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...think it's just for kids," said Ken F. Morrison, an undergraduate...
...Most Influential People, and I know most readers have their own ideas about who should and should not be on the list [TIME 25, June 17]. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about people such as William Julius Wilson and Stephen Covey. I was glad to see Robert Redford and Toni Morrison included. I even thought the controversial choices, like Louis Farrakhan and Michael Hammer, were O.K. too. They certainly are influential today. ELAINE PONDANT Carrollton, Texas...
Thanks to Morrison's trailblazing success, black women are not only writing more; their books are being bought and read in droves. Bebe Moore Campbell, author of the best-selling Brothers and Sisters and Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad, just out in paperback, vividly remembers coming upon Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye (1969): "When I finished that book, I had all the permission I needed to become a writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back...
...Morrison, 65, is more than an example and a comforting presence to hopeful writers. Her long experience, beginning in 1965 as an editor at Random House, taught her how to wield influence in predominantly male and white organizations. It was while working on the manuscripts of her writers that she realized she was not seeing the black girls and women, the straitened circumstances of the communities of her childhood, a dearth munificently filled by her own books and those of her proteges. Since 1989 Morrison has held a prestigious chair in the humanities at Princeton University, a bully pulpit from...
...Because Morrison is a writer, her influence will outlive her. As she said in her Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives...