'She made me understand 'writer' was a fine profession,' Shonda Rhimes says of Toni Morrison. 'I grew up wanting to be only her.'
Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such titles as"Beloved" and"The Bluest Eye," died Monday night, her publicist and family confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday.The cause of death was not immediately revealed, but her family said she had"a short illness" and Morrison had been at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York at the time of her death, her publicist said.
"Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningful—a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy," he wrote."She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. And so even as Michelle and I mourn her loss and send our warmest sympathies to her family and friends, we know that her stories—that our stories—will always be with us, and with those who come after, and on and on, for all time.
She made me understand“writer” was a fine profession. I grew up wanting to be only her. Dinner with her was a night I will never forget. Rest, Queen. “Toni Morrison, seminal author who stirringly chronicled the Black American experience, dies” https://t.co/S6qxix5OCj “If you look at the world as a brutal game, then you bump into the mystery of the tree-shaped scar. There seems to be such a thing as grace, such a thing as beauty, such a thing as harmony. All of which are wholly free and available to us.” Your life was our gift, #ToniMorrison pic.twitter.com/wcD7w9zKYp
"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." -Toni Morrison“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” – Toni Morrison Toni Morrison. While you have left the physical realm, the many treasures you left us will bear fruit for generations and generations. Your work has cascaded through my life deeply and simply...rest in power to a beloved icon. pic.twitter.com/YQPS3gR5MlToni Morrison’s words cut through ignorance and deception like a hot knife through butter. Her legacy lives on in the millions of brown girls and boys she inspired to pick up a pen and tell the truth. pic.twitter.
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