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 atmosphe…

- Toni Cade Bambara

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

- Toni Cade Bambara

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

- Toni Cade Bambara

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

- Toni Cade Bambara

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

- Toni Cade Bambara

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relati…

- Toni Cade Bambara

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

- Toni Cade Bambara

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

- Toni Cade Bambara

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

- Toni Cade Bambara