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SCBookGal & Friends Podcast DA CREW PODCAST LIVE 8PM EST EVERY 1ST THROUGH 4TH TUESDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: K k luke luk lags and gentlemen, lay, I have
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  Speaker 2: your attention please. The show starts in five eight seven
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  Speaker 2: pump shoot one go.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, it's a Tuesday night, and I am here
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  Speaker 3: again with the new author, with the new book, and
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  Speaker 3: this one, I know it's going to hit a little
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  Speaker 3: home because it's poetry, and you know, poetry is it's
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  Speaker 3: something to make you feel good. It's something to help
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  Speaker 3: you get those emotions out, you know, like like poetry
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  Speaker 3: you can kind of call the purge, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: the reason why I say that if you get all
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  Speaker 3: these thoughts out on the paper and then you feel
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  Speaker 3: better sometimes depending on how you're doing it. But I
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  Speaker 3: have a new author, Okay, you guys. It's wonderful. And
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  Speaker 3: I love when authors reach out to me after I
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  Speaker 3: put the call out, and she was one of those
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  Speaker 3: ones that reach out to me. So tonight we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk about a book entitled Can't Handle Failure, and we
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  Speaker 3: are going to be talking to author poet Stevens. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna bring this lady out and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: welcome her to sc bookels and friends. Come on up, girly,
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  Speaker 3: how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am grave? So welcome, welcome, welcome, and we are
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  Speaker 3: so honored to have you here tonight with this beautiful
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  Speaker 3: book that is on that side. Y'all, I got it
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  Speaker 3: right for the first time, can you believe it? So
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna jump right into this, but a full any further,
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  Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a mother, I'm a CNA. I'm going to school
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  Speaker 4: to be an LPN. I'm a poetry writer. I've just
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  Speaker 4: finished my first short story book, and that.
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  Speaker 5: Should because.
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  Speaker 4: I do everything because the sky is the limit, and
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  Speaker 4: can't nobody tell me I.
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  Speaker 5: Can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: You need depend that the sky is the limit, and
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  Speaker 3: nobody can't tell me I can't do it. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: my hat goes off to you being a mother and
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  Speaker 3: you in school with that in word that's called nursing.
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  Speaker 3: My hat is off to you, sweetheart, and you're writing books.
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  Speaker 3: How old is your little person?
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  Speaker 4: My youngest is one going on too. My oldest is
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  Speaker 4: twenty two.
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  Speaker 5: Ooo. Again, I believe I could do anything, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Believe I want the big family.
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  Speaker 4: So I have a big family. I have seven beautiful children.
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  Speaker 3: Seven So what are ages? So we got twenty two.
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  Speaker 5: Or we have a twenty one?
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  Speaker 4: I have a nineteen going on twenty. I have an
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  Speaker 4: eighteen fourteen, then the baby, and then I have my
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  Speaker 4: adopted chiald, which is mine. So you can't tell me
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  Speaker 4: she ain't mine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now I'm sorry, you can tell me. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna ask answer that question. But you look so young.
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  Speaker 3: You have this baby faced, beautiful smile with the cheeks.
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  Speaker 3: Can I ask how old you are?
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm thirty nine going on eighty.
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  Speaker 1: What you will, girl?
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  Speaker 3: Why you feel like you're going on eighty?
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  Speaker 4: The knowledge I acquired in the years, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I acquired it a little late.
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  Speaker 5: But then most of.
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  Speaker 4: It that I knew, I just wanted to ignore it.
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  Speaker 4: And that old lady is with the talking and when
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  Speaker 4: things didn't go right, you know how the old people say,
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  Speaker 4: you got to go to that prayer closet. So I
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  Speaker 4: had to go to that closet. I'm an old lady.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't nothing wrong with it, that closet, And you guys,
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  Speaker 3: it's not always a closet. But we called our prayer, closet,
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  Speaker 3: my closet, across my bed, and in my bathroom where's yours.
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  Speaker 5: Mine is my vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: It's the only place that I find peace because it
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  Speaker 4: takes me an hour and fifteen minutes to drive the work,
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  Speaker 4: and it takes me an hour and twenty minutes to
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  Speaker 4: drive back.
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  Speaker 5: And in that time I can find all the piece
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  Speaker 5: I need.
