Download or read book The Dancing Mind written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time. "She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." —Oprah Winfrey