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An inspiration engine for ideas
The summer that author Toni Morrison died, I went on a binge-read of her majestic novels and essays. For years, she had been a beacon for me: a truth teller, a way finder, a culture changer. A woman who bore witness to her own experience and courageously told her story.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Toni Morrison told a truer narrative, and in doing so the meager foundations of Western storytelling began to crumble.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Morrison’s novels are all motivated by an idea: some complex knotty inquiry that she could work through in the space of a novel. As Morrison described it, the idea for Beloved began when she read a newspaper article about Margaret Garner—a 19th-century woman who fled slavery with her children. Facing capture, Garner killed one of her children and t... See more
Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
if I had to narrow down the greatest gratitude of my university years, it would be reading Toni Morrison—specifically, reading Beloved. Perhaps more than any other text, Beloved made me the person I am. It’s the book that altered my personal and creative DNA.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
