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The Dancing Mind

by Toni Morrison · 1996

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On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time.

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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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short · 24 pages
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