Toni Morrison Quotes about Giving

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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

Toni Morrison

Order, Giving, Pieces

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Toni Morrison

Writing, Giving, Said

Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?

Toni Morrison

Jesus, Hate, Giving

FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Jun 30, 2011

There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.

Toni Morrison

Giving, Feelings, Working Together

Source: theharvardadvocate.com

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Toni Morrison

Giving, Wicked, Dominion

"A Mercy". Book by Toni Morrison, November 11, 2008.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Toni Morrison

Cities, Numbers, Giving

"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature". "Michigan Quarterly Review", Volume 28, No. 1, Winter 1989.