Toni Morrison | TIME Magazine Interviews | TIME
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2008
- The woman who earned both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes talks to readers about writing and why she's endorsing Obama for president in this edition of TIME's 10 Questions. Formore video: www. time. com/video
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Toni Morrison | TIME Magazine Interviews | TIME
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You will be missed Toni😪. You're work will always be passed on for many generations to come.
Creativity and intelligence unleashed!!! This woman is extraordinary!!!!:)
For the last week I’ve wallowed in documentaries about great American writers such as John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatby), William Faulkner, Susan Sontag and a few others. This kind of feverish thirst comes upon me once or twice a year where I glorify the writer’s life and all that it entails. I am totally consumed and in a creative space that I relish. It wasn’t until this week that I began to look at the lives of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and suddenly I hear Toni Morrison passes away. There was something mystical about experiencing her death while I was in this creative space. I’ve always adored her stories and the videos documenting her writings. I told myself that I would meet her one day. When I heard of her death I was stunned. I felt a tremendous loss. R.I.Love Toni Morrison
2:30 i'm very happy she was able to answer that question that way. she was straight up and honest.
How much do my faith renews in humanity the more I hear and read from her. Thank, the creator for your being.
She is very well-spoken and intelligent! I love her books.
I wondered if she was disappointed with Obama after his terms. Rest is paradise Toni Morrison. Your work will live on.
My feeling is that she must have been somewhat ambivalent. I myself still think Obama was and is wise. The problem is, politics enforces that leaders will waste time and effort, lose focus, and wrestle constantly with the whole spectrum of humanity. Bad actors, bad faith, bad options. Petty deadlocks, tenuous gains. Lincoln did some pretty slippery stuff to get abolition done, and died for it, and as Toni's friend Fran Lebowitz contends, the Civil War still never really ended. Yet he remains one of the most transformational presidents one can name. Obama wasn't a messiah, and heaven help anyone with as much expectation as he faced, but I believe he did limited good. He also surfaced an abcess with Trump in it, but if anyone could trace the contours of that reaction, it would probably be Miss Morrison. Who we dearly miss. ✌
Whenever I return to Toni Morrisons work, I always wonder why its taken me so long?!
'The Bluest Eye' is my favourite of hers - I haven't discovered a finer critic of internalised racism before or since. Michael Jackson -rest his soul- bought it to mind recently. I must re-visit it.
I love the way she refers to gender&race as these 'little divisions', which in truth they are, but from a lesser mortal would sound somewhat contrite.
I've just started 'A Mercy' - Wonderful.
Me too, the part about wisdom really got me. It is true, it's not necessarily something age gives you, I've seen children with it too.
Toni Morrison is so well-spoken and well-thought. She has the wisdom quality she so values! Thank you for sharing this video.
Wow, this conversation of 6 mins seemed like 2 minutes, a really intelligent woman.
She's stayed true to her craft. I think that's one thing that has, at this point in her career, set her apart.
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love 💚 , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Frank Lange from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask?
she is so wonderful, everything about her is.
I adore her. Toni you are so missed. Her books are wonderful. I wish James Baldwin was here too. Two great human beings so wise.❤️🌈
The topic in and of itself is original as there is relatively little written about it, she conveys the msg in an excellent manner, her writing often reads like poetry.She has been inspiration to me as an aspiring writer since I was 16..I grew up in Scotland but when I spent a year in America I seen for myself the preoccupation in some black communities with "good hair, pretty eyes..and lightskin".Toni Morrison-I applaud you for speaking out on this issue!
I can’t believe she’s gone.
I disagree with her about the confidence young black women have nowadays. I understand it's meant to be a positive thing, and I agree that it has improved since the 70s. But a long of young black women are still lost, insecure, self-hating. I think the difference is that a lot of people are able to portray a different online persona and a different face -- but they are not being true to themselves. Also, nowadays it is not fashionable to be vulnerable so of course people don't reveal that they are really in a lot of pain.
kiitos
I miss the old Poland Spring bottle shape
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I watch so much trash, it's so weird watching someone intelligent.
they are effective in the context of the work itself and nothing else. the point i am trying to make is that since the same issues are continuely discussed in a variety of fashions, the execution of The Bluest Eye, for example, becomes unsuccessfully when taken with her other works, like Beloved. And I believe that my opinions of her as an author is entirely relevant to how she creates her work and thus, what her work represents.
She must grow tiresome of the question which implies her racism in both her writing and her life choices. I have seen her be asked this question many a time and with always the same intelligent answer.
@Nickydickyy sooooo true! lol
love the book song of solomon so i did a monologue check it out
@licatoa5947 The issue of racial self hatred in the black community was given some much needed attention by the bluest eye. As Morrisson said,she wrote a book on a topic that she wanted to read about, as a black female I applaud her on this..stereotypes or not, she so adequately captures the heart of the issue and inspires dialogue, and internal reflection on the part of the reader who allows themselves to be stirred in such a way...
check out my Toni's Morrison Monologue / The Song of Solomon - Guitar by melissa kalinsky
LOL!!! I read Song of Solomon in high school and I just thought it was weird...I didn't think it "illustrated the thoughts and feelings of young black men"...AND I WAS A YOUNG BLACK MAN. Thank you for telling me how I feel.
@NiceGirl024
What if said voter endorses the candidate because they are black?
@ licatoa5947 maybe her characters are metaphor but they r not unoriginal. & they capture the truth. remember that writers are like prophets. they must intensify the issues to attract the attention of people for starters, & then this intensity is justified. 2nd, i' m white & i don' t think being white or black really matters in u.s politics, politician do what they want to do , but just for the sake of argument :
we had 200 years of white presidents, 4 years for a black don' t kill us.
yes they are unoriginal. i want to specifiy that i don't think that detracts from the beauty of the works in their own contexts. I found The Bluest Eye to be absolutely beautiful UNTIL i read Song of Solomon and my favorite of hers, Beloved. Once I was introduced some of her other works, I noticed that she employs the same character archs and themes in her works, that though effective in the realm of their own works, soon become old and unoriginal when looked at in the entirety of her works.
Where I agree that her metaphors are unoriginal, her execution of them is quite effective. Also, any good critic ought to distance their opinions of an author from their work.
she does intensify the issues beautifully in beloved, and i believe executes them the best and most originally in that work, but when she does the same thing again and again in every novel which has to relate in every way to the alienation of the black race, etc etc, it disappoints my expectation for her range as an artist. in relation to the politics, my only point is the sad irony that suddenly people like morrison step out to support a black president who had he not been, she wouldn't have.
I liked the part about wisdom and not voting for Barack Obama because he's black: "We have a black Supreme Court justice -- [dismissive] yeah."
Ubathande abantu abakuthandayo ukuza bangaze bakulibale noba ungasekho 🧠
beloved aside, she stereotypes in the bluest eye and song of solomon. while SHE believes the characters reflect the greater african american race, they really don't accurately capture the truth - just the spirit. they are unoriginal metaphors of struggle and prejudice. beloved, however, is on a completely different level. and as for the obama thing, if he was white I doubt she would've backed him with the same vision. i wonder what oprah and morrison think now after he hasn't done shit
Wow. Very well said. However she is wrong about one thing, wisdom comes from age and living. I doubt very much that President-elect has copious wisdom. Would it be so horrible if she simply said that she agrees with his politics?
no she isn't. listen again.