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Toni Morrison on identity

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Toni Morrison on Language, Evil and ‘the White Gaze’

Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013, for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

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2013
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God Help the Child: A Novel

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love.

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2016
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The Bluest Eye: A Novel

In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.

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2007
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