Terry Farish > Quotes

“No one in America is from America.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“We both keep walking in the desert, following a fragile dream of America.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“Braids are from our culture,” he says, this boy who reads and knows all the American capital cities. “They are the African designs we give to the world. When you are ready, you will braid.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“How could a white girl know how only someone you trust should braid your hair, how someone bad could work magic against you? How could a white girl know what the braid means to an African man? How a braid factors into the girl’s value as a bride, her beauty and quick tongue, her education, her prospects as a mother. Her virginity. All these things add value. How can this white girl know?”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“My mother hold my exhausted body to her bones. This roar is our first sound of freedom.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“I have slipped out of Africa for a breath of time.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider

“I would like you to see the Africa moon.”
― Terry Farish, The Good Braider