Along with the Morgan and Hopkins interviews, I found a video about Morrison. In the video, Morrison talks about how she came to write, how writing is a way of thinking and that it helps her maintain control; she is free to do whatever she wants.
She talks about what she wanted to read before she decided to start writing: She wanted to find a story about how racism hurts and how it can destroy you. I guess Morrison couldn't really find the story or stories she was looking for so she decided to write her own.
There's a more recent book by Morrison that came out in 2015: God Help the Child. In this story, Morrison wanted to focus on the confusion about race. The main character is, and I quote, "very black," and said main character was discriminated for it and abused by her own mother.
I loved hearing Toni Morrison talk. The cadence in her voice is so relaxing and she speaks with such conviction about her books and about writing. Speaking of writing....along with all of the above, she talks about what writing meant to her, why she kept with it and the most recent story she has out there.
God Help the Child's probably next on my reading list.
The video's only 4 minutes long and totally worth watching:
https://youtu.be/EjdyX2wnwdY
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