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  Speaker 4: We can have all the conversations, no interruptions, no phone calls.
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  Speaker 5: Just me and my closet.
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  Speaker 3: Yo, that is what's up. Yes, mama, your traffics sound
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  Speaker 3: like my traffic here in Charleston. So tell us a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more about yourself. So you guys, well, we're
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  Speaker 3: having a little technical difficulties, but you know, with me,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna make it do what it do. Her book
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  Speaker 3: Can't Handle Failure is a novel that is mainly okay,
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  Speaker 3: she's coming back back. There we go, you back, girl.
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  Speaker 3: We just make you do what it do. We don't stop,
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  Speaker 3: We keep on going. We wait for you to come back. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: All right, here's a little suggestion. Place your phone on
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  Speaker 3: airplane modes so no calls can come in and you
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  Speaker 3: won't get disconnected.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't.
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  Speaker 1: Tell these people.
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  Speaker 3: You know, these fancy phones that we have going on.
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  Speaker 3: I literally this my little friend is next to me
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  Speaker 3: all the time. But let me tell you, guys a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about her book. Why she sets that up? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this book of hers is about poetry about what she's
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  Speaker 3: been through in life and how she finds a way
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  Speaker 3: of dealing with it. It talks about being abused, emotionally dreamed,
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  Speaker 3: and just trying to survive the every day to day.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of us. I feel that can take something
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  Speaker 3: away from one of the peoples to this book. You're
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  Speaker 3: back at it. I did it. So her poetry is
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  Speaker 3: a book that is almost for everyone. Okay, you guys,
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  Speaker 3: but we're gonna let her talk a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 3: Can't Handle Failure. Where did you get your title?
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  Speaker 4: My mom has a lot of health problems, and the
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  Speaker 4: last time she was in the hospital, they told her
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  Speaker 4: she had CHF and her chances of living were.
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  Speaker 5: Little to none. You know, the same old, same old.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one thing my mom said that she instilled in
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  Speaker 4: our minds is failure is not an option. Either you
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  Speaker 4: gonna do it or you're gonna do it right. So
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  Speaker 4: I named the book after her. Can't Handle failure because
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  Speaker 4: you're not gonna go away from me like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's not happening.
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  Speaker 3: So I can tell you take you take life by
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  Speaker 3: the reins and you kind of stir it in with
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  Speaker 3: God's guidance. You you put it where it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: I can see this.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, So.
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  Speaker 3: Was there any part of your book that was hard
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  Speaker 3: to to write? Was there one point that you just said,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta put this down because this brought up all
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  Speaker 3: these emotions in me. Were there any points.
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  Speaker 1: That were like that?
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  Speaker 4: I would have to say all of them were like that,
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  Speaker 4: only because I write how it comes to me. So
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  Speaker 4: if I was driving.
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  Speaker 5: And it comes, I gotta pull over.
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  Speaker 4: We got to write this down because if I don't,
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  Speaker 4: I won't remember it. And there's a message in it.
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  Speaker 5: So I have to pull over. Lot, we got to stop.
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  Speaker 4: So there's notebooks everywhere. There's one in my car, my
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  Speaker 4: husband's car, the kids, card I have a notebook somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, A lot of people I know they say they
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  Speaker 3: keep a lot of notebooks written everywhere. Are you? Are
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  Speaker 3: you a type of person that you will grab all
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  Speaker 3: the notebooks and pick certain poems or you just say
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna grab this notebook and I'm gonna take the
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  Speaker 3: points of that feel are relevant to my book and
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  Speaker 3: place them inside my back.
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  Speaker 4: I take the poem, I take the notebook. This is
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  Speaker 4: how we feel. We're gonna write, and if we write
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  Speaker 4: all night, we write all night. There are days I
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  Speaker 4: can know for a fact I stayed up and wrote.
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  Speaker 4: I have poems I haven't published yet, but my husband
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  Speaker 4: keeps from because he was like, you never know.
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  Speaker 3: That is true, that is true, So what start that
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  Speaker 3: you're writing?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I was that weird kid.
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  Speaker 4: I've been writing since I was thirteen, and I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of people like. I'm very when I'm around people. I know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm very open and I'm bubbly, but when I'm around.
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  Speaker 5: Strangers, I am shy. I am really, really, really shy.
