Janisse Ray Quotes

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

Janisse Ray

#2. All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough ... I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.

Janisse Ray

#3. 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.

Janisse Ray

#4. The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Janisse Ray

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

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#6. I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Janisse Ray

#7. 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.

Janisse Ray

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

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

Janisse Ray