Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
East. Its been less than three weeks since two Mass Shootings that killed 31 people. Already it seems momentum hear meaningful changes to gun laws is fading. A source confirms President Trump told nra chief Wayne Lapierre that universal background checks are, quote, off the table. The source says there is more emphasis on passing red flag laws, allowing people to ask a daughter intervene if a court to intervene if they see warning signs. A senior official tried to downplay the president s comments to lapierre saying he was only talking about universal checks. Yesterday the president himself downplayed any hopes of changes to background checks. We have very, very strong background checks right now. But we have sort of missing areas and areas that dont complete the whole circle, looking at different things. And i have to tell you that it is a mental problem, and ive said it 100 times, its not the gun that pulls the trigger, its the person that pulls the trigger. Well, that doesnt jibe wi
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