Ms Morrison had grown tired of seeing African-Americans put out books that felt like apologetic teaching tools for white people
WHEN Toni Morrison began writing, there were no books about black girls. Nappy-haired, dark-skinned girls occasionally appeared in the margins, as a trifle or a punchline, but they were never the main event. Ms Morrison had also grown tired of seeing African-Americans put out books that felt like apologetic teaching tools for white people. “’Invisible Man’? Invisible to whom? Not me,” she would say.
Although her ideal reader was often herself, her books are essential for anyone who seeks to understand what it is like to be black in a country founded on the presumed worthlessness of blackness. Only at the inauguration in 2009 of Barack Obama, the first African-American president, could she feel “powerfully patriotic,” as she put it.
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