Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power inand other works transformed American letters by dramatising the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at the age of 88.
Her admirers were countless - from fellow authors, college students and working people to Barack Obama, who awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom; to Oprah Winfrey, who idolised Morrison and helped greatly expand her readership. Morrison shared those high opinions, repeatedly labelling one of her novels,"Maya Angelou helped me without her knowing it," Morrison told The Associated Press during a 1998 interview.
But although she went on to teach there, Howard disappointed her. Campus life seemed closer to a finishing school than to an institution of learning. Protesters were demanding equality. Morrison wanted that, too, but wondered what kind. . Everybody else had some confrontation with white people, which was not to say that Africans didn't, but there was linguistically an assumption. The language was the language of the centre of the world, which was them.and not explain anything. That was wholly new! It was like a step into an absolutely brand new world. It was liberating in a way nothing had been before!"
'first black woman'. What a shameful way to describe this woman or any person for that matter.
No. No. No. 😭💔
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