Talk:Toni Morrison

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Was she the first black person to win the nobel or the first afro-american (there is a difference.) -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 07:27, 2004 Aug 27 (UTC)

it seems she was the first black woman and the second black person.

Has she earned a doctorate degree? (I'm not talking honorary degrees)

69.173.147.96 03:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)I am a senior in high school and have recently visited Princeton. The tour guide said that all of Princeton's professors teach freshmen, but having read the wikipedia entry, I said to her, "Toni Morrison doesn't." However, my tour guide actually had taken one of Morrison's classes as a freshman, so I guess she does teach. Thanks a lot wiki! I felt like an idiot. For the sake of others, I took out the part about her not teaching.

[edit] Oprah?

I think it is inappropriate to mention Oprah in the first paragraph on "one of the most prominent authors in world literature". This could go at the end of the article under a section on movie adaptations of Morrison's work.

[edit] School project

In school, we got a project in which we have to make a video about a author. Each group got a author, we got Toni Morrison. Any ideas of how we could pull off a video about her or her books??? yes why dont you do 5 minites of each novel

[edit] Use of the term "genre."

I disagree with the characterization of African American literature as a "genre." Genre is a somewhat pejorative term that suggests a limited range of characters and situations, e.g., the "genre" of crime fiction, the "genre" of film noir.