Toni Morrison: On Borders and Belonging

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August 7, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace The function of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison - Toni Morrison: On Borders and Belonging "What does home mean and where do we anchor our belonging in a world of violent alienation and alienating violence? I use "alien" here both in the proper etymological sense rooted in the Latin alienus, "belonging to another," and in the astrophysical sense of "from another planet," "not human," for the combined effect of a dehumanizing assault on belonging for those treated and mistreated as alien to a country or a community. That, and some hint of the remedy for it, is what Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 -- August 5, 2019) -- one of the titanic thinkers and writers of our time, and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature -- returns to again and again..." { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, read this passage by Toni Morrison: "Be Your Own Story" { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well Pushing Through: A Poem for Grieving Hearts When Someone Threw Coffee at My Face 6 Habits of Hope How to Be Yourself Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living A Life The Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,869 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More