85th birthday of Toni Morrison

(Born 18 February 1931, Lorain, Ohio, US)

One of the United States’s preeminent writers – novelist, academic, essayist, editor, commentator, winner of 1992 Nobel prize for literature

“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another” (Toni Morrison)

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it” (Toni Morrison) 

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