"Its not a literary question... its a sociological one..." EXACTLY
@masspence14 жыл бұрын
But literature reflects our society.
@themarbleking4 жыл бұрын
masspence1. Exactly! And you live in a brown world. Are you overseen by their brown gaze? No, because they do not see you as inferior or superior, and not because you are beneath them.
@williamtsanders3 жыл бұрын
Literature reflects society because writers write what they see and what they feel. It's not about living up to "sociological truth." Mirrors don't care about what they reflect, the just reflect
@monnieeeeyt70373 жыл бұрын
Her and Dr. Francis Cress Welsing........they remind me of each other. Powerful ancestors
@kkkkkkk75 ай бұрын
The best answer would be EXPLAIN YOUR QUESTION PLEASE.
@adiabadic4 жыл бұрын
3:16 Why is no one talking about this metaphor: "The glove has to be pulled inside out." It's just beautiful. A glove pulled inside out can still function and be worn despite everything being the opposite of what a regular glove is. I'm not sure if this is a common saying, but I've never heard it before, and the second she said it I got a vivid image of exactly what she meant. This woman was a gem, rest in power.
@YoungSimba40403 жыл бұрын
I am , but like yourself it’s the first time I heard it & got chills when she said it. I wrote it in my notes & will explore it later . It’s a very powerful metaphor
@ashleyharris96603 жыл бұрын
Yes. I found that quote to be so profound
@eitanavielyahu51333 жыл бұрын
Even though our ancestors, have built nations just for you so call white ppl=(red). Now that the table has turned. We can also do what you can do, but better... She saysth it in a much nicer way... Da End
@fightclub62912 жыл бұрын
Because she’s blowing my mind with every sentence so no quote stood out as more important than another. It is powerful imagery now that you mention it though…
@richardbromfield3336 Жыл бұрын
I think she is exploring the resilience factor of the black body in a white world called America by viv
@geobus33075 ай бұрын
I love how Toni Morrison put the question back on Charlie Rose by saying essentially, 'What else could it mean?' And then she explained why the question was multi-layered and actually racist. He couldn't muster an argument for his implication that she was reading too much into the question. Ms Morrison, such a deep thinker and beautiful communicator!
@SuperRobertoClemente4 ай бұрын
It was very important that she went back at him in that way. For decades Rose was positioned as this elegantly neutral, cosmopolitan intellectual-- when in fact we now know that he was a completely unprofessional abuser of his own power. I never understood his popularity, and always noticed the conservatism lurking under his supposedly innocent, "curious" questions.
@wandavanderstoop24244 ай бұрын
How could the question be read any other way? It's difficult not to feel that his condescension is also gender biased. Embarrassing hubris on his part, so self righteous.
@povilasbuda64904 ай бұрын
Not disagreeing, but Charlie read a question from another journalist Edit: In all honesty, I don't know anything about Charlie Rose
@SuperRobertoClemente4 ай бұрын
@@povilasbuda6490 A clever way to say what you want to say without taking responsibility for it. Rose knew what he was doing.
@povilasbuda64904 ай бұрын
@@SuperRobertoClemente I see
@pd48874 жыл бұрын
I love how Toni literally walked him through and explained and educated him on how silly question is, love it
@autumnjade8155 ай бұрын
Even though he didn’t need or deserve it.
@dawnvickerstaff5 ай бұрын
He needed it. Deserve it? I'm not sure what is meant by that. He had Toni Morrison's gaze. If you meant he didn't deserve it. I think you might be right.@@autumnjade815
@prometheus34985 ай бұрын
It wasn’t his question. It was someone else’s question that she’d answered in a frustrated manner and be wanted her to elucidate. She did explain to him why she didn’t overreact to the question though
@freddiemonroe57875 ай бұрын
Not literally, but thats cool…
@user-vs3nt8ch2q4 ай бұрын
shes an angry person venting about her past.. but go head
@daveodell60764 жыл бұрын
‘As if our lives have no meaning, no depth, without the white gaze.’ She is absolutely correct.
@peaceinthemidst28144 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
@Lady-gd8zl4 жыл бұрын
When I heard her say that, it shook me to my core. It is so, so true.
@daveodell60764 жыл бұрын
@Erica Edwards @Lady TRUTH
@jacobjorgenson92854 жыл бұрын
Black people keep themselves there. No one can raise and stand but in their own. Victim hood is a choice
@yolondagilbert11004 жыл бұрын
@Esther A you never can win with some of the white people. You know they always have to flip their shit on you not realizing they had to use our ancestors backs for their children and grandchildren of today to have what they got now. But it's always someone like this dude, Jacob Jorgensen, who says something stupid.
@GenXsinglefree5 жыл бұрын
What an intelligent and unapologetically frank woman. It would have been nice to have her around a few more years.
@ebbsgohard5 жыл бұрын
Unless someone gets inspired to pick up the torch and March forward
@marysalvi2425 жыл бұрын
@@@ebbsgohard well Ms Morrison did and others too - there will always be those who will might take a different turn on the path and then we'll have new perspectives and new energy..etc always moving forward, always have creative souls that have been touched by those who..on and on and on : )
@humanentity58905 жыл бұрын
We don't need more racists.
@GenXsinglefree5 жыл бұрын
@@humanentity5890 You mean you don't want people like her around who make you "uncomfortable ". She certainly made Charlie uncomfortable.
@humanentity58905 жыл бұрын
@@GenXsinglefree oh so you get to decide what I mean huh?
@fortunatelyfortunate71384 жыл бұрын
I can listen to her for hours. Her conversation skills and intelligence is magnetic.
@stevie5865 ай бұрын
She and Malcolm X are music to my ears!
@dope19744 ай бұрын
Her eyes are sparkling with intelligence. What a beautiful soul.
@grimhanson84944 жыл бұрын
To communicate so eloquently while being so passionate is a gift.
@Bailey2006a5 жыл бұрын
She is now immortal. Rest in Glory, Beloved Sister
@D.A.-Espada5 жыл бұрын
@@humanentity5890 You do right by your name. You're definitely poison and definitely derpin I'll also address what you said: The beauty of language and the marvel of the written medium is that it allows for the kind of poetry and sometimes, dramaticism, that Bailey employed. I'd say it wasn't overdone as well as fitting, considering who Bailey is honoring. Why be so miserable?
@Astrochronic4 жыл бұрын
nah...she will be forgotten in less than a decade....most of her people dont even read books...she is nothing but a racist misandrist liar. Good riddance.
@tonimorrison63264 жыл бұрын
@@Astrochronic You will not even be remembered by your own family. Toni Morrison is a legend and the fact that you dishonoured her means you live in regret and will probably not amount to much.
