The great Toni Morrison, the U.S.’s only living winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is 82 today.  I love all of Morrison’s books, but Song of Solomon (which I first read in high school) and Sula (which I first read as a freshman in college) have been particularly important to me. Both those books have done so much to shape my feelings about what fictions can accomplish, and how much they can matter in the real lives of their readers. A couple lines that have stuck with me through the years: “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” Pilate, in Song of Solomon. “Love is never better than the lover,” -Claudia, in The Bluest Eye
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The great Toni Morrison, the U.S.’s only living winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is 82 today. 

I love all of Morrison’s books, but Song of Solomon (which I first read in high school) and Sula (which I first read as a freshman in college) have been particularly important to me. Both those books have done so much to shape my feelings about what fictions can accomplish, and how much they can matter in the real lives of their readers.

A couple lines that have stuck with me through the years:

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” Pilate, in Song of Solomon.

“Love is never better than the lover,” -Claudia, in The Bluest Eye

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