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Toni Morrison Talks About Her Motivation For Writing

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Uploaded on Dec 4, 2008

In celebration of her new book, "A Mercy," NVLP presents this 2004 clip of Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison speaking about her motivation for writing. To see more oral history interview clips with Toni Morrison, visit: http://www.visionaryproject.org/morri...

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  • sparxes02

    sparxes02 4 years ago

    good interview! Toni Morrison just emits wisdom. Are there other parts to this interview?

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    visionaryproject 4 years ago

    you can view more of Toni Morrison's clips by following the link in the description.

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  • ihatetilatequila

    ihatetilatequila 3 years ago

    she is my rolemodel!!!

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  • Eurafrican

    Eurafrican 3 years ago

    have read Sula, Beloved and am reading A Mercy rite now...

    Will definitely out her other worlds; she presents race issues in a way every author should- as part of a larger world.

    Love it all.

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  • Douglas Jackson

    Douglas Jackson 1 day ago

    The problem is racism white supremacy. Stop racism today

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  • blaiqangel

    blaiqangel 3 months ago

    She is my favorite writer. She and Nikki Giovanni are just amazing.

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  • Tara A. Abydos-Harris

    Tara A. Abydos-Harris 5 months ago

    She's incredible!

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  • elleykelly

    elleykelly 5 months ago

    She said that her motivation for writing was that she didn't want a piece of reality to be forgotten. Black isn't always beautiful. It can be ugly. It can hurt. That's was her motivation.

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  • Erin Parker

    Erin Parker 5 months ago

    Want to have some motivation? John David will help you in a step by step process, he changed my life and I was earning a lot of money through Proper Income Dot Com.

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  • GlamourGirlMejor30

    GlamourGirlMejor30 5 months ago

    Love this woman!

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  • Bonitaymorena

    Bonitaymorena 8 months ago

    Ohh so you're going to conveniently forgot about how Aboriginal people are treated in our country. What the nice prejudice-free Canadians did to them??

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