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Toni Cade Bambara – Reaching Your Audience
“The problem that faces me or any artist is how do you do a little Br’er Rabbit thing in terms of getting to that audience with the whole intricate, elaborate mechanisms of printing, publishing, promo, and critiques that get between you and the audience that validates you, that credits you. And for me that’s the community that names me. Which is not to say that reviews and professional critiques aren’t important and aren’t usable. But it’s finally the community that calls you sister, or calls you daughter, or calls you mama that can either make or break you. That’s the group I’m serving. If that audience is not reached and doesn’t find anything usable, it’s almost no point in doing it.”
This page is dedicated to people who are out here doin their thing in a postive way. There is so much good going on in the world, but we hardly ever hear about it, because the bad is so bad that people can’t see all the good. So I want to take time out to highlight people that do things to show people that this world can be a better place.