Toni Cade Bambara
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"Toni Cade Bambara", born "Miltona Mirkin Cade" was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activism/social activist and college professor.

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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

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

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on.

[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

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

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . .

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

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.