Toni Morrrison is everything. I've taught her books so many times. But more than that, her words sit with me, touchstones. When images from her books come to me, they give me solid ground to reach toward ethical, beautiful compassion. Images and characters and moments from Beloved live in the back of my mind always. I read about teen girls locked up in Texas hieleras with their premie newborn and I can see Beloved's birth and death and haunting play out in my mind. I read The Bluest Eye when I was still a child, so young I don't remember it well, but it's still there. It's the reason, the reason behind my big choices about who I let into my life, what I choose to do with my life. I studied literature because she wrote literature. A set of Toni Morrison's books: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Paradise, Playing in the Dark, Home, A Mercy [/caption] If you do one thing, if you want to read something today or hear her voice, look up her Nobel prize acceptance speech. Let ...
Feminism - Unschooling - Neurodiversity - Radical Compassion