5 Quotes & Sayings By Bonnie Greer

Bonnie Greer is an author, speaker, and the director of the Women's Resource Center at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is the founder of the Center for Women Against Violence Against Women (CWAVAW) in Bloomington, Indiana. Bonnie has led numerous workshops at various conferences throughout the world on the topic of women and violence against women. She lived in Bloomington for ten years before moving to Los Angeles where she worked with survivors of domestic violence in Hollywood Read more

She has also served as a consultant to UCLA on issues pertaining to violence against women.

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The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade — The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger. Bonnie Greer
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The official erasure of any existence before enslavement — as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip — has always created a passion for us. Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From. Bonnie Greer
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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
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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