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...race-based culture not only exists, it thrives. The question is whether it exists as a virus or a rich harvest of possibilities.” —Toni Morrison...
...address, Morrison related the story of her invitation to a popular talk show. She was excited to go, she says, but as a challenge to both herself and the host, she accepted only conditionally: she would go if the conversation would not touch the topic of race...
...Race, Surrogacy and Farewell,” and drew a constellation of academic superstars from Harvard’s Afro-American Studies and English departments to the audience. University President and English Professor Neil L. Rudenstine procured a seat in the front row to listen to Morrison weave her spell...
Surrounded by red Radcliffe banners and garbed in gray, Morrison read an excerpt from her biggest success, Beloved (Knopf, 1988). The critics have long noted Morrison’s distinctive literary voice, but her actual reading voice is quite possibly almost as extraordinary: a marvelously flexible, husky voice with a scratch at the back...
Beloved is dedicated to the 60 million people who died as a result of slavery. But Afro-American art does not stand alone in its inherent politicization, Morrison said: the two are inextricable, as race is a part of life, and one of the aims of her writing is to disable the art vs. politics argument...