Toni Cade Bambara Quotations

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

Not all speed is movement.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.

old folks is the nation.

Medication without explanation is obscene.