Author: Toni Morrison

Cites

• Bible (2)
  • IN: God help the child (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not
    FROM: Bible, Luke 18:16, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Beloved (1987) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
    FROM: Bible, Romans 9:25, (100), Bible, NULL
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Song of Solomon (1977) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fathers may soar And the children may know their names.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Paradise (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins, and incontinencies, and disgraceful passions and fleeting pleasures, which (men) embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting place. And they will find me there, and they will live, and they will not die again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• The Nag Hammadi (1)
  • IN: Jazz (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name. I am the sign of the letter and the designation of the division.
    FROM: 350, (350), Poem, NULL

Cited by

• Martyn Bedford (1)
  • IN: Acts of Revision (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belong to the definers -- not the defined.
    FROM: Beloved, (1987), Novel, US
• O Thiam Chin (1)
  • IN: Now that it's Over (2016) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
    FROM: The Site of Memory, (1995), ***Essay, US
• Edwidge Danticat (1)
  • IN: Untwine (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are my sister... You are my face; you are me... I waited for you You are mine You are mine You are mine
    FROM: Beloved, (1987), Novel, US
• Shawna Yang Ryan (1)
  • IN: Water Ghosts (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
    FROM: Nobel lecture, (1993), Lecture, US