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3/20/2026 BASIC BLAQUE AFTER DARK live every 1ST & 3RD FRIDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When the lights go down, the real conversations begin. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Basic Black after Dark, hosted by Black Diamond, where truth, healing,
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  Speaker 1: and growth take center stage. This is the space where
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  Speaker 1: mental health, family healing, and personal growth are talked about
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  Speaker 1: honestly and without filters, Featuring intimate interviews with authors and
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  Speaker 1: thought leaders who aren't afraid to share their journey. Because
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  Speaker 1: every story told reminds someone watching you are not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Basic Black after Dark now streaming on the Crew platform
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  Speaker 1: tap in.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Basic Black after Dog, the space where stories
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  Speaker 3: are told with courage, truth is spoken with purpose, and
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  Speaker 3: conversations inspired transformation. I'm your host Black Diamond and Tonight's
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  Speaker 3: episode brings together two powerful voices in the world of
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  Speaker 3: storytelling and inspiration. Joining us tonight is inspirational author Nagic Scott,
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  Speaker 3: author of Niga's story The Love That Carries Me.
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  Speaker 2: I love that title.
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  Speaker 3: Her work is a heartfelt reflection on faith, resilience, and
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  Speaker 3: the enduring power of love to guide us through life's
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  Speaker 3: most challenging seasons. Also joining the conversation is award winning
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  Speaker 3: author has Akiah Morris. He's a dynamic storyteller whose works
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  Speaker 3: include the Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: Purchase the Pastor's Son.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the player in me, the impossible woman, the player
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  Speaker 3: in me too, remember those days? And restoring Hezekiah, me
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  Speaker 3: and only me explore personal growth, redemption, relationships, and the
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  Speaker 3: complexity of human journey. Tonight, we're diving into the power
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  Speaker 3: of storytelling, how our experiences shape us, how truth becomes testimony,
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  Speaker 3: and how sharing our stories can inspire healing and transformation
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  Speaker 3: of others. So wherever you're tuning in from settling, join
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  Speaker 3: us for another meaningful and inspiring conversation right here on
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  Speaker 3: Basic Black After Dark. But before we get started, want
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  Speaker 3: to congratulate both of my guests for being nominated in
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  Speaker 3: separate categories for the Black Authors Association Black Author's Awards.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulation, guys. I am so proud of you.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, how how are you?
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I was for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Then, so blessed. I'm excited to have you here.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that Uh Hezekiah should be joining us.
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  Speaker 3: He might be having some technical difficulties trying to get in,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm trying to send him back the link to
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  Speaker 3: get back in. So just give me one minute, and
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  Speaker 3: I apologize to my audience for this, just letting them
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  Speaker 3: know what it was sent. But I'm so glad and
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  Speaker 3: so very proud of you about all the work that
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  Speaker 3: you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I call you Auntie, you call me g
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  Speaker 4: I call you Auntie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes that's look. But everybody, I'm just so.
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  Speaker 5: Proud of you.
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  Speaker 3: I remember talking to you years ago and you were saying, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be an author, knob, and you
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  Speaker 3: don't have one but two, but you got three books out,
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  Speaker 3: three nominated to tell you the truth? What inspired you
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  Speaker 3: to begin writing and sharing yourselves?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think I spoke to you when
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  Speaker 6: you did for your Eyes of Segnify, the book that
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  Speaker 6: was on adoption, for the care and aging Out.
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  Speaker 4: That's the first book.
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  Speaker 6: And basically every time I would tell my story about
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  Speaker 6: being adopted, everyone would say you need to write a book,
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  Speaker 6: like you said, and I said, I'm not writing a book,
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  Speaker 6: not writing a book. But in twenty twenty, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 6: Kanya Latanya.
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  Speaker 4: Hit me up and was like, we gotta we got
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  Speaker 4: a book. Was putting together and dad and.
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  Speaker 6: Now I had just come over a small vacation, was
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  Speaker 6: feeling good. I was a black nursing so she called
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  Speaker 6: me at a good time. The father knew when to catch.
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  Speaker 4: Me because I said, okay, let's do that, all right,
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  Speaker 4: all right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Then I got off the phone with her and said,
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  Speaker 4: what are we doing? Because we're doing this, because I'm
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  Speaker 4: not doing this by myself. What we're doing? He said, no,
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  Speaker 4: it's time for you to write.
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  Speaker 6: So I wanted to write in honor my parents and
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  Speaker 6: my foster mother who you know got me first, and
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  Speaker 6: my parents who raised me. I wanted to tell the
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  Speaker 6: story the way that would honor them.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, and I guarantee you that they are so honest
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  Speaker 3: until I'm just who'sing out with just being so proud?
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  Speaker 2: Remember the moment? Do you remember the moment you realize
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  Speaker 2: your story needed to be told?
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  Speaker 6: Every time I would tell it, it was just like
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  Speaker 6: somebody was like, you need to tell it, you need
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  Speaker 6: to tell and I.
