Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don’t win the war.
ATTRIBUTION:
Toni Cade (b. 1939), African American author and political activist. The Black Woman, ch. 15 (1970).
Excerpted from “The Scattered Sopranoes,” an autobiographical essay delivered as a lecture to the Livingston College Black Woman’s Seminar in December 1969. Cade was speaking of the African American militant movement. She would become well known as a fiction writer, under the name Toni Cade Bambara.
