A Year After Toni Morrison’s Death, Her Visions Of Love Stay With Us

Novelist Toni Morrison, seen at the unveiling ceremony of a memorial bench marking the abolition of slavery in Paris in 2010.

Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and love itself was her enduring subject. But love isn’t always a good or joyous thing in her work.

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Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and love itself was her enduring subject. But love isn’t always a good or joyous thing in her work.