writting back to morrison

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”

The author is mentioning different versions of love that is being experienced throughout the book. Summing it up to show how each character is different in the way they are loved which determines how they love others. Each person has their own definition of whats right and wrong and what they feel they deserve. She also speaks of a universal love for a white girl with curly hair and blue eyes, the ideal child that many children (especially black) will never experience. Here it seems that the way that people love, and the quality of their love, is tied to their personalities