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11 жыл бұрын

A fireside chat with Toni Morrison, hosted by Torrence Boone from the Google New York office. In her latest book "Home," Ms. Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood-and his home.
Directed by Lee Stimmel
Read an Author Guide to Toni Morrison's work on Google Play Editorial: goo.gl/rpnqpQ
Buy Home and other books from Toni Morrison on Google Play Books: goo.gl/mLhS3R

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@angelahonan9395 Жыл бұрын

Listening to her brings tears to my eyes. Listening to her feels like home. I don’t know how else to say it.

@happygucci5094 3 ай бұрын

You said it beautifully. She is my Great Mother archetype that lives inside my psyche.

@iamDavidaRose 5 жыл бұрын

She is brilliant, charming, witty, funny, and beautiful. Not just a physical beauty although it’s obvious but a beauty that’s internal. A light that radiates within her. I just want to hug her. I love Toni Morrison!

@terrylina.8366 4 жыл бұрын

What a loss. Her legacy lives on eternally

@annettelittle7722 4 жыл бұрын

She has given a voice when it came to what motherhood was like kn Kowing no good would come to your children.

@meaux8 4 жыл бұрын

Rest in Your Powerful Courageous Words Dear Queen ~

@MrAveryBrown93 4 жыл бұрын

An incredible conversation, here. Salute to Torrence Boone, for being an awesome interviewer. Toni Morrison- Her words will live, forever. Continue to rest in power, Toni Morrison. ✊🏿🤎🤎🤎

@myrtlew.ferrande1509 4 жыл бұрын

You will be missed Beloved Toni - your body of work speaks volumes - thank you so very much. RIP

@justinafields4450 4 жыл бұрын

Soo gifted and such a gift. She's my literary Queen. RIP❤

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

50:30 'the hunger for narrative is as old as the human life' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 50:38 'there is no age in which people did not make art' 👏 👏 👏 51:07 'the hunger for story is permanent, eternal' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 'it's like food, it will never go away' 👍

@henrymurray8810 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Google for this writers series. Interesting, personable, necessary.

@Journeybacktoself 4 жыл бұрын

That POSTURE! Fierce ❤️

@WendellGrayII 4 жыл бұрын

Started this novel the day before she passed and just finished it. I'm just floored by the timelessness of her work and the freshness of her perceptions. How she associates and plays with the known to bring us somewhere new. What a blessing it is to read her work.

@jeanettesdaughter 10 ай бұрын

Possibly my favorite. All kinds of love. “Taking the skin off the scab of our lives in the 50s…”

@blingblingshineshine 11 жыл бұрын

"The point of writing is to take something common and estrange it, make it new again"

@BCBD1 7 жыл бұрын

I love listening to her as well, I love these google venues...

@lizgichora6472 Жыл бұрын

Home " is Safe ", United States Of America. Here no one can hurt you; not when you are at home, if one would dare, there would be those who would come to your defense. Thank you for this interview with Toni Morrison. 💜💞💜

@bakiekoroma6814 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you...Ms Morrison. May God bless you and May your soul rest in peace.

@selinarobinson6767 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Morrison, lady, sista, you ROCK! You are very beloved in the community! Much love, respect & gratitude!

@momarius31 9 жыл бұрын

I love listening to Morrison's interviews - each one grants knowledge to anyone curious enough to listen. But jeez that's a hard task with that hunk of man meat sitting next to her. XD

@danielhuyghue4945 8 жыл бұрын

+mo marius Preach, Chiiiiild!!!! Even at my age (and I adore Prof. Morrison's work/interview style), I think I only registered about every 10th word.

@davonbrooks3667 3 жыл бұрын

she inspires me to be focused so much so that it doesnt compare!!!!!!

@TSquared2001 3 жыл бұрын

This is a good discourse into the creative element.

@nahuelma97 2 жыл бұрын

My god. Every time he smiled I lost focus

@haileygrey5047 4 жыл бұрын

I've never even realized until she pointed it out here that she doesn't really describe her characters appearance that much bc I've never had a problem not seeing them. I have always saw them so vibrantly in my mind. I am a white female and my mother introduced her to me when I was around 14 and I have been in love ever since.

@marveon9815 4 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace 💗

@veronicamoton9833 4 жыл бұрын

Yes.....Atlanta is a very diverse community of people’s that’s why I love it here

@Octaviamorris77 4 жыл бұрын

The ending comments I didn't understand but the whole discussion was intoxicating and poetic..loved it!

@angelahonan9395 Жыл бұрын

I could listen to her all day every day.

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

19:15 'no one is out to get you... that's home' 👏 👏 👏 'there's a yearning in it, a mysticalness' 👏 👏 👏 'the physical and spiritual safety of home' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

@TravelFunMusic Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Deep wisdom, compounded by the reinforced strength one gets from conscious research and thinking deeply on difficult yet important and fascinating topics. She is deserving of all the accolades.

@henrymurray8810 9 жыл бұрын

The children's story about what took place in history concerning what it looked like, it felt like, it was like back in the day when we were becoming a people was brilliant and on time and congratulations on seeing the need and getting it done! love

@henrymurray8810 9 жыл бұрын

Great hair.

