Toni Cade Bambara

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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