"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Today's Question
If something you want doesn't exist in the world yet, which of those things would you like to make yourself?
Before dawn, a single-mother editor wrote her first novel
Toni Morrison portrayed the lives of Black Americans with great depth and in 1993 became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She wrote while working as a publishing editor and raising two sons on her own.
She recalled writing in the early hours before dawn, before her children woke. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was the story she wanted to read but couldn't find in the world: the story of a Black girl who comes to hate herself.