Toni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding Meaning

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The author Toni Morrison answers a question from an audience member about "how to survive whole in a world where we are all victims of something."
Toni Morrison was a part of The Connecticut Forum, in conversation with Frank McCourt and moderator Juan Williams, on May 4, 2001.

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@yumimonkey Жыл бұрын

"It's a nice big fat philosophical question, about: how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job. We are already born, we are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between."

@rainy5517 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@Jackie-cs1bt 14 күн бұрын

thank you

@marlitassinari7670 8 күн бұрын

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@HMNawaz Жыл бұрын

Her voice, delivery, cadence; it’s all virtuoso, prophetic, sage advice

@khaledbenaida5676 Жыл бұрын

Prophetic and sage !

@vylxv002 Жыл бұрын

When he was like “that was wild”… FELT!!!! this is beyond poetic, it’s giving voice to something that’s there, lingering over the human experience.

@earthlingbron Жыл бұрын

I always come back to this video

@khaledbenaida5676 9 ай бұрын

Me too !

@khaledbenaida5676 2 жыл бұрын

Listening to her is like a Therapy !

@Gwen-joyful-light 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for what comes out of her brain I'm completely in awe of this beautiful woman, RIP.

@zovalentine7305 5 ай бұрын

Elegant beautful enlightened intelligent heartfelt lady. Rest in power and peace🙏 Toni Morrison 18 February 1931 ~ 5 August 2019⚘

@TheDaughterOfCain 3 жыл бұрын

this is so, so beautiful

@GraceRay-b9m 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure why, but hearing you said that makes me want to cry. You don't survive whole.

@Lina907 5 ай бұрын

Te descubri cuando debi hacerlo, por cumplir mis 40 años. Gracias Sra. Morrison. Das sentido a mi pensamiento, pones en palabras lo que mi cabeza no puede. Te admiro Sra. Morrison.

@maryseo. Жыл бұрын

Ms Morrison displayed deep wisdom with this one...

@takodawhitefeather 3 жыл бұрын

She nailed it! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@jermainespence6553 6 ай бұрын

All I can say is ‘shiiiiiiit’ if you’ll pardon me. You can’t teach that kind of clarity.

@Mia-iz5pj 8 ай бұрын

is there a full version of this?

@bonosigudu279 2 жыл бұрын

A mantra. Always. ❤️

@kirkcohall6114 3 жыл бұрын

Simply the best!

@MattRomPsalms 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t help but to hear Tina Turner when I read that. I love that song. The two may not correlate but I still heard her singing that

@Poemsapennyeach Жыл бұрын

A great and wise woman.

@chauntoraadams5134 2 жыл бұрын

I love her.

@amurrilauren 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@MsAgnosticaGoesQuantum 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@carolineneisha Ай бұрын

What an answer…! Gosh I miss her voice. I’m so grateful we had her for so long - that she shared so much of herself and her perspectives with us.

@thotunewstildont5348 Жыл бұрын

❤ thank you Toni Morrison. It's truly been enlightening.

@Alyssa08080 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@patricial1187 2 жыл бұрын

So beautiful and elegant!

@NC-qc7wd 6 ай бұрын

I wish I had known her decades ago, I would have asked her to adopt me, with all the respect to my mother who was a great mother.

@ravenblack942 6 ай бұрын

I had the same fantasy.

@mecheleceniza 3 жыл бұрын

💕

@BibleSamurai 3 ай бұрын

i like her. she's not a sports & weather type like most ppl. shes like me...soul talk

@onedirections1172 5 ай бұрын

Mother love me keep me warm Mother loves me, keeps me warm, nurtures me, cares for me, and calms me through the storm. To help me mother, help your baby to be strong, nothing more. No Money, is A Mercy, can The Bluest Eye find a Rainbow a Home? For Frank and his Sister here's a poem. I love you, Mother, I thank you everyday, love me, keep me warm, nurture me, care for me, show me what is right and wrong. Your love has kept me, in the light, words that make a man cave bright. And when I go to her at night, she rocks me in my cradle, so I sleep tight. I love you Mother. I Thank you everyday. Mother loves me, keeps me warm, nurtures me, cares for me, and calms me through the storm. To help me Mother, help your baby, to be strong, nothing more. Thank you Toni, for I've been torn, and my mother left me in the storm. By Eddie Campagnola Edward Campagnola, "Directions to the Dumpster" & Pen name "One Directions to Mercy Street"

@tom99790 5 ай бұрын

Look to the turtle for mirroring in that the turtle has a shell for it’s survival and unless it’s sleeping of under serious attack, it’s head remains in the outer world. So let’s acknowledge that we are the turtle..very ancient..whose defensive covering is our chest because what’s contained within our chest is our spiritual/soulful heart of many chambers..the place from which we have been created to interact with the outer world and place in which to retreat when under attack, knowing that our outer structure is un-penetrable. This is how we survive from the past, present and future wounds against our sacredness/holy. We return to our heart of many chambers wherein the innermost chamber is the God head itself and “you” do not exist.