Toni Cade Bambara

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

“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.”

“It's a dismally lonely business, writing.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.”

“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”