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Season 8 - Episode 8 w:Joanne 'Black Poet' Stephen and JW Atterbury · Kickin’ It With KeKe: Life, Love, & MINDSET

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kicking and Wikiki.
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  Speaker 2: Kicking it you ki ki.
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  Speaker 1: Kickin ki ki ki for little personality, switching up the
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  Speaker 1: storyline on God. We making that story and hooks one
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  Speaker 1: day at the time. Much problems to the sad, enjoy yourself,
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  Speaker 1: free your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Chicken it wiki Kee.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of
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  Speaker 1: Kicking It Wikiki, Life, Love and all that other Ship.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, author Keiki Chanel, award winning author,
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  Speaker 1: life coach and owner of nineteen lifestyle magazine. The premise
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  Speaker 1: of Kicking Wikiki is all about life, love and all
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  Speaker 1: the other ship, and I I a'm joined today because
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  Speaker 1: we are celebrating National Poetry Month with two of the
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  Speaker 1: greats with me today. Y'all know how I like to do.
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  Speaker 1: I like to give my guests the opportunity to introduce themselves,
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  Speaker 1: So I'll start with the lady first. Tell the people
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  Speaker 1: who you are and what you do. Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Hello, Hello, Hello, Kiki and the gang. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for having me. My name is Joanne Black, poet Stephen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm from Brooklyn, New York. You know how we do
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  Speaker 2: over here. I've been writing poetry for like over twenty
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  Speaker 2: something years right now, I don't want to tell my age,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even though black don't crack.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Is just my life. It's my lifestyle. It's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: It's in my veins, and it's going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: rob with me until this body get cold.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for kicking it with me today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you absolutely all right, We got the fella all right.
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  Speaker 4: My name is j w Addaburry, John Washington in Addterbury.
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  Speaker 4: I'm originally from Halem and I'm down here at the
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  Speaker 4: Shore Cape, mangew Jersey, forty five minutes from Lake City.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I've been doing this poetry thing for a hot minute
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  Speaker 4: since my New York days, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So just to give a timestamp, I'm fifty three years old,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So I've been doing poetry,
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  Speaker 4: vomit and all that since fifteen years old.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been writing.
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  Speaker 4: I got a nice collection of poetry books, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: I love this poetry thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the pin from within that's deep skin, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. So yeah, find yourself a friend, and
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  Speaker 4: we all can begin.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, y'all. Get ready for a great show.
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  Speaker 1: The energy is here. We had the energy before the
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  Speaker 1: camera started rolling, so you are in for a treat.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into all things poetry, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to ask the question, because we talk about life, love
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  Speaker 1: and all that other shit, what is one lesson that
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  Speaker 1: you can say that life has taught you when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to poetry.
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  Speaker 3: Free yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Oh I like that, Yes, And I say free yourself
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of times we are so caught up
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  Speaker 2: with thoughts, memories, traumas, and we stick with that and
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  Speaker 2: we keep that inside. Well, when you start writing and
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  Speaker 2: you release, you're a whole new different person by the
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  Speaker 2: time all those words.
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  Speaker 3: Hit that paper.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Free yourself, that's that's bars.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And what about you, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: My thing is let your mind and wine, so you
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  Speaker 4: could sit back and recline.
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  Speaker 5: And just let the sun shine. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: In outwit you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It's so good, And like Joyne said, just release yourself,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Let all your thoughts hit
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  Speaker 4: the paper and just be right there with it, in
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  Speaker 4: and out, in and out, just like motion motion in
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  Speaker 4: the ocean. You know what I'm saying, get yourself post worth.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I see somebody love words. I fell in love
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  Speaker 1: with words at the age of three when my aunt
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  Speaker 1: taught me how to read, and she would let us
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  Speaker 1: go to the library pick out books that was appealing
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  Speaker 1: to us. She didn't force anything on us, and I
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  Speaker 1: just love words. And when I was introduced to poetry
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  Speaker 1: in the third grade by my third grade teacher, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Miss Amma Williams, I will always love her
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  Speaker 1: for that. I've just been in love with the flow.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, the elve and the flow. You get
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  Speaker 1: the mix and match different textures, different tones, and just
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  Speaker 1: are able to let your mind take hold of that
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  Speaker 1: paper and then just express yourself. And I've always found
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  Speaker 1: that my words helped inspire other people. And when I
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  Speaker 1: was going through my darkest time, I was able to
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  Speaker 1: go back to those notebooks that I had to actually
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  Speaker 1: help myself get out of that darkness. So when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to life, how has poetry been an impactful element
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's definitely been impactful for me, especially when
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  Speaker 2: I have complete strangers come up to me and tell
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  Speaker 2: me how they resonated with my words in the book
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  Speaker 2: or you know, something that may have happened to them,
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, you know, reading your book really showed
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  Speaker 2: me a different way, a different element in life. And
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  Speaker 2: that speaks volume for me because it's sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: we write, Yes, we write for our sake, but we
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  Speaker 2: also write for others. You know, we writing to change
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  Speaker 2: the world, at least I know I am, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because we're especially these days, we're caught up in a
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  Speaker 2: world where so many people are walking around blind and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we need to read and see what's really going on.
