Speaker 1: League has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2: League has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have all the books that the whole wild
Speaker 3: world one up reads. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malie's bookshep
Speaker 3: bringing a world together with books.
Speaker 2: Culture and community.
Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Malik, your host Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 2: Another eventful week.
Speaker 3: We had three book signings in one week at Malik
Speaker 3: Books at the Westfield Coche City Mall. And it don't
Speaker 3: stop from there because we have some community events such
Speaker 3: as the Orange Coast County children Book Festival. So we
Speaker 3: got a tremendous week that we're coming off.
Speaker 2: Of community, books, culture.
Speaker 3: But let me say this, Malie Books mission and aim
Speaker 3: is to change the world one book at a time.
Speaker 3: We breaking out the book more bill this week at
Speaker 3: the occ Children's Book Festival.
Speaker 2: We gonna have.
Speaker 3: About seven eight authors with us, so we excited about that.
Speaker 3: But I do have some upcoming events that already took
Speaker 3: place that I wanna feature on this up episode. I
Speaker 3: was able to interview Chante Griffin, who wrote the book
Speaker 3: Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself. Quite interesting, but it's
Speaker 3: her take. It's her take on how to heal, how
Speaker 3: to work together, how people can embrace each other, you know,
Speaker 3: the god the rules, treat others like you wanna treat yourself. Well,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like, you know, loving your black neighbor
Speaker 3: as yourself basically, you know it is it's everyone taking
Speaker 3: the initiative to embrace their neighbor, their community, and to
Speaker 3: be able to work together in a collective miner for
Speaker 3: the sake of the neighborhood, the sake of the community,
Speaker 3: sake of the nation, and so forth. But I'm gonna
Speaker 3: let Shaun Tate break down her book. No one can
Speaker 3: tell you more about their book than they ought to.
Speaker 3: Always say. Also, I'm a feature the interview I took
Speaker 3: with Yvonne Sanai Jones.
Speaker 2: Who's the moderator.
Speaker 3: Other she's a bilingual actress and an entrepreneur, So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna interview her and let her talk about her background
Speaker 3: and what she's doing as an actress, because you know,
Speaker 3: actress are the ultimate storytellers.
Speaker 2: You know, they make stories come alive.
Speaker 3: So these are some of the things that I plan
Speaker 3: on featuring on I'm a feature on this particular episode.
Speaker 2: And one more.
Speaker 3: Segment I want to feature on this podcast is Wallow
Speaker 3: two six seven was at Malik Books. Woo. Was that
Speaker 3: a wonderful event, But I got a chance. I didn't
Speaker 3: moderate the event, Amma Grimes moderate the event.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The book that came out, the new book that Wallowed
Speaker 3: two six seven just released and the New York Times
Speaker 3: bestseller his first week, Armed with Good Intentions, A very
Speaker 3: powerful book, a very moving, touching, inspirational book. Wallow is
Speaker 3: a brother that spent the twenty years in jail, came
Speaker 3: out and believed in himself, believed in the fact that
Speaker 3: a person can have a second chance. I think he
Speaker 3: went in at seventeen, came out at thirty seven.
Speaker 2: He's now on forty four and.
Speaker 3: He has come out running NonStop. He's amassed millions of
Speaker 3: followers as an infloor on social media, and it's all
Speaker 3: about inspiring.
Speaker 2: Telling people to wake up, believe in yourself, get going.
Speaker 2: No one's promised tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Listen, he said in himself at the event, and he
Speaker 3: was like, look, nobody owe him nothing. Nobody owes him nothing.
Speaker 3: And he believes in accountability and he's straight short. He
Speaker 3: speaks the language of the streets, he speaks the language
Speaker 3: of the people. I mean, it's a lot of us
Speaker 3: come out of the streets a lot of us to speak.
Speaker 3: It's a different language. I always believe it, always believe
Speaker 3: that God always sends someone speaking the language of the people.
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of people in our community hip hop,
Speaker 3: their street and whatever the case is, someone has to
Speaker 3: speak their language. They're not gonna you know, leaders like
Speaker 3: President Obama when he was president, or Trump when he's president,
Speaker 3: when who else? Biden when he spreading a lot of
Speaker 3: these people. You know, they speak to a large group
Speaker 3: of people, but it's a lot of people that just
Speaker 3: don't hear him.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 3: They no matter what they say or what they do,
Speaker 3: they don't penetrate the streets.
