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DA CREW PODCASTSEASON 1| EPISODE #90 | HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL|(SHOW #12) · DA CREW Podcast

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join us. We're ready, are you as I take your head? Hey
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everyone, this is your girl as see book out eight four three Patree squabble
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and we are here again with sec book Gal and friends chats. Well,
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what can I say right now? I am well supposed to have a guest
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and I was very excited from my hometown. But she's another show. So
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you guys, it's gonna be us tonight and I am going to be here
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and then I'm gonna give you some tips about preparing your child for back to
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school. Oh she's here. Well, we'll save those tips for next time,
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you guys. I am very excited to actually have an author from my
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hometown. Like hometown hometown, like over the bridge we might shop to seeing
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Walmart and stuff like that. She is a poet here from Charles to South
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Carolina and her name is Star the poet. I am so excited to have
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this young lady on with me tonight, and I am going to bring her
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on. Come on in, Star, Come on in, Come on in.
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Hi. I'm sorry, I was trying to log on but I had
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to go through Facebook and hog god stuff. I'm so sorry. It is
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okay, it's okay. You are here, and we're gonna ask you to
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go ahead and tell us about Star. Who is Star the poet? I
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am twenty two. Oh my name is Stardjan Hamilton's I'm twenty two. I'm
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from downtown Charleston. I went to Burke High School and I actually got my
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first book published while I was a junior at Burke High School. And I'm
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an author of The Hard Stage of a Smart Team and Speak Up. Yes,
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so you guys. I went to Garrett Academy. So we like,
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we're like, what two bridges between us, but we're all in this together,
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and it's exciting to finally let people know that Charleston people, we do
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read. But there's some odd reason every time I meet someone as African American
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and they say, oh, you read, it's like, yeah, oh,
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you must be from New York. No, you must be from Atlanta.
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No, I'm right here from Charles's auth Carolina. And the next thing
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they say is Charleston people read. So the lead to that you have a
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book that is called Speak Up. So in ten words, can you describe
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that book for someone who has never seen it before? It probably might be
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a little bit more for than ten words, I'm taking time. Take your
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time to describe Speak Up. Speak Up. It's just basically it's just basically
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like a book about people who are like fighting depression and anxiety, people who
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are trying to like find theirselfs let's see, like learning new experiences. Just
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really people who was like dealing with a lot of like going through like mental
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health problems. Like well I would I wouldn't even say mental health problems.
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I would say like like if you're just going through some type of mental experience,
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something like you have never experienced before, like you know that does book
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here is like a motivation to help you, you know, know that you're
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not alone. You know. That's basically what speak Up is about, and
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just you know, not holding anything in, you know, just talk to
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somebody, you know before your mind really gets attacked. Yes, So it
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it's like, um, I would say a conversation starter something that it's off
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subject off question. Do you feel that you write in the book was along
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the lines of your experiences or it's as it other people? Yeah, well
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I feel like what I went through, Um, like I dealt with like
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anxiety and panic attacks and I had never like dealt with that before. So
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I'm like like how and like why am I dealing with this? So while
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I was going through that, I knew like I was, I was writing
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some plot, I was writing poetry. But I'm like, okay, like
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where exactly am I going at with this? Like what is this going to
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be about? So, like every time I had some type of anxiety attack
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or panic I would just write down a poem of like how exactly my feeling.
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I would be very specific and like and I'll read it. I'd be
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like, I know somebody who like went through that, somebody already talked to
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me about feeling this way. But now that I get to feel it,
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so I get to really write down some hard feelings about it. So I'm
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just really trying to like motivate people, because that was something very hard to
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get out of, very hard, So writing help me. So you just
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brought the reader on the journey with you too. You can say your healing
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process in so many terms, yes, and that's great. I like those
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books because it can be that one point that will get you through. You
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might not be able to sit down and read an whole chapter, but you
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could take that one point, just like you could take that one Bible verse
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and it will get you through it. So I love books like that.