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  Speaker 4: Was like, uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: I think what held me from doing it is because
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  Speaker 6: right now I'm currently in the process of getting a divorce,
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  Speaker 6: and when Tanya hit me up, I was in that
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  Speaker 6: process as well. So when the father said it was time,
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  Speaker 6: it was time because I didn't really have anything else
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  Speaker 6: to do. So it was like, Okay, it's time to
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  Speaker 6: tell the story now. So other times were me taking
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  Speaker 6: care of my ex and everything like that, trying to
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  Speaker 6: be a wife. So now it was trying to take
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  Speaker 6: care of me, he said, Father said, time to take
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  Speaker 6: care of you. So that's when I knew, okay, it
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  Speaker 6: was really time to start sharing my stories.
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  Speaker 4: And when I finished the.
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  Speaker 6: Four year eye segment, we were all, you know, breaking
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  Speaker 6: out to write our own story.
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  Speaker 4: So that began me right in mind.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that you did. You're titled the Love It
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  Speaker 3: Carries Me as powerful? What does that mean to you personally?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: When I thought of the title, when I was praying
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  Speaker 6: on the title, I kept thinking about Michelle Obama's The
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  Speaker 6: Life That Carries Us or Carries Me.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the title for her.
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  Speaker 6: Book, and that always blessed me just to hear it.
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  Speaker 6: And of course, you know, she's out forever first lady,
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  Speaker 6: so that's just my face. So so hearing that title
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  Speaker 6: that always stuck with me. But then as I began
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  Speaker 6: to pray about it, I felt like the Lord was saying, well,
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  Speaker 6: your name means love.
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  Speaker 4: God is love.
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  Speaker 6: So automatically, the Love that Carries Me became about yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and that's what I was Godden.
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  Speaker 3: I can see that all throughout you that you have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you didn't just Troy, you succeeded. You succeeded.
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  Speaker 3: You have three books and one of them is being nominated,
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  Speaker 3: and I got Tom encouraging everybody else to go and
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  Speaker 3: vote as well.
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  Speaker 4: Please please them, vote.
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  Speaker 3: Please vote. So writing could be deeply personal. What was
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  Speaker 3: the writing process like for.
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  Speaker 6: You Cool, Well, there were definitely some ups and down moments.
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  Speaker 6: Speaking about my doctor mom, she passed in ninety nine,
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  Speaker 6: so when I got to that chapter, that was a
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  Speaker 6: little rough because I still.
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  Speaker 4: Miss her daily.
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  Speaker 6: Then speaking about my doctor dad when he passed in
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  Speaker 6: two thousand and six, that was rough.
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  Speaker 4: And then having to speak about my foster mother who
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  Speaker 4: passed in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 6: Five, No, twenty twenty, I'm sorry, twenty twenty one, twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty one, she passed, And so all of those chapters
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  Speaker 6: after I was doing it, it took a toll for
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  Speaker 6: a little. I had to kind of get together because
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  Speaker 6: they were just so it was so emotional.
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  Speaker 4: I just missed them daily. I missed them daily, and
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  Speaker 4: I just wish.
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  Speaker 6: They would be here to see all that is being
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  Speaker 6: that's going on right now in my life.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was. It was definitely an interesting process,
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  Speaker 4: but it also was very therapeutic because I didn't know.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know I would feel the way I felt
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  Speaker 4: when I began to write about them until I did.
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  Speaker 2: It can be very very emotional.
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  Speaker 3: Was there a moment or a chapter that was especially
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  Speaker 3: difficult to write?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I know that you said that the process and everything
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  Speaker 3: was a little emotional for you, But was there a
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  Speaker 3: chapter or some moment that you may have had that
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  Speaker 3: was especially difficult for you to write?
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  Speaker 6: You mean, one minute, I meant to bring this up
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  Speaker 6: when I was thinking about it, because it definitely was.
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  Speaker 4: A chapter that was really kind of like rough. It
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  Speaker 4: was a rough.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter and it's too difficult for you, don't no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no no, It was fine, no, fine.
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  Speaker 4: It's already out here in the free so might as
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  Speaker 4: well tell as well. I believe I would say the
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  Speaker 4: chapter that, let's say, chapter two, I believe it is, uh.
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  Speaker 6: No, chapter three, learning to Find My Way, and that
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  Speaker 6: spoke the first time about my mom. I I mean, ah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you know, I'm from New York, but we
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  Speaker 6: moved to Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: So the area that I mean doesn't really have very
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  Speaker 4: nation disabled, but it disabled.
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  Speaker 6: So I was offered to go to a vocational school
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  Speaker 6: and my mom was in the nursing home at the time,
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  Speaker 6: and the anty breeze is what I wanted to breathe.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't want to do nothing, but I heard I
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  Speaker 6: didn't wanted to want to move or toil.
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  Speaker 4: She said I can move. And so when I got
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  Speaker 4: offered to go, he immediately said you need to go.
