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NATIONAL POETRY AWARENESS MONTH _ OPEN MIC SHOWCASE_ LIVE 7PM HOUR_ MARCINE & LASHAI _ · DA CREW Podcast

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Sawed our shotgun and told her that she was going to see her maker.
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Y'all, this is the world we live in now, but I'm thankful that
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we have an opportunity to express some of these things through our works, and
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just so happen, poetry has to be the outlet for some of us.
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We're able to share through poetry. And again, I want to thank you
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guys for tuning in as we celebrate these amazing poets that are sharing their journey
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with us in a little bit about their brands. So I see that we
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have Miss Martine backstage, I'm gonna go ahead and bring her up and allow
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her to introduce herself, and then I hope she's prepared to share some poetry,
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because she's gonna have an opportunity to share some poetry. If y'all don't
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know, and if y'all are a regular to the network, then y'all have
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seen some of her commercials. Back in March, we shared a little bit
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about her newest book that was coming out, So hopefully she's I'm gonna share
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someone that with us tonight. So I'm gonna bring her up, y'all.
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Hi, Hi, antella, how are you? I'm good? I met
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it through another week. Thank God, beautiful. I'm going good. I'm
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doing good. I can't complain. H Wow. Well, like I was
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telling everyone before, I had the opportunity to share through the commercial a little
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bit about your latest release. I know that you were also on the podcast
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earlier with one of the hosts, Patrice, and she shared about your book
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The Phoenix, an amazing book. So I'm just excited to just hear about
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this newest book. I'm excited. So I'm the way and let you share
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for those that may not know who you are, a little bit about yourself.
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And then as the other poets come up, we're gonna allow them to
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share a little bit about themselves as well. But today it's about getting to
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know the poets, allowing them to share their brand and some of their work,
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and then them just talking about why they why they wrote those pieces.
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So the floor is yours. Ms. Martine Hi, and she stated,
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I'm Martine Moore. I am located in Dallas, Texas. I'm a poet
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author based out of Dallas. My preferred trade is a human resources director and
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that is directly like influence helped me to write my poetry. I am the
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I currently have had a best seller. We'll actually two best sellers. I
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can put that on now on Barnes and Noble, The Phoenix Heart and Reflections
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Rising, when which, as Angela stated so eloquently, it's poetry and Reflections
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Rising is my newest book on Barnes and Noble. Wow. Wow, So
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out of all the different jerals that you could have wrote in, why did
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you pick poetry? Poetry picked me? I was I actually didn't know I
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could write a could write a poem until when I say, thirteen years ago,
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when I was going through my divorce, and it was actually therapy for
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me. It was a way for me to get my feelings out on paper
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without you know, doing too much uh craziness, and so it helped heal
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me. And so as I said many times with The Phoenix Heart, it
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was an evolution of the heart. It was actually a process, a step
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by step over thirteen years of me healing my self. And God works in
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amazing ways because who would have known that He turned such a terrible situation into
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something so good and just came through the poetry and writing and healing and finding
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myself. And so by sharing this, I'm hoping that it helps other people.
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You know. Wow, that's amazing because you said it was a thirteen
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year journey, and like a lot of people, thirteen years, they probably
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would have gave up. They probably would have said no, I don't forget
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this, and that book probably would have never got published. Yeah, my
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aim wasn't to write a book. I'm sorry if I cut you off.
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I just was writing. I just was writing poems and just saving him and
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I chare him with girlfriends every now and then and they'd be like, oh,
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you have a gift, you know. But it just turned into a
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collection. And once I decided to publish the book, it actually told a
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story and it was all the portray that I had. I never thought i'd
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be an author. Oh wow. Never wow. And that's just the just
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us being us, you know, not you no, he People don't understand
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that there's so much that's on the inside of us and we would just allow
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it to just come out and be because a lot of us we don't set
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out to do none of the stuff that we do, and it just happens.
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And when it happens the way it happens, it's so beautiful. Like,
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no, you didn't set out to be a poet or an author.
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But it happened and over that thirteen year process, over that thirteen year process,
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here it is. You have the opportunity to do it again with your
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second book. Like, if you had to do it again, would you
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do it again? Oh? Most definitely. Yes. It's an amazing feeling
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to be able to put your words out to the world and dis you know,
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disregard what what, just your feelings and sharing yourself with the world.
