'Toni had a way of looking at the big picture. Even in dark times she managed to be philosophical.' Photographer-director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders remembers his friend, Toni Morrison:
Toni Morrison, the author, essayist and winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, famously encouraged would-be writers to take action.What is the most profound or useful thing you learned from her over the course of your friendship?Talk a little about the things you filmed during your documentary interview that didn’t make the cut.
In creating “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” the most difficult challenge was cutting it down to a two-hour film. We had to edit out a riveting section about Morrison on Shakespeare and her play “Desdemona,” wonderful insights into her father and his influence on her, and an emotional piece about the death of writer Toni Cade Bambara. When Bambara died with an unfinished book, Toni [Morrison] devoted a year to finishing it so it could be published posthumously for her dear friend.
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