Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

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Toni Cade Bambara

Profession : Author

Birth : March 25, 1939

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

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