![]() ![]() We live, we love, and we die."Īlthough reared in the North, Toni Morrison is the genetic and historical offspring of southern traditions. In rebuttal of less inclusive philosophies, Morrison states: "There is a notion out in the land that there are black people or Indians or some other marginal group, and if you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser." Rejecting anything other than full membership in humanity for black people, she asserts her credo: "We are people, not aliens. A bold novelist, she has staked out fictional turf on which to dramatize the fact that black people, the center of her microcosms, are not marginal racial anomalies, but a genuine human society. An unflinching champion of her race and its heritage, Toni Morrison confesses to " the unthinkable." In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved, she explores infanticide, rape, seduction, madness, passion, wisdom, alienation, powerlessness, regret, tyranny, and the supernatural. ![]()
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