Literary Witches

Taisia Kitaiskaia

An illustrated celebration of women writers who have enchanted generations and transformed the world: Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Octavia Butler, Sappho, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, Toni Morrison, Emily Brontë, and more:

Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

When Toni Morrison became the first African American woman awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, she delivered this magnificent speech on the power of language:

Take This Advice: The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given

“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”

Toni Morrison on how to be your own story and reap the rewards of adulthood in a culture that fetishizes youth – her magnificent Wellesley College anti-commencement commencement address:

The Book of Mean People

Toni Morrison

“Big people are little when they are mean. But little people are not big when they are mean.”

Toni Morrison’s children’s allegory about kindness and intention, a collaboration with her son illustrated by the great Pascal Lemaitre.

The Big Box (Jump at the Sun)

Toni Morrison

Beloved author Toni Morrison’s darkly philosophical children’s book, a collaboration with her son.