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Happy birthday to one of our favorite writers — Ohio-born Toni Morrison (1931), born Chloe Anthony Wofford, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993) and the Pulitzer (1987). The best way to celebrate? Read some Morrison today… “I think long and carefully about what my novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.” —Toni Morrison

Happy birthday to one of our favorite writers — Ohio-born Toni Morrison (1931), born Chloe Anthony Wofford, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993) and the Pulitzer (1987). The best way to celebrate? Read some Morrison today…

“I think long and carefully about what my novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.”
—Toni Morrison

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On June 5, 2012, 14 writers will be inducted into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame… Noted authors Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, and Pete Hamill are among the 14 writers in the 2012 Class of Inductees into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame. The four will be in attendance at the induction on June 5, 2012, at the Princeton Club of New York. The announcement was made last night at the Forbes Gallery in New York City by Robert L. Forbes, who serves on the board of the Empire State Center for the Book. The Center for the Book is the organization that oversees the Hall of Fame. Ten deceased writers including John Cheever, Richard Wright, Barbara Tuchman, Kurt Vonnegut, Washington Irving, Hart Crane, Edna Ferber, Mary McCarthy, Henry James, and Marianne Moore will also be inducted. Read more here.

On June 5, 2012, 14 writers will be inducted into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame…

Noted authors Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, and Pete Hamill are among the 14 writers in the 2012 Class of Inductees into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame. The four will be in attendance at the induction on June 5, 2012, at the Princeton Club of New York. The announcement was made last night at the Forbes Gallery in New York City by Robert L. Forbes, who serves on the board of the Empire State Center for the Book. The Center for the Book is the organization that oversees the Hall of Fame. Ten deceased writers including John Cheever, Richard Wright, Barbara Tuchman, Kurt Vonnegut, Washington Irving, Hart Crane, Edna Ferber, Mary McCarthy, Henry James, and Marianne Moore will also be inducted.

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“I’m already discredited. I’m already politicised, before I get out of the gate. I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.” —Toni Morrison (when asked if she found it limiting to be described as a black woman writer)

“I’m already discredited. I’m already politicised, before I get out of the gate. I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”

—Toni Morrison (when asked if she found it limiting to be described as a black woman writer)

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Rebekka’s understanding of God was faint,except as a larger kind of king,but she quieted the shame of insufficient devotion by assuming that He could be no grander nor better than the imagination of the believer.Shallow believers preferred a shallow god .The timid enjoyed a rampaging avenging god.” —A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

Rebekka’s understanding of God was faint,except as a larger kind of king,but she quieted the shame of insufficient devotion by assuming that He could be no grander nor better than the imagination of the believer.Shallow believers preferred a shallow god .The timid enjoyed a rampaging avenging god.”
—A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

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“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it. And I said, But, Daddy, no ones going to see it! And he said, Yeah, but I know it’s there.”—Toni Morrison

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it. And I said, But, Daddy, no ones going to see it! And he said, Yeah, but I know it’s there.”
—Toni Morrison

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