9 Black Activists and Writers Reflect on What Toni Morrison Meant to Them
It’s hard coming to terms with the fact that those who mold and shape us won’t be with us forever. The world is mourning the loss of Toni Morrison, but none so much as the black women who were buoyed by her words and coaxed into self-assurance, radical love, and a monumental duty to give black women of the future more: more options, more community, more freedom.
Here, nine black women take the time to reflect on just how much Morrison meant to us. May it offer you solace in knowing that her work and legacy will forever live on through us, the women who owe it all to her.