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  Speaker 2: They always say, you keep knowledge in the book, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people won't read it, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. But at this rate, yeah, I write to inspire,
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  Speaker 2: I write to elevate, and I write to educate, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, I'm gonna just keep writing, writing
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  Speaker 2: until I turn cold, because poetry to me, is bigger
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  Speaker 2: than life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love that, That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How has poetry been impactful in your life?
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  Speaker 5: Well, poetry, it came at the right time.
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  Speaker 4: It resonated because I started writing again and my daughter
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  Speaker 4: introduced me to just just going out.
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  Speaker 5: There and just letting it live, let it breathe.
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  Speaker 4: Especially after the divorce, you know what I mean, in
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  Speaker 4: twenty sixteen. So you know, I just started just right
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  Speaker 4: right watching everything around. It's like when the hermit goes
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  Speaker 4: out there and he got the lantern and he's just
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  Speaker 4: moving around, just observing the world.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I'm taking in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at everything out there, hearing conversations. My mom
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  Speaker 4: started tworking and going back and forth, and I just
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  Speaker 4: start writing, might not even be my personal experience, but
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  Speaker 4: it might just be what I've seen, observe and heard,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So and then when people
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  Speaker 4: read it while I'm sharing on social media, they was like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: you're writing, Like where you came with that from? And
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  Speaker 4: I was like, just from what I see in the
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  Speaker 4: world and on so personal experiences, I mean. So I
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  Speaker 4: enjoyed sharing with everybody out there. You know, everything for everybody,
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  Speaker 4: but everybody ain't for everybody, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So, so, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, but I enjoy this thing, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's like a Love Jones moment. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm Darius all right, all right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: look morning, evening, you know, afternoon, midnight, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Everything with all four seasons, baby, all four seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that you embraced it and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us. I know, I'm forty seven, and
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  Speaker 1: I allow my children to teach me about different phases
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  Speaker 1: of life that they go through. A lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: especially our parents age, were probably closed off to being
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  Speaker 1: taught something new. So I try to get on my
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  Speaker 1: mom all the time about learning something new. You're still here,
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  Speaker 1: so you should still be learning every day, something every day.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that you allowed your daughter to pour
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  Speaker 1: pour into you in that way to help elevate your
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  Speaker 1: poeted game, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's a poet, Okay, I mean she learned from
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  Speaker 5: a dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, my daughter is a poet, and she's an artist.
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  Speaker 1: And this is all of our artwork, you guys see.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's that's what's up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, something might get a poet as well.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, I'm gonna see. I'm gonna say, sixteen year old
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  Speaker 1: got some bars. I'm gonna have to see what he
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  Speaker 1: working with, because I know it's in him. He's into
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  Speaker 1: more singing and stuff like that. But art is definitely
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  Speaker 1: in this household for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my daughter's thirty three and when I so she
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  Speaker 4: besides poetry, well she hasn't done a long time.
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  Speaker 5: She does urban planning out there in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Nice, So she's an activist and when that so she's
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  Speaker 4: out there court cases and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Like we the man all rights. Who you think you are?
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  Speaker 5: We know our rights?
