Toni Morrison on Language, Evil and 'The White Gaze'

Cornell University with Toni Morrison

Published on Mar 18, 2013


Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013 for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language. She answered questions posed to her by longtime friend and colleague Claudia Brodsky, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton University.

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Kyle Phoenix Answers: What would Trump’s Presidential library look like, considering he has stated that he does not read books?

I'm often curious what smart people think of the constant running attacks on Presidents. Bush and now Trump? Do people really believe you can get to these positions just by leveraged whim or that they are aware of a conspiracy so self evident....that they dumbfoundedly follow? I mean if the whole system has been hijacked then isn't it revolution time?

Or is it easier to piss and moan and mock and then get back in line for your bowl of gruel?

Trump went to private schools and Wharton so he's probably read all the "classics" plus tomes and tomes of financial and real estate texts. Now imagine this, his work has been about two things, sales and management. Sales isn't the most text intensive work. Once you develop the skills, you get better at the skills. He also manages people to get deals done, which means he employs the John D. Rockefeller strategy of intellect----a telephone---he can call, hire, bring in the intellectuals who understand the detailed nuances of probably anything. The skill to have prime knowledge at your fingertips and amenable to your goals is greater than a library of thousands of books. I expect he has a different kind of intellect than my own, and that's okay. I'm not a people person, I don't get charged or energized meeting and dealing with people on an intensive, constant basis and yet I'm a pretty good teacher. Being President isn't about being Spock on the bridge, it's more like being Admiral Jellico on the secure comm.

Perhaps America has such issues with globalization and class stratification because it assumes and inherently resists intellectual advancement.

I'm a teacher.
There's no universal adult education system.
We're not a book nation.
I'm not sure I would want a president to be like me in that respect, lost in ideas. I see the presidency as different. Head manager, not head brain.

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Liberation List (book): S by Brian Kyle Doyle

S

by Brian Kyle Doyle
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S is a supernatural thriller blending mythologies from the Caribbean, Africa, and ancient Greece with quantum mechanics to bring to light a tale that explains the birth of us all. Sade. Sabe. Salbe. Sacatra. Sandy Ree. Silence. Squasho. Sapphire. 

The S sisters. Daughters of the legendary Mrs. S, granddaughter of the Great Old S, a woman who crossed from hellish depths of the Civil War to the 21st century to give her children a better life. The S women are hunted by a nemesis who knows the secret of their escape, the secret of their inherent magic, the darkest secrets of each sister. Into their town of Thick comes Serenity Thoughts, an "ideological idea of the ideal" lead by the charismatic Canaan and his azure robed disciples. They come hunting for the prize of the ages, inside each of the women. The sisters, one by one, come face to face with an adversary birthed in a vendetta older than them all.

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Liberation List (book): God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
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At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”        A fiery and provocative novel, God Help the Child—the first book by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.

• God Help the Child (Vintage International)

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