Toni Morrison: The Last Interview

“Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination.” —Barack Obama
 
“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them.” —Oprah Winfrey
 
“Morrison’s characters live with me the way that biblical figures were always in the back of my grandmother’s mind when she needed to make a point.” —Tayari Jones

“She wrote about what was difficult and what was necessary and in doing so she unearthed for a generation of people a kind of redemption, a kind of relief.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  

“Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours …” —Margaret Atwood