Speaker 2: Maybe their policies do, but them as a leader don't.
Speaker 3: And sometimes people like a Wallow who speaks the language
Speaker 3: of the streets, and he talks in a way.
Speaker 2: That they can relate.
Speaker 3: You know, they not talking all intellectual, but they talking
Speaker 3: in a manner that they can understand and they can
Speaker 3: hear it. Because everybody is a lot. But do you
Speaker 3: got the key to unlock them? That's I always say that.
Speaker 3: And so some of us are heard differently, and so Wallo,
Speaker 3: you know, he speaks the language of the streets. This
Speaker 3: brother came out of jail, you know, spent twenty years,
Speaker 3: you know, in the four corners. But he didn't come
Speaker 3: out with a hand held out. He came out giving out.
Speaker 3: And he came out sprinting and running. And he came
Speaker 3: out making with a movement, with an idea as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: And he came out running as a sprint And all
Speaker 3: I'm saying is armed with good intentions.
Speaker 2: Telling his story is giving you insight to change. Start
Speaker 2: with you, and that's what bottom line is.
Speaker 3: And you got to be accountable for your actions and
Speaker 3: stop acting like somebody owe you something, whatever cars you
Speaker 3: deal with.
Speaker 2: And you know, all he knew.
Speaker 3: Was the streets people around him was the streets. He
Speaker 3: got caught up in the streets. But he allowed changes
Speaker 3: to come about in his life to help change the streets.
Speaker 3: So the brother got millions and millions and millions of followers.
Speaker 2: A lot of people know them.
Speaker 3: Elie books was packed from the back to the front.
Speaker 3: Wallow dropped some knowledge, some inside. I think the biggest
Speaker 3: thing that I took away. Now I got a chance
Speaker 3: to talk to him for myself while he's there, and
Speaker 3: I always try to do that.
Speaker 2: Give me a couple of few minutes, give me a
Speaker 2: few minutes.
Speaker 3: If you at Elie books, I'm not moderating, But if
Speaker 3: I got you, I'm gonna come. Ay, let's go to
Speaker 3: the back. Brothers all to the front. Let me ask
Speaker 3: you a few questions from my audience on Malik's bookshelf,
Speaker 3: bringing a world together with books, culture and community. But
Speaker 3: let me tell you the thing that I thought this
Speaker 3: stuck out the most. He said a lot. The brother
Speaker 3: ain't shot on words. He's electric, he's passionate, he's powerful.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you though it. You know I'm not
Speaker 3: as eloquent as him, and certainly I don't know the
Speaker 3: language he knows to read that group of people. But
Speaker 3: you know, I you know, the language that I speak
Speaker 3: touches certain people in a certain way.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this my takeaway.
Speaker 3: The thing that's stuck out the most is when he
Speaker 3: said that.
Speaker 2: They spent a lot.
Speaker 3: Of money to market death and destruction and for people
Speaker 3: to make bad decisions. That there's a billions of dollars
Speaker 3: of spent to create you know, because he mentioned how
Speaker 3: certain icons in our community, like criminals.
Speaker 2: Al Campone.
Speaker 3: Gotdi all these gangsters they glorified and our people know
Speaker 3: a lot of these mafia and gangsters and people who
Speaker 3: and former criminals or whatever. A lot of people in
Speaker 3: the community, Black community, Hispanish community, they know a lot
Speaker 3: of these people El Choppo and all that. But they
Speaker 3: couldn't tell you all the presidents of the United States,
Speaker 3: or at least if you ask them, give me ten
Speaker 3: president of the United States couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: They tell you ten high profile criminals. So he said,
Speaker 2: why is that?
Speaker 3: Because marketing, marketing, And I thought that start out the
Speaker 3: most of me, because and I analyzed that, it's lot
Speaker 3: of money spent to market death and destructions all across
Speaker 3: these cities and all across this nation. How much money
Speaker 3: is spent to make the wrong de eat the wrong foods?
