Thursday, February 18th Why did you choose this image? https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-passing-award-winning-novelist-toni-morrison/. This picture shows Toni Morrison, the author of several novels including Beloved. She passed away in 2019. The words, “if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then you have to empower somebody else” are the advice she often gave to her students when she taught at Princeton University.