@KoldFiyure 11 жыл бұрын

I love Toni Morrison's work. I am currently reading about 4 books of hers, one after the other of course and I am enjoying it. I really loved seeing how down to earth she is. -Torrence Boone- Great job interviewing and my god, so sexy. I know I have a chance with him now and that makes me sooo happy. :) and yes,even if that sounded creepy, we are all entitled to one creep moment a lifetime lol.

@safiououro-djobo3223 8 жыл бұрын

very thrilling. Toni Morrison a top by her own

@angelahonan9395 Жыл бұрын

She knows the secrets of the universe and you would think someone who knows the secrets of the universe would think the rest of us who don’t are beneath her. You think it would be exasperating to talk to anyone else and it must be but instead she embraces us and says. Let me show you. Let me share with you.

@ayasharahla1205 4 жыл бұрын

Very Good Heart felt Review. I didn't know anything about this person until today and I'm aof the same so called Race who grew up at that time 70's etc, Unfortunate.

@vicenteignaciocarrascorami853 Жыл бұрын

Word constructions and association. It might be very general but it is a source of more in-depth analysis. Great conversation.

@xyzllii 4 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT.

@lionelbon8414 4 жыл бұрын

17:00 - 20:35 incredibly resonates so deeply with me

@myfriendisaac 4 жыл бұрын

50:23 Inspiring & ESSENTIAL as always 🎨💖

@liceous 8 жыл бұрын

ok torrance is hot i also am obsessed w/ toni morrison

@lvanni8564 5 жыл бұрын

liceous so hot

@veronicamoton9833 4 жыл бұрын

Art forms.....lovely

@Scooberdo Жыл бұрын

Imagine being taught by TONI

@reggaelvr68 4 жыл бұрын

6/8/20 found this interview from #grltrek podcast. I can't wait to get into it!!!

@davidtopete3231 3 жыл бұрын

@ Talks at Google. The transcription is incorrect here: 44:48 Always the gays-- It should be "gaze" not "gays"

@lucesymone 7 жыл бұрын

I wished someone would've ask her, who the character in the blue zoot suit was to Frank Money

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

39:40 'when I get stuck the music releases me' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

@ciaraaraujo3161 8 жыл бұрын

Please, who has already read the novel HOME? I'd like to know your impressions, opinion, your point of view about this book. Who can help?

@jeanettesdaughter 10 ай бұрын

I could. And I liked Frank Money. 😂

@melodychipfakacha20 4 жыл бұрын

Profound👌

@davonbrooks3667 3 жыл бұрын

'nobody cares but ido" love her

@justincates2548 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You Mother Godd! Redd. ⚡️🕉

@rdo123 11 жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview. And I concur, Kold. Torrence is delicious-looking.

@hereswhatmyseeingeyedogsez7745 3 ай бұрын

I'm a big fat person just like Toni Morrison. Toni gives me hope and inspiration that I too may live well into my 80's before I die. Toni Morrison died in her 88th year and I believe her weight here when she was about 82 years was approximately 260 pounds.

@veronicamoton9833 4 жыл бұрын

Yes ....language can do that ....create different narratives.......develop diverse positions

@eloisegayer7071 7 жыл бұрын

Is there a transcript of this interview anywhere?

@GinaGreenlee Жыл бұрын

Click on the three dots to the right of "Download." One of them is "Show Transcript." I'm watching this in 2023 so I'm answering you seven years hence. That is because I LOVE the transcripts and used to transcribe myself (which takes forever) but often the transcript is available as it is here.

@apexxxx10 11 жыл бұрын

kiitos

@chicdame1990 4 жыл бұрын

wow

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

52:48 'who I the foreigner' 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

@MissCharlotteBurley 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if she is watching us now from the other side?

@benisturning30 4 жыл бұрын

Morbid.

@MissCharlotteBurley 4 жыл бұрын

Ben A I can be at times. The SciFi “what if” in me. 👋🏽

@HollijoyJohnson Жыл бұрын

My lord, wondering if in fact Toni had pneumonia at the time of this interview 😳 America must do better by its citizens

@EarthEagleGT 5 жыл бұрын

19:00

@justincates2548 4 жыл бұрын

#Freedom2022 ⚡️🕉

@ramimoussi2851 8 жыл бұрын

17:03

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

38:00 'I am a little leery of that I spiritual stuff'

@luc7937 9 күн бұрын

Gaia??

@MIS315 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful woman. And of course, NOT a feminist 🙂

@TheUrbanPrude 2 ай бұрын

HUH???

@veronicamoton9833 4 жыл бұрын

Derivatives of some artist works allowing the imagination to complete facial expression adding emotional effects.

@SueLyons1 2 жыл бұрын

40:18 'tell her to read Homer... speaking of viollence and rape'

@TheUrbanPrude 2 ай бұрын

She was ready

@justincates2548 4 жыл бұрын

THe Kraken Resist. ⚡️🕉

@mzukisindzipo7495 4 жыл бұрын

Much as I adore Miss Morrison, I have to say that at +/- 28:00 lies some serious hyperbole ie. That a book costs a month's salary in Africa. Her most recent book 'A Mouth Full of Blood" sold for R300 in Joburg Mall... No one earns R300 a month, as a general matter.

@deniselaidler559 Жыл бұрын

In some African countries, the cost of a book may as well be as a month's salary. It's so inaccessible