Beloved

Toni Morrison



Toni Morrison is an author and editor. Her works include "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye" and "Song of Solomon". She has written seventeen books (including two for children), a play and a libretto.



Some Interesting Facts
* Her real name is Chloe Anthony Wofford.

* She was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

* She earned a Masters degree of Arts in English from Cornell University in 1955.

* "Beloved" is based on the true life story of Margaret Garner, a young slave woman who murdered one of her children to protect it from a life of slavery.

* She also wrote a libretto (or opera) for Margaret Garner with the music composed by Richard Danielpour.

* Once described Bill Clinton as "our first black president".

Some Quotes from Toni Morrison
- "Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."

- "Love is never any better than the lover."

- "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- "What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"

- "A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick."

- "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

A Scene from "Margaret Garner", the Libretto