Rest in peace, Toni Morrison. The Nobel laureate & literary icon has passed away at the age of 88. I’m adding some additional articles/tweets below. [JustJared]
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Towleroad’s Toni Morrison obituary. [Towleroad]
Like honestly has there ever been a baddie as bad as Toni Morrison? A woman who published her first novel at 39 after waking up every morning at 4 to write before getting her kids to school and going to work editing books by white men then ended up winning the full NOBEL PRIZE???
— Jeremy O. Harris (@jeremyoharris) August 6, 2019
Toni Morrison's books focus, without apology or explanation, on black lives.
"I've spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books," she told Charlie Rose in 1998.
Morrison has died at 88.https://t.co/E7KN4fQelX
— NPR (@NPR) August 6, 2019
We are profoundly sad to report that Toni Morrison has died at the age of eighty-eight.
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019 pic.twitter.com/DWnElCpMKc
— Alfred A. Knopf (@AAKnopf) August 6, 2019
Toni Morrison after the 2016 election: "On Election Day, how eagerly so many white voters—both the poorly educated and the well educated—embraced the shame and fear sowed by Donald Trump." https://t.co/YTZIdHdvyy
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 6, 2019
Another brilliant and powerful voice lost. Sigh.
Do you write, Kitten? I ask because you seem so articulate and passionate.
In considering the people who have died in the last couple of years, I’m convinced the cool people are leaving the planet – something must be coming.
Rest in peace, good woman. Lay your pen down.
What an amazing, wise, wise woman. May she rest in peace.
You will be missed darling 😢 RIP
May she Rest In Peace.
Rest in power, Toni.
If you haven’t, go buy and read The Bluest Eye. That book changed my life. Rest in peace, brilliant woman.
Mine, too. Went unapologetically natural after The Bluest Eye.
My favorite book of hers.
It’s a hard read but a deeply worthwhile one. It’s a story that haunts you for days after you finish it.
Something very superficial: I always found Toni Morrison to be such a beautiful woman.
Talented author; rest in peace Ms. Morrison.
I’m saddened by her death, but inspired by her life. rest in peace big sis!
Thank you, Toni Morrison, for sharing your powerful stories with us and for challenging our minds.
Rest in power!
So much good content today. I’m super busy at work but happy I’ll have lots to read on my commute home. Thankful 💕
Beloved changed me forever…opened my eyes to the horror of the slave experience. Thank you, Dr. Morrison for making me a better human and for fearlessly teaching us.
I read The Bluest Eye in uni and was forever moved and changed by it, swept up in the frenzy of a life that I could in some ways not quite relate to but in small ways, identified fiercely. The complexity and nuance of the characters she put to page will not ever be lost on me. She gave me a whole new lens within which to view life and literature, heartbreaks and triumphs. She was a master of documenting the human condition without filter. RIP.
RIP ICON.
Sula, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon were revelations to me in college. I remember reading outdoors her beautiful, wrenching, living books and knowing this was a great author that the world would know about. God bless.
A great loss.
Listened to part of her Nobel acceptance speech on NPR tonight. Her voice is like listening to the memory of forever, it is beautiful and carries you back and forward in time.
“Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Her novels had such a profound impact on me as a writer growing up. She provided such powerful and poignant insight into the lives of black Americans.
Her work remains to inspire generations to come. RIP Toni!
Rest in peace. What an absolutely towering presence. I’m so sad she’s gone. I was fortunate enough to hear her speak on several occasions (she taught creative writing at my university) and every single time, I remember wondering how the speech/talk was over so fast. In reality, it was a normal length, but she was so engaging, so brilliant, and so eloquent that the minutes flew by.
Her books were my first true introduction to the idea that there is a white (male) gaze and that art has the power to disrupt and resist it. Sometimes by refusing to give it any attention at all.
I wish we had more years on earth of her voice and her ideas.
A tremendous writer. Anything her name was attached to, I gravitated toward. Rest in Power.
News of Toni Morrison’s death almost made me feel as if a family member passed away. I discovered her works during my undergraduate years and became hooked on her lyrical, magnetic prose. As an African-American woman, I had immense pride in her ability to tell the stories of my people and draw others in to our experience. The literary world truly lost a giant. Rest easy Toni Morrison!