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That's awesome. That's an awesome feeling. Yes, I would do it time
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and time and get in I'm thrilled every time. So this is my second
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book. I was thrilled, like I was. You know, I always
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say like I'm having a baby. I felt like I had a baby when
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I had to when I put out the second book. It's just a joy,
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it really is. Wow. Well, we have our second poet backstage.
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You're gonna bring her up in a lot of introduce herself, and she
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introduced herself. We're gonna start sharing some of our work. So we're gonna
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like, mm hmm, is it gonna bring up this internet or whatever it's
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doing whatever it want to do. So hopefully it will allow her to stay
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Hey, how are you Hey? Can you hear me? Yeah? I
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can't. Internet wanted to do what he wanted to do, or whatever it
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wanted to do. I said, the powers that be something else, Boy,
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they be when it seemed like every time it was something good supposed to
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come like, they don't like it. That the powers that we don't like
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for people to be seen and and for people to be recognized, and for
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you know, they don't like good stuff and to come together. Yeah,
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and and and and heal, because poetry can be healing, like literally,
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like it can be like people don't know that just being able to release,
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being able to get stuff out sometime could do your life just like it can
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it can do so good. So please introduce yourself. Let those that are
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tuned in know who you are and a little bit about your brain you would
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well, hello, everybody. My name is Camera Shave Ruckman. The title
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of my my up and coming book is called Rooty Child. It's a part
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of a series. I'm sorry, I'm getting used to this new phone.
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My bad. This camera just killing me. But I've been writing for pretty
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much as long as I can remember. I was a little girl when I
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first started writing poetry. And I. When I first started writing, I
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wrote just just for what I was going through as a child, you know,
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like all the different things that that I experienced in my childhood and foster
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care and different things like that, And it became therapeutic for me. And
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like as I got older, it grew on me and it was like I
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had a story that I wanted to tell and I wanted to hear you know
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what I'm saying, because it was like being growing up in foster care,
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you get silenced a lot, You barely have a voice. Sometimes nobody really
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want to listen to you, Nobody really want to hear what you got to
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say. So when I took on poetry, poetry was everything for me.
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That was my way to get out everything that I felt, everything that I
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disliked and all of that. You know, like even as I got older,
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became a mom and stuff like that and started dealing with relationships and stuff
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like that. It helped me through a lot of different things outside of having
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God on my side and making I'm sure I acknowledged that, you know what
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I'm saying, and it helped me. But a whole entimere of theories together,
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of just experiences that not only I've experienced, but a lot of other
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people women men around the world have also experienced dealing with having messed up childhoods
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and crazy adulthoods and going through different relationships and stuff like that. You know.
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So when I started writing and I wanted to tell my story, it
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was important because it was about not only me telling my story, but letting
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other people hear that they not bad itself and what they go through. A
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lot of people go through a lot of stuff and it's get hushed, you
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know. But it was like, I wanted people to understand you're not out
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here by yourself. You don't got to go through this mess alone, you
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know what I'm saying. And a lot of people didn't really didn't really have
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that, and I just wanted to always be that voice for for those you
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know, wow, wow, Well I already know y'all that these poems right
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here's gonna be deep, y'all. There's gonna be some deep poems. So
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I'm telling you right now, y'all better sit back. I hope y'all got
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y'all something to sip on. I ain't got anything, y'all. I hope
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y'all got y'all something to sip on, because I can tell these gonna be
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deep. We're gonna start with Miss Martine. We're gonna allow her share her
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peace. Y'all, y'alls yourself yourself, because I know the's gonna be deep.
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Well, I'm I'm gonna start out with her. I'm gonna start out
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with a light with a lighter, lighter poem. And it's called It's called
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bonded. He is the fire that warms her heart. He's the water that
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quenches her thirst. He is the air that fills her lungs, the one
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who feels her soul. He has made her a hole he is. She
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is the one who ignites his passions and lights the flame. She is the
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one that brings harmony to him. She soothes his soul. She is a
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piece he never found. She is. Is it possible? Is this true?
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The two have found each other, bonded souls connected. They are melodic,
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They breathe life into each other. They are love. They are one.
