“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
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 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… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — 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