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  Speaker 6: And in my in my spirit, I felt like she
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  Speaker 6: was not gonna make it. I was not gonna see
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  Speaker 6: her very much longer. And when I got there, probably
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  Speaker 6: about two months into me being there, I had a
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  Speaker 6: dream she had passed. And so it was like yad
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  Speaker 6: was preparing me.
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  Speaker 4: For what to happen. Now mind you didn't have to
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  Speaker 4: for like six months later, but it was like y'all
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  Speaker 4: was preparing.
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  Speaker 6: But when I had to dream, it scared me so bad.
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  Speaker 6: I called her the next thing.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, are you okay? Everything all right? And
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  Speaker 4: it just kind of it broke me.
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  Speaker 6: So that chapter was this chapter that started the emotional
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  Speaker 6: roller coaster ride. Yeah, learning to find my way because
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  Speaker 6: she was my everything.
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  Speaker 4: She was my cheerleader. Yeah, yeah, was my everything I can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, imagine, and I appreciate you giving me your perspective.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, difficult. You touched on something important. So let's
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  Speaker 3: go a little deeper. Was there moment that you wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Quit right this? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: No, because why does?
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  Speaker 6: Latari and Savida would not let me. They was not
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  Speaker 6: having any of that. Quit what now and take a break.
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  Speaker 6: But no, we're not doing that. And then I just know,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think quitting was an option. I just knew
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  Speaker 6: I needed to pull back. I actually intended for the
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  Speaker 6: boy to come out last year, so it was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of me trying to pace myself, and Tavida would
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  Speaker 6: encourage me to not rush the situation. Let God, you know,
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  Speaker 6: leave you on what you need to do, how you
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  Speaker 6: need to do it, you know when you need to
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  Speaker 6: do it. So I'm thankful for her. I am truly
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  Speaker 6: thankful for her and her guidance because there wasn't a
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  Speaker 6: a moment of quitting because God and those.
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  Speaker 4: Two will not let me quit. Oh that was not
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  Speaker 4: even an option.
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  Speaker 6: But no, because I know I knew I needed to
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  Speaker 6: finally get out when God said there was time, I
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  Speaker 6: didn't really have much of retort. She don't understand that
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  Speaker 6: this is not my decision, this is God, this is
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  Speaker 6: this is our book.
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  Speaker 4: It's me and the father's book. This ain't my book.
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  Speaker 2: I'm well, we got you there looking right now, and
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  Speaker 2: she's saying, of course not.
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  Speaker 3: You had to finish sharing your testimony. Thank you for that,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm so glad that you were there. Ask her
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  Speaker 3: backbone to tell to get it started. I think we
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  Speaker 3: have Hezekia that's to the queen, and he's trying to
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  Speaker 3: trying to get on. I see him trying to get on,
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  Speaker 3: So we're hoping that we can get him in as
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  Speaker 3: soon as possible, because I definitely asked some questions for
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  Speaker 3: oh you are okay good. I'm so glad that you
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  Speaker 3: finally made it. Mister You're so bad gonna busy that
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know what to do with him anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I really don't. And I was just saying how proud
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  Speaker 3: I am of you being one of the nominees for
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  Speaker 3: the Black Authors Association Black Authors Awards.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 5: It's just so.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to have you. And it's been a minute since
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it, spoken to you. We've been texting it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's good.
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  Speaker 2: To see you. It's the busy man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I asked.
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  Speaker 3: I asked DD earlier, and I'm gonna ask you the
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  Speaker 3: same questions. What inspired you to begin writing and sharing
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  Speaker 3: your stories? You've written so many stories that I can't
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  Speaker 3: even keep up with you.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was about it was about ten years ago.
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  Speaker 7: I was actually in courts, right. I mean, I always
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  Speaker 7: read books, and I used to get a lot out
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  Speaker 7: of reading books, and I never thought about becoming up.
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  Speaker 7: And that was like the father's thing from my mind.
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  Speaker 7: I was still to me, I was still young. I'm
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  Speaker 7: trying to live my life. I didn't even want to
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  Speaker 7: slow down one bit think about writing a book. And
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  Speaker 7: I ended up incarcerating. So God set me down and
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  Speaker 7: that's when I started writing. And then when I got out,
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  Speaker 7: I was like, dang, now I got to find somebody
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  Speaker 7: to publish it. Now I got to find somebody who's
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  Speaker 7: going to be interested in reading my story. So what
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  Speaker 7: I did. I got a day label job. I was
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  Speaker 7: making forty five dollars a day, and I paid to
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  Speaker 7: get my book published. I paid to get a copywriter.
