Our Beloved has Gone Home

Patti Flinn
5 min readAug 7, 2019

We Will Miss Our Ms. Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, Photo from Nobel Foundation archive

My heart is broken. I know mine isn’t the only one but at this moment it feels like it is. Toni Morrison wasn’t just an amazing writer, she was the voice of black women.

Ironically, I learned about Toni Morrison from a white female instructor in a women’s literature class at The Ohio State University. I will admit, I’d never heard of Toni Morrison and had no…

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Patti Flinn

… perspective of a Gen X woman exploring her happy.