The Salt Eaters
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“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
“One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.”
Source: The Salt Eaters
“The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.”
“Medication without explanation is obscene.”
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“She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.”
“TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE”
Source: The Salt Eaters
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
“The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.”
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“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.”
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“And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.”
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“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible”
“An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.”