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  Speaker 7: And that was my first book. And I was sitting there,
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  Speaker 7: sitting at home. I was like, so why would I
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  Speaker 7: write a book and don't do nothing with it. I
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  Speaker 7: already did the hard part, and I was at work
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  Speaker 7: and I was like, man, I am so tired of
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  Speaker 7: coming out here, working myself to death, and I got
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  Speaker 7: this little book right here, and I just wanted to
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  Speaker 7: change in my life.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 7: I just got tired of hanging with the fellas every day,
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  Speaker 7: sitting up under the tree, drinking the beer and smoking
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  Speaker 7: cigarettes all day, and then that's the next thing you're
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  Speaker 7: going to do for the rest of your life every day.
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  Speaker 5: I said, this ain't me. So I just woke up
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  Speaker 5: one morning and.
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  Speaker 7: I was like, I'm going to New York cause I
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  Speaker 7: got some cousins that live in Brooklyn. I was like,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to New York. I'm gonna see how far
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  Speaker 7: I can take this little book. Well, on my way there,
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  Speaker 7: I stopped in Philly. So I was living in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 7: and this guy said, well, you're.
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  Speaker 5: Thinking about publishing the novel book. I was like, nah,
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  Speaker 5: I ain't write no more.
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  Speaker 7: And then I was like, you know what I think
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  Speaker 7: I do got a novel store, and so I started
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  Speaker 7: writing and.
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  Speaker 5: I said, well, I need some book signing. I ain't
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  Speaker 5: even I got this book, and I ain't doing.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing with it. So I called called Howard University. I
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  Speaker 7: called Columbia University. They was like, yeah, come on up here,
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  Speaker 7: we'll do a book signing with you. And once I
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  Speaker 7: started doing the book signing, that's when the excitement started
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  Speaker 7: coming in because it's like, even if you don't say
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  Speaker 7: one book, it said she on that college campus, and
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  Speaker 7: you just.
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  Speaker 5: You're the main focus that God up to day, you
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  Speaker 5: know what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: And it's it made you feel so good that you're
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  Speaker 7: actually doing something positive instead of negative. You actually give
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  Speaker 7: it back to the community, you know, And that was
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  Speaker 7: one thing.
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  Speaker 3: Your books is so extensive. What message connects to all
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  Speaker 3: of your work?
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  Speaker 7: Shoot just be an experiment and how God can bring
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  Speaker 7: you out of certain situations, you know, And all my
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  Speaker 7: book I talk about God, even though they might be romanic,
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  Speaker 7: romance books or whatever, but I always talk about God
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  Speaker 7: and how He comes and saves us at a time
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  Speaker 7: or we don't think he's there, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, and just being vigilant in what you do.
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  Speaker 7: And just keep pushing, believe in yourself, believe believe that
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  Speaker 7: you can do it.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 7: When I first started writing my book and I left home,
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  Speaker 7: everybody was like Oh, you're going to be a failure.
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to do it. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 7: You just want to be rich. You want to do
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  Speaker 7: this and you want to do that. Well maybe so,
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  Speaker 7: But I did it. I didn't tell them, didn't nobody
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  Speaker 7: tell me I couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, still the day.
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  Speaker 3: There fans out there. You got Travita saying that God
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  Speaker 3: will definitely do it, our producers in the back saying, hey, easy, right,
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  Speaker 3: so then here we go. We hear so much and
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  Speaker 3: restoring hanzakaya me and only me. What does restoration mean
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  Speaker 3: to you?
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  Speaker 5: Come man? Just for me, it means restoring myself too.
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  Speaker 7: Before I started going that right way, you know what
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying, Before I started going the wrong way, before
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  Speaker 7: I started listening what everybody was telling me, before I
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  Speaker 7: started doing all kinds of crazy stuff, like started listening
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  Speaker 7: to the voice in my head God.
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  Speaker 5: Saying who are you?
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  Speaker 7: And listen to my grandmother's voice before she passed away.
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  Speaker 7: She used to always tell her you got this, You're
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  Speaker 7: so smart. Why don't you do this? And myself is
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  Speaker 7: very storm. It's all in my spirits, all my respect,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: my my relationship with God. Because when we you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: when you get out there, you we try to put
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: God on the back burny and we try to go
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: through life on our own device to trying to.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Do it our way.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: But you know, we always got to focus on the
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: spiritual side of ourselves.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Because we lose our spiritual we have nothing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: And when I mean we're storing, I mean I was
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: spiritually dead, but now it was a woke, you know.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: And that's trying to be the best person I could do.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: I'm not nobody's gonna be perfect, but just trying to
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: be do the next best right thing.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I want to get a DT's perspective on her story.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Your story reflects resilience? What help you keep going during
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: difficult times?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: You still what is d D? I think we may
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: have lost it?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, great, because I thought you on the screen,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: so I was asking you your story reflects resilience? What
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: help you keep going during difficult times?