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  Speaker 1: So I was that weird kid.
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  Speaker 4: Instead of making friends, I'm gonna just write how I
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  Speaker 4: feel and believe it there and hope nobody reads it.
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  Speaker 4: So the whole time my sister and brothers are making friends,
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  Speaker 4: I'm writing.
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  Speaker 1: Then once you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, you become a teenager and you think you know
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  Speaker 4: everything and mom have to shelter me from it.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, I don't really want you to.
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  Speaker 4: Go outside because you're not ready. The boys are looking
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  Speaker 4: at you in the wrong way. You don't know what
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, she just being her.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'm mad.
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  Speaker 4: So now I'm going to write and let you see
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  Speaker 4: what I wrote. Why because you don't toush touch your parents,
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  Speaker 4: but they always tell them how you feel. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna write this poem and I'm gonna leave it on
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  Speaker 4: the kitchen table because when you come in after you
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  Speaker 4: get off work, all permission forms and everything, you won't red.
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  Speaker 5: It's on the kitchen table.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave it right now because you made me mad.
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  Speaker 5: If she'll.
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  Speaker 3: How much trouble did you get in from speaking your mind?
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  Speaker 5: A lot?
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  Speaker 3: See, I was the type of child you know, talking trash,
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  Speaker 3: but you bull you writing on a piece of people
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  Speaker 3: and leave it on the kitchen tea. So how do
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  Speaker 3: you how was do you use your writing?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I understand now that you use it as a former communication.
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  Speaker 3: Do your kids use it as a former communication with
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  Speaker 3: you like you do with your mom?
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  Speaker 4: No, my kids we have a very open life. Treat
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  Speaker 4: me with respect when we speak to me. Don't curse
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  Speaker 4: at me.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to talk to me and we can.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about anything because I don't want Like I love
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  Speaker 4: my mom for everything she did, but I kind of
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  Speaker 4: felt like she was trying to hope the world for
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  Speaker 4: us to wear.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't really.
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  Speaker 4: Have real life experience. I want to be the parents
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  Speaker 4: to wear if my baby said, Mama, look here, I
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  Speaker 4: think I'm ready for SECT and I think we need
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  Speaker 4: to have some birth control talk. I think we need
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  Speaker 4: to talk about why do you feel like you're ready?
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  Speaker 4: Is it you or are you being pressured?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 4: I want to keep those lines open because I don't
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  Speaker 4: ever want my kids to feel like they're afraid to
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  Speaker 4: see and tell me anything because I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: find out through the streets because they don't be mad,
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  Speaker 4: because then I feel like you skipped the main player
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  Speaker 4: in this game.
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  Speaker 5: Regardless of what.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I always have your back.
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  Speaker 4: Just be honest with me, because I can't have your
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  Speaker 4: back if I don't know what I'm defending.
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  Speaker 1: Yo.
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  Speaker 3: I send it to my son all the time, like,
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  Speaker 3: don't let me go into something blindsided. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be able to defend you. So you got to give
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  Speaker 3: me the ammunition that I need. Yes, And I want
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  Speaker 3: to say that I really do agree with you with
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  Speaker 3: having that open door and being able to talk. I
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  Speaker 3: just feel that our parents and our grandparents lived that
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  Speaker 3: life up shy, don't ask me, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: And then when we started to go out there they
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  Speaker 3: got mad. We was like, well, who we were supposed
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  Speaker 3: to ask?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 3: Weren't letting us ask you questions?
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  Speaker 4: You know the secret taboos we don't talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And so that is awesome. I love the fact
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  Speaker 3: that you do that. I would try to do that
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  Speaker 3: with my ten year old. Would Yeah, that's a whole
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  Speaker 3: different story that.
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  Speaker 4: So if I tried it with my one year old
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  Speaker 4: right now, we'll be eating chicken nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: And old Gracie's Corner or what other lady name was
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  Speaker 3: you guys, miss Rachel which one't be talking? Yes, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: thank you because I never understood miss Rachel. She kind
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  Speaker 3: of scared me a little bit. But anyways, So how
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  Speaker 3: did you publish your book? Were you independent or did
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  Speaker 3: you use a publishing house? And why did you make
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  Speaker 3: that decision?
