Happy #ToniCadeBambara Day 🤗. Here's to making the revolution irresistible 🫶🏽✊🏽❤️🔥
LATENT//Missing:
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The first poem published as peer-reviewed scholarship in a major public health journal✒️📓🤓📘
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.” — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
#BOTD #ToniCadeBambara #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Woe #Misery #Complaining
“The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damned face.” — Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love
#QOTD #ToniCadeBambara #Masks #Authenticity #Quote
Hi, @hipcinema.bsky.social ! How’s #BlackStarFest IRL? #phillyfilm Watch watching the #ToniCadeBambara #documentaaryfilm when it froze about halfway. What fabulous #filmmaking! Of course, we expect nothing less from LouisMassiah and ScribeVideo. 😍 (Chatted with Help and expect to finish watching.)
Black History Quote for Today - "Reappraise": 6.25.25
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“I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.” — Toni Cade Bambara, Black Women Writers at Work
#qotd #ToniCadeBambara #GoldenRule #quote
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
#ToniCadeBambara #literarybirthdays
A brief description of Toni Cade Bambara's accomplishments as a writer and activist. Features a black and white photo of the author.
Writer. Activist. Visionary. ✊🏿📚 Toni Cade Bambara dedicated her life to storytelling that empowered communities and amplified marginalized voices. What's your favorite work of #tonicadebambara ?
Source: georgiawritershalloffame.org/honorees/ton...
‘This book focuses on figures for whom the intellectual domain itself had to be undone in order to know something about the world around us.’
#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
to the story #ToniCadeBambara says "Okay, I'm stepping aside, ya'll. I'm getting out of the way. What is the story I am supposed to be telling? Tell me."
"I plod ahead. I do my work. I try to stay centered and not get poisoned, or intoxicated...with whatever success I've had" -- #ToniCadeBambara #blackwomenwritersatwork
"how do we rescue the planet from the psychopaths?" -- #ToniCadeBambara
“I do not think that literature is the primary instrument for social transformation, but I do think it has potency.” — #tonicadebambara
“I do not have anything profound to offer mother-writers or worker-writers except to say that it will cost you something.” — #tonicadebambara
“I leave the hard task of analysis to the analysts. I do my work and I try not to blunder.” — #tonicadebambara
“Got to see more and dare more.” — #tonicadebambara
“You look at what the mythmakers have done...playing with people bold & bones. But you just can’t get overwhelmed by the massive ignorance that characterizes this racist...society. It’s a tremendous responsibility — responsibility & honor — to be a writer...” - #tonicadebambara
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self. The individual, the basic revolutionary unit, must be purged of poison and lies that assault the ego and threaten the heart...” — #tonicadebambara
