Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. Now on digital and DVD.
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An intimate, comprehensive portrait of the life and works of legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. In select theaters June 21st.
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"Now I own the world. I could write anything. To anyone, for anyone." – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Tickets:
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” — Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in select theaters. Get tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Toni Morrison harnessed the power of words on a page to touch millions of souls around the world. We’re remembering her incredible legacy today on what would have been her 90th birthday.
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison
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An intimate, comprehensive portrait of the life and works of legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. In select theaters June 21st.
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Author Walter Mosley describes the universality of Toni Morrison’s work.
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Check out Toni Morrison's TIME 100 Women of the Year cover 💜
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The wait is over ❤️ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now available on digital and DVD. See it today:
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“Something that is loved is never lost.”
— Toni Morrison, from “Beloved”
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am opens in more theaters this weekend
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Don’t miss Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on
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“I am the head of household. Just like you.” Toni Morrison discusses not receiving equal pay at her first job.
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An honor ❤️ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am has been nominated for Best Biographical Documentary at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
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"To get to a place where you could love anything you chose — not to need permission for desire — well now 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 was freedom."
— Toni Morrison, from “Beloved”
Photograph ©Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” — Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in select theaters. Get tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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💜“I didn’t want to speak for Black people, I wanted to speak to and be among — it’s us.”💜
Celebrating Toni Morrison’s legacy on her birthday, and every day.
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“How powerful is that? I could tear up the whole place”. Toni Morrison discusses the banning of “Paradise” in a Texas prison.
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Toni Morrison’s reaction to the banning of “Paradise” in a Texas prison.
#ToniMorrisonFilm
is now in select theaters. Get tickets:
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We are so honored that
@ToniMorrison
won the
@CriticsChoice
Documentary Award for Best Biographical Documentary 💜
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70 years ago this summer, Toni Morrison graduated from Lorain High School
#ClassOf1949
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in theaters.
Tickets:
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.
@Oprah
goes to great lengths to have a conversation with Toni Morrison after reading ‘Beloved.”
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“I've spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.”
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#WednesdayWisdom
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"A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.” - Toni Morrison
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now on digital and DVD:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“Morrison’s life story is pointedly told through the prism of her work.”
@OutMagazine
. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in select theaters. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Toni Morrison’s reaction to the banning of “Paradise” in a Texas prison.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now available on digital and DVD:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“You are your own stories.” — Toni Morrison.
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in theaters now. Tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.” – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
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“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” — Toni Morrison
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in theaters now. Get tickets:
Photograph © James L. McGuire
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” — Toni Morrison, from “Song of Solomon”
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in a theater near you ❤️
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The essential reading guide to Toni Morrison’s “rich, powerful literary legacy” from
@NYTimes
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“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.” – Toni Morrison
Get tickets to
#ToniMorrisonFilm
:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrison
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” — Toni Morrison
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on digital today:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrisonFilm
#ToniMorrison
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“Being able to laugh got me through.” — Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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An artful and intimate portrait of the life and works of legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
@ToniMorrison
is in select theaters Friday:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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"More than 3,000 people gathered at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Thursday to celebrate Toni Morrison, a giant of American literature whose work won acclaim for its groundbreaking style and complex exploration of black American identity."
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"Your skill may have been without equal, but you did pave a path to get there with your love for us as black people.” - Jamil Smith,
@RollingStone
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“Toni Morrison was unparalleled...A novelist, essayist, woman and sage, she was a genius of uncommon grace. This is not hyperbolic. It is, simply, fact.” - Roxane Gay,
@NYTimes
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Thank you to
@RollingStone
for naming
@ToniMorrison
as one of the 10 Best Documentaries of 2019. 💜
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#FridayFeeling
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“For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.” – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrison
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.”
– Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“So [painful], so deep, for an 11 year-old girl to believe that if she only had some characteristics of the white world, she would be okay.”
#ToniMorrisonFilm
is in theaters tomorrow. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
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“It is impossible to imagine the American literary landscape without a Toni Morrsion”. Her documentary ‘Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am' is in select theaters June 21.
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"[
#ToniMorrisonFilm
] is a beautifully constructed documentary. Its composite parts combine to reveal the wholeness and fullness of who she is as an artist, and who we are — her muses.”
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“WHAT A WOMAN. WHAT A LIFE.”
@WSJ
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
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“[Toni’s] warmth and wisdom come through […] As filmmakers, you could not ask for anything more.” - Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
See
#ToniMorrisonFilm
in theaters today! Tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Just in time for Summer, read Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay 'Cooking Out’
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“I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.” Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now theaters. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“When
#ToniMorrison
published Beloved, it was an extraordinary turning point [...] in the history of the world because she urged us to imagine people who were slaves as human beings...” Angela Davis from
#ToniMorrisonFilm
, in theaters Friday:
#Juneteenth
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“In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work." – Toni Morrison
@ToniMorrison
is now in theaters. Tickets:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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“[Sula] showed me the magic of my own world, that I didn't see... and after reading her it was hard to see my own world in the same way.” Farah Griffin discusses her initial reaction to reading
#ToniMorrison
.
