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
taken language-words atmosphere
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.
writing names community
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
writing way transformation
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
music dance drama
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.
personality misery reason
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
responsibility trying telling-the-truth
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
flower people honest
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.
sex dirty mean
I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
discipline greed unity
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
lonely writing business-writing
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
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.
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.
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.