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To honour #ToniMorrison, several pieces have been published and videos shared to remind us that she insisted on centering Black women and not the white gaze. Those pieces & clips have either not been by Black Women or were about the white haze. So, a few essays by Black women
“It is not hyperbolic to call Toni Morrison the greatest figure in American letters. After all, she made the world pay rapt attention to the interior lives of Black women — ordinary, struggling Black women — to care about our imaginations and hearts.” thecut.com/2019/08/yearni…
“It is too seldom acknowledged that the greatest novelist this country has ever produced was a single black mother. She had two sons...and how many daughters? If...mothering is to broker the link between two generations, then what else can she be?“ newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
