Toni Morrison

In Their Own Words

“If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

— Toni Morrison

Areas of Expertise

Key Achievements

• First Black American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Pulitzer Prize for Beloved
• Works include Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Jazz
• Raised two children as a single mother while writing her first novel
• Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

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