28 Jan On This Day February 18th 1931 Toni Morrison was Born
Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
– Jazz by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated authors in the world. In addition to writing plays, and children’s books, her novels have earned her countless prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
As the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Morrison’s work has inspired a generation of writers to follow in her footsteps.
In 2000, she was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. Morrison also wrote children’s books with her son until his death at 45 years old. Two years later, Morrison published the last book they were working on together and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in that same month.
Source : National Women’s History Museum
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Song of Solomon
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Beloved
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined
Beloved
You are your best thing
Beloved
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