For me it’s extremely important for the clarification not only of the past, but of who we are as human beings in this country.” “I was editing a book at Random House. I’m trying to write less that means more, that says more. Never would have been.” “Well, you know, I’m trying not to write just because I can or just write more.

Morrison.” “This is fabulous.” “Yes - never would have been one without you. From ‘Song of Solomon’ to ‘Beloved,’ Toni reaches us deeply, using a tone that is lyrical, precise, distinct and inclusive.” “There would never have been a book club had there not been you as an author.” “Really?” “No. And I was eager to read about a story where racism really hurts and can destroy you.” “You don’t think you will ever change and write books that incorporate white - white lives into them substantially?” “I have done.” “In a substantial way?” “You can’t understand how powerfully racist that question is, can you? As you could never ask a white author: ‘When are you going to write about black people?’” “Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt. Every little homely, black girl was a joke or didn’t exist in literature. At the very beginning, when I wrote the first book, ‘The Bluest Eye,’ I came at it as not a writer, but a reader.

“I didn’t discover why I wrote really until later. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and best known for her nuanced discussion of race in America. Transcript ‘It Is My World’: Remembering Toni Morrison, Iconic Author of the Black Experience The author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88.

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