“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… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“I am one beautiful and powerful son of a bitch,' he told himself. 'Smart as a whip, respected, prosperous, beloved and valuable. I have… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