Get tickets:
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“GENEROUS AND INTELLIGENT. BROUGHT ALIVE BY THE CHARISMA AND BRILLIANCE OF ITS SUBJECT. ” —
@NYTimes
.
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in theaters today! Tickets:
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“Make a difference about something other than yourselves.” — Toni Morrison.
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in a theater near you ❤️
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#ToniMorrisonFilm
is now playing in select New York and Los Angeles theaters. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
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“I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.” Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now theaters. Get tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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.
@Oprah
stopped at nothing to have a word with Toni Morrison after she read “Beloved”.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now available on digital and DVD. Watch it now:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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"Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.” —Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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Gayl Jones. Lucille Clifton. Toni Cade Bambara. Angela Davis. These were the voices that helped make a profound contribution to American publishing.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.” – Toni Morrison
@ToniMorrison
is now in theaters:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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Toni Morrison looking chic in her
@HowardU
days.
#ThrowbackThursday
@ToniMorrison
is now playing in select theaters. Showtimes:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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"Toni Morrison is more than the standard-bearer of American literature. She is our greatest singer. And this book is perhaps her most important song.” -
@NYTimes
on Toni Morrison’s new book, The Source of Self-Regard.
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Toni Morrison during her high school days in Lorain, OH.
See Toni Morrison: The PiecesI Am in Lorain (and across the country) today! Tickets:
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@LHScarnegie
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Thank you to hosts
@JanetMock
and
@QuincyDJones
for making last night’s screening of
@ToniMorrison
at the
@musoftolerance
so special 💜
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Thank you to the
@naacpimageaward
for nominating
#ToniMorrisonFilm
for Outstanding Documentary Film 💜
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“A POWERFUL AND POIGNANT WATCH.”
@BBCAMERICA
.
See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in theaters today! Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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Artist Aaron Polinsky (
@peewees
.design.concepts on Instagram) is creating a lovely mural at Kakiat Elementary School in Spring Valley, NY in honor of the late Toni Morrison.
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” — Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now available on digital and DVD:
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrisonFilm
#ToniMorrison
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Toni Morrison describes her late father’s influence on Song of Solomon.
See her story in Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Tickets:
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#ToniMorrisonFilm
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Brooklyn: Get tickets for a special screening of
#ToniMorrisonFilm
. Q&A to follow with director
@TGSFilm
and
@guidetoglo
, founder of
@WellReadBlkGirl
. Tickets:
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“BEAUTIFUL.” —
@THR
.
@ToniMorrison
is now playing in more theaters today! Tickets:
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“What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?”
– Toni Morrison, from “Jazz”
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in more locations ❤️
#ToniMorrison
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"11 Groundbreaking Toni Morrison Books to Read" -
@OprahMagazine
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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The certified-fresh Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in more locations!
See the film in a theater near you this weekend. Tickets:
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There sure is 💜 Hope to see you in the theater
Did you know there was a Toni Morrison documentary in theaters right now? I didn't.
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“I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
Photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
#ToniMorrisonFilm
is in theaters this Friday. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#MondayMotivation
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters awards Toni Morrison with the prestigious Gold Medal for Fiction!
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"Morrison didn’t just tell these stories of these people—her people, our people, us—she elevated them.” Author Tayari Jones honors Toni Morrison’s legacy
@TIME
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Join
@Cinema_Detroit
online tonight at 7:30pm ET for a discussion of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am with poet and social justice organizer
@Combsthepoet
and Janet Webster Jones, owner of
@sourcebksellers
.
Watch the discussion at
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“ELOQUENT”
@Variety
. See Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on digital today:
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Thank you 🙏🏿
@ReginaKing
for the love!
I know what Im doing this weekend. Can't wait to see
@ToniMorrison
The Pieces I Am. Never lived in a home that didn't have at least one of her books on the shelf. So she's pretty much been a part of my entire life.💙
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The critically-acclaimed
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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“A POWERFUL AND POIGNANT WATCH.” —
@BBCAMERICA
.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in more theaters! Get tickets now:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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.
@Oprah
stopped at nothing to have a word with Toni Morrison after she read Beloved.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is now playing in theaters. Tickets:
#ToniMorrison
#ToniMorrisonFilm
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"Visiting her Princeton class all those years ago first showed me that she wasn’t just an exquisite writer, singular in nature, but a profound philosopher of sound.” — Daphne A. Brooks
@Pitchfork
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