Janisse Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We're still so young and desperate for attention ...

Panic At The Disco

#3. Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#4. Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

Mason Cooley

#5. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

William C. Bryant

#6. The phrase "Blessed are those who have not seen but have believed" floated through his head. It was maybe not the believing that was the blessing; it was the not having to look. Seeing, sometimes, was bloody awful.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion.

Yann Martel

#8. When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

Lee Greenwood

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

Janisse Ray

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

Janisse Ray

#11. 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

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

Janisse Ray

#13. Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

Rumi

#14. During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

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

Janisse Ray

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

Janisse Ray

#17. In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

Hafez

#18. 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

#19. My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved.

Jaron Lanier

#20. 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

#21. I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

Donna Mills

#22. I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

Jeanne Phillips