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Speaker 1: my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf. This
Speaker 1: has been a very very productive week with amazing events.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, anytime you can get a icon
Speaker 1: like Tamatha Brown to come to your store and sign
Speaker 1: all these books to be shipped out all across this nation,
Speaker 1: it is a good week type Oftha Brown is one
Speaker 1: of the major social media influencer of today. She just
Speaker 1: four years ago was driving an Uber car and now
Speaker 1: she's a mega star, a social media influencer. So many
Speaker 1: people love her. She travels around the nation to speak.
Speaker 1: She also has two books that is out because the
Speaker 1: new one comes out this week, Cooking from the Spirit,
Speaker 1: which is the name of this episode. Her first was
Speaker 1: Feeding the Soul because of My Business, and that was
Speaker 1: a New York Times bestseller. But her new book, Cooking
Speaker 1: from the Spirit, she signed hundreds of copies at Malik
Speaker 1: Books kicking off her book tour, and I had the
Speaker 1: pleasure of speaking with her while she was doing the
Speaker 1: signing the books for my podcast, Belief's Bookshell. Also, when
Speaker 1: we've finished the book signing, she interview Millie and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring you that interview, so our interview type of
Speaker 1: the Brown, Top of the Brown interview Milik, and I'm
Speaker 1: featuring both of those interviews on this on this episode
Speaker 1: forty three. Also also a continuation of the Barbershop Talks
Speaker 1: Part three, It's gonna take place on this episode. So hey,
Speaker 1: stay tuned. Enjoyed this episode Cooking from the Spirit. We're
Speaker 1: on I Heart Radio, whatever podcast or listen to. But
Speaker 1: I'm on my forty three episode and I'm featuring Top
Speaker 1: of the Brown. Who's that Milik Books signing books, Cooking
Speaker 1: from the Spirit. What was your inspiration for writing this wonderful,
Speaker 1: beautiful book. My inspiration was really to share my recipe
Speaker 1: but in book form so people could get like a
Speaker 1: piece of meat, and to also help people understand that
Speaker 1: you don't have to have an actual recipe like with measurements,
Speaker 1: in order to cook. You can you can cook from
Speaker 1: your spirit, just like my mama did, like my granny did,
Speaker 1: My aunties and if you trust yourself in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: you can have fun. But also that you can also
Speaker 1: do it with plants, right, you don't necessarily have to
Speaker 1: have animal products to eat whale. Yeah, so a little
Speaker 1: important to be good, okay, okay, Yeah. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of traditional favorites. You know, I'm from the South,
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of fun Southern favorites, like you know,
Speaker 1: cabbage and sausage and mac and cheese and all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. But just the plant bays, beating way and
Speaker 1: so everything substitutable, everything you know, and and and just
Speaker 1: judging you know, from the cover of this book with
Speaker 1: all the beautiful colors, you know, and that's what vegetables,
Speaker 1: fruits and beans, and we eat the rainbow, right, eat
Speaker 1: your colors. So it's life, you're eating life. Color does
Speaker 1: that's right? Color looks like life. It doesn't look like death. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And and and I guess you were devote now vegan,
Speaker 1: I am five changed your life five years. It changed
Speaker 1: my life. I was seek for about a year and
Speaker 1: a half. The doctors could figue out what was wrong
Speaker 1: with me. I had some form of autoimmune disordered that
Speaker 1: they couldn't pinpoint. But my body was attacking itself. I
Speaker 1: had a headache every day for a year and seven
Speaker 1: months in the back of my head, and uh. I
Speaker 1: took every you know, blood test Mr Rid. They could
Speaker 1: not figure it out. I took all the drugs they
Speaker 1: gave me and nothing worse. If anything, it probably made
Speaker 1: me worse. I was like a guinea ped You had
Speaker 1: to go to God's green listen. I did a thirty
Speaker 1: day vegan challenge. In the first ten days, my headache disappeared,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, I'm onto something. And I
Speaker 1: never went back and I have never felt better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's so wonderful, beauties, because you're sure and with
Speaker 1: the world, and so many people have become more healthier
Speaker 1: as a result of you sharing your story. And how
Speaker 1: does that touch you to know that now God has
Speaker 1: using you as a beacon to help others. You know,
Speaker 1: It's such a blessing to be used, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful. I take the responsibility. I feel like it
Speaker 1: is part of my purpose. You know. In the beginning,
Speaker 1: when I first you know, went vegan, it was about me.
