Nobel Prize - From Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture on 7 December, 1993. The # NobelPrize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,
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Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize, a terrifying staircase and the king who rescued her - The Washington Post
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Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) | Open Culture
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The Nobel Prize on Twitter: ""Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation." Toni Morrison became the first African American woman to be awarded
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TONI MORRISON US writer held her acceptance speech after receiving the Nobel prize in Literature 1993 Stock Photo - Alamy
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