"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
"People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do."
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Source: Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.126, Vintage
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