![]() ![]() ♪ ♪ (bass solo) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (audience applause). Or green like lettuce, or cucumber, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, flying appears as a symbol of freedom, most notably in the African legend of Solomon, who released his son Jake to fall to the evils of American slavery while he flew away to freedom. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. See, you think dark is just one color, but it ain't.Īnd it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (piano stops) JASON: "We were lost then and talking about dark. So, we're gonna play a song for Toni Morrison, it's called, Toni Morrison Said Black is a Rainbow. Often, she's talking about this music that happens on this stage.Īnd I wrote a piece for her based on a, a, a fragment or a section of, The Song of Solomon. For years people have been crying at Toni Morrison novels, and laughing at Toni Morrison novels.īut, what she also does is she paints this music. This exhibition includes diary entries, unreleased recordings and drafts of novels, such as Sula, Song. They wrapped every surviving page in Mylar. They sacrificed themselves and tell you about you.įor a lot of us, Toni Morrison is one of these people.ĬHRISTIAN: Sister Morrison, that's right. A team of archivists saved Morrisons work. JASON: 'Cause I think there are people in, in our history who really go through a lot of effort to find a, a meaningful and poetic way to tell you about your life. ![]()
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