Toni Cade Bambara

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

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

It’s a dismally lonely business, writing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.