Some people loom larger than life. Their towering presence exudes an air of immortality. Writer Toni Morrison, a creative goddess and intellectual titan, was such a figure. Donning her majestic silver locs, complemented by her sun-kissed skin and exuberant glow, she commanded ethereal-like attention. And even if her presentation was regal and innocuous, her writings and spoken words — what she fashioned with language and rhetoric — were profoundly creative, imaginative, political, and communal. An author of 11 novels, an accomplished book editor, and a producer of countless gems of cultural criticism, -->