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: I mean there were moments when I was told I
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: wouldn't be anything, I wouldn't be able to do anything,
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: but God got the final face, so and all of that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: So and my parents are the ones that spoke over
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: my life. Everything that I am doing and can do.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: So it's God. I'm led by faith.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: He walks us into it, he walks us into and
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: the just never wrong. You can't go room with God.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: The player in me explores, and men the player and
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: me explores relationships.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: What did you want need this to learn from that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: See that that's a that's a funny concept right there,
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: because you know, this character he's going through a he's
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: going through a malllight prices and he's got a whole
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: lot on his plate.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: He got these three women he's dealing with.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: One he is in love with, but she he don't
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: know how she feels about him. So he's just going
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: along and he's playing them old. But he has a
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: conscience too at the same time, because he don't.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Want to neither one of our feelings, you know.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: And that's some of the things that we go through
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: a life. You know, it's a single man. You know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: you got all these options, all these choices, and you like.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: So we're talking from personal experience. I'm gonna put you
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: out there right about now because you're not messed.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Up now puntional experience.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: See now, you don't just have to play every one
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: he got it into as well.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get your selling in trouble for this one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: Conscious at the end of the day, because we feel like, okay,
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: we're single. We just we're just going along doing what
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: we doing what men do, and and you end up
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: getting caught up it never it never works.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: What goes away.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I'm that again, you should say, because we hope we
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: got some young men listening and letting them know that
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: it don't work. No, don't but it's not working. He's
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: telling himself because he's gonna book one and two.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: It's like a full time job.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: See, he's trying to tell you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: You know what, I'm not going to say that it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: just to make the women do it too.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Women trying to get caught up in it and thinking
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: that they can do it too. So it's not just
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: on you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: It's but you know, I'm not saying it from experience,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: just saying, yeah, that the women do it, not all women.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: So will help you out there, not all women, not.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: All You know what about book?
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: You get to you get to use your auter eagle
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: and all these characters in your head and all that,
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: you know when people say, oh you crazy, but you
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: get to put all that craziness in the books and.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: It takes you to.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: A novel place and you know, you know the funniest thing.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: I never really read my book after I publish it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: But that because I'm like, because, but you know what's
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: so funny.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: I would go back and I would that's I'd be like,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: let me see what this book about.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: That out of row and I would read it and
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I'd be like, boy, you son, now you made it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Just do you do you go back read your books.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I've tried to do that and I just can't see
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: the No, I can't really do it. I think I
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: did a chapter, but no, I really can't.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I just let it be out there the way God.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I was doing this. I went back and read my
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: first book. I was reading a couple of pages, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: I was seeing to where.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I am at now. I'm like, wow, man, really a
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: long way.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: It's just now I can write stories, different stories. Now
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: I know how to publish my own books, thank you, Angela.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: I know how to do everything on my own publisher.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: And the hardest part is when you are trying to
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: help somebody after they didn't got somebody to do bad work,
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: and then they want you to come fix it. But
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: they don't want to pay you to fix that work.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: You're like, man, but you know, for me, it's not
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: even about the money. Like I help people, and I
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: be like, look, I'm gonna do this for you, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: I already know, excuse me, I already know.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I'm you're supposed to charge it all. But for me,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: it's like I enjoyed doing what I do.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: That's me giving back sometimes, you know, it's not everybody
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: got it. And in this today's society with people their selfish,
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to be unselfish.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: M hmm, yeah, thank you so much for that. We're
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: gonna take a break real quick. But you guys got
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: some friends that's lightening up the side of this. Patrisa
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: saying that she's scared to read the next one, scaring.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: People out there and whatnot.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And then we got our producer who was saying that
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: she says, love your little brother. We got she's saying, right,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: she's agreeing with you. Patersa is calling you a player.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: So see I'm not the only one that Knowice. So today,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: well we're gonna cut into this commercial right now and
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be right back with DEDI and with Hezekiah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: and we're gonna continue this fun feel conversation with these
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna claim it award winning authors and then we
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: having technical difficulties with it, We're gonna just keep it
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: rolling because I know that mister busy here he has
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: to go. He's just gonna leave us, probably flying out
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: on his private jet or something, because I know that's coming.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: And just like I was telling d D, I'm just
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: so proud of both of you. I want to shift
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: us some slightly because this is important.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: We hear the word healing a lot.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: What does that really mean for both of you on
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the day to day level?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: DD?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Healing, Ah, it takes prayer. You gotta pray on it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: You gotta ask God to do it, because healing is
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: not something that you can just do yourself. You've got
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: to let the Father work work on you and you
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: through you. And it's a daily process.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: It's daily. So that's that's the way I feel about it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: MS oh Man.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: For me, who it takes some time because I don't
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: I don't know if you ever really truly heal.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: You just grow through it and you just go through it,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: And it's because I don't think you ever heal, because
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: it's still always gonna be a part of you that's
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: gonna feel that pain.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And it's some of the things that I've been as
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: a child.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: And I can still deal with my family, and I
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: still revert back to where I went to that pain,
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: and I have to tell myself, like, don't set myself
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: up to go through no more pain, you know, because
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: I can.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: We can.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: We can sabotize our own heal healing by keep allowing
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: people to getting pain. If you already know what you see,
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: what you're gonn or to get coming, we're just setting
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: ourself up.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: I used to deal with a lot of me. Like
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: we always talk about your females. If you know you're
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: gonna get some pain, why you keep going back back
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: to it. So for me, the process of my healing,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: it is that sometimes I have to just separate and
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: just seclude myself just be able to walk with me
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: and God, Okay, God, what steps should I take?