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  Speaker 1: And lowis Yes, absolutely to her. Salute to her though,
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  Speaker 1: because it takes a lot to put yourself out there
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  Speaker 1: to be an activist, because we know the world that
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  Speaker 1: we live in. Yes, I would keep her lifted in
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  Speaker 1: prayer because we don't want any retaliation or anything like
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  Speaker 1: that to happen. But yeah, I know that she is
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  Speaker 1: probably walking in her purpose, something that got placed in her.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I always do it mine.
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  Speaker 4: I told her about only yok though, I mean she's
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  Speaker 4: born down in Kate me though, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: but I always told her stories growing.
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  Speaker 5: Up, like yo, I remember this, I remember that. You
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: And I told her one of my teachers, poetry teachers,
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  Speaker 4: was on Abbio done from the.
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  Speaker 5: Last poets, Okay, nice, So I.
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  Speaker 4: Always appreciate what he taught and brought to the table
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  Speaker 4: when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 5: I mean so right, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So before we get into all that other ship. Let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: Let's switch gears and talk about you guys, because I
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  Speaker 1: know you have individual projects and stuff like that. Poor
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  Speaker 1: you know, books and things like that, so join go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and tell the people about your books, like plug
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  Speaker 1: your work. Let them know how dope you are.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you well.
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  Speaker 2: My earlier work is on lulu dot com. The first
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  Speaker 2: book I ever came out with was called Through My
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  Speaker 2: Eyes by Joanne Stephen. And the second book I wrote
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  Speaker 2: was The Insights of Black Poet that is also on.
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  Speaker 3: Lulu dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This third one right here, which I have with me,
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  Speaker 2: is called let Me Lick Your Mind, and this is
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon, and trust me, your mind will be licked.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I couple all categories. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't hesitate, I don't discriminate everything is being talked
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  Speaker 2: about in this book. I do have future projects. I
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  Speaker 2: am revamping this book, you know, for a cleaner version,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm working on another poetry book, and somewhere down
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  Speaker 2: the line, I may also work their children's book.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm very happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing, because hell, did you come up with let
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  Speaker 1: Me Lick Your Mind? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: You know what funny story I got to give a
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  Speaker 2: shout out to Lloyd Blackstone.
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  Speaker 1: Leach shot out the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am a partner in crime.
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  Speaker 2: I was going over some names though with the book,
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  Speaker 2: and he just happened to say, what about let me
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  Speaker 2: lick your mind?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, ooh, I.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, Yeah, yeah, I like that, And you know
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  Speaker 2: what he said it I ran with it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't even take credit for the name.
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  Speaker 2: I got it from him, and I'm so happy he
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  Speaker 2: laid it out to me because it draws a lot
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  Speaker 2: of attention.
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  Speaker 1: It really does, because he read like a snippet from
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  Speaker 1: it a couple of weeks ago on his TikTok and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta get this book. So I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely be purchasing the book, and I thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all about supporting, especially my people, man, And this
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  Speaker 1: is the whole premise of having the platform. I have
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  Speaker 1: to give a voice and our and our stories need
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  Speaker 1: to be shared for for for future generations, because once
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  Speaker 1: it's out there is out there.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely people don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know that we exist. They don't know that we need
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  Speaker 1: to you know, the support from them, So that is
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  Speaker 1: that's that's all about, Kiki. But I love that. I
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  Speaker 1: love Levy, fix your mind. It is on Amazon, Guys,
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  Speaker 1: and the nation about the book would be in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes, So no excuses. Go and support black poet.
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  Speaker 1: She is an awesome, awesome, awesome poet. Word smith. I
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  Speaker 1: should say, yes, So we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask her to read something in a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about your products. Uh, j W go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and tell the people about what you got going on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, it's I've been I've been doing this poetry
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  Speaker 4: thing through many names, you know, in the beginning, which
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  Speaker 4: the first book was by Joel Harris of their five
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  Speaker 4: book the first one was Threw My Eyes from the Sky.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: The second one was threw My Eyes from the scar
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  Speaker 4: Part two in God's Hands.
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  Speaker 5: Then the next one was like Marvelous Misses Me.
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  Speaker 4: And then I went through after that phase and was
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  Speaker 4: the King Canterbury phase those books, and then I went
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  Speaker 4: under Jeel Washington at Abury.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everything was a metamorphosis, and I mean like it's
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  Speaker 4: just into that on and this one.
