"(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies……" — Toni Cade Bambara
"(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people."
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21 Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara
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- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it…
- Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
- The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
- My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed…
- Not all speed is movement.
- Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
- We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
- Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I…
- Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
- The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
- And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
- It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
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