On this day, Toni Morrison was born (February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019). . Today's special mic drop comes from Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison.🎤 . "I thought of myself as like the jazz musician — someone who practices and practices and practices in order to be able to invent and to make his art look effortless and graceful. I was always conscious of the constructed aspect of the writing process, and that art appears natural and elegant only as a result of constant practice and awareness of its formal structures. You must practice thrift in order to achieve that luxurious quality of wastefulness — that sense that you have enough to waste, that you are holding back — without actually wasting anything." . . . . . . . . . . #tonimorrison #tonimorrisonbooks #tonimorrisonbookclub #riptonimorrison #tonimorrisonquote #tonimorrisonbeloved #tonimorrisonquotes #tonimorrisontribute #tonimorrison👑 #tonimorrisonjazz #tonimorrisonsula #tonimorrisonforever #vintagebooks #bookstagram #bookshelf #igbooks #bibliophile #blackwriters #writers #readblackwriters #antiquarianbooks #bookstagrammer #booklover #bookcommunity #coverlove #greatbooks #bookfeature #bookaddict #vintagepaperback #diversespines https://www.instagram.com/p/B8tSjnsAR7g/?igshid=iwfcn3ryzq5l