I’m driving down North Carolina Highway 158 late at night, the peninsula woods flanking the road. It’s so dark here. The moon is about half full. Clusters of trees stand bare and stiff in the black. I can see the stars through the windshield. Orion’s south of me, lying on his side like the prophet […]
Transcript: Toni Morrison at Portland State, 1975
Educating the conqueror is not our business. —Toni Morrison Last week some of us heard for the first time a presentation that Prof. Toni Morrison made in May 1975 during a public lecture series on the theme of the American Dream. “A Humanist View” begins by surveying technically objective shipping records. Comparing the records’ descriptions of rice, tar, […]