Toni Morrison was 'my hero,' says author

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Toni Morrison's work included celebrated novels Song of Solomon and Beloved. She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1993. The Swedish Academy hailed her use of language and her "visionary force." Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88.

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YOU WILL BE MISSED TONI MORRISON. A FIERCE PRESENCE IN THIS LIFE. no one else can replace you. RIP!!!!

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Thank you, Toni Morrison. We love you. Thank you, CBC, for loving Toni Morrison.

melvina
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Rest in Love great one.... unafraid of the masses....my late son turned me on to her novels🤗

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RIP Ms Morrison and thank you for your greatness

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Well done, ladies. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Good tribute.

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SULA
Appropriately, Shadrack is the first major character to be introduced in the novel. He is Sula's ancestral presence - a representation of an ancestral spirit, a husband, a father, a provider dispensed by the gods to "always" be there for the displaced Sula. Theirs was a spiritual kinship - metaphorically, a marriage of traditional West African water spirit/priest to a water priestess, both oracles of a river god. Shadrack's divine nature results from his state of unconsciousness as a victim of shell-shock during World War I. In traditional West African culture when one had lain unconscious for many days, people believed that that person's spirit left the physical body and entered the ancestral world where he or she became an active participant. Physically surviving the state of unconsciousness bestowed no insanity upon the person - no matter how eccentric or erratic the behavior following the onset. On the contrary, unconsciousness bestowed a specialness and a spirituality, since the unconscious
person had communed directly with the ancestral spirits.

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