"Toni Morrison speaking at 'A Tribute to Chinua Achebe'" by Angela Radulescu is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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Toni Morison from California Newsreel
This program introduces one of the greatest contemporary American authors: winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, "a literary Moses stripping away the idols of whiteness and blackness that have prevented blacks from knowing themselves. Readings from Beloved and Jazz show how she returns to the pain of slavery and segregation to restore wholeness to the black psyche. "The past," Morrison says, "is more infinite than the future.. It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it, that paralyzes growth
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Toni Morrison On Capturing A Mother's "Compulsion" To Nurture In "Beloved" / NewsHour Productions LLC
To remember Toni Morrison, the PBS NewsHour unearthed this 1987 interview with the celebrated American author.
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Toni Morrison Uncensored
In this compelling program, world-renowned author Toni Morrison candidly answers questions regarding how she became a writer, the pain of empathizing with her characters, the sensual nature of her novels, and how it felt to win the Nobel Prize. In addition, she pulls no punches discussing how she first became aware of her racial otherness, how writing for a black audience has kept her work from becoming derivative, the societal uses of racism, and how racism leads to barbarism when individuals abdicate their humanity. (30 minutes)
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Toni Morrison: Writer's work
Toni Morrison exists in two worlds: the visible world, bustling around her, and the world of her novels, whose characters tell about an interior reality hidden from the eyes of strangers. In her work, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has transported millions of readers into the experience of being black in America and confronting the realities of race. In this program with Bill Moyers, Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, the power of love, and how the invented world of fiction connects to life
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Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture (1993)
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
