"Revolution begins with the self, in the self...It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It’ll take time. We’ve got time...We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships.," oni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939-Dec. 9, 1995) 
The above is from this ever-relevant 1969 essay - On the Issue of Roles. Happy Born Day, Toni Cade Bambara! blackfeministmind.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/toni-c…
Read the above essay and other essential writing by Black feminists in The Black Woman - An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara
From the start, in the preface, Toni Cade Bambara makes clear: “We are involved in a struggle for liberation.”
"The will to be dangerous...The work: to make revolution irresistible," Toni Cade Bambara
11 years after she edited The Black Woman: An Anthology, Toni Cade Bambara wrote the forward to another foundational anthology:This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color
11 years after she edited The Black Woman: An Anthology, Toni Cade Bambara wrote the forward to another foundational anthology:This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color
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