@Astrochronic4 жыл бұрын
@@tonimorrison6326 im just honest, unlike you and your false idol. Its obvious that she is nothing but a lying bigot...
@tommygipson5753 жыл бұрын
Much respect to our Goddess. We will never forget you.
@Bindi_Marc5 жыл бұрын
with grace. with clear articulation. without being defensive. without anger.
@jusjoshandthemic4 жыл бұрын
Would it be less valid if she were angry? If she were defensive? If she were less "articulate" or didn't speak in a way deemed as "intelligent" by white society? If she were rougher and more rigid than graceful? Hoping this isn't to invalidate Black women who don't check off these boxes created for us. Respectability politics is not cute and I'm sure if you catch Toni Morrison on the right day, the checks in those boxes might get erased.
@jusjoshandthemic4 жыл бұрын
@Dream Dream Serene My first feeling reading this. So true.
@jesushateswood4 жыл бұрын
@Dream Dream Serene Graceful and articulate? Well she's a professor and a writer, why wouldn't she be graceful and articulate? And if she had displayed annoyance with his question, why couldn't it be defined as "passionate or intense" instead of anger?
@africarib4 жыл бұрын
Because she has the language to express it...a lot of times the average person doesn't.
@kt94954 жыл бұрын
underablackgaze You have a good point. The problem is we are often programmed to shut down or retaliate when being spoken to in such a manner. It becomes a shouting match until one person decides to diffuse the situation. There is nothing wrong with passion or healthy anger. As long as it is kept in check.
@dr.camaled.70854 жыл бұрын
”Aren't you imposing too much into the question? ” He was rejecting her answer because Toni’s response was far too intelligent for him to conceive.
@shaylifriedlein8495 Жыл бұрын
this 👏
@samaraisnt Жыл бұрын
No, it's because he is a white guy who thinks the same. Therefore he could only view the question through a white perspective, and not a human perspective that is Toni in her humanity AND in her blackness. That is why white interviewers were always terrible at interviewing her & other black people...Terry Gross' interview was similiarly tone deaf. Yet they're the BEST interviewers out there--but only when it comes to white people. Funny, huh?
@Pww642 Жыл бұрын
abso-fucking-lutely.
@jacquieaquines16896 ай бұрын
even after he asked her to help him understand he continued to be perplexed. i think he had nowhere to go but to be perplexed to disrupt the unavoidable guilt.
@ryanseddon48005 ай бұрын
@@jacquieaquines1689You nailed it
@prettylilqiqi2 жыл бұрын
“It’s not a literary question… it has nothing to do with the literary imagination. It’s a sociological question, that shouldn’t be put to me.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@josephwritessongs4 жыл бұрын
That was the gentlest slap a man ever received
@corazoncubano53724 жыл бұрын
Sometimes people, particularly rude men need a hard stinging slap.
@TheKritter914 жыл бұрын
@@corazoncubano5372 gentleness is a much more noble teacher in the long run than harshness. The rod is for the fools back, but a gentle response makes the unlearned wise
@tj.40794 жыл бұрын
She gave it to him with a smile...LOL
@rosewhite---3 жыл бұрын
Here's a truthful slap for the black> Sullen faced black woman maybe should get a Bible and read Genesis 9:24 to try understand why they are cursed in all spects of their lives and mostly fit fo rnothing better than slavery: 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Canaan is the father of the black africans.
@josephwritessongs3 жыл бұрын
@@rosewhite--- damn...get help
@mochawitch5 жыл бұрын
What his question is actually saying is "when you gonna stop making white people feel *uncomfortable* ?"
@computerlove145 жыл бұрын
Thats exactly What he meant. Spot on.
@lisasapp24665 жыл бұрын
mochawitch totally agree with you beautiful lady 👍🏽
@mcstewey15 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Whiteness is fragile...
@cherylmurray79425 жыл бұрын
@Fin Zen Funny, as a person of color (Black) I love Dean Koontz and never even thought about him using Black characters. Maybe he hasn't much experience with us.
@alexsegu27125 жыл бұрын
Well if white people did not do uncomfortable acts that harm the mental health and well-being of black people then there would be no need for them to feel uncomfortable in the first place. Our actions start with ourselves. White people just need to understand the cause and effect of their actions.
@MARIAHLADY194 жыл бұрын
When she said you can tell when a black author is writing for the "white gaze" because they explain things that didnt need to be explained. I feel the same way when watching some movies nowadays. Her target audience will understand without a problem. Some ppl just like to be included in everything
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
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@starskyarsky83743 жыл бұрын
That's racist in itself!!!
@jshu-_-3 жыл бұрын
But this is a necessary process. We seek equality but refuse to share our experience? Compassion is born from understanding. I'm not saying not all non-white writers should do this but we can't fault it either. It depends on the writer's intention.
@abnormpsych173 жыл бұрын
@Joshua what do you mean we refuse to share our experience? Most of pop culture in America literally IS Black culture or heavily influenced by it. All black people do is share our experiences. Anyways the BEST parts of black stories and culture are the genuine parts that happen amongst ourselves. At least I think so.
@omowhanre3 жыл бұрын
@@mikkelhoejen you're ignorant paragraphs proved Ms. Morrisons point. Maybe get therapy if your feeling are hurt.
@OZbibaO4 жыл бұрын
I love the way she expresses herself. she's calm and really takes the time to question not only the question but also her reaction to it. She confronts what could be her own biases at the same time, and by the end of it I think no matter where you stand on the validity of the question you truely grasp her perception and reaction to it.
@deborahawthorne82313 жыл бұрын
I am in absolute Agreement.
@FullanyBeauty5 жыл бұрын
I felt profoundly sad when she said: As though our lives have no meanings and no depth without the "white gaze". Why should we need the validation of white people in anything that we do?
@fuckamericanidiot4 жыл бұрын
You don't.
@forceforgood46694 жыл бұрын
Never.
@thenathanrox4 жыл бұрын
You don’t
@marymcdaniel89994 жыл бұрын
@Tat Bas Right, not when we're still being killed off by the police and still being terrorized.
@scorpiocarnage10554 жыл бұрын
@@marymcdaniel8999 And definitely not as long the participants in lynching still get to walk free.
@missalmond5 жыл бұрын
Ugh I love her. She eloquently and lovingly told him his question was insulting. I wish I had this much power on a daily basis. Wow. I’m in awe. Rest in Power :(
@paulturnet45725 жыл бұрын
@SidneeSpeaks, You do have that much "POWER", you only need to CULTIVATE it and don't allow yourself to be connected to (sympathy) those about whom you speak an unflattering and disfavorable truth (or at least the truth as you understand it). That was what Toni Morrison was about, telling the truth AS SHE SAW IT, WITHOUT ANY EUPHEMISMS OR MINCING OF WORDS, IF SOMEONE'S FEELINGS GOT HURT OR BRUISED,.... OH WELL.
@eyesthatsmile-heartthatlov80505 жыл бұрын
@@paulturnet4572 I think the power is doing it with her regal eloquence and grace.
@paulturnet45725 жыл бұрын
@Grace, Grit and Glory, yeah, and plenty of that too,... BE WELL !!! 😉
@divinebynature70565 жыл бұрын
You can learn to calmly and peaceably speak your truth and the facts. Also know, not everything requires a response.
@mariagoret33124 жыл бұрын
You can do it sister😊
@geraldineabilo27722 жыл бұрын
His final remark, and continuing to insinuate that his question was insignificant, is so indicative of the power dynamics of "micro"-aggressions, how it's only "micro" for the perpetrator, and how it lands in a complex inner world for the receiver.
@mr.horrorchild40942 жыл бұрын
Yes, many are very fragile
@amishaupadhyaya38186 ай бұрын
Best explanation of micro agressions I've heard
@reichen6095 ай бұрын
Wow! So true and beautifully written.
@6400loser4 ай бұрын
That bothered me so much too... Her wisdom is lost on his fragile ego
@reichen6094 ай бұрын
Basically the superior, straight old white guy was gaslighting her, formally. I wish there was a channel that compiled all the gaslighting that superior white men have done on ALL their dark-skinned victims (this specific one, for now) in modern history to the current era. Could be in tier lists and collected in specific folders so all the world can binge and just play it in the background in public spaces for everyone to hear, including the oppressor species. They deserve it. They cannot use their 🧻-victim card on this one. Remind them of their sins, everyone. But not in a whiny way, just like this Legendary Woman Ms.Toni Morrison here.
@JamesScottGuitar4 жыл бұрын
This is like asking John Coltrane, “when are you going to write music like The Beatles?”
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
He could answer 'never'. Then we would learn something.
@rawuncutmack10384 жыл бұрын
Bam!!!
@SuperSpace20093 жыл бұрын
Wow! So true! I laughed so hard when I read it!
@davidmundowyahoo78393 жыл бұрын
Who were trying to write music like Little Richard and Chuck Berry?
@robyndismon3943 жыл бұрын
@James Quinlan Fools have limited comprehension and development. I know u already know that but I just had 2 respond lol.😅
@kathyspruill31315 жыл бұрын
Toni gently puts him in his place. Delicate sledgehammer.
@kennydawson2654 жыл бұрын
Iron hand in a velvet glove
@rachelgarcia84254 жыл бұрын
U YES delicate sledgehammer
@commanderthorkilj.amundsen34264 жыл бұрын
She is absolutely wrong and in need of a comparative lit course. Joyce and Tolstoy did not write about race as a focus or burden, or the practice of racism. I’ve enjoyed a half dozen of her novels through the years, but they are totally focused upon the personal experiences of black persons enduring some type of racial injustice, either on a personal level or inter-generational, systemic level. She is hung up on the topic, her life defined by it...a real pain in the ass to have around at a backyard barbecue.
@udonoquesabo32354 жыл бұрын
COOL !!! PROFOUND COMMENT !!! I LOVE IT !!! THANK YOU MUCH !!!
@commanderthorkilj.amundsen34264 жыл бұрын
hasslfoot Morrison first is comparing herself to two titans of literature. Conceited? Secondly, they spoke/wrote with characters battling class differences and economic hardships. Morrison, by contrast, has made skin color the defining character of her novels, and her life. It is the forever struggle, the eternal chip on her shoulder. More than a human, a woman, American, author, mother, sister, or daughter, she professes her race. Proudly obsessed.
@iago075 жыл бұрын
Charlie is out of his league here... 🤦🏽♂️ That question is sociological, not literary... 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 “...as though our lives have no meaning without the white gaze.” *🎤 dropped*
@JoseAngelHernandez-PhD5 жыл бұрын
Out of his league? THey are both discussing fiction...
@TheVuduYuDu5 жыл бұрын
@@JoseAngelHernandez-PhD In this clip they are not talking about fiction. The conversation began when Charlie Rose asked her a question posed by another journalist and she found the question illegitimate, usually because it is not a question posed to white writers and that there was an inherent assumption in that question that her work is only legitimate especially when viewed by white audience.
@utubelvrNYC5 жыл бұрын
TheVuduYuDu 🎤 dropped again . 🎓
@dawnc.37115 жыл бұрын
Too much for his brain...
@nicholo15 жыл бұрын
So far out of his league ..,,
@solertree86532 ай бұрын
I really wish modern interviews would follow this format and actually let the guests talk and have a proper conversation. so refreshing to see
@ninagilliam95684 жыл бұрын
It's such a disingenuous, condescending and demeaning question, especially when any author -- but especially a master of the craft like Toni Morrison -- is writing about a subject or from a perspective that purposely and systematically has not been given its due. What this question is really saying is, "It's nice that you've written a book or two that centers your race/gender/culture/identity/experience that has been purposely villified, marginalized, and ignored for centuries, but now that we've let you have your fun, we need you to turn your attention back to your oppressors. Really, you owe us that much for letting you play in our sandbox, don't you think?" Of course, the brilliant Toni Morrison saw through all that.
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
You say more than I know.
@Bentleygirl73 жыл бұрын
🎯💯👏
@TheDealvin3 жыл бұрын
That was an excellent explanation of that question....
@dr.kevinmoore88892 жыл бұрын
Yes! This!!!
@dannyneville13102 жыл бұрын
@@zapazap Bryan, you have wrote that same quote more than once here. You clearly don't know much, you fawning virtue signaller.
@TheReturnOfStephan19 жыл бұрын
The best, most direct part of Ms. Morrison's answer begins at 4:02. She did not overreact. The question was asked by a journalist who was/is annoyed with the success of work that is not written about him, his thoughts, feelings and/or concerns.
@1MarkKeller5 жыл бұрын
Those works made him uncomfortable, because in his imagination he HAD to see them as Black, and that made them more real, more human, more relatable. Probably taxed his imagination too much to do such a thing.
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
What you say is more than I know.
@kavuela44223 жыл бұрын
@@1MarkKeller which ironically she talks about in a sense when she speaks about chinua. She didn’t understand the african experience but she immersed herself in it and was okay with it. She also alluded to being comfortable with stepping into other people’s worlds and experiencing them for what they are, no matter the walk of life from which they stem from. Something that i think the person who formulated the question, cannot fathom.
