INTERVIEWER
First African American?
MORRISON
Yes.
INTERVIEWER
...rather than the whole of literature?
MORRISON
Oh yes.
INTERVIEWER
Why?
MORRISON
It's richer. It has more complex sources. It pulls from something that's closer to the edge, it's much more modern. It has a human future.
Toni Morrison: The Art of Fiction No. 134, Interviewed by Elissa Schappell, with additional material from Claudia Brodsky Lacour in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
First African American?
MORRISON
Yes.
INTERVIEWER
...rather than the whole of literature?
MORRISON
Oh yes.
INTERVIEWER
Why?
MORRISON
It's richer. It has more complex sources. It pulls from something that's closer to the edge, it's much more modern. It has a human future.
Toni Morrison: The Art of Fiction No. 134, Interviewed by Elissa Schappell, with additional material from Claudia Brodsky Lacour in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
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