Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison left a rich, powerful literary legacy. These are some of her best — and most essential — books. https://t.co/ToxBX3Su7Q

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2019

So proud to join all these extraordinary women in this tribute to a legend. https://t.co/EpVZjuQpQN

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 11, 2019

Toni Morrison wrote some of the finest novels written in the English language. Yes. But the photos of her are their own kind of gift: a reminder that her life was a dance, a voyage of discovery, decades in the making.
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— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2019

Surreal events proliferate in Morrison's fiction: ghosts, magic spells, folks who think they can fly. But given the cruelties of history her characters have witnessed – bodies hanging from trees, families forcibly separated – it's the ordinary that too often seems out of reach. https://t.co/nKSSikxC3R

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) August 10, 2019

I wrote a letter to the late Toni Morrison, because I knew no other way to do this. By rejecting the “white gaze” in her writing, she taught me how to recognize myself in the American narrative and confronted the nation with truths about itself. My latest. https://t.co/4siexNg71W

— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) August 7, 2019