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But poetry. Why poetry, I don't know. It just was something that
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I was just meant to do. Like it was just something like when I
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was in eighth grade, like I wrote my first poem and I was like,
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you know what, like I'm gonna just keep going. So like as
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I as I kept going and just like it just kept getting better. So
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I'm like, this is something that I want to do. But I always
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wanted to be an author, but I didn't know if I want to be
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like a short story author, novel or whatever. And I wanted to do
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that like after I got out of high school, Like that's why I wanted
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to focus on But I mean, God the plans to me, and I
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made that happen while in school, so like that's just reading my passion.
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It's just something that I really love to do, Like I love poetry,
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and a lot of people ask me, like, you know, like do
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you read other people's poetry? And I'm like no, it's just something in
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me that I need other people like I don't. Let's not even want like
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I need them to read this because it's like a really big help and I'm
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young. Yeah, okay, okay, I can see that. So I'm
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gonna ask you an off script question. So are you a reader? Yeah,
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I am a reader. I like to read like like teenage books like
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I like, I don't know if you ever heard about like them, the
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blue Ford series, Like I don't read like all like I I like to
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read like off it's just app called walk Pad Like well, like a lot
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of people would they write stuff. So I wrote like a little short story
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on me about like a selate and like a lot of people was happening into
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it and I'm like, you know what, let me go ahead. But
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I end up losing the account and I couldn't. I never got to finish
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it, never got You're gonna have to find it. I do like way
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Pad, and the reason why I like wa Pad it's one of those um
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sites where you get that real, raw author energy, and I love those
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books. I love independent authors like yourself and the Reason Why because it is
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so real, it's so it's not doctored up, it's not uh change it
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everywhere, it's it's your work. I call it you guys, blood,
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sweat and tears. I love that. So before we take a break,
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what is the one takeaway you want someone to get from your book? One
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takeaway? It would be that you can you can do whatever you put your
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mind to, basically, like you can literally do anything, and you can
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do it while you're two years old. You can do like your fifty,
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you can do it like a hundred, you can do whatever. Like I
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just really want people to really like follow their dreams and just really know what
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your passion is, because everybody has a passion, believe it on Like,
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everybody has something in them, but some people are just scared to show it.
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And I was really nervous to like show it at first, but as
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I got better and better, I'm like, yeah, I'm just I'm just
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really trying to be like that that young mortivator, and I just won't be
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like an inspiration to like the youth mainly. Okay, okay, Well,
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before we go, we have a question for you. So a fellow author
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would like to know what type of poetry are you comfortable with writing. I'm
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comfortable writing just like real experiences. Like I don't write like, um,
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explicit things, so like it's really as scid friendly, adult friendly. It's
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friendly to everybody to read. Like I go to like elementary schools and high
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schools and I share my poems, so it's just really friendly. But um,
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maybe like over time able to get more like adulters. But now I'm
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just like I'm just like on that everybody friendly level and I just really like
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to write about, um, real personal experiences. Oh so it seems like
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you got that like what we call the book club book, so anybody can
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pick it up and they could read it. Yeah, which is a great
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thing. So you guys, we're gonna take a break and we're gonna find
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out some more about Ms. Starr, the poet right here from Charleston.
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You guys just don't understand how happy I am to shoot from Charleston. But
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we're gonna take a break and we'll be right back. You guys, tell
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We are back with Star and so we're going to talk about the author aspect
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of everything. Now. So we've talked a little bit about your book.
