James McBride Lecture
"Turn off the television and read the newspaper. There's more truth in your local paper than you'll find on CNN." -- James McBride, author and musician, concluding his remarks at tonight's lecture.
McBride, whose memoir The Color of Water is our freshman class summer reading text, spoke briefly at this afternoon's Honors Convocation tonight, and again tonight as part of the lecture series "A Revoutionizing Perspective".
What did you think of McBride's speech(es), and/or his book?
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I love your not-quite-subliminal plug for good journalism, Dr. Jerz :) Takes me back to last year when I began to loathe TV news, haha.
McBride was wonderful. His zeal for life and his prospective about life is refreshing. I couldn't stay the whole time to listen to him speak for I had many, many assignments to accomplish before Wednesday arrives. I kept wondering though, for a man that has been through so much in his life, and for how much success he has had in his years, was he still humble about his beginnings?
That is the only thing I could think about during his whole speach. Yes he wore nice clothes, and spoke about education and how imperitive it was for our generation to be active in our communities and the "bigger" world that is out there. Though he had very important points, I could not help myself but to stare at his brown suede shoes.
Before leaving, I asked a friend if she could get McBride to sign my book. I asked her if she would have him read a little note that I had wrote to him in the back of my book. I asked him if he had any words of advice for an aspiring writer. Then I asked him if he still wore Wal-Mart socks...
I am sure he laughed, but I was serious. When I think of someone who has "made it," I think of one who has left their humble life behind to start a new life of luxury. To my surprise, he wrote these exact words: "Yes I still wear Wal-Mart socks. Remember: writing is re-writing."
He is someone I will remember... his story and his socks.