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  Speaker 4: So this is why a lot of people say, read
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  Speaker 4: before you sign. I went with I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: name the company, but I went with a publishing house
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  Speaker 4: and didn't read.
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  Speaker 1: I was just so excited they were.
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  Speaker 4: Going to publish my book.
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  Speaker 5: My first book was a flock.
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  Speaker 1: But in the contract it stays.
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  Speaker 4: I have to give them another book within five years
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  Speaker 4: or they could sue me.
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  Speaker 3: Whoy Yeah yeah. So let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: Are you.
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  Speaker 3: How are your feelings going forward? Are you wanting to
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  Speaker 3: stay with the publishing house or are you wanting to
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  Speaker 3: go independent?
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  Speaker 4: I would like to go independent because there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of poems that I wrote that I submitted to them
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  Speaker 4: that they didn't think would hit the tard bit community,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt like they were trying to edit the
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  Speaker 4: book to where it wasn't really me.
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  Speaker 3: You know what. I hear a lot of people say
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  Speaker 3: they love going independent, they just don't like all the
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  Speaker 3: work that goes behind independent, And I think what you
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  Speaker 3: happened through is one of those scenarios that happen when
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  Speaker 3: you go with the publishing house. So are you so
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  Speaker 3: your short story is that going to be under your
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  Speaker 3: independent or is that publishing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go independent with this one only because
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  Speaker 4: it would be best for three reasons. The first reason
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  Speaker 4: would be if I edit the book, nobody's going to
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  Speaker 4: change it. It's not going to be Hey, you know
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  Speaker 4: you're too urban in this part of the book.
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  Speaker 5: We need to change this or changed this.
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  Speaker 4: It's this is what we're living.
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  Speaker 5: This is how we talk. This is how you can
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  Speaker 5: relate to people.
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  Speaker 3: I like the fact that you said this is how
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  Speaker 3: we're living, this is how we talk. As a reader,
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  Speaker 3: I love when Life. For the book that I'm currently reading.
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  Speaker 3: You guys, you might not be able to see it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't like this a little bit of it. This is
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  Speaker 3: called reverse by Ryan Jenkins. And I love the fact
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  Speaker 3: that in the book it has that slang, it has
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  Speaker 3: that that that dialogue that represents or is about the
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  Speaker 3: character that makes the book real. So how are you
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  Speaker 3: too urban? And an urban book?
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  Speaker 4: A couple of my poems were too urban, and when
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  Speaker 4: they categorized me, it was urban about what was urban poetry?
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  Speaker 4: And then it went from urban to urban African American.
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  Speaker 4: It just couldn't be a book of poetry. It had
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  Speaker 4: to have several different labels. When I go to the library,
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  Speaker 4: I don't go and say I'm looking for an urban section.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just looking for one section.
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  Speaker 3: You guys, African American is not a genre. Please understand
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  Speaker 3: that African American is not a genre. It's barely a week,
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  Speaker 3: but it is not a genre. So please don't go
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  Speaker 3: in your public library. Action, can I have the African
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  Speaker 3: American books? Because there's no such thing as an African
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  Speaker 3: American book. Okay, remember that, just like you have with
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  Speaker 3: Caucasian authors, there are mystery romance such as such, they're
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. Just telling me you want an African
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  Speaker 3: American author, not an African American book. Don't do that
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  Speaker 3: because what that does is that puts you in that box,
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  Speaker 3: and nobody want If they don't want to go in
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  Speaker 3: that box, they're never going to recognize you. So I
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  Speaker 3: applaud you for doing that. So since we're talking about this,
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  Speaker 3: your cover very very distinctive, how did you come up
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  Speaker 3: with that cover? Man?
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  Speaker 5: Actually, it was my husband's idea.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good job, he'd be a good job. So how
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  Speaker 3: did you guys? Well, how did he come up with it?
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  Speaker 4: Because as he say, anytime that I'm finished writing for
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  Speaker 4: the night, I just leave my part in the middle
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  Speaker 4: pad just like that, just leave it there.
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  Speaker 5: So we was like, you know what, that would be
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  Speaker 5: a nice.
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  Speaker 3: Cover, very very to the point in actually representing you
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  Speaker 3: through the book. I love it. So poet Stevens, how
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  Speaker 3: did you get that name just because of poetry and
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  Speaker 3: your last name? Yes, Sam, understandable, understandable. So what does
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  Speaker 3: literary success look like for you?
