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KO - From your comment I'm going to assume you're not only young but unfortunately have learned little from Barack Obama. Our new President elect is much too secure and open-minded to label the speech of anyone talented and brilliant as Morrison as "affected". You have the right to express yourself as you choose, so does she. Her style blinded you to her substance! You could not enjoy the pleasure and beauty of a tonality and manner of speaking different from your own generation. But the world belongs to anyone still alive. Move over.

KO - please! A little respect! Don't you get who Toni Morrison is and what she has given the world?

thank goodness our national political life no longer needs that affected vocal quality in order to address injustice and inconvenient truths - the dramatizing of meaning with slow speech and controlled breaths, labored gentle accents, meant to add urgency and relevance and pathos to moralistic perceptions of reality. that was the way of older generations - to "emote" messages of righteousness. younger generations have a new rhythm, it is more direct, open and transcendant. - like our new President elect..

len,
some places in NY are like
that(deep south) also!

Does Dr. Morrison have any opinion of the seemingly bi-partisan apathy towards world wide slavery and the sex trade? Does Dr. Morrison have any opinion on the Democratic (and of course Republican) agenda against gay marriage? Shouldn’t Obama, the first black president, be leading the charge for equal rights for all including gay marriage? Does Dr. Morrison believe, as I do, that gay rights ARE civil rights and human rights?

(I feel like a corny gushing fan, but) I love and appreciate your work so much, Ms. Morrison! You capture and give voice to so many dynamics of the black experience, so completely and profoundly...