AfAm Literature

Celebrating and analyzing all things African American literature.

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“Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
#ToniMorrison

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The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the 2020 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book. https://t.co/zAehEUEbqM

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“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” - #ToniMorrison, 1993 Nobel Prize lecture

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Toni Morrison Taught Black Women, ‘You Are Your Best Thing’ ⁦@zoramag⁩ ⁦@Medium⁩ https://t.co/6mFRtERWYX

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Brilliance.

#ToniMorrison Nobel Lecture https://t.co/19eOwFTlFp

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"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." - #ToniMorrison

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Still trying to process the passing of the #ToniMorrison. Still haven’t found the words to describe the woman who took life and words and spun them into gold and light. I imagine she would know just what to say. #MasterWordsmith

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“She wanted a little room for thinking: / but she saw diapers steaming on the line, / a doll slumped behind the door. / So she lugged a chair behind the garage / to sit out the children’s naps.” - @dovelyrita, “Daystar” in Thomas and Beulah

Translation: 1930s Mommy me time

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What do you wish you would’ve read sooner? https://t.co/Syxny6IT2P

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Two Novels by Ann Petry, a Writer Who Believed in Art That Delivers a Message https://t.co/P58Sdo4sHB

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“somebody almost run off wit alla my stuff / & i was standing there / lookin at myself / the whole time ... did you know somebody almost got away with me” - For Colored Girls...

Powerful.

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“Peasant and slave, unlettered and untutored, she was nevertheless the best true example of the motherhood of her race, an ever present assurance that nothing could destroy a people whose sons had come from her loins.” - Jubilee, Margaret Walker