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They are that's bonded. Wow wow wow wow. We're gonna talk about
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that in a minute. We're gonna talk about that in a minute. Say,
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Lusha, the first one with is called think understand that you know what
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I mean. It goes like this. Someone once told me what you reap,
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you will also sow and outpouring of positivity is sure to send back positive
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vibes. Yet when you conscious consciously resort to negativity, your life will be
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played that with negativity. Lots of times these two differentials go above people's heads,
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with one with the ones doing wrong seemingly not understanding why nothing's going right
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for them, and the ones doing right praying then nothing will go wrong when
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you f up. Just say when you f up, you must clean up
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your mess. And no, I didn't say, whatever happened to a past
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you is your far I said, for the wrong you do is your fault,
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so you'll be blamed. I mean, these were your actions. You
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either agree and both be right, or disagree and you be wrong. You
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only become more bearable by changing from within. If you do not like thinking
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negative thoughts, take time to think positivesty. If you don't like how you
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act, start changing behaviors. Start from within and find the will to deal
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with every reason Why we had rather run from ourselves, you would change the
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person you're running from. Wow, what was the inspiration behind that piece.
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It's like accepting. Some times you have to accept the fact that you the
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problem in the situation, no matter what the situation is. It's not always
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somebody else's fault. Sometimes you just got to accept that I messed up a
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little bit too. This part I could, I did play a part of
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you know what I'm saying, it's just for me. It was just accountability.
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That's what that was for me. Just accountability. Sometimes you just got
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to just say, you know what, that's my that's my fault. You
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know, wow, wow, transparent moment. Nothing like accountability. So m's
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Martin. What inspired your piece? Well after? What inspired my feet piece
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was finally being hold and knowing that I finally had met someone that accepted me
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for me. See, because you don't you don't know true love unless you
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experienced something bad, and so when you walk through something bad, you can
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appreciate something more. So that's why in the Stanzas I write what what what
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he is to her and what she is to him? That make them come
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together? And that's what that was. That's what makes uh harmonic, UH
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relationship work. That's that's in harmony. If you know two people come together
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and make each other hole wow mm hm oh wow. Yeah, you have
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to experience the bad, so you know the good. Yeah that that is
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true. That is true. Yeah wow wow. So I did earlier and
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in the first hour hour I was sharing with the young ladies that the poet
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that were sharing and those that tuned in that I also I write. So
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I shared a little bit about some of the things that I've done. We
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actually this book, we we shared this this little book here, but we
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actually since y'all are talking about love and accountability, like, I was like,
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well, let me pull out this one because this is the finding love.
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Seeing the first part of the series was finding forgiveness. So we we
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went through the stages of you know, we forgave ourselves, we forgave other
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people, we found hope, and then we moved on. I said,
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well, since they talking about I love, I said, let me pull
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out, let me pull out my liberooks. They may pull out. Then
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we put out minds and share one of my poems. So the one that
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I'm going to share tonight is called Unwavering Love. Embracing my self first in
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the depth of my soul, I found souls and unwavering Love that gives me
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grace. I chose to love myself unbanished, For in this journey, my
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spirit remains steadfast, resilient. I arise from the trials and door equipped with
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strength, my secured I'll embrace my flaws, my imperfections, and let self
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love God me so my soul's reflection. For in and loving myself, I
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find the key to cherish others unconditionally. With open arms, compassion will flow,
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delivering love wherever I go. In this journey of life, we all
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embark. The foundation of love begins with a spark of self acceptance and unwavering
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care. For only then can love truly be shared. And that's that piece
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like that I like him h well. I included that in the Silently Hurt,
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Hurt No More. Finding Love was this particular book and it is a
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part of a mental health series that we did because a lot of times,
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you know, we go through stuff and we deal with stuff and we don't
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find the forgiveness. We don't. We we hold a lot of stuff in
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and during the joint journey we lose hope. We lose hope and a lot
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of stuff. And then when we lose hope, we we forget how to
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love, and we forget how to allow people to love us. So in
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this book, I want to share that you know, no matter what we
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go through, if we hold on, we can find on wavering love because
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you know, that's one of the things that I think that you know,
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he want us to walk in you know, because you know we love is
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an action word and we're moving that. So yeah, right, So that's
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that piece and I want to share that. So I want to share that
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while y'all think of something else that y'all can share. I hope y'all ready,
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because tonight is about y'all sharing y'all, y'all voice and y'all words.
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But you know, I throw a little bit in there every now and then,
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but it's about y'all and people being able to connect with you, y'all.
