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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed ...
— Toni Cade Bambara
The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.
— 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.
— Toni Cade Bambara
He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is but a breath.
The end of life is the last breath of a man. — Lailah Gifty Akita
The end of life is the last breath of a man. — Lailah Gifty Akita
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
— Toni Cade Bambara
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Medication without explanation is obscene.
— Toni Cade Bambara
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
— Toni Cade Bambara
God, I feel so stupid.
— Richelle Mead
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
Old folks is the nation.
— Toni Cade Bambara
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Old folks are the nation.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
— Toni Cade Bambara
One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.
— Toni Cade Bambara
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.
— Toni Cade Bambara
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
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
— Toni Cade Bambara
If God does not leave a blade of grass, a flower, or a small leaf of a tree without His good providence, will He leave us?
— John Of Kronstadt
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
— Toni Cade Bambara
... got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Not all speed is movement.
— Toni Cade Bambara
More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.
— Lee L Jampolsky
I have read numerous books by Scarlett Avery and I have not been disappointed. - kristina pelka
— Scarlett Avery
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
— Toni Cade Bambara