![]() ![]() ![]() "Can you imagine what it would take? How soft, terrified and self-loathing you'd have to be to shoot somebody eight times in the back? It's so the opposite of brave. "They are such cowards in some of these areas of police work," she said of the Scott shooting. in interviews.Ī white police officer shot Scott on April 2, 2015. That's what I am, a writer."īecause her latest work and oeuvre deals with themes of race and racism - she's been asked the recent shooting deaths of black men - of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Miss., and Walter Scott North Charleston, S.C. "Out in the world, I relate fundamentally as an African-American female and what is hanging over that, or sheltering that, or feeding that is the art. I don't know why you can't be both things," she said. ![]() "Tolstoy was a Russian writer and he was a world writer. Winfrey produced and starred in the film adaption of Morrison's novel "Beloved" in 1998. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison (right) shares a laugh with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey in 2010. ![]()
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