“She is the voice in consciousness of America who provokes us to become better, to look at the horrors of our past so that we might have a better future.”
'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'
"The idea for a novel about a black girl made to feel so ugly by the culture around her that she prays for blue eyes, came out of an encounter Morrison had as a child. A fellow classmate confided to her the same dream of blue eyes, which, even as a 12-year-old, struck Morrison as grotesquely self-loathing. She remembered it. "I wanted to know how she got to that place.""
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/13/toni-morrison-home-son-love# A super interview with Toni Morrison where she expands on being a single mother, the death of her son and love.
I really like Toni Morrison's books and the topics that she tackles in her work. I do not feel as though I am going to choose her for this brief however, as I do not feel as though I can comment on the subjects that she deals with. I do not feel as though I have enough life experience or wisdom to try and eventually illustrate something of such weight. Death of a son, growing up in a world rife with racism (and being directly affected by it) is something that I can only try to understand.
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