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Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

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It’s a dismally lonely business, writing  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Old folks is the nation  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don’t win the war.  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I’ll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Not all speed is movement  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) One monkey don’t stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Revolution begins with the self, in the self  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) And what is religion, you might ask. It’s a technology of living  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness... is discipline, consciousness, and unity  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Old folks are the nation  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) I’ve never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) I’ll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Revolution begins with the self, in the self... We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don’t win the war  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don’t know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn’t keep up with what’s out there ain’t gonna be out there  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes) All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It’s the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama  (Toni Cade Bambara Quotes)