@1MarkKeller3 жыл бұрын
@@kavuela4422 Assuredly so.
@kumada844 ай бұрын
Nobody likes to feel "left out" - especially the ones who are used to being the ones doing the leaving-out.
@healingnow4445 жыл бұрын
Wow. She is so wise, so humble, so willing and so patient...it's not a literary question!! I'm surprised she doesn't just laugh at him..
@PHlophe5 жыл бұрын
Madeline, laughing will be missing an opportunity to school him. she was asked the exact same question by 4 white women journalists , its on youtube.
@dustinsaidtoney25475 жыл бұрын
@@PHlophe That's kind of true, but why is their education always our responsibility. Sometimes schooling them is the creation of a better environment for ourselves and so is fostering the highest level of authenticity in ourselves as well. If a stupid question brings out genuine laughter in us us than so be it. If a stupid question brings about a serious and thoughtful response than so be it. We don't need to be jerks, but if White people want to be respectful and and sincerely want to learn how to interact with non White people, it's ok for them to experience discomfort from time to time. That discomfort shouldn't come from our bad behavior, but their unconscious racism and biases coming up and out, Insha'llah.
@PHlophe5 жыл бұрын
@@dustinsaidtoney2547this is 100% true, we shouldn't bear the burden of having to explain our existence to caucasian. it is exhausting and has real life consequences.i know a thing or 2 about this from a very uncommon perspective.
@lone_demon4 жыл бұрын
@A M you're an idiot, a colossal idiot ;)
@lone_demon4 жыл бұрын
@A M still a colossal lemon 😉
@colstonlchineseАй бұрын
I can sit at her knee and listen to her soothing wisdom all day. RIP to this literary and cultural legend!
@ssoouull4 жыл бұрын
I think we just watched her help Charlie Rose grow...and I believe that he saw and accepted the growth. We need more of this...honest questions...honest answers... and honest listening...leading to growth.
@travelturnedup225 жыл бұрын
An iconic wordsmith and thinker. Her knowledge of literature and writers from all walks of life is something to be admired. Rest in peace Toni Morrison. To a life well done!
@daughterofaking34095 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed very well put.
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
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@koubrazakaria45085 жыл бұрын
"Anything can happen in art, there are no boundaries there"... Go and Rest, and Beloved you'll always be.
@FishDoExist4 ай бұрын
"The glove has to be pulled inside-out." She does so in this clip and then lightly slaps him in the face with it. Goddess bless you, Toni.
@marlene54945 ай бұрын
Watching again in 2024. I will never get enough of her. She’s my literary hero. The world will never comprehend the magnitude of losing her as a writer and speaker. RIP Ms Morrison. We miss you 💔
@veronicamoton98335 жыл бұрын
You can never come into anyone’s creative space and tell them what is acceptable or what should make them comfortable .
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
Did he say that anything was unacceptable?
@timeandattention39453 жыл бұрын
it was a question not a command
@rasheenturpin4 жыл бұрын
A lioness of the community, unapologetically fierce & completely nurturing.
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
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@SandManny3 ай бұрын
I love her spirit. I could sit and listen to her speak on life itself and her experiences for hours.
@danielemondmusic4 ай бұрын
"The glove has to be pulled inside out." pristine, off the cuff poetry in the midst of a flawless argument.
@mjbabicful5 жыл бұрын
It makes me think of when James Baldwin followed up "Go Tell It On The Mountain" with "Giovanni's Room". No one wanted to publish it. He was told that this book would end his career. Why? Because it had all white characters, living in Europe, and even openly gay (shocking at that time). Baldwin, after "Mountain," was supposed to be the writer of the black, urban American experience. How dare he stray from that? Morrison, like Baldwin, is simply insisting on being an artist on her own terms, regardless of the white literary world's expectations.
@nikolademitri7315 жыл бұрын
Amazing point, thank you!
@sunnys1n9h5 жыл бұрын
Giovanni's Room is a beautiful book.
@mjbabicful5 жыл бұрын
@@sunnys1n9h So beautiful.
@marysalvi2425 жыл бұрын
@@PolishViking this is such a 100% example of white privilege doubled down, first asked and then not respecting her own personal intelligent response.
@monicaangelini33244 жыл бұрын
@@sunnys1n9h one of my top ten. It shook me up when I was 20.
@2014jguest5 жыл бұрын
Eloquence and Power.
@audreyrichards89235 жыл бұрын
Exactly why they had to do everything possible to prevent us from learning to read.
@johndeagle43895 жыл бұрын
What is your opinion of William Ellison?
@PamelaTaylor5 жыл бұрын
yes
@johndeagle43895 жыл бұрын
@@PamelaTaylor Do you understand English? What is your opinion of William Ellison?
@PamelaTaylor5 жыл бұрын
do you understand creole loving if not, don't be such a smart butt
@kristenmcelhiney58162 жыл бұрын
How dare Charlie Rose tell Toni Morrison she’s “making too much” of her analysis of the “illegitimate question” she was asked? He isn’t capable of understanding the sophistication of her thought.
@nickel8412 Жыл бұрын
I’ve watched this video countless times, and it never fails to move me. I can’t chose what I love most: the truth of what she says, the eloquence of how she says it, or the soulful expressions on her face. I’m grieved and angry that I live in a state that wants to ban her books from high school curriculum. How moronic! Toni Morrison always and forever!
@mercuryrising49394 жыл бұрын
Whenever the question is asked "are you putting too much into...?" That usually means the answer which we are giving is too damn spot on and makes the receiver uncomfortable. That's why it's called TRUTH; And Charlie Rose got it, right here!
@MrBillie12343 жыл бұрын
omG, THANK YOU!! i started to write this but thought "aww who cares about my opinion" & erased it....but that's EXACTLY what i was saying! first he was urging her to "educate me" -- excuse me, massa charlie, oops, i mean mr. charlie -- but it was YOUR ppl that created such racist & ignorant undertones & systemic racism as a whole, so how 'bout you educate yourSELF -- or ask YOUR ancestors to educate you. Black ppl don't now owe you that too. then @2:05, he's (like u said) accusing her of "don't you think you're importing too much into the question?....i think so..." & clearly he was uncomfortable w/ her answer, as evidenced when she then CHALLENGED him, asking "well, what else could it mean?? what DOES that question mean, charlie...YOU tell me..." at which point he started fumblng over his words, scrambling for an "out" by saying "well i didn't ask the question" -- ahh, so u didn't ask the question, & can't imagine what a question like that could possibly mean, yet somehow u knew for certain that she was "importing too much" into it?? #Checkmate. ~ b.
