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Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Toni Cade Bambara

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995

Topics

Revolution Self Begins

It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.

Football Better Judge Unfair Brown

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

Success Man World You I Can Know

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Mean Dressing Room Things Candles

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Humor Academics Senses Tend

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Yourself Writing Gift Story Giving

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

Community New York Small Grow You

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

You Young Try Hard Who Too

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

Best Think Famous Remember Athlete

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

Best Parents Me Know Admire Human

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Positive Disappointment You Never

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Life Time Language Boredom You Your

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Mother Child You Down Goodness Go

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