Speaker 2: How much how much advertisement goes.
Speaker 3: Into promoting sugary foods and drinks that ain't doing nothing
Speaker 3: but cause health problems? How many things are marketed to
Speaker 3: create licensius bib or having sex without responsibility? People are
Speaker 3: you know, no protection and so forth, like person get pregnant.
Speaker 2: What you're gonna do? Can you you a child? You're
Speaker 2: a teenager.
Speaker 3: You ain't making no money, you ain't got no career.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, so, how much when you
Speaker 4: look at these commercials, when you look at a lot
Speaker 4: of things, how much money is spent on you making
Speaker 4: wrong decisions, wrong choices, and ultimately affecting your life.
Speaker 3: In a negative way, Drinking drugs, all of these things,
Speaker 3: Wasting your time on activities that don't enrich you. How
Speaker 3: many hours a day do you spend watching football and
Speaker 3: basketball in sports versus investing in yourself to make yourself successful,
Speaker 3: to make the kind of money of the people that
Speaker 3: you sit.
Speaker 2: Up and watch all day. These are the coin I.
Speaker 3: Said, Man, A lot of money is spent marketing death
Speaker 3: and destruction and self sabotaging to create self sabotaging behavior.
Speaker 2: So I was interested. I mean, that point to me
Speaker 2: stood out in.
Speaker 3: The insightful conversation that took place between Wallow two sixty
Speaker 3: seven and Amber Grimes. And so I was intrigued by that,
Speaker 3: and I, you know, to analyze that. But I got
Speaker 3: a chance, like I said, to interview him, ask him
Speaker 3: a few questions. It was interactive while people were still
Speaker 3: in the store and he was signing books. So you know,
Speaker 3: some you know, there might be a break here and
Speaker 3: a break there. But nevertheless, it's all organic, it's all
Speaker 3: not it's not scripted, just me, you know, being me
Speaker 3: and talking to Wallow and him giving me his insight
Speaker 3: about his new book, arm with good intentions. So anyway,
Speaker 3: let me let this episode begin to roll, all right,
Speaker 3: please thank you.
Speaker 2: I got a special guest.
Speaker 3: She's gonna do an event today right here at Maligue Books.
Speaker 3: You know, I gotta get just a few minutes just
Speaker 3: to her to tell you about her book, Loving Your
Speaker 3: Black Neighbor As Yourself. Her name and author is Chantay Griffin.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Schantae, good, good, good good. I'm wonderful.
Speaker 3: So let's get right into it. No one can tell
Speaker 3: you about the book more than the author, So please
Speaker 3: tell us.
Speaker 2: About your book.
Speaker 5: Loving your Black Neighbor As Yourself is a book straight
Speaker 5: from the heart of God. Martin Luther King was a
Speaker 5: prophet who came to this kind that said, all of
Speaker 5: God's children deserve to be free, all of God's children
Speaker 5: deserves civil rights, all of God's children deserve education and
Speaker 5: great housing and economic opportunity. So this book is taking
Speaker 5: us back to the heart of King's message and saying,
Speaker 5: what is stopping you externally and internally from loving your
Speaker 5: black neighbor as yourself.
Speaker 2: This book gives you the tools.
Speaker 5: To break through those barriers and love the way God intended.
Speaker 2: You to love. Wow, you know what. I love that
Speaker 2: because I always use this analogy.
Speaker 3: The sun rises every day and it shines on everyone
Speaker 3: on the whole planet, which me is an analogy of
Speaker 3: every day as a new day. But more importantly, God's
Speaker 3: gift is given to everyone. And so when you said
Speaker 3: what you said about the Martin Luther King and about
Speaker 3: loving your neighbor, your black neighbor as yourself, I thought
Speaker 3: about that as an a knowledge. So what are some
Speaker 3: of the highlighted points the best chapter of your book?
Speaker 2: All of them.
Speaker 5: No, what we do in the book is we take
Speaker 5: this concept of the love languages, right, this is how
Speaker 5: different people give and receive love. We flip the script
Speaker 5: and we say these are cultural love lenses. How do
Speaker 5: African American communities give and receive love? So I actually
Speaker 5: created five love lenses, and this is how Black folks
Speaker 5: give and receive love. Number one intimacy community, right, we
Speaker 5: always want to be together. Number two honor and respect.
