Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara

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Biography

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

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

Toni Cade Bambara

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

Toni Cade Bambara

"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."

Toni Cade Bambara

"Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation."

Toni Cade Bambara

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

Toni Cade Bambara

"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."

Toni Cade Bambara

"Not all speed is movement."

Toni Cade Bambara

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

Toni Cade Bambara

"The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality."

Toni Cade Bambara

"Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed."

Toni Cade Bambara