Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995) was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor. Read full biography of Toni Cade Bambara →
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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... →
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... →
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.