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  Speaker 5: King Cadbury Inc. This was what started a whole different wave.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my cousin did to cover my little cousin
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  Speaker 4: tried to show the support with them. And when I so,
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  Speaker 4: after I start journeying through there and I started the
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  Speaker 4: new wave when I so this is a book King
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  Speaker 4: Canterbury Inc.
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  Speaker 5: Part three, Fruitioning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I just started getting busy into it. And when
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  Speaker 4: I like, I can't, I'm like a dope fiend. And
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  Speaker 4: when I need that fix, you know what I mean
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  Speaker 4: that you just start itching and you're like, Okay, let
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  Speaker 4: me what else can I come like? And then I
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  Speaker 4: just start flowing and going and what not. And I
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  Speaker 4: have a couple of projects on the way. You know
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  Speaker 4: this two thousand and twenty five is gonna be crazy,
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  Speaker 4: working on four projects right now.
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  Speaker 5: And you know I'm gonna be calling you up soon.
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  Speaker 5: And I yo for I feel like I said, I
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  Speaker 5: feel like a fiend. I can't stop.
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  Speaker 4: I mean every year I say the same thing, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not writing no more, feel like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: this poetry thing, like I'm done, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden, and then then I got
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  Speaker 4: a whole archive. Then I'm like, what am I gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: I might as well put some books out, Like I'm
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  Speaker 4: just like.
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  Speaker 5: Not to say it like that, but I'm just saying
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  Speaker 5: I'll be like, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What, my daughter be like, Damn, why you're gonna stop?
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  Speaker 4: You might as well keep going. I'm like, because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like when you have enough well to me, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just like, okay, like.
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  Speaker 5: What else can I write about?
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  Speaker 4: Then there's always something I work great yeardship, So my
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  Speaker 4: mom is always as soon as I hear music, I
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  Speaker 4: just start.
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  Speaker 5: It's like you activated.
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  Speaker 4: It could be jazz, it could be water dripping, it
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  Speaker 4: could be water running, and I'm just like.
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  Speaker 5: I just start writing. I'm like, you got a.
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  Speaker 1: Problems, A great problem to have.
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  Speaker 5: I got. I need poetry, a taste poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Any well, guess what, You'll see a lot of familiar
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  Speaker 2: faces in that group because I jump out of my
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  Speaker 2: sleep and start writing.
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  Speaker 1: Listen my phone. I have a lot from my notes
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  Speaker 1: on my phone. I have so much stuff, man, Listen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how I write. I write my phone when
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  Speaker 4: walking the blue, I type something up or whatever. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm always on the moves. They'll be like, oh, he texting. No,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not texting them right.
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  Speaker 5: Right, focused don't.
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  Speaker 2: We're waiting on your poetry book to list inspired inspiring.
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  Speaker 5: Me, give us what we need.
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  Speaker 3: She got the lyrics we need to say him.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's gonna be my challenge for myself.
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  Speaker 1: Before the end of the year, I will put out
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  Speaker 1: my first poetry book.
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  Speaker 5: I'll keep pushing.
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  Speaker 2: If you need encouragement, I'll be right there to push
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  Speaker 2: you along the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, though, I'm a very disciplined person, and
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  Speaker 1: when I say I'm a Capricorn, as we do. So
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  Speaker 1: once I put my mind to it, I just have
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what I want the theme of it
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  Speaker 1: to be about, because I don't need to just be
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  Speaker 1: putting stuff in there just all over the place, not
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  Speaker 1: like that. But uh, I'm definitely. I'm definitely. I got time.