@periseanbaltimore40645 жыл бұрын
she handled this with the care it warranted, it's not the question by itself, it's the insinuation related to the question also, as if writing about race is somehow a lesser form of public discourse not worth the value as say other literary works, staying silent never changes anything
@bernlin20005 жыл бұрын
The implication being that "white" is default...and "talking white" someone stops making it about race (like white people can't have just as diverse of backgrounds as black people, if not more so). Toni answers this question very knowingly: race is an important part of how we experience the world. We may not want to identify primarily by race, but the world around us often tries to do it for us, prejudging the circumstances.
@karaamundson39644 жыл бұрын
YES
@BE-bk1tb4 жыл бұрын
@Perisean Baltimore...or the insinuation that she is incapable, not creative or not a good enough writer, to write about anything else if race is not involved.
@periseanbaltimore40644 жыл бұрын
@@BE-bk1tb yeah that too, great point
@christie43784 жыл бұрын
“White gaze” is not something I’ve ever heard of, but it is so brilliant a concept. We learned about male gaze in art history but I never heard “white gaze” before. She is obviously a highly educated woman and I admire how diplomatically she explained this concept after so idiotic a question was asked of her.
@xfiler-gl7nc4 жыл бұрын
This sister came through with an answer that left this man speechless 🙌🏽🙏👏👏.
@pedroeiras99455 жыл бұрын
There has never been anyone quite as eloquent and intelligent and articulate as Toni Morrison. She is a true genius! Listening to her speak is such an amazing thing.
@epicsseven7686 Жыл бұрын
Malcolm X. And he'd battled the best. None could break him during debates
@britonyabanks5 жыл бұрын
I will adore this genius woman forever. RIH
@PamelaTaylor5 жыл бұрын
genius for real
@britonyabanks5 жыл бұрын
Jesse Aaron Cut the shit you asshole. I’m over here honoring a writing legend and you talking politics?! Get the fuck on with your bullshit, silly boy.
@davidcoleman80564 жыл бұрын
@A M I don't know why you go around spreading hate on ur channel, I've seen your unwarranted hate comments on several vids. I'll pray for you, u obviously need it
@davidcoleman80564 жыл бұрын
@A M The world sucks rn. Message me if u need anything buddy. Hang in there and remember there's ALWAYS gunna be people to try and put u down, u just gotta kill em with kindness as hard as that may be. Much love ❤️
@davidcoleman80564 жыл бұрын
@A M whoosh
@othukeumukoro2 ай бұрын
Years later Things Fall Apart is still the most iconic and significant novel in the world. Thank you, Morrison. I love her so much ❤
@kishae61374 жыл бұрын
That was such a graceful, poised, and powerful response. I consumed every word. Thank you for sharing this interview.
@redgeminiarts36744 жыл бұрын
Once she delivered her answer...Charlie realized instantly, how insignificant he was and how smart she was. Her response was brilliant and as precise as a surgeon’s knife. He laid a trap for her and found himself trapped. He will never forget that interview, it’s a permanent memory in his mind and a lesson he will never forget. Don’t mess with a Black woman with a brain.
@essiebaradar79764 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Charlie Rose removed from PBS?
@redgeminiarts36744 жыл бұрын
essie baradar YES?
@iNpUt14034 ай бұрын
Nah, he was doing leading questions. He wasn't antagonizing Her at all.
@solemandd675 жыл бұрын
Ms. Toni Morrison backhands Charlie's false privilege and entitlement pomposity down so succinctly. Rest In Power Ms. Toni Morrison!
@vee05225 жыл бұрын
solemandd67 AGREED
@johndeagle43895 жыл бұрын
What is your opinion of William Ellison?
@empoweredwoman10215 жыл бұрын
solemandd67 false privilege and entitlement pomposity. So true.
@johndeagle43895 жыл бұрын
@@empoweredwoman1021 Boo Hoo.
@camsmith9315 жыл бұрын
Solemandd67 -So eloquently said
@FreeToLove99918 күн бұрын
Ms. Morrison is a Genius. An Educator. A High Priestess. A Chosen One. Charlie Rose was not prepared for this brilliance. So to save face, he attempted to gaslight her by suggesting that she was importing more into the question than what was there. That didn't work.... This became a powerful teaching moment for all, but I am not sure that Mr. Rose was ready for the lesson. Not sure if his psychological infrastructure could withstand the revelation that white and male superiority are only myths. He definitely lost control of the narrative but tried to the bittersweet end to make a useless point. That's what happens when you make assumptions and don't do your homework. Rest in Power, Ms. Morrison. Your legacy continues. 💙💙💙🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👍🏾🤟🏾💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
@Soulgazer9994 ай бұрын
What a phenomenally graceful, *patient* & beautiful woman. God rest her soul ✨
@mountainlife24115 жыл бұрын
She's being so nice to this idiot. Love the grey locks.
@jonesfredrick945 жыл бұрын
They are Gorgeous
@PHlophe5 жыл бұрын
we are all trained to be extra nice when we are about to say something very serious. this is something i have noticed on every minority including myself. because we know the racist interlocutor is always trying to escape.
@WolfeatsCheeseburger5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful dreads 🔥
@helenbobo19485 жыл бұрын
I think Charlie was giving Ms. Morrison the opportunity to more fully explain her feelings about the question. The question had been posed by another journalist originally. Not Charlie.
@thenrepeat91245 жыл бұрын
@@helenbobo1948 Charlie's reiteration of the question was lost on most here who seek opportunities to feel that whites are put in their place. A simple and obvious question here is made into daggers Charlie somehow deserved according to many of these comments. A simple "no" would have been an honest answer to an honest question. Charlie was right. Her answer was ignoble.
@davidbanks17465 жыл бұрын
Her intellect is so alluring
@dionwalker26675 ай бұрын
No Toni, you're not wrong, you write what you feel, that's why we love your literature.❤
@laniebug72655 ай бұрын
8 years later and we all know Charlie Rose doesn’t hold a candle to Ms. Morrison.
@cameronmitchell95613 жыл бұрын
I stumbled on this while browsing. Most arguably incredible, articulate and arresting interview i have listened to in awhile. Charlie Rose was subtle and equally brilliant. Great stuff.
@yvettemckinzie90825 жыл бұрын
We are the only race where such questions are asked! It is insulting! SIP QueenMother❤️❤️❤️
@PHlophe5 жыл бұрын
Evette it starts with hair, then it follows with the dress sense, but before all that we are also coerced into giving our children euro names.this is goes far, veeeery far.
