.Oprah gave an emotional speech at Toni Morrison's celebration of life ceremony. See the tribute, here.
But none compared to the emotional speech delivered byon Thursday. “While she’s no longer on this earth, her magnificent soul, her boundless imagination, her fierce passion, her gallantry—She told me once, ‘I’ve always known I was gallant,’” Winfrey said at Manhattan’s Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. “Who says that? Who even knows they are gallant? Well, her gallantry remains always to help us navigate our way through.
Also in attendance at the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s Celebration of Life were Angela Davis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Remnick, and Fran Lebowitz. Coates praised the “economy and poetry" of Morrison's language and the wisdom of what he called "grown folks literature,” NBC News’ New York affiliate
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