Toni Morrison interview on "Jazz" (1993) 

Manufacturing Intellect : I followed you the second that got ‘online ‘. Thank you for posting this. I never would’ve thought that, in 2019, I would be so wound up in South America’s separation of people by how white/ brown/ ‘black’ their skin is, much less in the USA. I think it’s healthy to leave the everyday horrific nature of it... and just...hear someone talk ABOUT it. It’s good to re-realize the strangeness of it all. Thank you for this post. 🌹 I will absolutely donate to your excellent you tube account.

@@subversivelysurreal3645 Thank you so much!

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Marius Jackson She is my favorite author. 😊

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MotherSister Morrison I love that ❤️

Happy Lindsay 😊 your words are poetic.. ❤

It took me awhile. And I'm still shock over Sula!!! That was so deep!

dante king : 💯

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No no, still she is beautiful & she will be forever, her voice, her soft talking, her smartness, I love it all, May God bless her..

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My thoughts exactly.... I was watching videos on RU-vid until I came across your lovely profile. How are you doing?

She was not ahead of her time, she was in her time. And these problems she confronts are have persisted through time. Her words are not prophecy simply because we're dealing with the same racial inequality and injustice and violence even 30 years later. They're merely tragic because, as she says. we never listen and we never deal with the discomfort of confronting ourselves and our systems earnestly, honestly, or for long enough to shift the culture toward real equality. She says in Beloved, "Because the white man don't know when to stop." Pray this is the moment where that "absence of heart" is remedied. I pray ours is the moment where the white men, like myself, stop. Stop and lay what evil we will find in ourselves and in our systems all the way down.

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She just passed away the other day

She passed on 8/5/19. It was announced the next day. I'm truly heart broken like the country is not ready to be without her.

K H : I miss her...💔 She’s not here with us anymore.

No you can’t.

You gotta hand it to him, he kept his clothes on during the whole interview.

She may have misspoken; she may have not. The truth is, however, that most literature has a specific audience & not every writer can write for everyone who wants to read because in order to do that, too much context would have to be narrow-or be lost altogether. That’s too...elementary school. 1. I’ve read, for example, the Mein Kampf-which clearly was only written for people who believed in Nazi ideology; nevertheless, it’s important to read for everyone in order to reveal the mindset that damaged the world in a historically fundamental way. 2. The Bible is written for believers alone, or people who might become believers of that religion. Because if God is omniscient (all-knowing), then God knows-as implied in the bottle-that many or most people will not be believers, therefore by default the Bible is not for unbelievers. So even God (in that context) has an audience. 3. Shakespeare is the greatest writer ever & his works are known all around the world, yet even he had an audience & wasn’t writing for everyone. How do I know that? Because he could not have foreseen the eventual reach of his work, & he often uses characters & settings in other countries, but every character speaks English. Shakespeare’s work was for the English people of that time, speaking that incarnation of the English language, not anyone else. 4. I’ve read the Malleus Maleficarum-which is a 15th century manual written specifically for witch hunters. But it’s important to read for everyone because it explains a powerful superstition of the past that resulted in the gruesome murders of so many Europeans during the burning times. 5. It was important for Toni Morrison to have black people as her audience because once upon a time, there was no literature for blacks whatsoever because it was illegal for blacks to read or to even know HOW to read. Her books have a context that black people automatically understand because of a universal experience in America that almost no other group has. If someone ONLY reads what’s written for everybody, that’s someone who is blind to other mindsets that have a good or bad effect/influence/result in the world-which is dangerous. If someone ONLY reads what’s written for everybody, that’s a selective browser, but NOT a reader.

Is it because you can't stand not being the audience and the center of attention?

@@piscesgroovesupreme well i'm black..i just don't think any kind of art should be exclusive to one race or group. that's what beautiful in art it's touches different people from all races.