you should read everything toni morrison has written. everyone should. some writers writing today who inspire me today, i love carolina -- [inaudible] [speaking spanish] i love angie bruise, dominicana. -- angie bruce. natalie diaz's when my brother was an aztec. i could go on forever, but i won't. [laughter] do you i have another questionse did you or did someone else have a question? >> i have to call you out. i'm a resident of wisconsin, a lifelong -- [laughter] it's not that cold in madison. [laughter] >> it was cold for me. [laughter] >> just kidding. tell me about dance, the cans you and your girls did, how that functioned forhe you, was it catharsis? was it anger? tell us about that. >> so dancing and music in a lot of ways, i studied music when i was a kid, but dancing was more, i think, the about performance and performing, for me specifically, performing a kind of strength. it was very often, very such -- very often in miami when i startedd going through puberty,i started feeling the up wanted attention from men -- unwanted attention. and i dev

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that's what baldwin does and so does tony morrison. we think about what walters tries to do, he tries to call this out, tries to say, here is what's happening and here is why we have to organize around this. questions? >> a lot of the electoral strategy that walters talks about seems like it would be a lot easier to. cute on t execute on the state and local level to hold leaders accountable to issues on those levels.level to hold leaders accountable to issues on those levels.state and local level to leaders accountable to issues on those levels. you were working on the state levels, you might be able to achieve policy goals more easily in states like louisiana. is there a disconnect there? is he deferring to other people with that level of action? >> i think what he wants is a connection, oliver. i think that's a great question/comment. one of the reasons why jesse ran was because harold washington in chicago won the may -- he became mayor of chicago after the '83 election. that was big inspiration. jesse was taking the southern tour.

( laughter ) no, someone like tony morrison, the first black woman to win the nobel prize for literatureerkins, the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet. ( cheers and applause ) or someone like beyonce. ( cheers and applause ) the first woman to be beyonce! why doesn't she have a statue? she's already stand like a statue. she's ready! >> trevor: actually a great idea. but i hope you understand, building thousands of statues of women is going to be difficult. statues are expensive. this is going to be a project that takes a lot of time. >> oh, i've already done it, trevor. >> trevor: what? >> i've designed one statue to symbolize all women, their power, their beauty, their mystique! a flawless avatar of womanhood that anyone can look at and see themselves. >> trevor: dulce, that's a statue of you. >> oh, there ever! -- oh, trevor! i'm touched that you can see me in that art! >> trevor: no, it's literally you. it has your name on it. also, why are you holding a baby? you don't have kids! >> that baby symbolizes america, okay?! which women have been carrying for far too long! ( c

suffragettes, scientist rosalind franklin, jacqueline kennedy, activist dolores huerta, author toni morrison, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, oprah, and many more. 28,000 school kids entered a contest to name nasa's new mars rover, and tonight we have a winning entry-- "perseverance." virginia's seventh grader alexander mather wrote in his winning essay that perseverance is the most important of all human qualities. i agree. the rover launches in july and should land on the red planet next february. now, a swift response to the devastating tornadoes in tennessee. singer taylor swift has donated $1 million to an emergency fund. in a statement, swift wrote, "nashville is my home and the fact that so many people have lost their homes and so much more is devastating to me." amy adams strunk, the owner of the tennessee titans football team also donated $1 million. on that note, coming up next, tennessee is called the volunteer state and the tornadoes have brought out the best in its people. he best in its people. y for you to. whether it's a year old or a few years old, we want to buy

well, like many writers, and a big fan of toni morrison's, and also derek walcott, the nobel laureateo main influences, i would say, on my writing. but also, i wanted to put lots of black women into a novel because we are simply not present very much in british literature, and so i thought, how many characters, put into one novel, and make it a cohesive whole? let's talk about some of the accolades you have won. the booker prize, jointly alongside margaret atwood, as i mentioned, the women's prize, you were long listed for that, and barack obama, a very considered, thoughtful man, what did that mean to you, barack obama, the former president, putting you on his list of recommended reads? it was amazing. i was getting texts late the day before the end of the year from people, and i was like, why are people sending me texts? and i was in bed, and it was late at night, and then i looked at the texts, and they said i was one of barack‘s top 19 books of 2019. so, i was so shocked. it was almost as good as winning the booker, i have to say, because i have so much respect for barack obama, a

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those are events that if you just this month are amazing season also includes a tribute to toni morrison'seloved in partnership with the shop burke sumter stop a discussion with michael schiavone and writers reflecting on landmark aclu cases. we have talks with Ãbterry mcmillan, and so many more. you can learn about our programs by signing up on our mailing list on a website. libraries are so great. if you don't have a library card you should know why? because you can check out materials and search your catalog of thousands of titles including the wonderful books that dennis has recommended and you can find those recommendations on your event program. you also have access to our amazing collections across our research divisions we have truman capote's paper route, Ã Ãvirginia wills correspondence, you can ask access that with your library card. to give you a sense of the format for tonight's conversation diana and dennis will speak for about 40 minutes, after which they will take a few questions from the audience remember there is a difference between questions and declarations we let ques