8 Quotes by Janisse Ray

Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.Our seeds are disappearing.

Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

Something happens to me when I garden. I am fully, reliably, blissfully present to who I am and where I am in that moment. I am an animal with a hundred different senses and all of them are switched on.

She was so strong a ship could have been hewn from her body.

Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?

Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.

Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.