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  Speaker 5: I got email you every week.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Listen. Look, I appreciate that accountability. That's what we need.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: We need people that's gonna just pour into us and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: make sure that we are staying aligned to our purpose.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, love that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So y'all want to y'all want to spit something for
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: for the audience. Y'all want to do something freestyle or
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: let's do that, Let's do that real quick style. I'm
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: give y'all the topic and we're gonna talk about all
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: that other ship.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Fifty two year old right here may not remember her lines,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: but try, I'll try.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Let me.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you and I and I picked all
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that other ship because it's very broad and you can
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: talk about whatever. I mean. I could throw out a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: word or something if you want to do it that way.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: But I think all that other ship is befitting because
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: right now we are experiencing all that other ship when
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: it comes to life. Yeah, yeah, So anybody want to
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: go first?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You know what, I'll let the brother go first.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Can I get like a phrase or something, or like,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I just try to channel something. I have a freestyle
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: of a long time. But I'm gonna go there though
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: never a pardon me. I mean, just give me something
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: like so I could just you know.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Breathe on it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, So we'll talk about music.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I love music.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: My favorite artist is Prince and his music has gotten
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: me through very very pivotal moments in my life, ups
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and downs. So music, let's do music.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Okay, Let the music begin.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: As my mind start to spend all these thoughts captured,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: they're coming from out the wind. Is there a message
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: really to sind or am I just in between life circumstances.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Let's have a choice of the words that we put
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: inside the lines that define the pat graphs. That what
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you see and is what you saw. This is something
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: unusual that you never saw before. But here, let me
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: go outside the universe into a different solar system so
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I can sit right back down into Earth and be
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: in my kitchen. Oh my god, it seemed different. This
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: here is on the instant. This is a freestyle, not
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: really worthwhile, but I'm saying versatile. I could do it
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: right now, I could do it real later. At the
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: same time, you might owe me a favor. Why don't
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: you just contact your neighbor and we could see if
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I Philip Beet, like I said, if I had a
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: pager like back inside the eighties or was it really
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: the nineties? But right now I'm gonna leave all that
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: stupid as shit behind me as into the future, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I know what to do with her. I'm gonna call
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: up Mother Nature and signal out to for the time.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: And that's that piece.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Nice n yes, oh good.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Kind of rusty and dusty.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: But you know, listen, I can't tell it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Am I still going along the music trip? If you like, Hey,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the music, The music that just hits my veins, takes
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: away all my pains, you see from the struggles in
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the strains. That music. You know you like it? That
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: music be hitting me like determinator. Have my body shaken
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: just like a vibrator?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Oops? Did I just say that? You know you like
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: that music?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: That music that comes with the E string, the G
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: string and that d yes. Stick it to me. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: love it to flow naturally. Oh my god, that music
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: is getting to me. You see that music. It's detrimental,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: but it's always in my mental You don't.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Know that, do you?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Or maybe you should find out hit me with that
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: music one more time. See what happens when I dropped
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: this line. Yeah, this is your black poet every time
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: for the music.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: You got listen. I'm over here blessing. I love it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Yes see, that's what I'm talking about, like for real, y'all.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Y'all really inspired me because I don't like to share
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: my portry with people. I love you do. I'm getting
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm getting out of that shell. I'm walking into a
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: season in my life where it's like no regrets and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: no excuses.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And nothing before its time. So maybe it wasn't time
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: for you to do it before, but it's your time.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Out, absolutely, and I agree. I received that and I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: agree with that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Do you hear that voice? You don't hear that voice?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Are you not? Are you not entertained?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Because I'm like which voice? Because I heard a lot
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: As a right, Are you not entertained?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, I definitely hear the voice that saying that it's time.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, my I just found out and I did
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: not notice although I knew he was nosy back then.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: My little brother he told me the other night. He
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: just text me out of the blue. He said, I'm
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: so proud of you. You are my inspiration. And I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: was like oh, and I was like, I've never known it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: He was like, yes, the sneak and reach of poetry
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: back in the day, and now he has released his
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: third poetry book. That so shout out to my little brother, Trevy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I love you so much. Yeah, Tray.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So did you guys want to share anything from some
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of your your work, your books? I know I need
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to hear something from let me lick your mind for real.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, I definitely have a few.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think what mood should I give it
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: to your end, you know, because there's a lot to
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: choose from.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start out with this.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: This is the first one, and and if we have time,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: we could dig into something else. This is the one
