"How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. ... The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting:

<<I AM NOT A BEAST! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak. >>

The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference."

Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
#ToniMorrison #TheOriginOfOthers #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #Colonialism

The Truth of Toni Morrison

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/the-truth-of-toni-morrison

Born this day: 02/18/1931 (d. 08/05/2019)
Toni Morrison was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose work explored Black American life with lyrical intensity. Her novels, including "Beloved," "Song of Solomon," and "The Bluest Eye," redefined the American literary canon, fusing mythic resonance with psychological realism to confront the inherited trauma of slavery and memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

#Literature #books #bookstodon #coverart #ToniMorrison
@books

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Happy birthday to #ToniMorrison, acclaimed novelist and the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1990, Morrison sat down with #BillMoyers on “A World of Ideas” to discuss literature, life, and love.

Watch the full interview in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-d3ceb8f9079

“Don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand.” — Toni Morrison, Sula
#BOTD #ToniMorrison #QUotation #Quote #QOTD #accountability #consequences #provocation

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/quote-of-the-day-5433/

#BlackHistoryMonth #ToniMorrison

Wenn du nur #groß sein kannst, weil andere auf den Knien sind, dann ist das ein #Problem.
(Toni #Morrison)
#psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate #Größe #ToniMorrison

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‘She dared to be difficult’: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/15/she-dared-to-be-difficult-how-toni-morrison-shaped-the-way-we-think?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ToniMorrison

#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth

"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.

Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."

Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArts

Listen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/

#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio

Literary Hub » Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America
https://lithub.com/toni-morrison-on-what-flannery-oconnors-short-fiction-reveals-about-race-in-america/
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#FlanneryO_Connor

What's on your reading list for 2026? Here's LitHub's list of all the books to look forward to, including works from Ibram X. Kendi and Jeanette Winterson, the long-awaited third novel from Min Jin Lee, and a new collection of Toni Morrison's Princeton lectures on Black characters in American literature.

https://flip.it/UKOWNi

#Books #Bookstodon #Literature #Fiction #NonFiction #ToniMorrison

Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold). ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

A mildly subversive gift guide: 10 banned books for curious and rebellious US readers https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/dec/21/banned-books-gift-ideas-guide #GiftideasfromtheFilterUS #IsabelAllende #Lifeandstyle #ToniMorrison #MayaAngelou #AliceWalker #USbookbans #JudyBlume #Culture #Books

"The forces interested in fascist solutions to national problems are not to be found in one political party or another, or in one or another wing of any single political party.

... the genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power."

#ToniMorrison, 1995

https://inthesetimes.com/article/toni-morrison-peril-racism-fascism-liberation-black-women-writers

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#fascism

"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or ever remember it. It is enough." ~ #ToniMorrison

"I’m not a victim. I refuse to be one… if you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem and they should start thinking about what they can do about it. Take me out of it." – #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison (Beloved)

#quote #tonimorrison #freedom #self