Toni Cade Bambara was an American author, social activist, and college professor.
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“The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.”
Toni Cade Bambara
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.”
“I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on.”
“[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.”
“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . .”