VIDEO: Toni Morrison Talks to Stephen Colbert

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Nobel prize winning writer and all around awesome human Toni Morrison appeared on the Colbert Report this week. She talked about rereading her own work and being surprised at how great it is and then gave Colbert a little lesson on racism. Watch below.

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