ジェームズ・ヴァン・ダー・ビークのインスタグラム(vanderjames) - 8月7日 13時29分

#TheBluestEye wasn’t easy an easy read for a middle-class white high school kid from Connecticut. #Beloved was even less easy. So unflinching were those books... so powerful, and so determined to convey complicated truths without any regard for how I might feel about it. They made me uncomfortable. And for that, I’m eternally grateful to #ToniMorrison. Thank you for your bravery, honesty and genius... for clueing me in to just how much I didn’t know - and how much more deeply I needed to listen.

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chicitygina @vanderjames I WISH that books like this would have been required reading for this white middle class kid! Maybe I would have woken up sooner! Thankfully, I had an 8th grade teacher who took all kinds of heat back in 1970 for organizing our community’s first “Afro-American Day”. But it really wasn’t until #whentheyseeus (thanks to @vancityjax for bringing me there) that I was sooo very deeply hit with the differences that people, and the system, can’t seem to shake to this day. You’re lucky that your mind was exposed and opened early in your life, James. I’m just thankful mine is now, more than ever.

mrs_jyoung @funfettiahoy hate that Christians like myself are bad mouthed because of the few who follow the word of God the wrong way. “Do not condemn” is what the Lord wants. Sorry for those who use the bible to condemn and not use it for love. We are suppose to speak the word of God with Love and only Love. ❤️

emilia147 @michellemarie2231 you're the embodiment of trash. I won't bother wasting too many words on your sad existence, I truly pity you. You're the kind of person who acts like faith or religion is their life but they are nothing but hateful and jealous. Pathetic.

suzrockfahey I read Beloved during my first year of university in Ireland studying English and then used Jazz in my thesis in my final year. I am so happy I went on to teach Beloved to students in Ireland who got it! RIP Toni Morrison your message lives on

candifranklynn This brilliant piece of advice is *truly* the reason I wrote my first novel. I’ve actually quoted this gem of Toni’s at speaking engagements before. We lost a legend and inspiration today. ♥️

funfettiahoy @mrs_jyoung at this point in my life, more Christians are the shitty kind than the good kind. You see it now with Trump as president than ever before. So I call it how I see it.

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