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: on the very first pages called the signs you put
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: on the spectacles.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. I love it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He had a winning smile and brought me diamonds and pearls.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I thought I was the happiest woman on top of
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the world. He said, I did not need to work.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I could just stay home, keep myself beautiful and my
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: hair well combed to any woman. You think I had
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: missed the right until my world came crashing down in
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: just one night. Something big was happening after something so small.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: He called me out of my name before slamming me
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: to a wall. I thought, what did I do? I
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: felt so ashamed. I tried to ask him what did
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I do wrong? But I was the one to be blamed.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I tried to ask him what did I do wrong?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: But no words can be heard like an instrumental song.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Another hit as anger feels his face. He was in
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a bad mood and I was in his space. The
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: gentleman now turned a brutal beast. To say I was
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: scared was actually the least. It only got worse as
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: time went by, with swelling so bad they closed my
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: eyes and I apologie your flowers after every episode. But
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the beatings continued to touch every limp node until one
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: day I fled for my life. As today I write
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: at someone's wife who literally helped me, as I hope
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to help others. So listen to me clearly, my sisters
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and brothers, when things go left, even when you think
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: things are fine, go with your gut feelings and pay
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: attention to the signs.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, Yes, absolutely, I would definitely be ordering that book
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: before this week is out. Thanks absolutely. Like I have,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I have a You know how people get addicted to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: like shoes and all of that, I have addiction to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: books and journals. Yeah a problem, yes, but I thank
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you for sharing me. Before we before we hear your poetry,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I just want to ask the question about all that
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: other ship, like how has poetry helped you get through
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: all that other ship in your life?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Poetry for me was always a release.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You know, my dad, you know, God bless he's still alive,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: was very strict, so I couldn't go anywhere.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: So for me, it was a pastime.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I sat in the house, I wrote, and I drew.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: So I'm also an artist. I love art and I
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: love poetry. And you know, as you get older and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you start seeing so many different things come to you,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Like Joel stated earlier, sometimes it's not from personal experiences only,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: it's from what we see in life. It's from friends,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it's from family, and you just incorporated into your work.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: And it definitely releases.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Me when I write. I feel a calm When I write.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I could be mad at something, but the moment my
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: pen hits the paper, I'm in another world. It's like
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: you can't talk to me. I'm just flowing and I
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: feel like ease. So it definitely helps me to remain
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: calm because I'm easily I used to be easily hot headed.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Okay? You know, but as we grow in life and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: we have growth, we learn how to channel things differently.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: So for me, my channel will always be poetry.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Listen. Shout out to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Dad for being strict though, because who knows what you'd
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have been getting into. It wouldn't have been perfect, I'm
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: telling you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And to this day, he's still strict and I'm fifty
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: two years old.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But what I respect it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I respect it because, you know, and I cherish it
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: because many people say, you know, cherish your parents because
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you don't know how long you're going to have them,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm blessed to say that I still have both.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: It's sometimes it's trying because you're like, look here, now,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I'm grown with two kids.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: That's still grown. But they don't always see you that way.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: But he's gonna always beat a little baby that today.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm the last one too, out of four,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: so I'm.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: All always the baby.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's okay because a lot of his teachings
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: really saved me out here, you know, in this and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it's not even as bad as it is now, but
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: growing up, you know, he taught me some things were
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: always kept me level headed. You know, I'm not like
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the average girl who gets scared of a little thing.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I let things, I think things through before I act right,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate that greatly.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: You know, those teachings, those back in the day's teachings
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: do help, and that's what a lot of these kids
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: are missing today.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: They don't have that, thanks facts.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, poetry became an outlet for me.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll say, like maybe I lost my father when
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I was in eighth grade junior high school.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: You know, he passed away at the age of thirty two.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I was thirteen.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: So after when I got in high school, I still
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: was trying to just gain acceptance.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Of like losing my dad, you know what I mean.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: So I be on the terrace and my projects with
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: my own CLAWD table the radio, you know what I'm saying,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: thinking I could write like some of the rappers, like
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Ll and all of them. So but it was a
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: release for me when I you know what I'm saying.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: So then I got in that window, you know, being
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: out on the projects and everything like that. And then
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: it became something else after my mother passed away, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: you know, then I had moved down to South Jersey.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I was twenty one. She passed away at age thirty nine.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: So me living through life and just journeying out there,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: writing and everything like that. You feel like you your
