There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
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 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