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Yes, I want people to know who y'all are. So Ms,
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Marcey, you have something else for us? Yes? I do, so
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ready. This poet is called Morphed Secret Identity. Who am I? I've
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morphed? I've changed only for him. I've taken on his likes and his
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dislikes. But I wonder does he know mine? I'm Morphed. I've changed
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my friends even know this. I'm not the same my personality, my looks,
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my glove. Oh, I've changed in something beautiful in my line.
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But to the people on the outside looking in, I've morphed into something new
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but strange. The people say, he too is to blame. My identity
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snuffed, taking away The true me has to be hidden away, morphed away,
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conforming to thoughts, ideology placed by him. The people on the outside
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simply state, you're not taking the time to realize that if you have to
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morph for the person you are with, they're not the correct choice for you,
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not worth your time. I siddently analyzed, taking the advice in,
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slowly realizing the words are true, because the question is with he morph for
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you? Wow? Wow, that's deep. That's deep. But that's so
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true because I lot of time we find ourselves changing for our mates, and
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we get out and trying to change for our mate and we lose ourselves.
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We lose ourselves, And that that's deep. That is deep. Wow wow
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yeah wow morphed All right now, somebody said Morphed all right now, moph
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wow yeah yeah, So go ahead, because I want you to talk about
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that poem. Well, I want you to give me some some some some
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backlight, some some background on that poem. Okay, that that poem was
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inspired through conversations with my girlfriends, because I mean a man or a woman
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could morph. Let me preface that, but the majority of the time,
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we as women change, We change and take on the identity of who we're
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with. And so I was talking to one of my girlfriends, a couple
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of girlfriends, and we have a friend that whoever she's with, she's changes.
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She's fishing, she's swimming, you know, she's doing stuff to meet
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his identity, but yet she hasn't found herself. So my point of the
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point is, you know, whether it's a male or female, think about
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it. Are they meeting you halfway where you don't have to change yourself because
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if you can't change, but if you have to change and they don't accept
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who you are as a person, that's not that's really not love you No,
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that's not love because if someone loves you, they accept you for with
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your flaws. You're good and you're bad, because that's what love is is
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it encompasses all the good and the bad. So if you have to change
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and hide way, think about it. Because a lot of times your family
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and friends notice the changes before you, you know, before you do,
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and by the time you realize that you've morphed, as I say, you
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know, you're all the way down that rabbit hole, right, So that
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that's really what is what inspired it, you know, And that can be,
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like I said, for a man or a woman, because men can
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change to trying to please a woman, you know. So it's just yes,
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I got that because I see it all the time, you know,
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like when you start doing that right a new girl like I don't have cousins.
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I don't have Look, I don't have male cousins. Yes, brothers
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that have done it right. Yeah, they accept stuff that they normally wouldn't
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accept because they want to be with her. Yeah, I've I've seen both
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sides of the spectrum. Yep. Yes, this. I love for us
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to be able to have these these these these these come together and these little
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opportunities because we can really break down and give people an opportunity to to see
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what they're gonna be getting out of our brands and all of these books when
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they purchase these books. Like you're dealing with relationships, you're dealing with step
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issues, you're dealing with a lot of different stuff, like I've heard so
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much, like Wow, we're gonna let shape, and then we're coming back
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to you like we got time. Oh yeah, we got time. We
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got we got time. We're not going nowhere to the next come on that
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eight we got all right. This one is called don't come South from a
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racist people bought and sold from a country, not sure what the hell they
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were thinking, People held against their will and forced into slave ships, and
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sad set out to a foreign land that was stolen also that was also stolen
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from a race not their own, forced to work, beating into submission,
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rape mained, selling mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters to the highest
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business, not caring about ruining our family. They have been ripping apart black
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families long before the government housing. Don't be daffed. We all know better
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than that shit. Pay attention to the livelihoods of stolen black neighborhoods beating up
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and burned down. Let's not forget all the lives they stolen, every single
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victim of their brutality, the blatant disregard for black values and black lives,
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and then the US lock us up stealing our time when we take to the
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streets and protest, screaming black lives matter, stealing opportunities to be confrontational,
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then go and cry for the cameras when you get smacked with that same confrontational
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energy you brought into the room. Stopking wish it. Don't get so offended
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by black lives matter. It is not to say we matter more than other
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people. We also don't matter any less than them. There's no one there's
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no one man above the other. And you, yeah, you with your
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coarse hand, your bronze skin, walking with that gun in your pants,
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looking for trouble, you are know better than the others. While you making
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every black man that you meet your enemy the goal. Haven't you seen enough
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of that? Haven't you worried enough of your own having balloon releases, candle
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lights and parents and agony screaming over a close casting. When's enough enough?
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Stop selling yourself short? All right? Wow? So what was the charge
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behind that? Well, it was a lot. It was a lot.
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It was just like a lot of men like me and a few of my
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friends, was having a home a conversation about like when all the and the
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killings and stuff was going on, and people just really quick to play victor
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A lot a lot of times you just so a lot of people playing victim.
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And then it's like when you go in certain neighborhoods or whatever, it's
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like you see them walking around, they fighting, and you know this person
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got a gun or that person got a gun or whatever what have you.
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You know what I'm saying. And it's just like, at what point do
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y'all get enough of this? Like y'all ain't buried enough people yet? Like
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when do you say that's okay, let me stop, let me go take
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care of my kids, or go see my mam muslin. You know what
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I'm saying. It's just like people just it's just like they didn't want to
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see nothing positive. Understand your word. When you're gonna know you when you
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when you yourself, you know what I'm saying. As opposed like, you
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gotta value you before you expect somebody else to. If you not bringing no
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value to your own life, why you think somebody else will? You gotta
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got it pay, you know what I'm saying. You gotta do better,
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to be better, to do better, do better, to be better,
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to have it to come. That's saying go. But you gotta do that
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to be that right. But if you're not doing what you gotta do,
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and then you'll screaming in the streets about that. They got to get,
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they have to get put themselves in a position to where they can see we've
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learned a lot of this stuff is learned, and it keep getting danced down
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from generation to generation. You know, this is what I'm gonna say,
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dude, this is what you know. And and if you come from those
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families, what you do what they tell you to do, and not what
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they do. You you what what they tell you to do is what you
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do. So what you do what they say in the house, you know,
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don't go outside the house. So whatever happened, he'll stay here.
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And a lot of us walking around here with trauma, a lot of us
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walking around with trauma that we don't really know what we're dealing with because a
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lot of it happened to us in our non consciousness when we was young,
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stuff that we can't remember. We knew it happened, we kind of experienced
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it, but because you were young, you you didn't really remember it all.
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Because now that you've grown and you start developing, start learning stuff,
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and then you can block some of that stuff out, but still it's back
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there, it's behind you, and it's just ready to come out in any
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given opportunity. You know. That's that trauma, and that's that's that stuff
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that you know, they try to brush under the rug and they want to
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give you a pill for, or they want to label you crazy for,
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they want to put you they want to you know, do our kind of
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stuff to us as brown people, you know, but just be crazy and
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just being able to like speak to people Like now, I'm seeing so many
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people writing that I never would even imagine writing books, you know, I'm
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seeing a lot of people being able to, you know, say Okay,
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I'm gonna I'm gonna put this in on on paper. I'm gonna put this
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down because somebody needs. Don't care what walk of life they've come from,
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that something in their life their experiences can help somebody else. And I tell
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you, poetry has been that outlet for a lot of people. Has been
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that outlet. A lot of people have given people opportunities that may not have
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have stepped out, you know, because I listened to these open mic contests
32:42
when when they are just spitting and they having these these slams and they're just
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going back and forth and people expressing their childhood and how they grew up and
32:53
things that they've experienced, like it's just amazing. Like I again, I
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have to thank you guys for just coming on here and and sharing and just
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allowing people to tap into your words, because words speak, and people just
33:13
don't know how powerful words are and how your words can change. They can
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change life, they can change your situations, it can change things. And
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people just staying that, like, Wow, I want to hear some more.
33:30
So we're gonna bring miss Martine up and and and allow her. Get
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your piece read to shame. Get your piece ready, Miss Martine, your
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turn again, y'all. We got some time, we got about Look,
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we got over twenty minutes, so I'm m I'm ready. So this one
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I'll share is called Devil's Reflection. Okay, the Devil's reflection. It's always
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in your eyes? Who said you despise? Fix what's inside, make yourself
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whole. Don't let the devil own your soul. See, the devil is
34:08
tricky. Remember he was God's right hand man. He loved planning and protected
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God until he fell. He fell long and hard from grace, lost his
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place, So now he tries on anyone who will open up and be owned.
