Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

All we have is the story we tell.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.