All posts tagged "The Salt Eaters"
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘…an uptown Griot’
Cheryl Clarke: The Black Woman: An Anthology from 1970, which Toni edited...is still one of the books I live by. Really, until Barbara Smith and...
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Personal is Political: How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
Imani Uzuri: I spent many stolen hours crying in a quiet gazebo meditating on the wide sky and trying to understand who I was becoming,...
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Personal is Political: Wholeness, Homeness: A Love Note to Toni
Rita Dove: So my first meeting with Toni occurred under the glare of bright lights; and though I don’t recall what words were exchanged—the welcoming...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
Eleanor Traylor: Since then, we became communicants like those described in “the Johnson Girls” in Gorilla. And our talk, like those girls, was self-fashioning talk....
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Toni Cade Bambara Remembered
Donald P. Stone: In the mid-seventies, Toni moved South to Atlanta, which at that time had a very active political and cultural community. Some of...
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Personal is Political: The Art of Getting to the Point
Wesley Brown: A woman asked the honorees why black writers weren’t giving their readers more positive stories about black life. Toni responded immediately, saying, “I’ve...
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Fondness for Toni Cade Bambara
Miyoshi Smith: When Toni Cade moved to Philadelphia, I would see her out, at socials…and gosh, she was just a very remarkable person: smart, witty,...
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Black Blessings: Toni Cade Bambara and Octavia E. Butler
Ayana A. H. Jamieson: I never had a chance to meet these two women in person, but they exist in the imaginal spaces created by...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
So when The Salt Eaters or any of Toni Cade Bambara’s life-saving works fall off my bookshelf, or a scene from her literary creation shows...
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Unleashing the Power of the Soul: Spirit and Spirituality through Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters and John Bolling’s The Spirit of the Soul (Part II)
Dr. Janice Liddell: This is the power that Bambara reclaims for women and this power is the “force” of the novel. Minnie, as healer, in...
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Unleashing the Power of the Soul: Spirit and Spirituality through Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters and John Bolling’s The Spirit of the Soul (Part I)
Dr. Janice Liddell: However, in order for peoples of African descent and people of other “soul centered” cultures (Asian, Indians, Aborigines, etc.) to achieve balance...
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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara’s “Toni-Isms”
Carole Brown: You have touched thousands of aspiring and seasoned writers, students, and just plain folks worldwide. Your fame has never taken the place of...
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Feminists We Love: Toni Cade Bambara
Heidi R. Lewis: Toni Cade Bambara gave me a feminism that was Black—a feminism that was loud, strong, collective, vulnerable, powerful, communal, honest, and intimate,...
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Toni Cade Bambara’s Art of Bridging Praxis and Theory
Thabiti Lewis: Young feminists need to pay more attention to Bambara’s fiction and essays, which reveal a pioneering voice that betrothed answers to the range...
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It’s Not the Salt; it’s the Sugar that Will Kill You
Kalamu ya Salaam: This Toni was never going to win major awards, never going to be enshrined in the academy. This Toni would look back...
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Listen You Can Hear the Mothers Crying in the Universe: A Black Feminist Poet’s Requiem for Our Black Warrior Toni
Cara Page: This is a tribute to the Black Feminist Warrior Toni Cade Bambara and her insightful vision to rename place, resiliency and spirit of...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
In spite of the aforementioned examples of blatant and often grotesque, sexism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, and homophobia practiced in many (not all) organized religions, there...