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: own parent now, even though Granny was around and stuff
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: like that. But I've always been a rebel, you know
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: what I mean. So that's one thing I got for
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: my mother about being a rebel. You you ain't said,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: you ain't mad, you just existen. Yeah, it's like the
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: sun in the summertime. You just out there, you know
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: what I mean. So it has helped me a lot,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So these are things that
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I taught my daughter. I taught my son. You know,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: they two years apart. So you know he can write
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: too and rong, but you know it just don't truths too.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: But he's a Sagittarius. My daughter, my daughter is an arians.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: So you know, watch being in between with them too.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It's like that that fire fire.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, I mean.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Be quiet, I'm trying to write something right now, you
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. Y'all don't understand. And grandparents are
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: still around, you wouldn't be acting like this. But then
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I just opened up and be like, just look, I'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: not gonna tell you all again. I ain't gonna be
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: yelling at y'all, yo. But you know, just having that
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: energy within that entity, it just over the years is
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: just had me, you know, keep going and going and flowing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad to become who I am today, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like, you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Know a cool a cool ass poet.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, I will say fly you
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: know what, man, I ain't ergant a cocky like that,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: but I can hang with some of the best of them,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: know you know.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: What I mean, like to like pop your column.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Man, you know I'm cool, you know, just observe it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: So you know, we just be like playing until it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: time to jump on the stage. But come on, come, Onyan.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Here, I come. I'm about to shut it down.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know I get inspired by others too,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: like one of the people and poets that I might.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, I'm like, whoa.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: It's called like step your game up and not competition wise,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: just like yo, you got something there.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is being modest, Jersey poets.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: This man wrote thirty books. He is being modest to say, Okay,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I know he is.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm just saying, you know, I just appreciate others,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: and I think that's what keeps me humble and then
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: control of my feelings and emotions and not be like
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: some of these other people out here, you know what
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I mean. Like, so when you have admiration for other
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: poets and stuff like that, it keeps you leveled and
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: balanced and here you know what I mean that you
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: like yo?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: We hit a try because I've seen some people out
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: there and they just they feel like this.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Can I curse?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Ye?
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Can I be my Can I? Can I be my
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: New York self? Look? We feeling like they ship, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I'll be like, that's a'll be something. Ain't nothing to
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: go bragging home to my friends about. Like you act
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: like you the ship but in your own world it's cool.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I'm from a parallel universe and an alternative one. Shit
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: ain't all that good, son? You know what I'm saying,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: you might preach that ship And you know the one
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: thing I hate a cocky, arrogant person that just feels
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: like they touchable. I'm saying myself, Nigga, I write some
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: shit to spin your ass around and shit and send
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: you so with you know, I'm like Ricky say Rabbit.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Back in the day.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I mean turn you into deputy dupalongs No.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: But real think.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Though, I think that a lot of people they make,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: they get confidence and cockiness and arrogance all mixed up.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes you can know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That you have talent, but don't make it seem like
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: your talent is so for above everybody else's that nobody
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: exists with talent but yourself agreed.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: That's why I said.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: The humbleness Uh huh, that'll take you a lot of places.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I've learned that from a couple of poets from years ago,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So I've always kept that
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: in mind, right, and I've always been cool with motivation speakers.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: So that's why I was able to just humble myself
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: and be, like he said, Yo, just check the parameter's
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: kid and you'll see what's up. And I did, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: that's how I evolved better over the years and what
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I was like.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: And I still talk to the dude today. You know
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. One of my brethren is from Brooklyn.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: When I you know what I'm saying, I'm just.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Like, now I know what he's talking about me, so yeah,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: so yeah, But like I said, I'm here today.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: But I got a poem right now called Fruits of Love.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Like that too.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I like it too, but doesn't make sense. I'm just
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: messing up, all right, all right here it is Fruits
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: of Love fell in love with loving. All that I
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: know is it about or could it be a lie
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: disguised behind my eyes? Doesn't matter. I'll take a chance
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: and dance a little.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Bit when I'm into just to remember I have options
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: to exit, never long winded or having fatigue of her
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: with me. The astronomical energy is beyond us human beings.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: The earth taught me well though I lost my father's time,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: she told.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Me fly away on my own.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Recognize the signs, stay close to God who God write
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: ways of passage. Don't ever become ecstatic or feel you
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: got to have it, wait for it come, be careful
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  Speaker 4: whenever it comes. Sometimes adulthood can be fun, but don't
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  Speaker 1: M dang, that's deep.
