“Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“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… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act. I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't… — Janisse Ray Copy Share
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“I think of my own life, how it embraces a great quest to know every cog of nature--the names of oaks and ferns, the… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Turning back to embrace the past has been a long, slow lesson not only in self-esteem, but in patriotism—pride in homeland, heritage. It has… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
