Toni Cade Bambara quotes

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. (Toni Cade Bambara)
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. View quote
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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 in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. View quote
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And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. View quote
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The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. View quote
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. View quote
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Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. View quote
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. View quote
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. View quote
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing. View quote
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Toni Cade Bambara

Occupation: American Author
Born: March 25, 1939
Died: December 9, 1995
Quotes count: 10