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Kola Boof
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 12:44 am: | 
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Alice Walker has written that without Jean Toomer's CANE....she could not have existed an author, and yet for most African-Americans, it's THE HOLY BIBLE that changes their lives and imbeds some sense of purpose and wonder inside them.
In this thread, however, lets just assume that a religious book of some kind has affected everyone's life....and lets talk about books that have changed our lives CULTURALLY...SOCIALLY...SEXUALLY...or RACIALLY.
For me...it would be books like "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Richard Wright's "Black Boy" and Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" that literally opened up my mind and soul to new ways of "seeing" and thinking....thus changing my life and helping to mold me as an author, both technically and spiritually.
What are some of the books that went BEYOND READING for you? We're talking books that literally CHANGED YOUR LIFE here.
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Chris Hayden
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Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:29 am: |
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There have been times that a book I read did result in a change in my outlook or lifeor influenced it--the Bible has been present as long as I have been on this earth as a result of reading Fantastic Four #5 I became a fan of marvel comics and started collecting comics. The Autobiography of Malcolm X convinced me that he wasn't crazy. Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed influenced my view of American, African American, and culture generally.
I think the book that had the most affect on my life was The Poetry of Black America by Arnold Adoff. Because of this anthology I am a poet and serious writer.
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