Toni Cade Bambara

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#self-honesty #business

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#folks #i #me #most #out

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#living #might #religion #technology #you

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. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#bring #circular #convinced #even #experience

It's a dismally lonely business, writing. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#lonely #lonely business #writing

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

#daytime #deal #dialogue #did #discover

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#failure #friends #only #real #realize

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#job #make #revolution #writer

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#effective way #most #way

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#revolution #self