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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.

Toni Cade Bambara

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Toni Cade Bambara
Age: 56 †
Born: 1939
Born: March 25
Died: 1995
Died: December 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Toni Cade
Miltona Mirkin Cade
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Seriously
Fields
Seen
Atmospheres
Taken
Charges
Words
Electrical
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
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Medication without explanation is obscene.
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One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.
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What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
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My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
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old folks is the nation.
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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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... 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.
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