Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara

She immediately involved herself in the heart of Atlanta’s Black Arts movement as writer-in-residence at the Neighborhood Arts Center. When she moved to Georgia, Bambara was already a seasoned writer, college teacher, and a published author with an acclaimed collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love (1972). People adept in clairvoyance, dream analysis, telepathy, healing, and precognition are in abundance here.” Atlanta was the perfect place, she added, “to expand my vision.” ii

I like that.' iĪtlanta, she told an interviewer in 1982, “is a city rich in metaphysical-training possibilities. I think that at least sixty percent of the population are elders, and that suits me fine. One of the things that I like about Atlanta is that old folks are very accessible here. I've always been very at home in the South. When interviewed about how she came to relocate to Atlanta, Bambara said: 'My people are from Atlanta. New York-born but connected by both parents to Georgia, Bambara brought her talent and convictions to Atlanta in 1974, and for a decade the city was a spiritual and geographical base for her, a community where she worked, wrote and taught, and where she influenced many artists, especially Black women, by her example. Toni Cade Bambara – revered Atlanta writer, teacher, and activist – devoted her work to the belief that the artist's job is determined always by the community that she serves.

Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara