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schweben_weben: Drawing of Jean Toomer by Winold Reiss, c. 1925
(which reminds me I need to read Toomer’s Cane)
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
Inspired2Share: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
furnitureman14: Something about Jean Toomer and Henry Adams seems complimentary to me and demands comparison.
TerryCrimmins: People mistake their limitations for high standards. -Jean Toomer
TerryCrimmins: People mistake their limitations for high standards. -Jean Toomer
dharamvirtanwa6: Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers
Rumbling in the wind
Stretching clappers to strike our ears
Full-lipped flowers
Bitten by the sun
Bleeding rain
Dripping rain like golden honey
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.
Jean Toomer
momstheuniverse: Because, and you'll want to sit down for this one, HE WAS. Being Black and being biracial are not exclusive, nothing you mentioned here: being Pan Africanists, believing in Garvey, takes away from that. Langston Hughes was biracial, as was Jean Toomer, W.E.B. Du Bois, etc.
aliterarybot: What's beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts him?
—Jean Toomer, Cane
enyanota: As I begin to move toward my Jean Toomer and Hart Crane chapters, how many times am I going to (have I already) said CANE when I mean[t] Crane, and Crane when I mean[t] CANE? Only time will tell.
LangstonReview: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the ‘everlasting song’ that defined the Harlem Renaissance
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
3rdthingpress: “Oracular. Redolent of fermenting syrup, Purple of the dusk, Deep-rooted cane.” Jean Toomer Accompanied by a deck of Oracular Cards authored by dozens of black thinkers/makers, CANE is a timeless source for insight into the world and ourselves.
SpookyLib: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the 'everlasting song' that defined the Harlem Renaissance
crrrritic: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the 'everlasting song' that defined the Harlem Renaissance
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
HeatherMacaule1: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the 'everlasting song' that defined the Harlem Renaissance
CHASS_Aus: Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the 'everlasting song' that defined the Harlem Renaissance
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
james_isnt: throwing this out there for the Hortense Spillers completists. sometime in 1971 she published this piece on Jean Toomer in the Harvard Advocate--if anyone can find it online or irl.
salesproducer: "We learn the rope of life by untying its knots." -- Jean Toomer
CarlusHudson: 'wrote about women in a quite extraordinary way, like Jean Toomer who was able to in Cane, write about men and women in this most incredible, sensitive way. So that a list for me of black writers must include those two, in spite of the fact that they are men!'
peacheslechat: it's happening!! pre-orders for our 100th anniversary edition of CANE by Jean Toomer are available now! cannot wait to share what we've been cooking up with y'all. a gathering in the truest sense of the word. join us!
ngadcartbot: Alfred Stieglitz, Jean Toomer.
StyleSarapan: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
aliterarybot: with your tongue remove the tape
and press your lips to mine
till they are incandescent
—Jean Toomer, 'Her Lips Are Copper Wires'
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
Inspired2Share: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
QuotePicNet: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
StyleSarapan: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
dasam: African American poet Jean Toomer
dasam: African American poet Jean Toomer
janinex96: I had already noticed that love can start on a dance floor. We danced.
-Cane by Jean Toomer
BookPeople: Our adult pick! Cane by Jean Toomer
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yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
mt_pensum: People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Jean Toomer
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
janinex96: "Smoke is on the hills. Rise up.
Smoke is on the hills, O rise"
-Jean Toomer
rajoyceUCB: One day Evelina’s son waved goodbye
and climbed on board a northbound train,
black angels guiding him invisibly.
In class he quoted a sentence from Jean Toomer:
“Time and space have no meaning in a canefield.”
DlCKIEBOY: twelve. cane — jean toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
Inspired2Share: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
chetanyarobins: Jean Toomer's Cane is so good
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
StyleSarapan: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sprauve_c: I like this question, but I’m thinking about books rather than authors. One book was Cane (poetry) by Jean Toomer. Another was We Were Eight Yrs in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
benjdutton: 5 of 5 stars to Cane by Jean Toomer
janinex96: "Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,
O cant you see it, O cant you see it,
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon
... When the sun goes down.
Goes down..."
-Jean Toomer
ericabuddington: Jean Toomer's Conflicted Racial Identity
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
Face2faceAFRICA: ICYMI: Jean Toomer, the poet who inspired an entire generation of African-American writers including Langston Hughes. >
Face2faceAFRICA: Jean Toomer, the poet who inspired an entire generation of African-American writers including Langston Hughes. >
Face2faceAFRICA: Jean Toomer, the poet who inspired an entire generation of African-American writers including Langston Hughes. >
Face2faceAFRICA: American playwright and novelist Jean Toomer had a privileged upbringing in his early life. He was one of the many Black kids who had formal education at both all-white and all-black segregated schools.
LangstonReview: Jean Toomer, the poet who inspired an entire generation of African-American writers including Langston Hughes
StyleSarapan: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
Inspired2Share: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
The_CUCCriculum: Attention English III CP students-here are the poems from the gallery walk:
I, Too-Langston Hughes
Any Human to Another-Countee Cullen
A Black Man Talks of Reaping-Arna Bontempts
Storm Ending-Jean Toomer
If We Must Die-Claude McKay
Wade in the Water-Tracy K. Smith
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
aliterarybot: What's beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts him?
—Jean Toomer, Cane
rajoyceUCB: — Jean Toomer, “Storm Ending”
nycterosea: 1. The first book I finished in 2023 was Jean Toomer's Cane (my edition was put out by Mint Editions). Cane has been described as a novel, as a collection of 'vignettes,' as 'innovative fiction.' I still don't know what I'd call it. Worthwhile opening read for the year.
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
StyleSarapan: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
Inspired2Share: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
mr_exception_: NIMRIT YOU ROCK
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.:-Jean Toomer, Cane..
KolaBoof3: JEAN TOOMER absolutely loved Black people -- but he was also too smart not to understand the 1 Drop Rule was Racist Drivel. He knew he wasn't an "actual Black" & he hated how Black people fetished his Whiteness.
He did the right thing --he went on & lived as a White person.
KolaBoof3: "Come and be Black for me"
This discussion today on JEAN TOOMER (author of CANE) proves how toxic & blind so many Black folks still are.
People acting like he had some OBLIGATION to claim Blackness (while looking 100% White) & sacrificing his own true experience=notfair
KolaBoof3: (Cont)
JEAN TOOMER gave us "CANE"
--that was his love letter to Black people just like MY books are my love letters to the Black Race.
He shouldn't be expected to live a DELUSION. He looked 100% White; he gave us a book exposing his love for us & then he went had a life.
KolaBoof3: (4)
I totally agree with JEAN TOOMER.
And especially because he so obviously loved & cherished Black people -- there is no way he wrote a book as powerful as "CANE" w/o truly loving Black people.
But he was a White man who came from Blacks.
I agree with him. He was right.
KolaBoof3: (5)
JUST LIKE....
I am a Black Woman who "CAME FROM" Arabs.
Same thing.
Jean Toomer's take on his racial identity is 100% right because he's dealing with Clinical Reality and not emotional racially-constructed Plantation rules.
I came from Arabs. But I'm NOT a real Arab.
sparrowpost: Barnes and Noble now has a Penguin edition section. I started reading Jean Toomer’s Cane and Mishima’s The Sound of Waves, and I can’t stop thinking about them.
owlpatrol66: Happy birthday, Jean Toomer! from the archives, edited.
owlpatrol66: Happy birthday, Jean Toomer. Her Lips Are Copper Wire, from Cane.
owlpatrol66: Happy birthday, Jean Toomer!
owlpatrol66: Happy birthday, Jean Toomer!
IFinestQuotes: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
sharetw_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
yosuke_j: Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by Jean Toomer
BeineckeLibrary: Drawings and designs
From: Jean Toomer papers
Quotesme_: "We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer
RWTnow: Celebrate the birthday of Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer with this related lesson plan:
CasesinVirginia: That said, Cane remains one of the best pieces of Southern art. From juxtaposing Black life in rural Georgia with that of D.C.'s Shaw to displaying Black leisure in Harpers Ferry, W. VA.
"I think Jean Toomer would want us to keep its beauty but let him go,'' Alice Walker
CasesinVirginia: Jean Toomer is often remembered as one of the leading lights of the New Negro Renaissance but his ambivalence to Blackness is one thing, I was so surprised to learn that when he moved up north he didn't move to Harlem but to Greenwich Village, Little Africa albeit.
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