Founders Celebration 2014 - Toni Morrison

Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture

UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal awardee Toni Morrison, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, the Nobel Prize in 1993, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, will deliver the Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture at the Rio Theatre.

[denkerdunsmuir]

My response too. Toni Morrison on any subject including the mundane process of watching paint dry or grass growing would fascinate me. I am a shameless fangirl. As a writer her description here of how she went about research of the term goodness in literature inspires me. I enjoy research as much as I do writing, reporting what I have found in my quest to answer a question or most often to connect some intolerable to me contemporary event to its history and its roots. I aspire to learn mastery of our language such that I freely & clearly share my heartfelt thoughts with others at the sublime level my model, Professor Toni Morrison made appear reachable if I were willing to work very, very hard. I still believe because of Ms. Morrison and I am the happier for that as I live in the world today with its profound moral conflicts and insults to humanity that one day I will write like I want to read more Morrison!

[paulmartin]

A fine engaging scholar-activist whose profound contribution to the charting of human upliftment should long outlive her earthly years. - JAMAICA, 1/2022

[TSquared]

Angela Davis in that mix in acknowledgement.