The Life Work And Quotes Of Toni Morrison

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The Life Work And Quotes Of Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorrain, Ohio in 1931. Great People And Places collects some information about this great personality. Toni Morrison a premier contemporary American novelist, chronicles the African- American experience.

Morrison has written six novels.

1- The Bluest Eye
2- Song of Solomon
3- Sula
4- Tar Baby
5- Beloved
6- Jazz

Jazz has collected nearly every major literary prize. Ms. Morrison received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "Song and Solomon". In 1987, "Beloved" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her body of work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Jazz published in 1992, Morrison continues her theme of giving a voice to the voiceless. Once again she does everything she can to stretch the imagination.

She won many awards. Some are here.

In 1988, she won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 1993, she won Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2000, she won National Humanities Medal.
In 2012, she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Toni Morrison's Famous Quotes

1- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

(Toni Morrison)

2- Love is never better than the lover.

(Toni Morrison)

3- The function of freedom is to free someone else.

(Toni Morrison)

4- Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

(Toni Morrison)

5- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh down.

(Toni Morrison)