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  • čas přidán 3. 03. 2013
  • 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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Komentáře • 83

  • @angelahonan9395
    @angelahonan9395 Před rokem +18

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

    • @happygucci5094
      @happygucci5094 Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @terrylina.8366
    @terrylina.8366 Před 4 lety +56

    What a loss. Her legacy lives on eternally

    • @annettelittle7722
      @annettelittle7722 Před 4 lety

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

  • @iamDavidaRose
    @iamDavidaRose Před 5 lety +41

    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!

  • @meaux8
    @meaux8 Před 4 lety +32

    Rest in Your Powerful Courageous Words Dear Queen ~

  • @MrAveryBrown93
    @MrAveryBrown93 Před 3 lety +11

    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
    @myrtlew.ferrande1509 Před 4 lety +14

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

  • @Journeybacktoself
    @Journeybacktoself Před 4 lety +22

    That POSTURE! Fierce ❤️

  • @justinafields4450
    @justinafields4450 Před 4 lety +17

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

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety +6

    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' 👍

  • @blingblingshineshine
    @blingblingshineshine Před 11 lety +12

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

  • @WendellGrayII
    @WendellGrayII Před 4 lety +14

    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
      @jeanettesdaughter Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @henrymurray8810
    @henrymurray8810 Před 9 lety +17

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

  • @BCBD1
    @BCBD1 Před 7 lety +11

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

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Před 11 měsíci +1

    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. 💜💞💜

  • @momarius31
    @momarius31 Před 9 lety +57

    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
      @danielhuyghue4945 Před 8 lety +1

      +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
      @davonbrooks3667 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @TSquared2001
      @TSquared2001 Před 3 lety +1

      This is a good discourse into the creative element.

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 Před 2 lety +1

      My god. Every time he smiled I lost focus

  • @bakiekoroma6814
    @bakiekoroma6814 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @selinarobinson6767
    @selinarobinson6767 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @marveon9815
    @marveon9815 Před 4 lety +8

    Rest In Peace 💗

  • @haileygrey5047
    @haileygrey5047 Před 4 lety +3

    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.

  • @angelahonan9395
    @angelahonan9395 Před rokem

    I could listen to her all day every day.

  • @veronicamoton9833
    @veronicamoton9833 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @henrymurray8810
    @henrymurray8810 Před 9 lety

    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

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety +2

    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' ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

  • @Octaviamorris77
    @Octaviamorris77 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @TravelFunMusic
    @TravelFunMusic Před rokem

    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.

  • @hereswhatmyseeingeyedogsez7745

    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.

  • @henrymurray8810
    @henrymurray8810 Před 9 lety +20

    Great hair.

  • @safiououro-djobo3223
    @safiououro-djobo3223 Před 8 lety +2

    very thrilling. Toni Morrison a top by her own

  • @KoldFiyure
    @KoldFiyure Před 11 lety +7

    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.

  • @angelahonan9395
    @angelahonan9395 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @lionelbon8414
    @lionelbon8414 Před 4 lety

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

  • @veronicamoton9833
    @veronicamoton9833 Před 4 lety

    Art forms.....lovely

  • @xyzllii
    @xyzllii Před 4 lety

    BRILLIANT.

  • @myfriendisaac
    @myfriendisaac Před 4 lety +1

    50:23 Inspiring & ESSENTIAL as always 🎨💖

  • @vicenteignaciocarrascorami853

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

  • @ayasharahla1205
    @ayasharahla1205 Před 4 lety +2

    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.

  • @liceous
    @liceous Před 8 lety +21

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

  • @davidtopete3231
    @davidtopete3231 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @reggaelvr68
    @reggaelvr68 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @Scooberdo
    @Scooberdo Před rokem +1

    Imagine being taught by TONI

  • @lucesymone5681
    @lucesymone5681 Před 7 lety +2

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

  • @melodychipfakacha20
    @melodychipfakacha20 Před 4 lety

    Profound👌

  • @davonbrooks3667
    @davonbrooks3667 Před 3 lety

    'nobody cares but ido" love her

  • @ciaraaraujo3161
    @ciaraaraujo3161 Před 8 lety +3

    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?

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @veronicamoton9833
    @veronicamoton9833 Před 4 lety

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

  • @eloisegayer7071
    @eloisegayer7071 Před 7 lety +8

    Is there a transcript of this interview anywhere?

    • @GinaGreenlee
      @GinaGreenlee Před rokem +1

      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.

  • @justincates2548
    @justincates2548 Před 4 lety

    Thank You Mother Godd! Redd. ⚡️🕉

  • @MissCharlotteBurley
    @MissCharlotteBurley Před 4 lety +10

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

  • @apexxxx10
    @apexxxx10 Před 11 lety

    kiitos

  • @chicdame1990
    @chicdame1990 Před 4 lety +1

    wow

  • @rdo123
    @rdo123 Před 11 lety +3

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

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @EarthEagleGT
    @EarthEagleGT Před 5 lety +1

    19:00

  • @ramimoussi2851
    @ramimoussi2851 Před 8 lety +1

    17:03

  • @justincates2548
    @justincates2548 Před 4 lety

    #Freedom2022 ⚡️🕉

  • @HollijoyJohnson
    @HollijoyJohnson Před rokem

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

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @veronicamoton9833
    @veronicamoton9833 Před 4 lety

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

  • @MIS315
    @MIS315 Před 3 lety

    Wonderful woman. And of course, NOT a feminist 🙂

  • @justincates2548
    @justincates2548 Před 4 lety

    THe Kraken Resist. ⚡️🕉

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @mzukisindzipo7495
    @mzukisindzipo7495 Před 4 lety

    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
      @deniselaidler559 Před rokem

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

  • @crispdisc245
    @crispdisc245 Před 4 lety +2

    Rip in pepperoneronieries queen of the memes.

  • @angelsbackgroundsounds
    @angelsbackgroundsounds Před 4 lety +3

    been watching her 2+ day straight love this woman bless her soul