Speaker 1: To me, I thought that's what it was about, saving
Speaker 1: my life. But then God said no, it was about
Speaker 1: helping other people, and so he just used me. He
Speaker 1: had to take me to a place in order for
Speaker 1: me to only trust him with the journey, but to
Speaker 1: be able to bless other people in that. I'm just
Speaker 1: so great for that. I never try to force my
Speaker 1: life on anybody. I simply just share. Yeah, I share
Speaker 1: with humor, Yeah, I share with love. But I inform
Speaker 1: without judgment. And so it helps people say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think I want to try about that girl, that
Speaker 1: girl over there cook, you know, instead of them feeling
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to force them to go vegan. I
Speaker 1: would never do that, but people are more inclined to
Speaker 1: try it when you share it with love. And so
Speaker 1: I'm grateful I was turned on to you by my
Speaker 1: white april. Yeah. You know, yeah, you got to come
Speaker 1: check yourself right here. All I had to hear a
Speaker 1: well how you start? Hello? Are you all right? Y'all?
Speaker 1: All right? That's right, you know, we gotta check on people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's always how, you know, in the South, anytime
Speaker 1: somebody walk in the house, that's the first thing they say.
Speaker 1: You know, how y'all doing, y'all? All right? You know,
Speaker 1: that's just how we walked in the house, how my
Speaker 1: granddad walked in the house, my mom and my dad.
Speaker 1: It like, that's just the thing. Your first thought is,
Speaker 1: you know, you speak first of all, say hello, how
Speaker 1: y'all doing, y'all? All right y? Yeah, these generations they
Speaker 1: don't even speak, right, So I don't say nothing. What
Speaker 1: I always bring it to them. I said to you,
Speaker 1: even if you don't speak to me, I'm gonna speak
Speaker 1: to you, and I'm gonna make sure that you feel seen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, we've had challenges with our own children
Speaker 1: coming in the house not saying speaking, Well, why don't
Speaker 1: you don't speak to me? I'm here first. Absolutely, you
Speaker 1: must walk in and saying hello. Yeah. You know, years
Speaker 1: later they come back, I'm sorry. You know, after you
Speaker 1: get a little understanding a little bit, go out into
Speaker 1: the world and see that it ain't as kind as
Speaker 1: your parents are home. Hello, the love of right, it
Speaker 1: was better out there. But you realize, Lord, I was
Speaker 1: really being loved it. I might need to go back
Speaker 1: home and say I appreciate that. I tell my dad
Speaker 1: that I was. I dare to thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Did I love you so much? Ye? Yes, absolutely, that
Speaker 1: I did not understand why my parents growing up was
Speaker 1: hard on me. I used to say, man, you're committing
Speaker 1: child to do. Then I got older and got a
Speaker 1: few kids. I said, hold, daddy, I want to apologize.
Speaker 1: I see love you was giving me, trying to keep
Speaker 1: me alive. And say, when I thought you was trying
Speaker 1: to kill man, you was trying to get trying to
Speaker 1: keep me alive. Absolute curb. You know his knowledge wilsdom
Speaker 1: and under last phase is understanding, and it might take years.
Speaker 1: You might never get understanding, but sometimes we need to
Speaker 1: listen and learn. You know, we gotta get burned a
Speaker 1: little bit to grow. This is true. So I went
Speaker 1: out in the world. I got some kids, bingo oh oh,
Speaker 1: y'all hard hit it. Daddies. I always say, you keep
Speaker 1: living and if God bless you to be able to
Speaker 1: have kids, one day you understand. And I used, like,
Speaker 1: I ain't never gonna be like you did me too
Speaker 1: strict did. Now I've been hearing myself like Lord, I
Speaker 1: saund just like my daddy, he was right, keep right.
Speaker 1: I had to keep growing and keep keep living and
Speaker 1: get my own kids to understand. And so I definitely
Speaker 1: get it. Now we get it. Now that's for maturity
Speaker 1: and growth. If you live long enough and you blessed
Speaker 1: long enough, you will learn. This world gonna teach you something.
Speaker 1: If you ain't learned nothing else, experience is the best teacher.
Speaker 1: Don't what they say, don't do? Is I do do
Speaker 1: as I say? What's that saying? Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Now I walk the walk, not do the
Speaker 1: talk with tape of the tab of the you know.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing with us, you know and my audience.
Speaker 1: She had Malik's bookshelf being at Malik book signing Cooking
Speaker 1: from the Spirit. You can go out and buy your
Speaker 1: copy today. Malik bookstot coming is our Tobal force being
Speaker 1: over me everywhere. But we got signed copies. Talk to
Speaker 1: us about that, dude. I'm signing them right now and listen.
