![]() One day the woman is visited by some young people who seem to be bent on disproving her clairvoyance and showing her up for the fraud they believe she is. The honor she is paid and the awe in which she is held reach beyond her neighborhood to places far away to the city where the intelligence of rural prophets is the source of much amusement. Among her people she is both the law and its transgression. Her reputation for wisdom is without peer and without question. In the version I know the woman is the daughter of slaves, black, American, and lives alone in a small house outside of town. “Once upon a time there was an old woman. ![]() I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. Blind but wise.” Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Listen to an audio recording of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture
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