Kamala Harris, Shonda Rhimes, Stacey Abrams and others remember trailblazing author Toni Morrison (via CNBCMakeIt)
Toni Morrison attends the Carl Sandburg literary awards dinner at the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on October 20, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois.Trailblazing author, essayist and educator Toni Morrison died Monday night at the age of 88, herMorrison published her first book, "The Bluest Eye," at 39. She credited the late Maya Angelou with inspiring her to become a writer. "Maya Angelou helped me without her knowing it,"in a 1998 interview.
In 1993, Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. "I decided that ... winning the [Nobel] prize was fabulous," Morrison said, according to. "Nobody was going to take that and make it into something else. I felt representational. I felt American. I felt Ohioan. I felt blacker than ever. I felt more woman than ever. I felt all of that, and put all of that together and went out and had a good time.
Morrison earned a bachelor's degree in English from Howard University in 1953 and a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. She taught at Texas Southern University, Howard University and laterMany, including Sen. Kamala Harris, Shonda Rhimes and Stacey Abrams, took to Twitter Tuesday morning to share how they will remember the legendary author.
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