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
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.
order trying kind
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.
responsibility trying telling-the-truth
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
american-author
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
dream real failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
movement speed
Not all speed is movement.
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.
writing space people
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.
stupid stupidity waste
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
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.
age folks old-age
old folks is the nation.
health medication explanation
Medication without explanation is obscene.