![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 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](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE0VDsyXMAch-sO.jpg:large)
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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Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) | Open Culture
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Toni Morrison, 1st African-American woman to win Nobel for Literature, dies at 88 - The Economic Times
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Toni Morrison (1931-2019) - Nobel Prize 1993 - Past Daily Reference Room: Tribute Edition – Past Daily: News, History, Music And An Enormous Sound Archive.
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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In Celebration of Toni Morrison: A Gesture of Love and Reflection | Oberlin College and Conservatory
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Toni Morrison, who transformed American literature to win Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, dies at 88 | Richmond Free Press | Serving the African American Community in Richmond, VA
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