Speaker 5: Don't disrespect us. You don't want to see that. Number
Speaker 5: Three God's gives resources. We're always giving given to the community,
Speaker 5: giving to the next generation. Right number four, stand up,
Speaker 5: we're speaking up. We're standing up for righteousness, for justice
Speaker 5: for ourselves. And then lastly we're praying people.
Speaker 6: We're gonna pray over you.
Speaker 5: We're gonna pray for you. God bless your heart. So
Speaker 5: I talk about how you can love black community, these
Speaker 5: and black people the way we're already loving each other
Speaker 5: because we love.
Speaker 3: Each other doing it by nature, like a spider spenser
Speaker 3: of web, not because it read a book, but because
Speaker 3: it comes out to nature.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, what's in us just got to.
Speaker 3: Come out, you know with some of the most soulful,
Speaker 3: joyful people.
Speaker 2: Want to play.
Speaker 3: They write books about, you know, how we can find
Speaker 3: joy in the midst of oppression and sorrow.
Speaker 2: Why is your book important?
Speaker 5: It's important because we're living in an age where people
Speaker 5: are trying to take us back. They're trying to take
Speaker 5: the civil rights legislation that was meant to protect and
Speaker 5: uplift black people and say that now we're discriminated against
Speaker 5: non black people. So this book is important because it
Speaker 5: shows you how we can love politically, how we can
Speaker 5: love relationally and how we can love holistically and with
Speaker 5: our dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, wow.
Speaker 3: Now you heard it first hand from Jaunty Griffin, who's
Speaker 3: going to be doing an event today right here at
Speaker 3: Malik Books in the Westfield, Co City Mall.
Speaker 2: So thank you. Tell people how they can find you.
Speaker 5: As we close this off, you go, Shante. Sometimes you
Speaker 5: got to encourage yourself website, Instagram, Facebook, you go, Shante
Speaker 5: y O, you g O C H A N t E.
Speaker 5: You go, Chante find me there.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Chante.
Speaker 3: Malik's Bookshelf bringing a world together with books, culture and
Speaker 3: community change in the world with one book at a time.
Speaker 3: I have Yvonne Snai Jones, a bilingual actress. She's gonna
Speaker 3: be moderating the event today with Chantey Griffin, who authored
Speaker 3: the book Loving Your Black Neighbor As Yourself.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Yvonne.
Speaker 3: Tell my audience at Malie's Bookshelf why reading is so important.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's foundational. It's foundational. You can and go to
Speaker 6: different places. You can learn things that you never knew
Speaker 6: that aren't going to be learned in school, and you
Speaker 6: can write and then you can share your own thoughts
Speaker 6: to other people.
Speaker 2: So it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: You know, I came across a stat they said, forty
Speaker 3: five million Americans are illiterate.
Speaker 2: What we're gonna do about that?
Speaker 6: I think more events like these get some more good
Speaker 6: books that don't want to read, right, you know?
Speaker 3: You know, for there was a time in America where
Speaker 3: we were denied the right to read and write.
Speaker 2: And that's why reading it's important.
Speaker 3: Because it's transformative, it's empowering. And anything you can find
Speaker 3: you can find in a book. Now your actress, and
Speaker 3: you know, so you know how to make stories interactive
Speaker 3: and coming along?
Speaker 2: Tell us all about that.
Speaker 6: Well, that is actually what drew me to acting, is
Speaker 6: my imagination. I was an only child until my brother
Speaker 6: was born right about ten years old for me, so
Speaker 6: it was just me and stories and acting them out
Speaker 6: in the backyard. And I loved books as a kid.
Speaker 6: That was my mom would take me to the library.
Speaker 6: That was the first place I got to walk all
Speaker 6: by myself, so it's a big deal. And I would
Speaker 6: go and I would check out books and I would
Speaker 6: gobble them up, and then the next week I would
Speaker 6: get more. So I'm very blessed to be able to
Speaker 6: have had that kind of experience.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3: Now you shared with me that you have a production company, entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: We living in a time where it's very important to
Speaker 3: do for self and be resourceful. Now I believe it
Speaker 3: is your husband's standing right here and life. Tell me
Speaker 3: all about your production company.
