Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Art

People

Revolution

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

Asks

Might

Technology

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… Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

Grief

Heart

Self

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.

Dirty

Mean

Sex

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.

Golden

Trying

Want

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.

Kind

Order

Trying

It’s a dismally lonely business, writing.

Business Writing

Lonely

Writing

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Explanation

Health

Medication

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Responsibility

Telling The Truth

Trying

Old folks are the nation.

Folks

Nations

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African American

Age

Art

Asks

Aspect

Business Writing

Community

Daughter

Daydreaming

Dialogue

Dinner

Dirty

Discipline

Dream

Explanation

Failure

Fashion

Folks

Golden

Greed

Grief

Health

Heart

House

Justice

Kind

Life

Lonely

Mean

Medication

Might

Misery

Monkeys

Mother

Names

Napkins

Nations

Old Age

Order

People

Personality

Real

Responsibility

Revolution

Self

Sex

Six

Struggle

Sweet

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Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

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

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… Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a dismally lonely business, writing.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Old folks are the nation.

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