recipient presidential medal freedom barack obama 2012 say ask racism want see white man convict rap black woman ask say yes age dim fire toni morrison 84. unwavering voice black america talk late novel take racism thing past.toni morrison without doubt world-class novelist work editor however receive much less attention morrison work random house 20 years leave 1983 set write pulitzer prize-winning novel beloved.at apartment low manhattan ask ways american literature change volunteer something refer fiction say march small children tell march type anyway go publish think best publish work like angela davis huey newton literature let edit someone understand language understand culture last summer morrison come hay festival make three appearances three days course conversations touch issue number time spin examine tub-thumping opposite still nothing conclusive say question race reflect static swim bite .since eric garner strangle white policemen staten island michael brown shoot white policemen ferguson walter scott shoot white policeman south carolina people keep say need conversation race say conversation want see cop shoot white unarm teenager back morrison say finally want see white man convict rap black woman ask say yes toni morrison chloe wofford grow understand none small industrial town lorain ohio raise stories tell southern parent seem unreal father welder shipyards neighbour european immigrants high-school yearbook two black students.had father really witness lynch 14 really separate water fountains white colour people georgia go howard university historically black college washington dc begin realise things off-campus late 1940s city segregate steal one wooden bar use keep black back bus send mother grim keepsake.morrison begin feel affinity fascination emerge career-long project word turn gaze want write order persuade white people abolitionists frederick douglass solomon northup interest assume white person worldview like mid-20th century writer ralph ellison invisible say famous novel invisible man want join black power cry screw whitey revolutionary 1960s turn 1970s want say get black beautiful thing may remind like lethal write point view little black girls first two book 17th-century slave mercy child kill mother save suffer beloved combine metaphorical stories grandparents facts grind arrive call imaginative resistance tell tale pick piece suggest compare storytellers hansel gretel momma want leave little trail trail language word simple cadences sometimes incantatory action true life magical habit think morrison convey series black perspectives throw readers world previously meet fiction realign american history choose people might told.via telegraph uk pulitzer prize win author toni morrison want see cop shoot white unarm teenager back