Charlene Gilbert is an independent filmmaker and professor of film at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Quinn Eli teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Philadelphia and is a columnist for the Philadelphia Weekly.
Homecoming tells a distressing story but delivers an uplifting
message. --Jim Hightower
"Revisiting the unbearable hardships encountered by my
great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents as they sought to
survive the inhuman sharecropping system of the post-Civil War
South-a system in many ways more brutal than slavery-my heart
breaks again. But reading Homecoming's account of our ancestors'
determined humility, obdurate courage, and fierce pride in and love
of the land, my heart is healed. I see why there is such a thing as
ancestor worship. I could not love my sharecropping ancestors more
if I had created them myself. That black Southerners still love
nature and revere the earth is the legacy of a people whose innate
elegance and dignity was always expressed in essentials." --Alice
Walker
Homecoming tells a distressing story but delivers an
uplifting message. --Jim Hightower
"Revisiting the unbearable hardships encountered by my
great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents as they sought to
survive the inhuman sharecropping system of the post-Civil War
South-a system in many ways more brutal than slavery-my heart
breaks again. But reading Homecoming's account of our
ancestors' determined humility, obdurate courage, and fierce pride
in and love of the land, my heart is healed. I see why there is
such a thing as ancestor worship. I could not love my sharecropping
ancestors more if I had created them myself. That black Southerners
still love nature and revere the earth is the legacy of a people
whose innate elegance and dignity was always expressed in
essentials." --Alice Walker
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