# Quote — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

> “Keep the focus on the action not the institution; don’t confuse the vehicle with the objective; all cocoons are temporary and disappear”

- Author: [Toni Cade Bambara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara.md)
- Book: [The Salt Eaters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Cade_Bambara#The_Salt_Eaters_(1980)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters/keep-the-focus

## More from this book

> Got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters/got-to-give.md)

> Then the silence. A whole generation silent

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters/then-the-silence.md)

> She would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters/she-would-not.md)