Legacy: Toni Morrison was a Nobel Prize-winning author, professor, and editor whose work unapologetically explored Black American life and culture with profound depth and radical honesty. Morrison’s narratives addressed themes of identity, community, and the continued afterlife of enslavement. There is no writer that I've learned more from about myself and the world than Toni Morrison. From rigorous 400 level seminars at Spelman College, to centering my thesis on the novel Paradise, and integrating Morrison's scholarship into my work as a therapist, from Toni Morrsion I learned to dream new worlds outside of the colonial imagination. Toni Morrison's work presents the delicate art of intentionally archiving the past, remembering what has been lost and stolen, to build a more expansive and human future. If you're new to the works of Toni Morrison, I suggest reading every book and essay there is, but starting with the novel Sula or the essay collection “The Origin of Others.”