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: How should I move? How should I be the best
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: person that I could be?
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: How can I not depend on that person or need
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: that person if I know I'm gonna still be going
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: through pain, or like when my grandmother pas. I still
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: feel that pain and I still hold the pain is just.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Different every day.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: With the pain you went through yesterday, it's going to
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: be different than the pain that you're feeling today and
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: tomorrow it's going to be different as well.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The relationships, whether with others.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Or yourself, shape the journey that that you take when
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: you write your books.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Hm, wow, wow, I was gonna take you there that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: We were gonna talk about the birds and we.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Have that one like wait a minute, think what okay?
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: The question.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: How the relationships, whether with others or yourself, shape the
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: journey you write about.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Well, I will say that it all depends on who
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: you have in your corner.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: You got to make sure you have the right people
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: in your corner that's gonna support you, that's gonna encourage you,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: that's gonna be there for you.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Now, I have had.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Some interesting people to be to be by my side,
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: and it's definitely going in another direction that I didn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: plan for it, but God saw good the way it
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: needs to go. So but like I said, I Tavita,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: I had my best friends, I had Latanya, so I
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: had I have the support system I'm supposed to have.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: So God hears you who you're supposed to have relationship
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: wise regardless. Now if you're talking about like has a
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: kid with the women in the dating, I ain't dating.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: So I'm just getting out of the door the boss auntie. Okay,
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: want to see now, don't.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Try to steal her stuff.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: They make me mess.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I want to hear from you. How how does that
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: work for you? How do whether with others or yourself,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: shape the journey you write about?
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: They helped me write all my books. As soon as
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: that was they'd be like, you're gonna put me in
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: that next book.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: See that's why you stayed in so much trouble all
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the time? Has a can you know what?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I just wish I was the the that in the
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: room to figure out how you're gonna get out out
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: of it tonight, because you know you're gonna get into trouble.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: And whoever it is, look watch out.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: That don't right me.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: That's all, that's all him, That is all Hazakaya.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: We're having a powerful conversation tonight with two incredible authors,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: and what stands out is how both of your journeys,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: all though different, reflect resilience, growth and purpose.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Who do you hope your books reach the most.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: You can go first, sir, he's.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Still trying to figure out how he's gonna save himself
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: later on, I.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Guess I gotta go there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Just got somebody saying he never want to change, but
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: you gotta love him. You can't help but love him.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: And this is our producer saying that you can't help
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: but love him. We're gonna have a lot of trouble, yes,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: because he just popped offline. I don't know whether he
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: was janked kline, So I'm gonna leave that one alone.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let him try to deal with that one
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: on his own.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He survived, He's gonna survive tonight.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, I didn't know this was gonna be this much time.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, wow, but okay. Who do I want the books
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: to read?
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Mainly I want the books to read those who have
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: been adopted for one, those who want to adopt, who
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: are looking to adopt, and most definitely those who want
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: to adopt special needs children, because those are the ones
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: that the doctors give the bad reports on.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: They're not gonna be able to do nothing, They're not
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: gonna be able to be anything.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: So I want this to encourage parents that don't listen
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: to the doctors. The doctors, yeah, they know what they know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: but but God knows what you know. And so I
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: want that to encourage them. And I just wanted to
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: encourage others in general just to hold on to God
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: to let's the love carry you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Let it carry you.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I'm sitting there and giving me a crack up because
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: he's back behind state, so he's gonna dig himself into it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: So he I'm quite sure he did his apologies and
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: got off and said I'm sorry. You know, baby, that's
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: gonna be on him. That's gonna be on him. He
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: could say, baby, I'm sorry, but this is just for
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: the show. No, it ain't just for the show. That
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: that's that has a kaya for you. So you're not
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: gonna use me to get out of your mess tonight.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: He has the caya that when you should have.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Just said, look, I'm not even gonna adswer that next.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: You could have did that, it would have been okay.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have said anything about it. I would laugh
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: behind your back.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: But that's fine.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: See, they just keep yanking him back and forth, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: that that's what has I feel for you. I feel
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: for you. Let's take this a step further. What has
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: been the most meaningful response you received from a reader?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Look at this, Patria said, Wait a minute, Patrisa saying
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: someone foullow this in personal report. One of those ladies
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: got to him. Yeah, they getting to him. That's sad.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Oh he's saying. Hey, he's saying that, who's.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: More than one? And I'm trying to help you.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: But you keep digging yourself deeper.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all you have to do is say someone listening,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: but you're not even saying just making it worse for yourself.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: As a car. I'm trying to help you, brother.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Everything else, because that's not you're talking too much on here.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: You're talking to Tary too.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Much for him.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Look today, he's still going at it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: He's got he must have some plans to be someplace
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: house because I gotta feeling somebody's guy.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: And now we don't promote violence on it, but guy,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you gotta come.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: You got it coming, And I'm it's gonna say, is
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: that you should have been before you got on here. Besides,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: besides of people that I'm thinking about, who do you
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: hope your books reach the most tonight?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: As a kaya?