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Lost soul, desperately seeking someone in a plight that can't be undone,
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steady falling, and he's calling to you. Get him out of your soul,
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make yourself whole. You still have time to reconcile and rise. Leave
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that devil behind. So wow wow, So yeah, So that one,
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That one was written because people have a lot of vices that they deal with
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and they're and and they're always around, and people are unaware of daily vices.
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It could be specifically that was written because someone that was dealing with a
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drug problem that was in a hospital and his mother at his foot of his
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bed crying, why are you doing this? You know what I'm saying,
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get out of that. You let the devil have a grip on you,
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right, And a lot of people do that, and I call the devil
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anything that's that's holding you from what you're doing. It could be money,
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it could be drugs, It could be another person you know in a relationship
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that's holding you back, that's hindering you. So I'm sorry, I'm trying
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not to get this one is just like it really cuts as deep to me,
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right, it cut because yeah, that's the double only you just like
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you know, a lot of people don't like to acknowledge that there's a Lucifer
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Saint or whatever you may call him, that he's there because it's like it's
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a God above, it's a it's a double blow. And so you know
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what I'm saying, mm hmm, very behind. He is very real,
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he's very we know that he's very rare. And I tell you, yeah,
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I definitely can't relate to what you're saying. And I'm over here.
36:31
I get to y'all, but I'm gonna try not to cry. But I
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get fentamental too because I remember having a cousin I was dealing with with battling
36:45
with this drug issue, you know, and I would I would be praying
36:52
for him. And I remember having conversations with their parents and you know,
36:58
they saying that they don't see the prayer work, and you know, they
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don't see the prayer work. And I say, well, God's time,
37:04
and is God's time? And then I say, I can pray all day.
37:06
I said, but until God get ready to move, I said,
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it's not gonna happen. But now what God has done. You know it
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took a minute. He don't always move on our time. But we've got
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to be willing to take those steps. I allow those negatives because we have
37:21
that power. If we speak positive, positive will happen. But if we're
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always speaking, if we were just making room for that thing to come on
37:29
in. But you got the we are speaking, we have negative to you.
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Yes, we be positive, be positive because guess what he said over
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in Proverbs twenty one. We got well, we got the power. Uh,
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we got no eighteen to twenty. We got the power of life and
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death in our tongue. We got the power to speak that thing. We
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can speak it into we can speak it into fruition. But if we speak
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it negatived those negative things, I'm telling you we can serve those negative things.
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But I'm grateful because you know, everybody may not go to church,
38:08
and everybody may not open a bible and read their bible, but they can
38:13
pick up these poetry. They can pick up these these poems and they can
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be blessed because it's a lot of what has transpired throughout this show has been
38:24
based on your spirit and your wholeness and and in your body like the last
38:30
the last three poets. I mean it just about everything was was was about
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spirit and and about the Creator and and and just being able to share because
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everybody ain't picking and everybody ain't going in the church because you know a lot
38:47
of people feel a lot of different ways about religion right now, you know,
38:51
so we having to get it. We we are having it. You
38:53
know, people don't understand when he say we should do greater works. Guess
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what these are the greater works? These are these these, these are the
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greater works. Because he knew what we was going need. He knew everything
39:07
about us, so he knew that it was gonna be a follow away.
39:09
It was gonna be a following the way of the church. But how do
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you keep people connected to him? Because it's not about the church, Because
39:15
at the end of the day, we are the church. People are the
39:20
church, and we forget that, you know, we forget that. We
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talked about some buildings, were talking about these buildings that people be going to.
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The ain't no church. When they realize that they're gonna man, they'll
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be blessed, they'll be blessed. But it ain't about me, y'all.
39:34
I'm gonna not the way. Shay, it's your turn, girl, It's
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your turn. The next one that I'm reading is it's tit of kindness,
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and here it goes. I have wept in the wee hours of the night,
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sighing into my memory pham pillow for the shortness of sight, wrestling with
39:58
the thoughts to take flight, thinking that someone else's needs had made me blind.
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Maybe I'm losing my mind, But nonetheless, I've never felt a tinge
40:09
of regret in a kind gesture, never letting bad moods fester. The warmert
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smell may melt. The cold is hard like butter given a sense of serenity
40:22
like no other different flowers around you. Cultivating your garden with loving kindness.
