The same questions were raised in an interview Morrison did with Charlie Rose in 1998, and onwards in her career. Even the inquiry comes from a position of being in the center." "You could never ask a white author, 'When are you going to write about Black people?' Whether he did or not, or she did or not. "You can't understand how powerfully racist that question is, can you?" Morrison responded. More than a decade later, in 1988, journalist Jana Wendt asked Morrison if she would ever change and incorporate white lives in her work in substantial way. If she is to maintain the large and serious audience she deserves, she is going to have to address a riskier contemporary reality." In a 1973 review of Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison's Sula, New York Times critic Sara Blackburn wrote: "Toni Morrison is far too talented to remain only a marvelous recorder of the black side of provincial American life.
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