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    Unapologetically black: the vision of Toni Morrison | Valerie Babb

    Morrison reshaped our literature, making it more reflective of the nation that generated it
    by Valerie Babb Aug 08, 2019 2 minutes
    ‘Rather than being exclusionary, Morrison’s writing from a black place makes space for many American stories.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

    Most bios begin, “Toni Morrison was an American writer”, and indeed the nation should thank her for a that held a mirror to its soul and social order. The nation should also thank her for being unapologetically black. Without anger, apology or explanation, she moved black life from the margins of American history to the center of stories that excavated American truths. In the

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