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Toni Cade Bambara was a native of New York City who devoted
her life to her writing and her social activism. Her causes
ranged from improving the living conditions of minority city
dwellers to creating television documentaries about racial
or social injustice. Like Bambara herself, many of the characters
in her short stories, most often women, were also community
activists who derived strength from storytelling. Bambara's
works include the short-story collections Gorilla, My
Love (1972) and The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (1977)
and the novel The Salt Eaters (1981).
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