Toni Morrison on the Importance of Writing in the Face of Hate
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2015
- Toni Morrison talks with Farrah Jasmine Griffin about the importance of artists "pushing through" the dark times to create your work. Watch the full event here: • Toni Morrison Reads Fr...
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For the last week I’ve wallowed in documentaries about great American writers such as John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatby), William Faulkner, Susan Sontag and a few others. This kind of feverish thirst comes upon me once or twice a year where I glorify the writer’s life and all that it entails. I am totally consumed and in a creative space that I relish. It wasn’t until this week that I began to look at the lives of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and suddenly I hear Toni Morrison passes away. There was something mystical about experiencing her death while I was in this creative space. I’ve always adored her stories and the videos documenting her writings. I told myself that I would meet her one day. When I heard of her death I was stunned. I felt a tremendous loss.
such an inspiring woman.
❤️ Toni Morrison