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Make plans for the future as if happiness were all there ever was all.
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The bad days will get better, and the good days will be back soon.
40:43
Don't give up before giving yourself time to start. It's okay to follow
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your heart. We tend to allow people who let us down to fester in
40:54
our minds. Although our time on theirs has passed. We try to make
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it last. But that start a new find solidarity you'll have. You'll you'll
41:15
find someone who keep their word, just like you kept yours. Can y'all
41:22
hear me? Yes? Allow you allow them to show you differently. Open
41:29
your mind, let it melt your heart, and embrace the new start.
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Uh need to see what may come of it. I mean it just may
41:46
be a hit. What if is the only way to short circuit ourselfs fulfilling
41:53
prophecies of glowming dome each time after another meeting, become let each time after
42:04
another meeting, becomes less fearful of what if and more comfortable with what is
42:09
knowing the purpose is to do this for our kids. It doesn't matter that
42:23
others have denied you. Make sure that you don't give up on yourself.
42:29
Have affirmation of self, and the thoughts of those that don't matter won't matter.
42:35
Listen to a higher power for strength, hope, and guidance. What's
42:38
stopping you from making plans and taking risks except the fact that our character defects,
42:44
fierce, actions, and defenses were all constructed before adulthood. Learning who
42:51
we are takes time, and so does sifting out the shit that will defeat
42:54
you and remain detrimental to your health. While keeping some bits of your selse
43:00
work, leave behind talk to situations and relationships because self carrying at all,
43:07
selfish, it's essential to your survival. The new user rival. Kay wow
43:17
wow, I'm telling y'all, so, y'all, we're gonna do. Don't
43:23
bring up a commercial real quick, y'all, and then we're gonna come right
43:28
back, and then we're gonna close. But I won't before we close,
43:31
y'all. I want y'all to share how people can connect with y'all because,
43:37
like, I really want people to be able to connect with y'all, because
43:39
y'all, I know they're gonna be one like what can I get? Where
43:44
can I get this? Like really like, y'all gonna drop some stuff tonight,
43:47
like and and and and some people need to hear this and and they
43:52
need to tap into this because, like I said earlier, you know,
43:57
we all a lot of stuff don't happen out in this world. Life be
44:00
happening. That that's what the children saying. Now, life be happening,
44:05
So be happening. Then you know, we're trying to keep up with what's
44:10
going on, and we're trying to draw these kids. We're trying to you
44:14
know, we want to share, Like I I know that if these books
44:17
got into the right hands and and the parents, you know, if people
44:22
could really see that some of this stuff, Look, maybe I need to
44:28
look at me. Maybe I need to maybe I need to go in here
44:30
and sit down and check me out and see what I know. You know,
44:35
what I know, straight, what I know, messed up? You
44:37
know what I'm saying. So like a lot of this it's reflection and that's
44:45
look, let me bring her on up here because that's the name of her
44:47
book, right, that's right, perfection It Just imagine going through the book
44:57
and just reading those poems and just having a reflection of yourself just pop up.
45:04
You you come across this and you read this poem and then you're like,
45:07
oh, wow, I went through that. It is an opportunity like
45:12
this this We well be being transparent in these books, y'all like that that,
45:19
You like, Wow, I didn't know she was going through that.
45:22
I didn't know she experienced. Right, Yeah, that's when when they pick
45:28
up these books, they be like, wow, oh wait, no,
45:32
I didn't know who's going through that. Like yeah, so y'all we're gonna
45:37
we're gonna be right back, and y'all be ready to share how people can
45:39
connect with y'all and then if y'all have something that y'all want to, you
45:43
know, share with the people before we leave. This is gonna be your
45:46
opportunity before we go into the next group. Okay, so let's go to
45:51
this brief intermission. It's gonna be brief, y'all. It's gonna be real
45:55
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That's me. I am the visionary here of the Crew podcast. And I
46:30
tell y'all, I just like to have fun. I just like to provide
46:32
a atmosphere where you can be yourself and allow you the opportunity to share.
