9 Quotes & Sayings By Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara is the author of eight novels, including The Salt Eaters, which has been described as "a classic" by the New York Times. She received the PEN Center West Award for Fiction for A Lesson Before Dying and the American Book Award for The Blue Flower. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She is also the author of four collections of stories, including The Changeling and Other Stories and Mango Season, both published by Knopf.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who...
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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.
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Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. Toni Cade Bambara
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Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. Toni Cade Bambara
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Not all speed is movement. Toni Cade Bambara
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The most effective way to do it is to do it. Toni Cade Bambara
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The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. Toni Cade Bambara
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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
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Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed. Toni Cade Bambara