"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality."

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Source : Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.126, Vintage

Toni Cade Bambara

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Failure Quotes

“The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!”
“The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.”
“My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.”
“With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!”
“All space must be attachedÂ to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.”
“I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting a particular vision of what the American experience was like. As someone coming from a war that was a preoccupation of Americans in the 1980s, it did strike me that since we were a part of that war, we should have a chance to talk about ourselves.”
“The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.”

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