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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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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.
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His body's taken on the weight his mind still refuses to accept.
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Not all wars have casualties.... Some struggles between old and new ideas, some battles between ways of seeing have only victors. Not all dying is the physical self.
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If you say Gorilla, My Love you suppose to mean it. Just like when you say you goin to give me a party on my birthday, you gotta mean it.... I mean even gangsters in the movies say My word is my bond. So don't nobody get away with nothing far as I'm concerned.
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Where we are is who we are, Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don't necessarily have to be that way, she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don't none of us know what kind of pie she talkin about in the first damn place.
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We are involved in a struggle for liberation: liberation from the exploitive and dehumanizing system of racism, from the manipulative control of a corporate society; liberation from the constrictive norms of "mainstream" culture, from the synthetic myths that encourage us to fashion ourselves rashly from without (reaction) rather than from within (creation).
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The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
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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.
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What is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
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That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
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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.
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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?
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She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
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For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush.... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.
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The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damned face.
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One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.
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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.
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We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It's about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don't practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect... like being people.
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First and foremost I write for myself. Writing has been for a long time my major tool for self-instruction and self-development.
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Wasn't that what happened to Lot's Wife? A loyalty to old things, a fear of the new, a fear to change, to look ahead?
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Read a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Toni Cade Bambara
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Born:
March 25, 1939
Died:
December 9, 1995
(aged 56)
Bio:
Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Known for:
Gorilla, My Love (1972)
Raymond's Run (1990)
The Salt Eaters (1980)
Those Bones are Not My Child
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