“Navigating a white, male world was not threatening—it wasn’t even interesting,” says your queen and mine Toni Morrison in this trailer for a new documentary about her life, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. “I was more interesting than they were. And I wasn’t afraid to show it.” Oprah agrees, as do we all. See the film in select theaters June 21st.

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Emily Temple

Emily Temple

Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.