Toni Cade Bambara Quotes - Page 2

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• (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

  Flower, People, Honest

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

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  Struggle, Monkeys, Six

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.40, Vintage

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• The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

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  Stories, Pieces, Way

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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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  Daughter, Sweet, Yams

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• And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

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  Technology, Might, Asks

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.127, Vintage

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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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  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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• Old folks are the nation.

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  Folks, Nations

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• 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

  House, Dinner, Napkins

  Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Space, Phones, Oxygen

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• We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

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  Stupid, Stupidity, Waste

  "The Salt Eaters".

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• 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.

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  Sex, Dirty, Mean

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• It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

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  Lonely, Writing, Business Writing

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• old folks is the nation.

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  Age, Folks, Old Age

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• Medication without explanation is obscene.

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  Health, Medication, Explanation

  Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage

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