@noterleej93125 жыл бұрын
Lechiffresix six day
@coolwater554 жыл бұрын
Well, no, First Nations, Aboriginals of all kinds, as well as African descent peoples. Plus women of all colours were asked those types of questions and still are. 😊
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHfCg2yef9aHirc
@loriannwhite83845 жыл бұрын
I love that Ms. Morrison name dropped Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Read The African Trilogy. It will change your life.
@maneckineckbeard17494 жыл бұрын
Lori Ann White Thanks for reminding me it's about time to read Things Fall Apart again! ❤️
@9xxxxxxxxx4 жыл бұрын
I read it and it didn't change my life at all. Great book though. The only thin that changes your life is you.
@maneckineckbeard17494 жыл бұрын
True story: my original copy of it *literally* fell apart because I read it repeatedly. One day I opened it up, and all the pages just fell out in one big whoosh, leaving me holding just the empty outside cover of the book. Printed on the inside spine were the words: "THINGS FALL APART." Seemed so perfect, somehow. I've never forgotten it.
@loriannwhite83844 жыл бұрын
Manecki Neckbeard Yes. Laughing & Crying at the same time because my own copy is at death’s door.
@maneckineckbeard17494 жыл бұрын
Lori Ann White Seeing this video and reading this thread makes me miss books, honestly. I mean *real* books. The way they feel, the way they smell, their inherent fragility, the way they evolve and change the more they're read, loved, lent, borrowed and reread...the smell of libraries and the brittle, delicate feeling of old pages- I miss it all. I miss what it meant to me as a child: that silent but SO exciting sense of imminent adventure that I got each time I held a new book. And I feel a profound, ineffable sense of loss when I think of the fact that my children will never have the opportunity to experience these things. I still remember the first time I borrowed my sister's old, much-read and much-loved copy of "Beloved." With all the dog-eared pages, flaking covers and notes scribbled in the margins. When I finished, I closed the book and just sat for a few minutes, feeling chills all over my body. I knew I'd just read something brilliant and remarkable. I felt a sense of literal awe for Ms. Morrison's genius. She made me feel the utter tragedy of American history so powerfully, on such a visceral level, that it almost physically hurt. Maybe it makes me sound old, but I miss that feeling. Ebooks just don't feel the same to me. When I heard she had died, I felt such an overwhelming sense of loss. Humanity had lost someone uniquely brilliant. And it makes me a little sad to think that my children will most likely read her words on a sterile tablet screen.
@valchis39224 жыл бұрын
She made so many profound statements in her answer that it saddens me that she had to join him in questioning whether she was 'importing too much into the question'. Clearly, she wasn't.
@thedarkyellowpages40163 жыл бұрын
She was. As an elder of society, she could have been calmer and happier and still express that.
@reichen6095 ай бұрын
@valchis True. "Superior" white_ men/women be *downplaying and gaslighting POCs* for millennia now...and still are today, as _subtly_ exemplified by this other commenter here.
@mamadytraore57975 ай бұрын
Every black person is told ,yu making too much of it , when something racist happen and there isn't a video
@alisaoliver19695 ай бұрын
I'm impressed by the fact that she was unapologetic about writing what she knew, and did NOT think that others' approval of her work was neither necessary or desired for her to do it. Their approval was not her aim. Very impressive.
@D.A.-Espada5 жыл бұрын
As I've gotten older, the physical presence of a person has become less of a barrier to seeing the truth of the individual. What I mean to say is, this woman is one of the most attractive people I've ever come across. The soul and personality shine through and as a result she becomes even more beautiful than she could ever be either here in this interveiw or that she in her youth could pronounce with her physical charm. What a woman
@russellsnead39775 жыл бұрын
I can tell by the comments who knows the history of these two. These two have major history together. They were great friends. She actually invited Charlie to her Nobel ceremony while they were at dinner. He tossed her the question to let her run with it as he knew she would. Charlie is her friend. They probably had this conversation a hundred times.
@corypalmer54954 жыл бұрын
Yeah no, he's not her friend at all. He's just another white racist. As a black person you will have white people you know but over time you will see they are just as racist as anyone else.
@garrusn77024 жыл бұрын
Cory Palmer You’re racist.
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
*Thank you Russel*
@zapazap4 жыл бұрын
@@corypalmer5495 How do you know they do not have a friendship?
@russellsnead39773 жыл бұрын
@@corypalmer5495 I know her work better than you do. She’s my hero. They are great friends. That’s why she said you can tell me if I’m wrong now or later. They spoke so often.
@stacyescobedo16424 жыл бұрын
The spirit of a mentor. Incredible patience, thorough explanation, admirable confidence paired with appropriate humility.
@waleedwilliams38504 жыл бұрын
Beautiful , intelligent, black woman.. I have watched this so many times..I’m so proud to be black..
@professorjams9 жыл бұрын
Thank you Toni , that kind of racial honesty is understandable. Bravo.!
@rebeccameek75625 жыл бұрын
She is absolutely fantastic. Profound and precise. Beautiful and resonant. He is unworthy of the company, a total tool. Incredible he had a show for so long.
@SuperBookdragon4 жыл бұрын
Oh Toni thanks for schooling Charlie. And in such a intelligent, clear eyed and assertive way.
@DAS19623 жыл бұрын
The saddest thing is that Charlie Rose does not realise how totally OFFENSIVE and STUPID his question is??? Even in 1998 it proves that the US has learnt nothing.
@quintenisliving72045 жыл бұрын
hE WOULD HAVE never ASKED Danielle Steel that question.
@thebongbongseffect5 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely right about that.
@TheVuduYuDu5 жыл бұрын
To be fair to the pervy old dude. Charlie Rose was asking her about her reaction to a question that another journalist Bill Moyer asked her previously.
@indigenousqueen24255 жыл бұрын
There would have been no need to.
@echamber4 жыл бұрын
No comparison
@TheVuduYuDu4 жыл бұрын
@Dream Dream Serene And I do believe he did it to give her a chance to answer it fully.
@ajunaid39927 жыл бұрын
This is profound. If I could I would triple like this video. I can't understand those who have disliked it.
