what influenced toni morrison to write
Toni Morrison: Writing Is a Dangerous Pursuit. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist talks art and activism with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sonia Sanchez. Writing is dangerousâsomething Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison learned early in life. When they were children, Morrison and her sister loved to write on sidewalks. One day, they saw a new word near their home and began to copy it out: F-U-Câ.