Speaker 1: So you can hold them online and get them side,
Speaker 1: or you can come into the store and get them signed.
Speaker 1: But only why they last, so don't be ain't in
Speaker 1: a round. These are great Christmas gifts, Birthday gifts and
Speaker 1: just a gift for yourself because you deserve it and
Speaker 1: that's your business. Okay, Hello, hello, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Hello there, So listen, I am at my
Speaker 1: leak books here in Cover City at the West Film
Speaker 1: Hall A K eight to Fox, he was more, okay,
Speaker 1: because I was signing my book here Cooking from the Spirit.
Speaker 1: But I want to introduce y'all to my League and
Speaker 1: his amazing wife, April. Y'all come over here real quickly.
Speaker 1: That's a right there, right, So really I want y'all
Speaker 1: to hear from a League on why he created the
Speaker 1: book store. Okay, So look, whole time you told me
Speaker 1: and I was like, wait a minute, you gotta stay
Speaker 1: there again. I want the world to know about this.
Speaker 1: Thank you tied with the I had a degree, but
Speaker 1: I didn't have a knowledge of self. And that's what
Speaker 1: was my motivation. While I wanted to open the League
Speaker 1: books because books bring a world of opportunity. Books think
Speaker 1: about you, think about what can you do in this
Speaker 1: world with our book? Well, books can elevate you, evolve you,
Speaker 1: make you whatever you want. To open relief books because
Speaker 1: I want to make a difference in the community, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to see change in ourselves. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of mental health issue and I think is at
Speaker 1: the root of it's just noted yourself. And I really
Speaker 1: believe books can make it different. So he had Belief books.
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of books from a lot of
Speaker 1: different people, but our main focus is black people, black authors.
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Speaker 1: The first thing you look at and picture is yourself,
Speaker 1: and you want to see yourself and the reflection of yourself,
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Speaker 1: choose books we can shut ourselves book after us. So
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Speaker 1: in our community and in ourselves. And that's where it starts.
Speaker 1: You can't have community yourself first, that's right, that's everything
Speaker 1: you started at home first. With you. You want to
Speaker 1: see change, you can do it. You first got to change.
Speaker 1: That's right, good y'all, y'all feel the energy through the phone, lady,
Speaker 1: that's what you feel when you walk into the bookstore. Okay,
Speaker 1: it it is absolutely beautiful. You just feel the energy
Speaker 1: when you come in. But you see so many faces.
Speaker 1: Like when I walk in, I was like, I see
Speaker 1: me anywhere, even though I saw me for real because
Speaker 1: my book was in here, but I really see me.
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Speaker 1: I hope you've been enjoying this Bobby Shop Talk episodes
Speaker 1: I've been featuring every week with this is part three,
Speaker 1: So enjoy Part three Bobby Shop Talks. Now, if a
Speaker 1: man should up here until a woman, what he ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do for her. I'm not gonna do that for
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that
Speaker 1: for you other man. Do you think that that's a woman.
Speaker 1: Do you think of that woman will respect him and say,
Speaker 1: oh you know, I'm still gonna let you marry me.
Speaker 1: She's gonna look, he say, hell no, this man tell
Speaker 1: me what he ain't gonna do. But we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be cool with that when they tell it to us
Speaker 1: as men, I ain't doing this for you. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that for you. I ain't doing it. I ain't
Speaker 1: doing that, but we be like, oh, very cool. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, we're supposed to give all life
Speaker 1: for them, We're supposed to protect them, give all life
Speaker 1: for now and all this. So if I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: my life for you like you are me to sacrifice
Speaker 1: my life when danger comes around for your honor and
Speaker 1: your glory, which I don't mind as a man doing
Speaker 1: that because that's my duty as a man to protect
Speaker 1: my family. But god damn, you're telling me you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna cook, you ain't gonna do this, you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do that, or I don't do that. I can hell,
Speaker 1: can can we even get Can can you even pray
Speaker 1: with a brother? You want me to, You want me
Speaker 1: to give my life for you, but you can't even
Speaker 1: pray with the brother. Come on, sisters, y'all try to
Speaker 1: get that together. Why do you think that, uh, these
Speaker 1: the men that just telling you about they're having these
Speaker 1: difficulties and wife's respecting them. Why what's the reason why
Speaker 1: these women and I respecting the men? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I think the only thing I can think of, brothers,
Speaker 1: just the time that we're living in and what is
Speaker 1: being promoted through the media, through music, through TV. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all. You know. You even hear these songs about
Speaker 1: these women, how they don't need a man and not
Speaker 1: God mine. I don't need is I do? And I'm independent?
