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? Toni Cade Bambara More Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara More Quotes From Toni Cade Bambara Old folks are the nation. Toni Cade Bambara folks nations 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. Toni Cade Bambara yams daughter sweet The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face. Toni Cade Bambara self life-is faces 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. Toni Cade Bambara space writing people (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people. Toni Cade Bambara honest flower people I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman. Toni Cade Bambara mean sex dirty One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues. Toni Cade Bambara monkeys six struggle I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. Toni Cade Bambara golden want trying And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. Toni Cade Bambara asks technology might I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. Toni Cade Bambara kind trying order We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste. Toni Cade Bambara waste stupidity stupid ... 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. Toni Cade Bambara emotional intelligent men 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. Toni Cade Bambara oxygen phones space Medication without explanation is obscene. Toni Cade Bambara medication explanation health Not all speed is movement. Toni Cade Bambara speed movement old folks is the nation. Toni Cade Bambara old-age folks age It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Toni Cade Bambara business-writing lonely writing The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life. Toni Cade Bambara pieces stories way The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara realize friends failure dream I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. Toni Cade Bambara out most me want
