"I've never been convinced that experience is linear,……" — 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."
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Toni Cade Bambara
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21 Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
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My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed…
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Not all speed is movement.
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
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Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I…
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Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
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The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
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And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
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When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you…
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