Black History Month: Toni Morrison
Jersey Is Naked would like to honor Toni Morrison. Her contributions to the literary world makes me proud to be African-American.
She is arguably America’s preeminent woman of letters, a novelist whose stories pulse with vibrant ideas and indelible characters — notably, her 1987 slavery saga, “Beloved,” which earned her the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award.
Also an essayist, university professor, playwright and, in 2005, an opera librettist, she was the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; and last year was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Born into a working-class family in Ohio, she ascended to national prominence in the 1970s with her novels “Sula” and “Song of Solomon,” which established her as a dominant voice for both African-Americans and women.
Throughout her career, however, she has eschewed categorization as a “feminist” writer:“I don’t subscribe to patriarchy,” she once said, “and I don’t think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it’s a question of equitable access, and opening doors.”
Jersey Nunn
I am a blogger who writes entertainment news, celebrity gossip, and original content. My original content consist of short stories, unsigned artist write-ups, along with other displays of artistic expression.
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