Speaker 1: You were based out of southern California, focusing on media production, video,
Speaker 1: MFB entertainment, my father's business, and so we just love
Speaker 1: to to really support whatever the vision is. We came
Speaker 1: out today to support Sante in this book release and
Speaker 1: capture this wonderful moment. So it's always a pleasure to
Speaker 1: take the skills God to bless you with and capture
Speaker 1: the moments that matter to people.
Speaker 3: We're making history today. We are at Malique Books. We're
Speaker 3: going to be starting an event in a few minutes,
Speaker 3: and they are here to immortalize this event.
Speaker 2: You know, social media's like that.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, they used to say, if you
Speaker 3: don't have a business card, you ain't got a business.
Speaker 3: Now on days, you ain't got a social media you
Speaker 3: don't have a business. So we want to, you know,
Speaker 3: capture the moment and any final thoughts about your production
Speaker 3: company you would like to share.
Speaker 1: My brother, oh, Yeah, you could check us out at
Speaker 1: www dot NFB entertainment dot com. That's n FB my
Speaker 1: father's bi business entertainment dot com.
Speaker 3: Thank you both for sharing your business and about yourself
Speaker 3: to my podcast, Elik Bookshell.
Speaker 6: Thank you you, Malik for providing this resource for our community.
Speaker 6: It's that itself is going to be immortalized because you've
Speaker 6: already touched so many people by these opportunities and it's
Speaker 6: just going to keep going and those experiences they're changing lives.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3: I can't let you leave without getting a few sound
Speaker 3: bites from a podcast, Malik's Bookshelf Bringing the World Together
Speaker 3: with Malik with Books, Culture and Community Wallow two six
Speaker 3: seven at Malie Books. Man questions Yep, well hey amor
Speaker 3: good intentions, it's your new book, break it down because
Speaker 3: you know your book better than anybody else.
Speaker 7: Home, Well, good attentions to the book to show people
Speaker 7: the similarities of the struggles that take place when you're
Speaker 7: growing up trying to figure out life and you adult
Speaker 7: you trying to figure out life. But I just want
Speaker 7: to see people to see the similarities of the struggles
Speaker 7: that I went through. But I never gave up on
Speaker 7: myself and I got through on the other side. And
Speaker 7: when you don't give up on yourself, there an example
Speaker 7: of what can happen. The possibilities is endless, endless.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, brother, one thing that stood out to
Speaker 3: me was when you talked about marketing.
Speaker 2: Marketing is everything.
Speaker 7: Market is anything one thing that's that's something you do
Speaker 7: because you're not afraid to get out of market your brand.
Speaker 7: You're not afraid to do videos and talk about my
Speaker 7: elige books. You're not afraid to do none of that.
Speaker 7: If I'm you, I'm doing today day, I'm getting worried
Speaker 7: out about books. I'm pulling up at events where you
Speaker 7: know books is necessary or whatever, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 7: keep it alive. But uh, you gotta market your product.
Speaker 7: Nobody can market your product more than you. Because you
Speaker 7: know your product. They don't know it. You're trying to
Speaker 7: get them to know it. In order to get them
Speaker 7: to know it, you gotta tell them.
Speaker 2: About it, and he'll be too cool. Yeah, and people
Speaker 2: be too cool. You know, brother, how.
Speaker 3: Much money do you think they spend to keep people
Speaker 3: believing that they can't be all they can be a
Speaker 3: lot of money now building its brother.
Speaker 7: They spend a lot of money because you know, it's
Speaker 7: just so much doubt in the air. They mark it
Speaker 7: out out here. Doubt is marketed, so you.
Speaker 2: Know a lot of people can't rise above.
Speaker 3: They talk about prisons, but the biggest prison is the mind.
Speaker 7: It is because you know, it's like people be locking
Speaker 7: their own people be incarcerating their mind and don't believe
Speaker 7: that they can move. They could do this and that,
Speaker 7: and it's like you've done once you do that, like
Speaker 7: most of the game. You know, it's the mind. The
Speaker 7: mind game is anything man. And if you shut your
Speaker 7: mind down of what you can do and what you
Speaker 7: can't do.