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  Speaker 1: For me? Literary successful beings?
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, I have a short story coming up,
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  Speaker 4: and it touched on a lot of things we grew up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm able to talk about because it was taboo, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like the uncle that you not posting dressed around, stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. This book touches on it. And if my
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  Speaker 4: book can reach one girl to the point she say,
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm not in this by myself. Somebody's been
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  Speaker 4: through what I'm going through, that's my success right there.
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  Speaker 4: If somebody can read my book can go you know
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  Speaker 4: what this girl right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I made it f this time, but we're gonna try
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  Speaker 4: it again.
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  Speaker 1: Because I know who won't be easy for me.
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  Speaker 4: I've been a CNA for a very very long time,
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  Speaker 4: so it's a new come up for me. But I
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  Speaker 4: can't let one bad grade go.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think this for me no more, it's not
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  Speaker 5: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so you're wanting to reach those with this book
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  Speaker 3: who would who would benefit best from your.
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  Speaker 4: Writings, anybody that's willing to listen, anybody that's willing to understand,
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  Speaker 4: and anybody that can read in between lines.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, I love that reading in between the line.
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  Speaker 3: So you're wanting them to come up with an interpretation
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  Speaker 3: for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because what I can what I'm thinking, You might
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  Speaker 1: read it and.
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  Speaker 5: Be like, well that ain't what that is.
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  Speaker 3: Understandable Now it's It's nice to have a book where
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  Speaker 3: you can interpret yourself and place yourself aside the book.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that. So before we went online, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't able to tell you this. So I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and tell you now. The last five minutes of
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  Speaker 3: Scie book out different podcasts, we have our fun questions. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So the pun questions are questions that involve music and
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  Speaker 3: media because I love music and I love media. So
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  Speaker 3: I have now had a staple question that I asked
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  Speaker 3: every author. But before I ask you that question, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna ask you this. You have an opportunity to have
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  Speaker 3: your poetry down at a spoken word conference at essence
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  Speaker 3: like this, Let's do a big who would you want
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  Speaker 3: to read your poetry and why did you choose that person?
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  Speaker 5: Jill Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Oh see, you went straight there? So why Jill Scott?
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  Speaker 4: Because when Jill Scott first came out, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people really wasn't rocking on the neo soul. Everybody was
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  Speaker 4: so into hip hop and you know, everybody want to
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  Speaker 4: be a hot girl, and you know, we wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be suked and everything else. But she had a vibe
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  Speaker 4: of her own. It wasn't, hey, I want to be
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  Speaker 4: a copy paste person. It wasn't like I see Erica
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  Speaker 4: Badu do a number try.
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  Speaker 5: No, she was like, this is my soul, this is
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  Speaker 5: my lane.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna create my own Pa, You're right, That's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what she did. And she didn't let anybody kind of
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  Speaker 3: dictate her and she grew along the process.
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  Speaker 1: So I see it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel that one here's a staple question Lifetime is
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  Speaker 3: on the line in the Love Your Book, they want
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  Speaker 3: to make your booket to a film. Who would be
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  Speaker 3: your leading lady and who would be your leading man?
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  Speaker 3: And why did you choose them?
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  Speaker 4: My leading lady would have to be Whoopy Goldbert. It
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: is because we were brainwashed to believe Whoopy was an
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  Speaker 4: ugly woman. I was brainwashed to believe that I was
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  Speaker 4: very ugly that nobody never wanted me.
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  Speaker 5: I was undesirable, I was damaged good and it took.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody thirteen years to finally crack.
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  Speaker 5: Me down to where I became the diamond I am today.
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  Speaker 4: So I have to go with whoopy Why because everybody
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  Speaker 4: took past the other dog. Oh she ugly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she did this and did this, But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, she's still smiling. She is
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: beautiful as she ever was off.
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  Speaker 5: My leading man.
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  Speaker 4: Would have to be Samuel L. Jackson, because the man,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: the way he say ms, and the way every time
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  Speaker 4: I messed up with my granddaddy had to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: And if that man, because I want.
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  Speaker 5: Him Samuel L.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson. Okay, I see it, I see it all right.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Lifetime's back on the line again, but this time they
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: want to do a bio pic of you. Who would
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you give the honor of playing you? And why I.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Would play me?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Okay. There are emotions that certain people can't tap into
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: if they've never been through it.
