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 Streets Copy Share Image
What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from… — Toni Cade Bambara Daughter Copy Share Image
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara Convinced Copy Share Image
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. — Toni Cade Bambara Bridges Copy Share Image
We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste. — Toni Cade Bambara Nature Copy Share Image
When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the… — Toni Cade Bambara Beast Copy Share Image
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you… — Toni Cade Bambara Busy Copy Share Image
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to… — Toni Cade Bambara Life Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible — Toni Cade Bambara African american Copy Share Image
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth… — Toni Cade Bambara Fashion Copy Share Image
Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . . — Toni Cade Bambara Anticipate Copy Share Image
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that… — Toni Cade Bambara Aspect Copy Share Image
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. — Toni Cade Bambara Consciousness Copy Share Image
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. — Toni Cade Bambara Folks Copy Share Image
I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I… — Toni Cade Bambara Folks Copy Share Image
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream. — Toni Cade Bambara Daydreaming Copy Share Image
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to… — Toni Cade Bambara Accomplices Copy Share Image
One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues. — Toni Cade Bambara Activism 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 Breathe 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 Art Copy Share Image
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