Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She was also commissioned to write the...
National Book Award for Fiction, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, International Dublin Literary Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's
Movies
Beloved, A Moment in Time: Conversations with Legendary Women: African American Women of Achievement
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[referring to Bill Clinton]this is our first "black" President. "Blacker" than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of "blackness": single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
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On truth: Not knowing was hard; knowing was harder.
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On mothering: A daughter is a woman that cares about where she came from and takes care of them that took care of her.
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On mothering: Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
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On love: Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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On personal power: A grown woman did not need safety or its dreams. She was the safety she longed for.
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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
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She was inducted in the 2007 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her services to literature.
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She is an inaugural nominee for the 2007 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her services to literature.
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Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005
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Honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
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Graduated from Lorain High School, Lorain, Ohio, Class of 1949
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
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Won a Pulitzer Prize for _Beloved_ and a National Book Critics Circle award for _Song of Solomon_.
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Is a graduate of Howard and Cornell universities.
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Is the granddaughter of a slave.
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Previously worked as a book editor at Random House in New York.
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Is a professor of humanities at Princeton University.
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Has 2 sons.
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The first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Oprah Winfrey Show
1998
TV Series 1 episode
Beloved
1998
novel
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beloved
1998
writer: "Little Rice, Little Bean", "Sethe's Lullaby"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Minstrel Man
1977
TV Movie script consultant
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Public Speaking
2010
Documentary very special thanks
Beloved
1998
grateful acknowledgment
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Scales of Injustice
2012
Documentary post-production
Herself
Imagine
2015
TV Series documentary
Herself
Charlie Rose
2000-2015
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The Colbert Report
2014
TV Series
Herself
Les Carnets de route de François Busnel
2011
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Oprah Winfrey Show
2000-2011
TV Series
Herself
La grande librairie
2009
TV Series
Herself
A Benefit Performance for Barack Obama featuring Toni Morrison
2009
Video
Herself
Tavis Smiley
2008
TV Series
Herself
The Black List: Volume One
2008
Documentary
Herself
Legends Ball
2006
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Live from Lincoln Center
2005
TV Series
Herself
American Masters
2002
TV Series documentary
Herself
60 Minutes
2001
TV Series documentary
Herself - Professor, Princeton University (segment "President Simmons")
Princeton: Images of a University
1996
Documentary
Herself
The South Bank Show
1981
TV Series documentary
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Charlie Rose
2015
TV Series
Herself - Guest
Public Speaking
2010
Documentary
60 Minutes
2001-2003
TV Series documentary
Herself - Writer / Herself - Professor, Princeton University (segment "President Simmons")
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1993
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize
"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential ... More
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