Speaker 2: You trouble. You're in trouble, them in trouble.
Speaker 3: You know, always say change your thoughts, change your life.
Speaker 7: You can change everything. You know, if you could change
Speaker 7: the thoughts, you could change the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they did us.
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 3: The Dell KONNECKI commission Napoleon Hill to study success. And
Speaker 3: you know he wrote a series of books, Think and
Speaker 3: Grow Rich, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: He was a think of rich. I think that was
Speaker 7: a prison classic.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean we're in the years and decades and
Speaker 3: decades ago and is still it's.
Speaker 2: Still that relevant.
Speaker 7: It's still that it's still it's still major.
Speaker 2: You know, go ahead, he wrote. He wrote one called
Speaker 2: the Lass of Success. He wrote a lot and deal.
Speaker 3: Kage has commissioned him to do this study. But most
Speaker 3: of what he wrote was how the minds work.
Speaker 2: How to be successful.
Speaker 3: You gotta believe you can be successful to be successful.
Speaker 7: You see, you heard what I said. You got to
Speaker 7: become a millionaire before you can become a millionaire.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I always say fake it till you make it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you gotta do that.
Speaker 3: What what what?
Speaker 2: What was the spark that change you?
Speaker 3: Brother? Butid I mean something that had to enlighten you
Speaker 3: to get on this course?
Speaker 2: Did you become right now?
Speaker 7: I got tired of losing, Malik, you know, for the
Speaker 7: streets that had you thinking you winning the whole time
Speaker 7: you're losing.
Speaker 3: You know. I was always told this story there was
Speaker 3: a donkey that fell in the ditch and everybody walked
Speaker 3: by through a stone, and so many stones were down
Speaker 3: in the ditch that the donkey walked out.
Speaker 2: Damn. That's crazy, you know, Meaning.
Speaker 3: That every knock is a boost, Losing is sometimes winning.
Speaker 2: So you got tired of losing.
Speaker 3: And what's some of the steps you took to begin
Speaker 3: in your mind winning?
Speaker 7: Accountability?
Speaker 2: Countability, that's everything, break it down.
Speaker 7: You know, you got to be countable for your bullshit,
Speaker 7: all the stuff you lack, ad the you know, lack
Speaker 7: of discipline, not staying on course, looking all over the place.
Speaker 7: You got to be accountable that you where you are
Speaker 7: based off of your actions.
Speaker 2: You can't blame nobody.
Speaker 7: For your shit out here. You got nothing but a
Speaker 7: bunch of victims. Oh I ain't here because of them.
Speaker 7: They ain't put me on. Ain't no what you ain't
Speaker 7: do for you? People don't want to look at America.
Speaker 7: And that's that's why a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 7: they don't want to be countable. Looking at America is
Speaker 7: a scary thing.
Speaker 3: Wow, countability, Look in the mirror, accept the truth.
Speaker 2: So what are your what's some of the tips to
Speaker 2: help a person?
Speaker 3: Because I look at people and I said this to
Speaker 3: Tim Ross when he was here. I said that everybody
Speaker 3: is a lock and some of the locks got rusted
Speaker 3: on them, and so who.
Speaker 2: Has the master key?
Speaker 3: Because to open up them rusty locks?
Speaker 7: You, Yes, it's yourself. Is your mind, is your body's
Speaker 7: the spirit is your energy, you know. But a lot
Speaker 7: of people they just it's hard to believe in self.
Speaker 2: Change begins with self.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so many of us doubt ourselves, don't believe in ourselves.
Speaker 3: But you wrote a book called Armed with Good Intentions
Speaker 3: to change the game, to change how people think. And
Speaker 3: what do you want people to take away from this book?
Speaker 7: I just want you to see the similarities of the
Speaker 7: struggle in the ups and downs of life that I
Speaker 7: went through and you've probably gone through. And I just
Speaker 7: ain't never give up. You can't give up.
Speaker 2: Well you heard it live at Malik Books. Follow two
Speaker 2: six seven.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my brother, appreciate you. Thanks for listening to
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