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So as an author, what do you feel is your best, um marketing,
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aren't you great? Do you feel that social media is the way for
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you to go or do you feel that face to face or poetry Nights or
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something like that. So how do you actual, let's simpolize the question,
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how do you market your books? Um? I marketed on social media,
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meaning like on my Facebook story, y'all like posts some my poetry. You're
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like, if I'm feeling a certain way, I'll be like, okay,
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let me just post this one. So mainly like social media, but and
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then like what that Like some people who I don't even know, they'll be
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like, oh, I know you all Facebook, you know you. It'll
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be like you your frank are you tough to though you don't want to write
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the books? And I'll be like yeah, yeah. So social media has
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gotten me um very far because like a lot of people are starting to notice
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me and I don't even know who these people are. But so that means
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that your work is actually touch at somebody. So kudos to your Kudos to
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you. So when you're writing as an author, do you feel after you
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work write your point? Do you feel energized or do you feel exhausted or
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do you even feel relieved. Like what at the writing how how are you
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feeling? Um, I would say I feel relieved because, um like writing,
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that's a good thing to do. Like a lot of people they're like
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do like journalist and stuff like that. So I started off like journalist.
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I would always write like how my day was at school and stuff like that.
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But like as I got into poetry, I just was I noticed how
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a creative I was with it. So I was like, you know,
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as as as way more to it than just like writing a poem, because
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you know, and me personally, I like to write like at nighttime,
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I want my room to be dark, you know what, like a little
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bit of light, because that's when your thoughts are just going and I just
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I just let it all flow whatever is my mind. I just write it
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down. So I really do feel relieved and I feel like, oh yeah,
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like I'll be like dust the mom right here. That's the one.
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That's the one. Yeah, really and very exciting. It seems like he
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said, a whole atmosphere when it comes down to your writing. Yeah,
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yeah, is there music involved? Is there like that one artist that you
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could put it on and everything flows or you like complete silence? Um,
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well, like both because like I'm I'm like a really huge well my my
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inspiration is believe it a lot, but I really do UM love Chris Brown.
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Yeah yeah, I really do. And it's a lot of people that
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I don't buy. You know, here's an inspiration to me because it's like
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sometimes I feel like we're kind of going through the same thing. Just what
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like the music he put I would be like, man, I going through
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that too. Like It'll just be like certain things. So like sometimes I'll
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listen to his music and I'll just get into that that mood and that mood
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to be like okay, like that's how I'm feeling like and then it'll be
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certain things that he may say, but I'll like switch it up and then
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like I'll use it. Like you know that that's a part of being creative
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too, So you know that that helps me a lot because sometimes I do
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need silence. I just need to be by myself just to do what I
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gotta do. But music and silence helps either way, a good poem comes
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out of it. Okay, Well, you have another UM audience question,
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and that question was what author inspired what poet? Not an author, but
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what poet inspiracy? Um, it's a that's not like a famous poet,
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but she's from down here. Her name is Christine Washington. She's um,
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she's an author from you know, Charleston, South Carolina. And she is
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like a huge inswiration to me too, because, like I was, I
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would always see her like publishing these books and I'm like how, like I
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never knew how it was possible. I'm like, you know, like what
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does she have to go through her? And like she would. I remember,
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um, my little cousin passed away in a car accident in twenty sixteen,
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and I remember like she came to like the candle light in and she
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did like this poem and I was like, I was interested. I was
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like, you know at this point like bump being sad, like I was
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all eyes on her and I was like like how does she just split it
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out like that? And like that? Oh that was like a huge inspiration
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and I'm like I want to be like like I seriously want to be like
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her. Like so she's like a really really really huge inswiration to me,
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and she always keeps me involved, like she does a lot of players based
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off her books, and she makes sure that I'm like the mean character,
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like she like I love her, and she was like a really really really
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huge inspiration. And she also helped me with my first and my second book.
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Like we don't go through the editor and we go through everything again.
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I'm like listening, when I get famous, we canna be famous together.
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Yes, Christine, Christine, Her and Georgia Nubia, those two right there.
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I always wait for them to drop something. I'm always looking at things.
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I love their work. Um, oh I met Georgia. I met
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Georgia. She had a she had a poet, uh slam at the page
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seven barn girl, and I was there that miss who I was up in
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there, So I met her. Yeah, I met her too. Yeah,
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that's my little off subject. That's my baby girls. Oh, that's
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her teacher. That's nobody else teacher about her teacher, her Miss Georgia.