46:39
I'm not one of those professional podcasters. I may be there on one of
46:44
the other networks. Now my host now I can't tell you. Now,
46:49
they are some professional people. They like to be professional but hey, the
46:52
visionary, I ain't got to be professional. I play around, So we
46:58
be playing that what we be doing Like they say that they be life and
47:00
we be playing over here. I'll be playing over here because I like to
47:04
have fun, y'all, and I like for people to see that side of
47:07
me, not all the time. You got to see that that that professional
47:10
little person that always trying to, you know, be professional behind the scene.
47:15
That's not me. So we're back. We're back. Letchee. How
47:21
can we connect with you? How can we support the things that you have
47:23
coming up? And if there's something that you want the people to know on
47:27
tonight, please share that. You can always connect with me on on Instagram
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my Facebook page is Little Black Beauty l I L B l a Q
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Beauty b E a U T Y and my email if you want to email
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me Leshe dot the dot author dot writer at gmail dot com. That's my
48:08
email address, and be looking out for us in the Chicago, Illinois,
48:16
Indiana area this summer for our book XPO coming up that we are I'm very
48:25
happy to host and be a part of this year for the first time with
48:30
Queen Angela here. I know it's gonna be a super exciting event and we're
48:37
gonna have some of some great vendors there, some great authors, there,
48:43
some great speakers there, and it's gonna be an all around great event to
48:47
come out, meet people, do some networking and get to know some of
48:52
the authors and get to hear some great poetry and listen to some some great
49:01
people speak. They for sharing. Hey it's Martine. Hi, well,
49:12
okay to reach out to me, you can follow me on Facebook under my
49:17
name Martini M dot Moore. TikTok is Martine M dot more No Marsine dot
49:25
m Moore, I'm simple, and on Instagram it's at that real Miss m
49:32
Z Moore and I have a linked tree under Marsine Martine Moore, and my
49:38
books can be found. That's Reflections Rising and Phoenix Heart. They're on Barnes
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and Noble and to I have a book signing tomorrow with the DOC which when
49:52
you come to Dallas, Miss Angela will be will be at the doc May
49:58
May seventeen, and then she and then May eighteenth, I will be with
50:05
her at the book tour in x fo. So please come out to Dallas.
50:10
If you're here, come out if you're if your local, come see
50:15
me tomorrow at the DOC. I'll be there from one to five. If
50:16
not, come catch me with Miss Angela May eighteenth at the A A L
50:23
A A A L A C Book Tour and x FO. Did I get
50:28
right? Yes? Yes, I can't wait for you to go. Y'all
50:35
got to be authors and vendors, so I'm yeah. And the one the
50:40
XPO from I can't wait. I can't either. And my my email if
50:45
you want to email me anything is author Marcene and More at gmail dot com.
50:52
So yeah, that that that's all I have. I have a book
50:57
coming out, a real book book coming out. So yes, wow,
51:06
wow, Yes. The book and the book expo for Chicago and Indiana will
51:15
be June twelfth, June fourte thirteenth and fifteen, fourteenth and fifteenth. I
51:25
had to make sure I threw that out there because I didn't say today,
51:34
okay, I but yeah, June fourteenth and fifteenth, we're going to be
51:39
in the Chicago, Indiana area. I'm excited about that. August, y'all,
51:45
we're headed out to California. We're headed out to Angele's area. So
51:51
then we're going to be headed back to South Carolina. We're gonna be back
51:53
in my home state. Of course, we're gonna be holding it down in
51:58
Columbia Charleston. Not sure where we're gonna be Columbia Charleston. We're still working
52:05
on Raleigh. I'm waiting to hear back from Raleigh and possibly Memphis, Tennessee.
52:13
So y'all, we we got a lot in the works. So just
52:15
be looking around and stay connected. I say, stay connected. If you
52:19
don't stay connected to me, stay connected to some of these authors that's coming
52:22
across this platform, y'all. That that that's that's most important. If you
52:25
don't stay connected to me, stay connected to these authors that's coming across and
52:30
sharing their brands. Go make sure you follow them when y'all jump off here.
52:36
Make sure y'all post you'all links so that people can connect with you guys
52:40
and support the things that you're doing. Again, I thank you guys for
52:44
stopping by and sharing with me on tonight, because y'all could have chose to
52:46
be anywhere, but y'all chose to be here tonight with me sharing. So
52:51
thank you, thank you, thank you, and I prayed that y'all.
52:53
This blessed things y'all have. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
53:00
thank you for having me m hm. Y'all have a good night you too.
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We continue, it continues, it will stop.