Speaker 1: And this is not that. And in reality, God has
Speaker 1: never made a woman to be independent and not I'm
Speaker 1: not even for that a woman saying she's independent. I'm
Speaker 1: for a woman saying that she want to go out
Speaker 1: here and make something to herself and do something significent.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, how can you be dependent
Speaker 1: when God created you or made you from the rib
Speaker 1: of a man so so so so so the rib
Speaker 1: they look a look at the word of that's a
Speaker 1: possessive pronoun of, like like the house of Malik or
Speaker 1: the car of this person, of this possessive pronoun So
Speaker 1: God made you from the rib of man. Didn't that
Speaker 1: mean you are that man's body part that God made
Speaker 1: you from? Now, how can the body part be independent
Speaker 1: from the body. It's impossible, or society made women think
Speaker 1: that they don't need a man and they are independent
Speaker 1: from man. At to say another word, you can take
Speaker 1: a body part out of the body and think that
Speaker 1: body you're gonna survive on his own. But do you
Speaker 1: think that's just taking out of context? One of the the
Speaker 1: woman is saying, I don't need a man. Is that
Speaker 1: just or you know, I have my own independence. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's just taking out of context. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's taking on contact because I don't heard it.
Speaker 1: You may talk, I don't have too many times in
Speaker 1: the shot with one said I don't man. I said
Speaker 1: I need a man for some sex. But far but
Speaker 1: far like trying to a man or woman saying yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't mind having a good man in my life
Speaker 1: and a good man in my life who're gonna lead,
Speaker 1: teach and guide me. They don't want that no more
Speaker 1: because those standards that God will on here and the
Speaker 1: guy that woman by and leave that one body is
Speaker 1: not the standard that people believe in. Today. Everything is
Speaker 1: totally opposite, you know, everything is totally oppos today. So
Speaker 1: you try to talk about God is nothing that brothers.
Speaker 1: You might well forget it because the women don't respect
Speaker 1: that God talk no more. Unfortunately they respect the money talk.
Speaker 1: All they wanted the bag, the bag. They want the
Speaker 1: high earning man, but they don't want the high value man. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: as you can see, um, we have some very strong
Speaker 1: opinions and thoughts here at the Bobby Shop talk and UM,
Speaker 1: I had to get it on record. I thought this
Speaker 1: would be refreshing. It is organic, it's not scripted. They
Speaker 1: speaking you know, from the heart too, strong black men
Speaker 1: right here, um, and I think this made great, great conversation. Um,
Speaker 1: we have to find a way to bridge the gap
Speaker 1: in the division between man and women. And these are
Speaker 1: some of the you know, ideas and opinions that these
Speaker 1: strong men include myself, which make it three h field
Speaker 1: is a major issue in our communities that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to cut that TV set off and do that
Speaker 1: because you can't get wise watching food wishness. You can't
Speaker 1: get wise in and tell us listening to foolishness. You
Speaker 1: can't be a peaceful person watching women act like animals
Speaker 1: and think that's how you're gonna you're gonna behave. You
Speaker 1: are what you eat. So you feed yourself that garbage,
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna end up acting out from yourself.
Speaker 1: Concert here's the thing. They can say the same thing
Speaker 1: about so many men watching that garbage. They are acting
Speaker 1: acting like he's gotta go back to God in order.
Speaker 1: The man got to take his position that God put
Speaker 1: upon him, and the woman had to recognize the position
Speaker 1: that God put on man and take her place that
Speaker 1: God put on hurt and they're not place that the
Speaker 1: white man told them to live by, which is this
Speaker 1: boss bitch attitude. So you're saying that the division between
Speaker 1: black men and black women is really systemic racism, teachings
Speaker 1: that cause the vision with like the Willie Lynch letter,
Speaker 1: which said divide them on their differences and so that
Speaker 1: they won't be united. So you're saying that this is white.
Speaker 1: This is just a residue of the white supremacy that
Speaker 1: stemmed from the years, in the decades and centuries of
Speaker 1: slavery and miseducation. All all they did was just all
Speaker 1: they did was just elevating and growing the row from slavery.
Speaker 1: That's audio, because the more we the more we got
Speaker 1: away from slavery, how many years we are from slavers
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty five? Do you think we would get better?
Speaker 1: But if you look at it, we're getting work and
Speaker 1: work and we're killing each other. At what point do
Speaker 1: we take responsibility for our own actions? You enjoy Part
Speaker 1: three of Barbershop Talks now Next week, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a fresh new episode of barber Shop Talks Part four
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