Toni Morrison Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 01, 2013

• If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Want, Getting Things Done

• You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Fall, Mean

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Song Of Solomon”, p.382, Random House

• 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.

• 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

• How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Vanity, Tails

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.

  Toni Morrison

  Selfish, Stupid, Men

• Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2017). “The Origin of Others”, p.85, Harvard University Press

• 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.

• 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

• It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Stuff, Bliss

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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