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Yea, but I have another you have questions coming through girl. Have you
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been heared bringing all that question? Have you ever considered writing in a different
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genre? Yes, So spoiler alert, my third book is going to actually
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be a children's book. So I'm gonna I'm trying to move on up,
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you know with like after the children's going to like short stories and like you
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know, like teenage stories stuff like that. I want to actually write a
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book like a short story like about myself out like with different characters and stuff
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like that. So, um yeah, I'm working on the children's book right
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now as we speak, and I'm gonna let my little sister m Levy.
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I'm gonna let her illustrate it because she's a very very very good illustrated and
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I know the kids would love to see it. You see, that's what's
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up. Y'all heard it here first, nowhere else like here on that see
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book out. So she got a third book and it's for the little little
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people. So we have about three minutes. What would you like to say
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to your readers. You're new readers, you're new new readers and people that
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are just getting to know you. Um, what I would like to say
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is make sure you go on Amazon and purchase speed Up at a hard stage
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of a smart teams on Amazon. All you have to do is just,
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um, you know, search up my name and it'll show up. Um.
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I mean, if you're in a Chauston area, I do have them
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on hand. I just want to tell everybody you know, we do got
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the children's book coming next, you know it's coming soon. Um. You
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know, I just want to really motivate everybody to really like follow your dreams,
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just follow your passion and follow your heart. Like if you you can
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do anything you want, literally anything in it can be at any time.
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You know, it just has to be. You just gotta put your work
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in and you know you gotta do what you gotta do, you know.
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So I just really really really really really want everybody to just focus, just
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focus. You know, sometimes the devil was going to try to distract you
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and get into your mind. But praying and praying and praying like that really
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really really helps. And you know, I write some really good poems,
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so you know, y'all should really check it out, like I'm telling you,
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and like I'm like the doubts, they're like really really really love it
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because they be like like there's no way, like your mind is just that
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ahead. So you know, I just want everybody to just follow their dreams
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and just do what they gotta do, because tomorrow it could be you.
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You can be shining, you can be on top everything. And my name
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as a star for a reason, Like a lot of people tell me that
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all the time. So I believe that I'm a start, and a lot
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of people does believe it too, So I'm going to keep that going.
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You are, girl, You are because you got a question out here saying
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how can we follow you and where to get your books? Oh yeah,
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my books are on Amazon. Um. You can follow me on Facebook at
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Stardejan Hamilton. I'm on Instagram Star DearS are the poet um and then my
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my I got like my little business page, you know, start the Poet
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lllc um. But yeah, I'm on Facebook. I'm mainly on Facebook.
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Well I'm the star Deeja Hamilton. I think I don't know if they can
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see my name, but it's just exact name right here. What we'll do
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is when we do the replay and I post this, I will make sure
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that all your links are there so everyone can follow you. But I want
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to thank you for black seeing us with your talent and for you actually stepping
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out in fee and in bringing us into your person the world to help us
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heal our world. Because guess why we all in this together. So there
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is another adventure that I am going to be talking to you about that's going
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to be happening in December, So me and you we got some we got
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some some things to be doing girly okay, but again, thank you,
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thank you, thank you for joining us. You guys, just has been
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another wonderful Saturday night at ste book Galls and friends. This is your girl.
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Puttre s grumble and we're coming back in two weeks. And guess what,
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in two weeks I got another offer right here from Charleston. Yes,
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I am bringing my Charleston people out because we have so much talent here in
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Charleston to it's crazy. But remember we have some things coming up with aspiring
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authors and see book Out and friends and the crew. So y'all need to
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be following up with our facebooks, our YouTube, our forus, our individual
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pages and you can also follow these authors that are on our show show love,
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spread the word and I'll see you guys in two weeks. By everyone,
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bye, Thank you, thank you for joining us to night. We
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hope you found a new book three or a new author to explore. Join
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us again in two weeks for sec book Out and the French Chat. Have
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a good evening. Bye,