Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
Toni Cade Bambara quotes about
way stories pieces
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
phones oxygen space
There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.
health medication explanation
Medication without explanation is obscene.
daughter sweet yams
What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
dream real failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
fashion war winning
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.
writing streets
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.
movement speed
Not all speed is movement.
trying want golden
I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
writing space people
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.
technology might asks
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
struggle monkeys six
One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.
american-author
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.