#ToniMorrisson “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” ― Toni Morrison ( February 18, 1931-- August 6, 2019) ------------------------------- Saddened by the demise of Toni Morrison Amazing author who unashamedly refused to make whiteness and white dominance in her writing and was a really amazing soul, an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Morrison wrote the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. There is never a Good-Bye Toni Morrison, there is always a 'see you later' in the Kingdom. Your Name will be etched in the golden words of Herstory/History of the Subaltern oppressed of the world. #RestInPower #RiseinParadise #BlueSalute #BlackSalute. #KeepTheDreamAlive Obed Manwatkar https://www.instagram.com/p/B0009LpFUW9T3o-D-YP91r4y74Pdi3kZqFdRuw0/?igshid=134hnm95gaskl
