REST IN POWER
I just learned Toni Morrison has passed. Perhaps the greatest writer of all time. My heart is broken but the thought that her books were left behind for us, some which I haven't gotten to yet, is a source of joy. R.I.P. to a true queen. Y'all can keep your royalty. I have Toni.— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) August 6, 2019
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) August 6, 2019
How Toni Morrison Fostered a Generation of Black Writers https://t.co/MayrwuOT9H— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) August 6, 2019
"If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem."— Complex (@Complex) August 6, 2019
Rest in Power, Toni Morrison. ❤️🕊pic.twitter.com/lNj4nAcjNg
Rest in power, Toni Morrison. pic.twitter.com/NSWq6AxLHI— ACLU (@ACLU) August 6, 2019
Rest In Power. Toni Morrison gave us beauty, creativity and grace. She nurtured and fed our hungry souls. Toni Morrison remains our Mother... https://t.co/yrhsUi00Rg— JulieDash (@JulieDash) August 6, 2019
This is amazing & powerful. So many times as a Black person you have to ask yourself, "Is it worth it to go all in right now?" Toni clearly decided, "Yes, today I have the time." Rest in power, Toni Morrison, * thank you. https://t.co/6yhetgRD3o— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) August 6, 2019
When someone dies that U have never physically met and only knew through their work and you break apart at the word of their death like they birthed u or vice versa - u know that persons gift was powerful and magnificent. I feel millions are experiencing this now. #ToniMorrison— Bernice L. McFadden (@queenazsa) August 6, 2019
The thought of Toni Morrison no longer being in this world is incomprehensible. She was our oracle, a transcendent fact of life for any writer. We were not worthy and can only be grateful that we overlapped with her time on this planet. pic.twitter.com/rxkEVhEs4M— Isabel Wilkerson (@Isabelwilkerson) August 6, 2019
Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while. pic.twitter.com/JG7Jgu4p9t— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 6, 2019
“If you look at the world as a brutal game, then you bump into the mystery of the tree-shaped scar. There seems to be such a thing as grace, such a thing as beauty, such a thing as harmony. All of which are wholly free and available to us.” Your life was our gift, #ToniMorrison pic.twitter.com/wcD7w9zKYp— Ava DuVernay (@ava) August 6, 2019
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison pic.twitter.com/0IlZSG6ZcE— Aminatou Sow (@aminatou) August 6, 2019
Toni Morrison in 1978 reading the ending of Song of Solomon— Andrew Gauthier (@AndrewGauthier) August 6, 2019
"Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly." pic.twitter.com/APWVWVcSth
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