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‘They shoot the White girl first’: Toni Morrison’s opening line from ‘Paradise’ first hooks, then haunts

June 07, 2025 2:30 pm

Drawing a line: The title, Paradise, suggests an idyll, a promised land—but Morrison obliterates that expectation before the first paragraph ends.

'I have a place that's mine': Toni Morrison on the lesson she learnt at 80

May 19, 2022 3:19 pm

"I know that what is alive for me, and I have a place that is mine. That's my work."

Explained: US school reinstated Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' following protests. What gave?

March 03, 2022 10:56 am

A Missouri school board has reinstated Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in its curriculum following protests. But book bans and challenges still remain on the rise in the US.

You are your own stories: Toni Morrison

December 29, 2020 5:07 pm

She concluded with a profound advice. "I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art."

Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade

September 29, 2020 12:59 pm

The list is based on news reports and on accounts submitted from libraries and others in the local community, although the ALA believes many challenges go unreported.

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The Legacy of Toni Morrison

August 18, 2019 6:20 am

The Nobel laureate, who died last week, dug deep into the issues of race, gender, freedom and power through her writings.

'We die. That may be the meaning of life': Toni Morrison

August 08, 2019 5:27 pm

In 1993, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature and her speech remains relevant, with every revisit.

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Dearly Beloved

August 08, 2019 1:05 am

Posterity will remember Toni Morrison as a polyphonic poet who wrote in prose

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Toni Morrison, a writer of many gifts who bent language to her will

August 07, 2019 9:47 am

Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, where her father was a welder, Morrison wrote her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” while raising two children alone. She woke every morning at 4 a.m. to write.