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Toni Cade Bambara quotes

American Author March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995

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We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe 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
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is..."
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is..."
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
(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
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
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. Toni Cade Bambara
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole. Toni Cade Bambara
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
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up..."
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
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation."
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible."
The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me..."
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. Toni Cade Bambara

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