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  Speaker 3: MM, only you could play yourself the best, So I
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  Speaker 3: totally understand that. So before we leave tonight, give us
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  Speaker 3: the rundown. Tell us where we can get your book.
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  Speaker 3: If you could tell us when your next book is
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: going to be coming out, and if you have any
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  Speaker 3: social media handles, tell us about it.
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  Speaker 4: My book is on Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: I just discovered recently that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: They finally put it in Books a million, so I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: excited about that. My social media platforms are poet Brooks
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: on Instagram, poet Brooks also on TikTok. I'm I'm I'm
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: gonna say, I'm viral ish probably every other day. It's
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: more of a comedy short than anything because when we
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  Speaker 4: have we go to work with Gardis I work with.
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  Speaker 4: We don't go to work to work, We go to
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  Speaker 4: work to last. It is twelve hours of a straight poverty.
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  Speaker 3: Show Joe and listen. I work at a public library
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  Speaker 3: and there it is like this, totally like that, and
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  Speaker 3: you like, I actually didn't come in to work, but
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna laugh my butt off, So it's time to
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  Speaker 3: get off because I need some entertainment. I told me,
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  Speaker 3: I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: And I always feel like you never know what somebody
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  Speaker 4: going through, so if you can make them laugh, you
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: compleet the whole day. And my residents think on a clown,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: so every time I make a joke, they always laughing
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: at me anyway. So yeah, I'm social media ish. I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to do better. I'm really really trying to do better.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't just speak consistent like I have to tell
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  Speaker 3: myself okay.
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  Speaker 5: I'm learning about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well I will, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the title of it is Secret.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to have it out around December January, and
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: this book is a roller coaster. You're going to laugh,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to get angry, you're going to see everything
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  Speaker 4: from Miss Angels eyes, and you're going.
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  Speaker 5: To be like I went through that. I went through that.
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  Speaker 4: I went through that, and you're gonna learn you can
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  Speaker 4: overcome it, you can hear from it and become a
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  Speaker 4: better person.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's my type of book, So you know, I
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: will be looking forward to that. I love those books
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  Speaker 3: that take me on the roller coaster. So keep me
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  Speaker 3: in contact because I surely want to read it. Yes, ma'am, Well,
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  Speaker 3: what's made poet Stevens? Thank you for being with us tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you say one more thing to your
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  Speaker 3: new readers, old readers and soon to be readers want
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: they see this podcast, what would you like to say
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: to them?
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  Speaker 1: Keep an open heart?
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  Speaker 4: Open mind and open ears because everything you see not
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  Speaker 4: might might not lad up to everything you hear, and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes your best thing is to just listen and don't respond.
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  Speaker 5: That hurt them worse.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, I like that. Listen and don't respond. Sometimes I
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: don't know how.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want a reaction, and if they don't get it,
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  Speaker 4: that makes the mad and.
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  Speaker 5: They walk off.
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  Speaker 4: I'm slowly learning that.
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  Speaker 3: That is true. But then for me, there's some reason
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: why I feel like I gotta have the last word,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: and maybe that's why my child is that. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: makes sense. Sometimes I do feel like I got to
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  Speaker 3: get that. But you know what confirmation? Stop talking so
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  Speaker 3: much and just walk away. All right, here you got
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna stop paying attention. Stop paying attention. Well, thank
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  Speaker 3: you for joining us tonight. It has been a pleasure
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  Speaker 3: you guys. Go grab Can't Handle Failure by Poet Stevens.
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  Speaker 3: We got it on Amazon, they got it on Bonds
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  Speaker 3: and Noble. Go ahead, get your copy read this one
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: so you could be ready when a new one comes
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  Speaker 3: out Secrets in December. Okay, thank you again for being
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: with us tonight. Hey, guys, I'll be back on Thursday.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: And Thursday I have a double feature. I got two offers,
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  Speaker 3: not one, but I got two. But I see you
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  Speaker 3: next week Thursday. Remember I mean this Thursday my fault.
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  Speaker 3: Remember there's no such thing as an old book because
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: not everybody is there in every book. Have a good night, everyone,
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  Speaker 3: five