Toni Morrison
American Novelist
| Date of Birth | : | 18 Feb, 1931 |
| Date of Death | : | 05 Aug, 2019 |
| Place of Birth | : | Lorain, Ohio, United States |
| Profession | : | Novelist, Poet |
| Nationality | : | American |
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
