Toni Morrison: On Writing The Bluest Eye

Below is a wonderful interview of Toni Morrison describing the motivation behind writing The Bluest Eye.

If you've ever read this book you know that Morrison is a great writer able to create incredible sentences with a sense of song and poetry and truth, even from her earliest work.

In celebration of her new book, "A Mercy," NVLP presents this 2004 clip of Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison speaking about her motivation for writing. To see more oral history interview clips with Toni Morrison, visit: http://www.visionaryproject.org/morrisontoni


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