Customer Reviews:
 FEELINGS COME ALIVE February 25, 1999
This book evokes many feelings although there are no written words in the story. The feelings portrayed in the book vividly are anger, shame, sympathy, and compassion to name a few. I believe students would have feelings arosed in them. I highly suggest people from young adult through adults read this book.
"Black Rage!" should be a DSMIV catagory-a la FEELINGS! February 10, 1998
Given this is "Black" history month, Mr. Feelings' book should be mandatory for all who reside in this country, race, creed, ethnicity not withstanding. How a people can be so totally brutilized in abounding silencce and suffer for hunderdes of years; both as the victim and perpertrator needs some serious investigation. Book:"Lets We Forget" by Velma Maia Thomas, brings 3D and text to Tom Feelings work. You can feel the pain, hear the cries, smell the stench! I say, BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! To Mr. Feelings it is a pity that his work will only reach a small percent of the American public. The truth continues in avodiance! A passage from an infamous speech delivered in 1712 on the banks of the St. James river, reverbirates the above mentioned works; "I will teach you a simple method to control your slaves. Your wives and children can learn this method and I grauntee it works. The slaves themselves will perpetuate this method for hundreds or maybe thousands of years to come!" GOD, will we ever get out of the bottom of that boat?? From the Heart of a Serious Sistah YAA ASANTEWAA NZINGA
The Atlantic Ocean is a place millions call home... July 5, 1997
As an African-American, when I think of my people being held in a ship's hold for months at a time, or expectant mothers being tossed overboard because morning sickness is having its way with them, tears fill my eyes and this book drives that point home more and more. At the same time, it serves as a reminder that I am here because someone survived The Passage. Someone was strong enough to endure. Mr. Feelings had to have been there in some capacity. Whether the ancestors are merely whispering in his ear to tell him how it was, or if some muse is sweeping him there through his vision or dreams, he was there. There is no other explanation for such vivid sensitivity in his artwork. This book is a reminder as well as an inspiration of an event none need ever try and forget.
Wordless! July 1, 1997
There are no words in the english language that can describe the emotional impact this book will have on people sensitive to the African plight.
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