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8/9/2019

Remembering Toni Morrison

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Although GOFAD has taken the month off  from posting its weekly blogs , we felt it essential to honour the memory of one of the greatest writers of our time The Utube link truly reflects the impact of Toni Morrison: the Magician of Language  ​

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Duke Lambert
8/10/2019 06:09:28 am

Thanks, Eddie, really appreciated. She was an inspiration to and for me. Best to you and family.

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Sylvan Alleyne link
8/11/2019 05:24:38 am

This is wonderful. I will forward it to so many of my friends who love literature.

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Denese
8/12/2019 07:54:28 am

This was worth watching, very inspiring.

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Missouri Sherman-Peters
8/13/2019 03:16:13 pm

Dear Eddie,

Thank you so much for sharing this piece on Toni Morrison, a woman of letters that contributed so much to the appreciation of black history, literature and culture.

interestingly, my family cites itself as "being on the road with Toni" (quote from my older brother) . She went to Howard University, where three of my brothers went. She was at Cornell University, where my son studied. She taught at Princeton University, from which my daughter graduated. My daughter was a Chemistry Major, but insisted on taking a course with Toni Morrison, and did take that course. She remembered and spoke fondly of her pride in taking that course, especially when she heard of Ms Morrison's death.

Toni Morrison leaves the world with much to be proud of as a black woman who raised consciousness globally about her people, their struggles, their courage, their legacy and their contribution to initiatives to make the world a better place.

Kind regards,
Missouri

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Beverly Pereira
8/15/2019 07:40:40 am

Thanks for sharing this Eddie. We celebrate this great woman and give thanks that she was among us.
Bev Pereira

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Peggy Ann David
8/16/2019 06:49:35 am

Eddie and Aurie thank you for the visual. Tony Morrison will be missed by not only students of literature but the rest of the global reading population. She had a way with words. The New Yorker magazine in a postscript on “Words and Wounds” (August 19, 2019) captured the essence of her paradigm. She said that language could be used for good and evil. She was a political writer who sensed “the arrival of a troubling era,” just days after the 2016 election. (The New Yorker Magazine 8/19/2019). I will miss her voice. She is gone but will never be forgotten because of the body of knowledge she has left on earth. Professor Morrison - Rest in Eternal Peace.

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