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Toni Cade Bambara Biography

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

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When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

Beast, Dinner, House, Napkins, Take, Whole

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

African American, Art, Artist, Make, Novelists, Role

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Acts, Atmosphere, Language Words, Seen, Seriously, Taken

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

Discipline, Greed, Legal, Superiority, Technological, Unity

There are times. . . when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

Conflict, Inducer, Oxygen, Phone, Phones, Space

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

Scuffling, Stupid, Stupidity, Waste, Wildness

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

Asks, Living, Might, Religion, Technology

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

Anticipate, Anticipation, Headed, Past, Predict, Reappraise

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.

Daughter, Draw, Know, Like, Sweet, Yams

Not all speed is movement.

Movement, Speed

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Self, Faces, Life Is, Damn, Life, Wear

. . . in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Consumer, Emotional, Goods, Intelligent, Men, Society

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE

Ambush, Flats, Future, Heart, Sane, Whole

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Art, Artist, Oppressed, People, Revolution

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Explanation, Health, Medication, Obscene

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

Monkey, Monkeys, Show, Six, Struggle

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.

Expect, Golden, Particular, Rule, Trying, Want

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Folks, Life, Misery, Personality, Reason, Take

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.

Aspect, Deal, Dialogue, Dream, Know, Normally

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Piece, Pieces, Stories, Story, Way, Work

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