The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters

Beautiful. Short, but powerful. Inspired by the concept that the act of writing appears solitary but needs another for its completion, loved her description of the danger that “our busied-up, education-as-horse-race, trophy-driven culture” poses to reading, and was moved by the plight faced by writers in dangerous places.

The fact that the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for literature is reading this amzazing work on the pleasures of intellectual stimulation and growth through reading is really the only qualification it needs to command the highest recommendations. Nevertheless, by moving beyond the sense of awe that Toni Morrison tends to inspire just by being Toni Morrison, one is able to delve into the wonders of her own dancing mind as revealed in this thrilling audio book.

Aberjhani
author of "Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance"
"The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois"
and "Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black"