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 BambaraWe have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.
Toni Cade Bambara(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 BambaraMy responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
Toni Cade Bambara