“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express it.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static. — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