@Great_Wife_Omo5 жыл бұрын
@Joe Ann you hit the nail on the head
@therobertspot48405 жыл бұрын
Here's why a lot of foundational black americans dislike Toni Morrison...kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZC3mWSImqaFl6s
@nikolademitri7315 жыл бұрын
The Robert Spot Well, that man is entitled to his opinion, like anyone else... but that’s just about the nicest thing I can say about that (and I did listen to it, in full). It’s also just about the only thing I can say, bc I don’t understand where he’s coming from with much of his accusations, but I would be more than happy to know who these important or foundational black men are, and read/listen to some of their reasoning of why she was upholding white supremacy... I won’t lie: I haven’t read any of her literature, and as a white man in America, I know that my perspective simply can’t be enough on its own to understand her literature fully, but that’s why I read black authors and listen to black intellectuals, activists, leftists, etc, because to the extent that I can understand and empathize, I want to. I resent white supremacy, though I can’t resent it for the same reasons, and in the same ways that a black brother or sister does, bc my relationship to it, and experience of it, is different in every way to that of any person of color (or so I would imagine). Let me get to my point, though: two of my biggest black heroes are Cornel West, and Angela Davis, and these are people who spent their lives combating white supremacy, and they seem to have a different perspective of Miss Morrison from these folks that allegedly “see through her support of white supremacy”, or however the man in the video put it... See, that’s hard for me, bc nobody is gonna tell me that Angela Davis is the type of black woman to bend the knee to white supremacy, or water shit down to serve a white agenda, or have any kind of hatred or contempt for the black *man,* if anything it’s the exact opposite with her on *ALL* of those accounts, and then some, so when I see someone like Angela Davis speaking so fondly and lovingly of Toni and her work... well, do you understand why it’s a struggle to believe that Angela would say such things about the life and work of someone who upheld white supremacy, or white supremacist propaganda? Honestly, it’s just a very far-fetched thing for me to believe... *BUT* I’m not saying that the man who made that video is 100% wrong, or that there’s no foundational black men who share his feeling towards Toni Morrison. I’m saying that I see at least some evidence to the contrary, and that I actually would be interested in hearing a substantial and nuanced critique of her work from one or more of these folks which he spoke of.. For me, given voices like Angela Davis, and Cornel West, and Nikki Giovanni, and others, who seem to be diametrically opposed to that narrative, and who have said things of real substance about Toni Morrison, I’m just saying that I need more than just this passionate, and well, seemingly intentionally inflammatory take from a random fellow on KZbin.. That’s not to put him down, that’s just to say that his voice and the substance of what he was saying about Toni just doesn’t really go up against the substance of what Angela Davis has had to say about Toni.. *But* I’m open to a critique which actually goes deep, speaks with nuance, and supports its claims, if such a thing exists.. but I digress. I hope you find no anger or malice or contempt in my reply to you, bc I assure you there is none there.. You’re just the messenger, though I assume you agree with what the man is saying. I’m interested to hear from you, if you’d be so good to reply, if you have the time. In the meantime, though, I’m gonna assume that this fellow in the link you posted just has some kind of misunderstanding, rather than an actual substantial critique.. 🏴❤️♾
@therobertspot48405 жыл бұрын
@@nikolademitri731 Thanks for your reply and I'll make it short. Cornell West and Angela Davis really don't have support from foundational black america. (And it's not just men by the way). As a general rule black folk who are allowed plenty of main stream media attention don't really tell it as it is from the black perspective. People like Professor Black Truth represent more accurately how real black Americans feel. (His channel of over 50K subscribers was shut down just after he posted his video essay on Toni Morrison). I appreciate that you listened to it but if you want more to hear more about foundational black america there is more here....kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGbadICwj7B2hM0
@tsmyangel5 жыл бұрын
Those who thumbed down this video aren’t worthy of your time, trying to figure them out. ATF’s (After Thought Folks).
@GracielaT-SatoCaptainMama2 жыл бұрын
As a Latina author in the USA, I can listen to this answer 1000 times. It's THAT empowering. #NoWhiteGaze
@freneticness6927 Жыл бұрын
racist
@anthonytalarico7854 Жыл бұрын
your a white hispanic, quit your hiding esse
@Playeszz4 жыл бұрын
I'm in AWE of this literary titan!! Her answer was a lecture on it's own!!! R.I.P beloved Ms. Morrison.
@terrylaguardia68385 жыл бұрын
If it were just an incidental question they wouldn’t be so compulsive towards burdening her into having to answer it ALL THE TIME. It’s hard to come across an interview with her (I haven’t so far) in which the question is NOT asked. I mean, at least these interviewers should have cared so much as to do their homework - to pay attention to the answers she’d already given in the earlier interviews. Then to suggest that it’s her problem not theirs is just sanctioned ignorance adding insult to injury.
@grayrachelle5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for mentioning this. I didn't realize it was a repeated question--though I believe it. What a waste of interviewing time, to ask her that question when the answer is clear. So many other things could be asked.
@sonjatanksley54325 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. If Charlie does not get it, well, thoughts and prayers.
@oldslowcoach4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, you all are reading too much into this... Rose isn't the one who posed the question, he only repeated it to know how she felt about being asked the question. smh
@ClarityDetermination5 ай бұрын
A lovely, deep, intense, knowledgeable , skilled and important person to our history.
@arjunamarc5 жыл бұрын
“She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine; that if they could not see it; they could not have it.” I’ve loved her for years; not just for her writing, but for her. I hold her AS her writing in my heart. She has become her words in me. Charlie Rose seems ignorant to me for different reasons than race; he seems completely humanly oblivious and cavalier in the presence of her mighty mind. What greater accomplishment could there be for any writer than to so absorb their readers through words, words, words that the author becomes dearly loved for having written them? I don’t think of Toni Morrison as an African American or female writer. (I know that’s probably because I’m an OG white man.) I think of her as a literary genius. And that’s it. If I was in Charlie Rose’s chair I would have only been quiet and asked her to “just read, Please. Just read what you’ve written. Let the rest be Silence.” What seems painfully obvious is that Rose never read Beloved. Otherwise he too would be stunned like the rest of us. If he had listened to her read before that interview, if he had read her himself and he still asks such stupid questions then truly his arrogance would have been eclipsing of all suns everywhere. I just can’t believe he truly understood exactly who he was interviewing. I must copy and paste and ask forgiveness for the too long comment to illustrate my point. Her words change me every time. I do love them as her beautiful soul. “She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it. "Here," she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I'm telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. And all your inside parts that they'd just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver--love it, love it, and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet.More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize." Saying no more, she stood up then and danced with her twisted hip the rest of what her heart had to say while the others opened heir mouths and gave her the music.” Toni Morrison, Beloved I know the breaking of the sacred hoop has come for the white man. I feel it. All white men feel it. If they don’t they’re stupid. The diaspora came for the Jew in the first century. Came for the African starting in the 14th. Came for all indigenous people everywhere along that time too. And now it’s here for us. Ironically, however, I feel the hatred coming from young white women more than I ever have from any person of color. In fact, I’ve never felt any hatred coming from any person of color just because I’m white. That’s just never happens to me. And I grew up in Joplin, Missouri in “East Town” just off what is now called Langston Hughes Boulevard. I’m sorry for all the sins of the white race upon all others. I truly am. But Charlie Rose does not represent me any more than Mr. Farrakhan does. I’m just a reader who loves an author like the sun, like the beautiful ever life-giving sun.