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: For me, it's the it's a young adults.
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: It's like, you know, it's trying to teach them a lesson,
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: you know, try to get him going in the right
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: way and follow the directions that we we are trying
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: to lead them.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: And basically my books, it's a good story.
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: It takes you to a place where he's like, man,
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: this thing is, it's nice, it's authentic, and it's always
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: teaching you a lesson and it's trying to bring you
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: close to God to at the same time, even though it's.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: Crazy as I don't know what, but you know, God
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: likes crazy. He don't like everybody to be the same.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: He gets his word in there way.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: So for the both of you, how is becoming an
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: author changed? How you see your own story that.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: You got off.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Always Ben say, he's always doing something.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: See that don't make no sense.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: That I don't know you like that. That's just sad,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: it is.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: It's it's a shame. We laughing so hard, your hands
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: a car. We could barely get through the questions here.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: See.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: And it's not even about him trying to evade the
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: responsibilities of trying to answer, just that he's trying.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: To think of what am I gonna say when this
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: is over.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: A smart response say you.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Better say something has some flowers, candy, something you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: May have both hands full of flowers and candy and whatnot.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Maybe that be easier because I ain't got to do what.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: They don't know each other.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I feel for you, nothing else that I could.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Most of my books, all my stories.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: So.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Down on himself, you're telling on themself. I'm not gonna
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: be help.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: So this I live.
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: I'm living what I'm telling you, Okay, So.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: You know it's funny.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: It's funny because they're not thinking it's so funny.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: They're gonna be waiting for you, and you're Luckyness is
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: not a studio.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: That you're at. You don't pray for him, don't you
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: worry about it?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Patre, Please have even put that missing persons out because
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: he's gonna comesten and y'all see him tonight.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: You know what he got on and what. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the start.
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  Speaker 7: See, that's why the author, you got to use your creativity,
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  Speaker 7: like when I'm writing a book, like say, I was
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  Speaker 7: messing with somebody in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 5: So I named the book the Louisiana Purchase. Wow, And
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  Speaker 5: so I'm not.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm taking you through the story of me and
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  Speaker 7: her and how the stuff we did. But I just
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  Speaker 7: made it into a whole like gangst a little little
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  Speaker 7: story and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Just a different things.
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  Speaker 7: And it's so funny because that's exactly how I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Snip overhead the car right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna ask you this question because some one
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  Speaker 3: was afraid of what he's gonna say?
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  Speaker 2: What advice to scare him? To give anybody advice right now?
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  Speaker 3: Get someone who feels this story isn't important enough to
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  Speaker 3: share because evidently he's.
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  Speaker 2: Just really.
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  Speaker 4: Stay with.
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  Speaker 6: My my advice that everybody has a story.
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  Speaker 4: To tell, and so you need to share because you
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  Speaker 4: don't know who it's gonna lets.
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  Speaker 2: Some stories shouldn't be told, Am I right?
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  Speaker 5: Nobody?
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  Speaker 3: Get someone what advice I want to hear this from you?
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  Speaker 3: What advice would you give to someone who feels as
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  Speaker 3: though this they're afraid that this story it's not important.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to share.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody's story is different. Everybody has a story to tell,
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  Speaker 7: and it's not how you tell it, because my story
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  Speaker 7: may be different from your story. But what we're trying
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  Speaker 7: to we're trying to tell you, like I got a
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  Speaker 7: lot of people that say, oh, man, I want to
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  Speaker 7: write a book.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna do this, so I want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, just right, it don't matter what order you
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  Speaker 5: put it is.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I said, that's what they got ahead of
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  Speaker 7: us for you know what I mean, for yourself. No,
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  Speaker 7: tell your story. Your story might help somebody. We never
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  Speaker 7: know what the story gonna help something. Everybody's story is different,
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  Speaker 7: you know, that's the That's the one thing I think
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  Speaker 7: about God, that he made everybody different and one thing
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  Speaker 7: that we get misconscrewed sometimes, like everybody has to think alike.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we don't have to think like because God
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  Speaker 7: gave everybody a different mind to think of.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: So everybody's it's gonna be mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: That's just why we call individuals.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: What do you want your stories to represent for future generations?
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  Speaker 2: Don't even answer it has a card. We're skipping over you.
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  Speaker 3: You got people that got kids out there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: the people trying to raise young men and young women,
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  Speaker 3: and it don't I want you to add I was
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  Speaker 3: answer me. I don't wanted to answer it. I'm scaring
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  Speaker 3: to answer me. I thought I'm gonna answer. Did he
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  Speaker 3: please answer, represent represent both of y'all, to represent for
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  Speaker 3: future generations because I ain't messing with him.
