57 Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara

As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.

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.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

So used to being unwhole and unwell, one forgot what it was to walk upright and see clearly, breathe easily, think better than was taught, be better than one was programmed to believe—so concentration was necessary to help a neighbor experience the best of herself or himself. For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush.”Excerpt From: Toni Cade Bambara. “The Salt Eaters.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

But she would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than in here.

Not all speed is movement.

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