Gary Pulsifer

“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 her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story.

A black woman.
Ready for the journey.
The Journey.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

“All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.”
― Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good

“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 the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life