WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, issued the following statement on the death of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison:

"We have lost one of the most admired and gifted writers of our time. My late wife, Lillian, loved Toni Morrison's and even came to know her as a friend. Toni Morrison was unapologetically black, mining the 'rich' heritage of the African American story to reveal truths of our lives that we might never have seen had she not committed words to the page.

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