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Relevant to the moment we’re in - and any hard times still to come - she offers up both an invitation and an invocation for the power of vulnerability to transform our relationships and ourselves: “For our sake and yours forget your name in the street tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. It was in this speech that she first uttered the words, “We die.
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It is, from beginning to end, chock full of the gorgeous, sugar-spun prose that the Nobel Prize judges noted when deciding to award the prize to Morrison, “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”
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It is a slim 10 pages, available as a digital download and it is a powerful meditation on why we read, why writers write, and why it matters.
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If, like so many of us, you’ve found the anxiety-ridden free time of the pandemic not exactly conducive to deep reading, I’d start with her Nobel Lecture in Literature. If you’re new to her work, or haven’t read her in a long while, here are some thoughts about where to start. Creatively, Toni Morrison set a large and lavish table of literature.
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To read Toni Morrison is to know that from her brilliant opening lines to the stunning last pages that leave you shook that you will likely never match her wit and wisdom, but what joy there is in trying!Īs someone who had the privilege of interviewing her several times over the last decade of her life, I think I can say with confidence that she wanted all of us - intellectuals and romance readers, book club aficionados and those of us who binge TV more than books - to get in where we fit in. But I think it also applies to readers, her readers in particular, the millions of people around the world who have read and re-read her books. She was talking, ostensibly, about writing and writers. Passion is never enough, neither is skill. In her Nobel Prize speech, she famously said, “We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. One of the greatest joys of Toni Morrison’s work is knowing that you will never get it all on the first read. In the best of her 11 novels … she transmuted the basic matter of existence into profound works of art.” She filtered folklore, biblical rhythms, dreams, choral voices and a steep awareness of history into her work. Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page.
As Dwight Garner wrote when she died in 2019, “Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will.
She was, and will remain for lifetimes to come, one of the finest writers to craft narrative in the English language.
She won the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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She was also a masterful crafter of windows when you opened a book of hers, the worlds you entered were so rich with detail, you could feel the molecules around you change as if you’d just taken a long flight and were descending onto the tarmac in a town or city where you’d never been. One might say that because her characters were almost exclusively African-American, the quest to be free - in mind, body and spirit - was the consistent adventure. In everything Morrison wrote, she offered narratives that revealed the journeys of characters, specific but universal, flawed and imperfect, with a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure. The questions she asked in a 2002 lecture seem wholly relevant now, almost 20 years later: “To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do?” As we approach the anniversary of a global pandemic that has changed our lives in every way, it seems a fine time to dive back into the world of Toni Morrison. Februwould have been Toni Morrison’s 90th birthday.
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