@shinealways97165 жыл бұрын
Legitimately overwrought but wonderfully observed.
@80101509080865 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, thanks ...
@garrusn77024 жыл бұрын
Disgusting self hatred.
@LKH98 Жыл бұрын
What an idiot I guess chickens do come home to roost 😂😁😮
@MaxPowers2.04 жыл бұрын
I LOVE how she puts it that the African writers were able to "assume the centrality of their identify because they were African." Ive long believed that one of the greatest ails of American blacks is that we lack a strong centralized identity. Modern black culture is an amalgam of what bits and pieces we have been able to salvage of our indigenous cultures, whats been forced upon us, and that which we've borrowed from surrounding mostly white cultures.
@jamaalshelton67934 жыл бұрын
Yet we are the most successful in the Black diaspora
@soulscanner664 жыл бұрын
That diversity isn't a problem. It's a strength. There's also no such thing as a white culture. That's a racist concept designed to put black people on the bottom. Thinking that way just reinforces that national stratification and damages the country.
@MaxPowers2.04 жыл бұрын
@@jamaalshelton6793 are we, African immigrants in America occupy the highest categories of performance last i checked
@MaxPowers2.04 жыл бұрын
@@soulscanner66 i disagree, so if Irish and scottish immagrants come to America and set up towns filled with their own people is that not a white culture? Do people not complain when white people wear traditionally black hairstyles, or play traditionally black music? Are they not borrowing from black culture? Whats the difference?
@soulscanner664 жыл бұрын
@@MaxPowers2.0 In America, the idea black and white races was invented to justify keeping blacks as slaves and as an underclass. So calling it white perpetuates that idea. It's racist by definition.
@justinesportsmedicine93795 ай бұрын
At one time or another we've all seen behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz in life but what makes Toni Morrison transcendent is Toni not only comprehends how things work behind the curtain, but Toni Morrison masterfully and memorably articulates that which most only know as a feeling. Her grace uplifts many and others she frightens to death.
@jgq28815 ай бұрын
Well said.
@dearshomy4 жыл бұрын
That was very profound. It also meant a lot to hear her talk about finding that freedom in reading African writers.
@elisabethvelin59395 жыл бұрын
Oh my god i love this woman
@jabbarx15 жыл бұрын
She's very lovable
@johndeagle43895 жыл бұрын
What is your opinion of William Ellison?
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
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@spiritual6195 жыл бұрын
Thank you for helping me understand the unimportance of the "white gaze". It changed my life.
@tobecontinued62633 жыл бұрын
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@TonkaJay4 жыл бұрын
I love how calm she is, seeing how frustrated she is over the question. It was insulting.
@graceasquith83664 жыл бұрын
Toni Morrison is in a class by herself. The question she responded to was intelligent and fierce in her response. There was nothing to apologize for. She gracefully and indirectly reiterates the question to Charlie rose in such a respectful manner, that he articulated the question, and found no need to respond. In the end, he told her that it was "a noble response, regardless of the question." Charlie being White, surely was touched by the question, reiterated to him. Great interview and response.
@jamaalthompson20935 жыл бұрын
She was a genius. Rest in Peace and Power!
@curtismajor52535 жыл бұрын
"The glove has to be pulled inside out." I first fell in love since The Bluest Eyes. You inspired me to read and lose myself in this world at a very young age. RIP Ms. Chloe Wofford
@sandraperkins203 Жыл бұрын
Without a doubt Toni Morrison a was beyond brillant intellect. Miss her much love her incrediable books one of a kind. Charlie Rose had the best guests.
@Mrbeastifed4 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard of her before this but I love how she answers this. Also her voice is so beautiful I could listen to her for hours.
@cherylmks5 жыл бұрын
This woman! This woman! I am so glad and privileged that she lived during my lifetime so that I could be exposed to her work. Just pure genius and insight like no one else. She was a gift to us all.
@coralday20095 жыл бұрын
This lady has such grace and control.
@jamesmyers46914 жыл бұрын
Such a hero, this wonderful woman. I had to watch it twice. ‘As if our lives had no meaning, no depth, without the white gaze.’ Floored.
@glassamilk4 жыл бұрын
Two amazing people with an illuminating exchange. Great interview, grateful to have come across this.
@salmanalkhaledi64734 жыл бұрын
Wow. She's so articulate and sophisticated... Amazing calming presence.
@eorobinson34 жыл бұрын
This woman makes the height of self-awareness, look ignorant.
@Terrapin222 ай бұрын
Imagine being that good at something and getting asked dumb ass questions like that. It takes a lot of grace to respond the way she does here.
@JUNGLEsausage4 жыл бұрын
People, this isn't a debate; it's an interview. He provoked an answer out of her, which is something he does well.
@krollpeter4 жыл бұрын
I concur. Still, I got to say there are so many black people whom's patience to explain again seems endless.
@sii94235 жыл бұрын
At 2:11 "What else could it be Charlie?" softly silencing him lmao
@bobbylee_5 жыл бұрын
How many of us have had to have such a conversation with someone who don't want us to see, address, challenge or give voice to what is?
@romanhood48494 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of person that we all just _wish_ we could have had as a mentor in our lives. I bet those people who were lucky enough for that to be true, are wonderful well-rounded intelligent adults now.
@AntW114 жыл бұрын
I have total respect for this lady. Charlie Rose is out of his league. I have to read her books. She has made me want to read her because she is articulate and listening to her speak gives me no doubt I will benefit from reading her work. Thank you Ms Morrison
@lindat57849 жыл бұрын
the reason i started writing was my profound admiration of strong women, pioneer women especially which have all but been ignored in our history books. i gathered real stories from their grand and great grandchildren about them. i was mesmerized by their stories and wanted to share them. i was an exceptionally shy child of horrific abuse and these women taught me i could win above all i experienced. one friend ask me, why do you only ( at the time ) write about women? there are so many stories to tell.? i answered because i admire them and enjoy their stories, and i want to tell them to the world who doesn't know them. that is the inspiration to share them. eventually i wrote about other stories, but i have not lost my admiration and story sharing of ones i learn about even today