Toni Cade Bambara Writing Quotations

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.