Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

Life itself is a quotation.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Life is our dictionary.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

I think life is a big game we play.

Who does understand life?

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Every moment is an experience.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.