Oprah Winfrey (Oprah) and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss 'The Water Dancer', Toni Morrison at the Apollo Theater
“I love a talking-back audience. It’s like church at the Apollo,” Oprah Winfrey said from the stage of the historic Harlem theater in New York City on Monday night.
“One of the reasons I was so excited about this book is it goes into that terrain of myth,” Coates said. “It leaves that world of facts where I actually think a lot of the argument wasn’t actually happening and it tries to attack the deeper thing.”-century slave and understand that world, and the author emphasized the importance of research, saying he spent a lot of his time reading stories from the time period.
“I’ve always known that I was carried by the ancestors, that my life would not be possible without them so I surround myself with it all the time,” Winfrey said. “I think about a lot what kind of slave I would have been. Would I have had the courage to run? I probably would have been in the fields. I don’t fit the description of the big house. Which is why it’s so great to now live in the big house.
While Coates admires Baldwin’s seminal works, He had slightly different answers when Winfrey asked about his first literary inspirations. Coates spoke about his love for comic books growing up, and now, he’s channeling that childhood passion into writing the“I went from writing about politics to comics, and the people in comics are way crazier,” Coates said, adding that he wishes the form was more easily accessible to readers.
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