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  Speaker 1: This has been an amazing yo. Like every season gets
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  Speaker 1: better and better, and I have a new favorite show.
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  Speaker 1: But you guys have like become my top five for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done, like over one hundred and something interviews.
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  Speaker 5: But y'all, wow, real well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all about the energy. And then y'all we
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  Speaker 1: So tell the listeners how they can connect with you
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  Speaker 1: where y'all hang out at on social media and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Plug the books again, let them know where
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  Speaker 1: Well, ladies first, Okay, well, hey, ladies first, he's such
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, Well, you know my name is Joanne Black Poet Steven.
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  Speaker 2: You can catch me on TikTok as Black Poet Underscore eight.
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  Speaker 2: You can also catch me on Facebook as Joanne Diamond,
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  Speaker 2: and I am on Instagram as Poetic d But twelve
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  Speaker 2: fifty and my book let Me Lick Your Mind is
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon dot com. And the two earlier works that
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  Speaker 2: I have, which is Through My Eyes is on Lulu
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  Speaker 2: that's l u l U dot com, and also the
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  Speaker 2: Insights of Black Poet is also on Lulu dot com.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a YouTube page as well. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it's YouTube JCS twelve o eight.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Sarah, tell the people where you hang out
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  Speaker 4: Everybody can peep me out through h jw Atbury dot
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  Speaker 5: Everything is jw Adburry. That's the name, that's the bread,
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  Speaker 5: that's the brand. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But on the website there's a lot of links to
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  Speaker 4: all my social media and all the books. Whether it's
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  Speaker 4: on Amazon, they just click the picture and they take
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  Speaker 4: them right to wherever they need to go to, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean, So on Lulu or Amazon, you
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  Speaker 5: Those links are. Okay, So yeah, check me out.
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  Speaker 4: And also they can check out on my YouTube channel
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  Speaker 4: on my stage performances.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, they go to J w ada Berry
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  Speaker 5: and they can check me out. They can hit a
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  Speaker 5: bio and everything. So you know, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: great year.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be an amazing year. It's already going good,
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  Speaker 1: so it's gonna even better. But I thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: for coming to kicking with me today.
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  Speaker 5: It is appreciated. Thank you for thank for the invite.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, So before we close out, is there any
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  Speaker 1: words of encouragement or inspiration that you would like to
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  Speaker 1: lead with our listeners today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, follow your dreams, no matter how long it takes.
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  Speaker 2: Follow your dreams. If you want to write, do it.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to sink, do it. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to paint, do it. But whatever gift that God has
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  Speaker 2: given to you, don't die with it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh shay shave.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, don't die with like that's that's wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I felt that in my spirit.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well I say is never be afraid to put
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  Speaker 4: your pen down. Never be afraid to express yourself. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's no such thing as a whack poet. There's no
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  Speaker 4: such thing as poor expression because we come from the heart.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: We have these emotions and feelings that we need to
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  Speaker 4: exercise and get out of your system. And that's the
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  Speaker 4: main thing, you know what I'm saying. Start from beginning,
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  Speaker 4: just start putting journalinge, just start putting them them words
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  Speaker 4: and every thin' don't have to round me, but just
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  Speaker 4: write it out.
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  Speaker 5: SECTA. So how you speak it out. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean. So let that be your love your love cycle,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Let it flourish through your mom,
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  Speaker 5: buddy and soul.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, you guys are amazing. For real, You guys
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  Speaker 1: are amazing again. Thank you so much for coming to
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  Speaker 1: Kicking with Me today.
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  Speaker 5: Very welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank the listeners for tuning in. I am
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  Speaker 1: back every week on Thursday with a new episode until
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  Speaker 1: next time. Just you know, go with the flow. Allow
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  Speaker 1: your gifts to make room for you because they're there
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  Speaker 1: for a reason and if you don't tap into those gifts,
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  Speaker 1: you will lose those gifts. And whether it's writing or
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever, you are enough. It is your gift. Stop
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  Speaker 1: letting people get in your ear and tell you that
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  Speaker 1: you are not enough, because that is a lie. So
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, next time, purple hugs later. Bye,
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  Speaker 1: Keep you at w A cod M.