pleased to have with us toni morrison for in-depth conversation about her life s work. toni morrison, as he began, i ve seen several citations that you told people that it s 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, women s 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 i m a writer and they go together. you ve also always been a teacher. yes. why is that important to who you are and what you do? edit quite know
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