Toni Morrison: An icon.
It’s not often that some of the greatest creators of our time, no matter their artistic medium, are given the opportunity to tell the intimate details of their ascent. Fortunately for us, the new documentary about Toni Morrison,, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, provides intimate and intriguing insights into the world of one of the most influential, boundary-pushing writers alive.
The film features Ms. Morrison herself, and a few very influential colleagues and friends, including Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Fran Lebowitz, and Oprah Winfrey, reflecting on Morrison's life, upbringing, and the constant sources of incidents and inspiration that helped transform her career as an English professor into a Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the best cultural interpreters of Black American life.
“In spite of [Sula’s] richness and its thorough originality, one continually feels its narrowness, its refusal to brim over into the world outside its provincial setting,” wrote Blackburn. But Morrison was never bothered by criticism; she often brushed it off, responding, “I didn’t want to speakBlack people — I wanted to speak to and among them. So the first thing I had to do was eliminate the white gaze. [Critics responded] as if [Black] lives have no depth or meaning without white [existence].
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