Toni Cade Bambara - The Salt Eaters (1980)

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

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

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

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His body's taken on the weight his mind still refuses to accept.

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

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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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