Toni Cade Bambara Trying Quotations

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.