![]() So I began to write it and it took forever. “The very first book I wrote, called The Bluest Eye, I was not really thinking about publishing or reviewers or other readers, it was a book I wanted to read and I couldn’t find it anywhere. Toni Morrison speaks about her first book, The Bluest Eye (1988) Those writers who could assume the centrality of their race. And the people who helped me the most were African writers: Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head. And I’ve tried my whole writing life to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. “ as though our lives have no meaning and no depth without the white gaze. Toni Morrison Answers an “Illegitimate” Question on Race Hit play and soak in her knowledge and wisdom. Morrison was the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, for “novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” We’ve pieced together a collection of some of her best interviews. The author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Jazz won both a Nobel and Pulitzer prize for her fiction and was the giant of African American literature. Toni Morrison, the African-American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University, died at the age of 88. ![]()
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