For people sometimes believed ...

For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
 Toni Cade Bambara

Quotes from the same author

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
 Toni Cade Bambara
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.
 Toni Cade Bambara
Not all speed is movement.
 Toni Cade Bambara
TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE
 Toni Cade Bambara