Toni Morrison Has Died
&gt;  I had to consider the idea: how would those books have affected me if all characters looked nothing like me?<p>FWIW: Several of my role models - if you include people who are not alive, people I&#x27;ve only read about - are not white males.<p>I guess in my case it was more important to relate to their background and their skills (or lack of ;-) than who their parents were, and where they grew up.