Toni Morrison and the Passing of a Black and ...

Morrison's work gave me strength. She used to say, “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write ...

Opening Exercises 2019: “The Wisdom of the Dead and the Energy ...

... Toni Morrison These Opening Exercises serve ... Professor Morrison's central theme in her speech was what she called, quoting the literary ...

The most influential American author of her generation, Toni ...

The most influential American author of her generation, Toni Morrison's writing was radically ambiguous ... wisdom.” Yet such polite terms ...

In search of home: How Toni Morrison transformed American literature

The incomparable novelist and cultural commentator Toni Morrison, who died last week at the age of 88, never accepted the received wisdom ...

"It Ought To Be Blocked" - by Mariah Maddox

I tell my students there is such a thing as “writer's block,” and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because ...

'Now her words are needed most': readers remember Toni Morrison

'I was changed every time I read her work' · 'Now her words of wisdom are needed most' · 'She wrote in a way that set people free' · 'Her works ...

Mining Toni Morrison's lessons to a black woman writer from a 2010 ...

Constructing a story — writing — is an extension of what humans do to improve the human race. To me, it's not a selfish, congratulatory process.

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom (Hardcover)

This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction—from ...

Toni Morrison on life, love and literature | CNN Business

Toni Morrison; the writer, editor and professor, has always moved people with her words, whether she's making a speech or writing a novel.