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Toni Cade Bambara
American
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About the author
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.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Experience
#Order
#Meaning
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Writing
#Business
#Lonely
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Self
#Revolution
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Friends
#Failure
#Dream
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Writer
#Job
#Revolution
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Technology
#Living
#Religion
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.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Thought
#Dream
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author
#Want
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Toni Cade Bambara,
American
Author