Toni Morrison

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 25/05/2006:

> For some reason the current thread about Toni Morrison calls to mind 
> the startled exclamation from Bartender Moe when he attends a literary 
> festival and spots a certain famous author onstage:  "Maya Angelou is 
> BLACK?!?"

Even allowing for the fact that some of it on this list is just 
trolling, it's still quite astonishing.

Is this how people over there reacted when she won the Nobel? This 
sneering.

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