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I was introduced to her books many years ago in a Woman's Study grad class. I cherish her books I have.
Obama pays tribute to Toni Morrison: 'What a gift to breathe the same air as her'
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By Zack Budryk - 08/06/19 12:03 PM EDT
Former President Obama on Tuesday paid tribute to Pulitzer-winning novelist Toni Morrison, who he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, after it was announced that she had died on Monday.
Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningfula challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy. She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page, Obama wrote in a Facebook post, noting Morrisons accomplishments including the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes.
And so even as Michelle and I mourn her loss and send our warmest sympathies to her family and friends, we know that her storiesthat our storieswill always be with us, and with those who come after, and on and on, for all time, he added...................
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Time is no match for Toni Morrison. In her writing, she sometimes toyed with it, warping and creasing it, bending it to her masterful will. In her lifes story, too, she treated time nontraditionally. A child of the Great Migration whod lifted up new, more diverse voices in American literature as an editor, Toni didnt publish her first novel until she was 39 years old. From there followed an ascendant careera Pulitzer, a Nobel, and so much moreand with it, a fusion of the African American story within the American story. Toni Morrison was a national treasure. Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningfula challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy. She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. And so even as Michelle and I mourn her loss and send our warmest sympathies to her family and friends, we know that her storiesthat our storieswill always be with us, and with those who come after, and on and on, for all time.
malaise
(268,844 posts)Toni who?
riversedge
(70,174 posts)America great.
ismnotwasm
(41,971 posts)Love his words
nolabear
(41,956 posts)I cant even finish that sentence. May her words live and teach forever. We need them so.
riversedge
(70,174 posts)It was not only that it came from Trumps babbly mouth--but it was just awful IMHO.
nolabear
(41,956 posts)I wonder if its actual contempt for the base. Not that theyd wax eloquent often, but at times like those? Idk. Maybe just to keep people scoffing at him in order to keep the base outraged. Its Lonesome Rhodes on adderall
mopinko
(70,067 posts)trying to teach that baboon to talk.
mopinko
(70,067 posts)can we start w a literacy test?
prove you have an 8th grade vocabulary, and write 3 book reports.
a nice low bar. i'm good w that. it only has to be high enough that another twitler can never get over it.
Tanuki
(14,916 posts)See it if you can!