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  Speaker 4: Uh okay.
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  Speaker 6: I think I want everyone to be just inspired to
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  Speaker 6: trust God, to trust that the path that He has
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  Speaker 6: for you, it's not gonna always look like look, but
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  Speaker 6: he definitely has a story for you, and he definitely
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  Speaker 6: has a plan.
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  Speaker 4: For your life.
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  Speaker 6: So I just want people to be inspired to just
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  Speaker 6: believe in love again, believe in faith, believe that anything
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  Speaker 6: is possible.
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  Speaker 3: See you got any people in the audience think just
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  Speaker 3: to say, take that? Okay, so you expand Can you
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: as a guy sense that's what you was going to say?
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  Speaker 3: Can you expand on.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: That a little bit more?
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  Speaker 3: She bought Jesus into it, So I want you to
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: expand on that part a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Save giving you, I'm giving you a chance.
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  Speaker 4: M mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: What what are you expecting for the next generation Azekya
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  Speaker 3: to be able to represent for future generations?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, to keep it together.
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  Speaker 5: To be driven.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, you know, never never, never let nobody tell you
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  Speaker 7: that you can't. You know that you can't do this
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  Speaker 7: and you can't do that. You know, I always believe
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  Speaker 7: in yourself, Like DD said, I always believe in love. Hey,
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  Speaker 7: you don't matter. It don't matter what that woman is. Hey,
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  Speaker 7: if you can talk, see her talk.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Let's keep.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: There's a ratified question. But I want a quick response
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  Speaker 3: from either one of you. Were for both of you?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: What is a name a book that changed your life? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta look at the guard to ask him.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: To help him with some words.
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  Speaker 8: Black boy, Richard, black boy loved that one.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: That's that's interesting. Why why that dog?
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: That was? Like I read that book when I was
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: in fourth grade and it changed and.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: I didn't really know about race and you know about
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: you know, being dark and the different races, you know
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: how race or it was in America.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Until I read that book. You know, when they opened
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  Speaker 5: up my eyes.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: You know, I was like, wow, I didn't know that
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: we as mean and it's you know, go through this
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  Speaker 7: because I remember when I was little, I used to
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: go to show beds with a.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Friend of mine all the time.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: And his daddy called my daddy a boy one day
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  Speaker 7: and they never came to pick me up for.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Show beds again.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: But I was mad at my dad, like, man, oh
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: a word, and I didn't know nothing about the definition
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: of the word until I started reading that book, Black Boy.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: So it opened my eyes to a whole lot of
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: stuff that was going on around it. Because you know, kids,
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: we don't see we really don't see race. We get
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: taught race, but we don't see race. We don't see colors.
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: We get taught that, you know. And reading that book
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: it opened up my ends, you know, to a lot
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: of stuff that I felt that I was growing up.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: I was starting to see take shape in my life
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  Speaker 7: as well.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: So that book right there.
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: You know, talked about how he became a young man
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: going to a different sitting and learning and doing different things,
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: you know, and how he's seeing racism. So that's one
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: of the books. I love that book right there. I
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: actually want to read it again now that I'm old.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Probably a different perspective on it. DD, what what book
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  Speaker 2: changed your life?
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Well, there have been a They've been a couple of books,
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: but I would have to say off the top of
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: my head right now. Uh, the book called The King's
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Daughter by Diana Hagen is Doohn Hagen's wife, and.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: It's a it's a book, but it's.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Also worked for and it's based upon upon the Book
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: of Estra, and the Book of Estra is my.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Book because he was adopted.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: That's where that's where I actually conceived myself in the Bible.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: It was like, do they have any doctor stories in
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: in the Bible? And when I heard about her, he
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: was he was definitely the the woman that I looked
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: up to in the Bible because.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: He put said that it was You said it was
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: a work book. Did you actually do the work in
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: the book as well?
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Then help me to see myself
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  Speaker 4: the way God does.
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  Speaker 2: Right, a free.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Perfect You both picked and chose wonderful books, and you
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: can definitely see from those books that Howard shaped both
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: of you to today. As we closed tonight's episode of
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Basic Black After Dark, I want to thank our incredible
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: guests D. D. Scott and Hezar Kai Marris for sharing
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: their journeys, their wisdom, and the inspiration behind their powerful books.
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  Speaker 3: To everyone listening tonight, remember your story has value, your
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: voice has power, and sometimes the very chapter that you're
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: struggling through today maybe the testimony someone else needs tomorrow.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: And before we go, be sure to mark your calendars
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: and tune in on.
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  Speaker 3: April to third and APM righty on Basic Black after Dark,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: when we welcome our next special guest, Shania Dukes, for
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: another engaging and powerful conversation right here. This is Black
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Diamond on Basic Black after Dark and thanks for keeping
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: it basic.
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  Speaker 2: There's a time and pray for you.