The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished ...
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November...
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Jan 26, 2012
Roger
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In this speech published in a slender book form, Morrison examines how the peace gained from the reading/writing world is in peril. She describes our world as a “busied-up, education-as-horse-race, trophy-driven culture” that inherently threatens the mind’s natural ability to engage in precious, self-fulfilling solitude. In many restrictive countries around the world, Morrison also explains, that under equal peril is the liberty to create and share “unpoliced narrative.” She provides an anecdote
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Jul 26, 2007
Aberjhani
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the fact that the first african-american to win the nobel prize for literature is reading this amzazing work on the pleasures of intellectual stimulation and growth through reading is really the only qualification it needs to command the highest recommendations. nevertheless, by moving beyond the sense of awe that toni morrison tends to inspire just by being toni morrison, one is able to delve into the wonders of her own dancing mind as revealed in this thrilling audio book.[return:][return:]abe
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Apr 15, 2011
Brilliant. Small but huge meditation on the writer and conscience. Seventeen pages of enlightenment. Toni Morrison's speech upon acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,1996.
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