Toni Morrison
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 29: Novelist Toni Morrison and U.S. President Barack Obama share a moment after she was presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom during an East Room event May 29, 2012 at the White House in Washington, DC. The Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
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That’s my point. My point has been – and that’s it, I haven’t said this publicly to anybody -- that, like, you talk about Toni Morrison, or you talk about Maya Angelou, you talk about these black women, they grew up in a church, most of them. She didn’t. She grew up in a Hyde Park kind-of Jack and Jill, links, middle income, who think they’re middle-class, environment. She didn’t go to church.
She's a real writer ... We had to edit her, but everyone gets edited except Toni Morrison.
Like any great work of art, each novel by Toni Morrison enlarges and transforms the world for a reader ... Through her writing, we — and others throughout the world, who read her work in English or in translation — have a deeper, more profound sense of what experience in this nation has been and is today.More quotes »
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Clearing the record
story Wednesday on new recipients of the Medal of Freedom misidentified author Toni Morrison's 1993 honor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Inquirer wants its news report to be fair and correct in every respect, and regrets when it is not. 5/30/12 from Philadelphia Inquirer Read more »
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Dylan gets top US honour
May 30 (Reuters): President Barack Obama gave the US’s top civilian honour yesterday to musician Bob Dylan, novelist Toni Morrison and 11 other people he described as his heroes because of their powerful words, songs and actions. “What sets these men and women 5/30/12 from Calcutta Telegraph Read more »
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Mary L. Dudziak: The Limits of Empathy in Toni Morrison’s "Home"
Morrison’s new novel Home about a Korean War veteran’s struggles after the war might seem perfectly suited to an impending cultural turn. The close of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq and an anticipated draw-down of American troops in Afghanistan, might signal from History News Network Read more »
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Coffee Talk: Toni Morrison Receives Medal of Freedom Award
Toni Morrison received the national's highest civilian award, the Medal of Freedom. Morrison along with 11 other people were selected for their contributions to American society. "What an extraordinary honor to be able to say thank you to all of them for the from Essence Magazine Read more »
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Barack Obama décore Bob Dylan dont il est un grand fan - VIDÉOS
Obama a remis cette décoration à l'ancienne secrétaire d'Etat Madeleine Albright, la romancière prix Nobel de littérature Toni Morrison, l'ancien astronaute John Glenn et l'ex-juge de la Cour suprême John Paul Stevens, ces deux derniers étant nonagénaires. from The Huffington Post Read more »
