Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison wrote eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015), and she received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019 at the age of 88.

Toni Morrison on Breathing Life into Clichés

"A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been discarded."

January 13, 2023 By Toni Morrison

The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

Selected Quotations from an American Icon

December 3, 2019 By Toni Morrison

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