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…showed last 75 words of 878 total…at "Her project rises from delight, not disappointment." Finally, Toni Morrison explains her mission by saying : "I look very hard for black fiction because I want to participate in developing a canon of black work. We've had the first rush of black entertainment, where blacks were writing for whites, and whites were encouraging this kind of self-flagellation. Now we can get down to the craft of writing, where black people are talking to black people."