Speaker 1: My League Bugs has how the knowledge you want. Lee
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Speaker 1: they have all the books that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read. My Lady Bugs. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome
Speaker 1: to me Leik's Book Show, bringing a world together with books,
Speaker 1: culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik Mohammed, your
Speaker 1: host of Malik's Book Show. Well, we're on episode twenty. Wow,
Speaker 1: I dubbed it up and this is an exciting episode
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna be talking about on a segment about community,
Speaker 1: I got a couple of communities on this episode. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we went downtown and we fed
Speaker 1: the homeless. This is what my wife wanted to do
Speaker 1: for her birthday. She didn't want gifts. She told people, Hey,
Speaker 1: don't buy me no gifts, donate some money. I want
Speaker 1: to feed the homeless. So we went downtown l A
Speaker 1: and she fed the homeless. And that was an experience,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about that experience on this segment featured
Speaker 1: on episode twenty. Also, I got a chance to talk
Speaker 1: with the principle of Environmental Charter Middle School, and she
Speaker 1: talked about the environment and the Carmen printing and some
Speaker 1: of these things that they're doing at this charter school
Speaker 1: because we went there and did a book fair, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be discussing that conversation on this episode as well.
Speaker 1: And lastly, my book review is on a book the
Speaker 1: schedule to be released April twelve, but we are hosting
Speaker 1: this beautiful actress, Garcelle at Malik Books when they Love
Speaker 1: Me as a book tour at Malik Books, I'm doing
Speaker 1: my book review or Love Me as I Am by Garcella.
Speaker 1: What made you want to give food and clothes instead
Speaker 1: of receiving gifts for your birthday? What? What made you
Speaker 1: want to do that? Though? Well, this is something I
Speaker 1: do a lot, but just for my birthday, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Something just came over me and said, well, you already
Speaker 1: been blessed me the last why don't you just bless others?
Speaker 1: And I've come up with me feeding a homeless, feeding
Speaker 1: the less unfortunate. Um, I want to give away my
Speaker 1: closet or I'm gonna purs my cause in shelter. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do something once a week in a month of
Speaker 1: April to celebrate my birthday. Instead of gifting me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give to others, so I've asked my loved ones,
Speaker 1: who I know that's gonna give me something, that does
Speaker 1: something for me every year, don't don't give me anything,
Speaker 1: just donate to my cause. And they have shown up
Speaker 1: for me in a tremendous way. They were homeless, they
Speaker 1: were hongry and still had a smile in your face.
Speaker 1: The little girl was about to jump in the pool, homeless,
Speaker 1: living in a tent and had a swimming pool right
Speaker 1: down here downtown l A. And she was looked like
Speaker 1: she was happy, you know, just as happy, just as happy.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be I know one thing. This
Speaker 1: was an experienced for me, Just thankful you open your
Speaker 1: heart to let me be part of it. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you could invite somebody else to on his journey, on
Speaker 1: his you know, but invited somebody else down here to
Speaker 1: give out the food, but invited me And last three
Speaker 1: hours passed out food. And I just felt thankful. Ain't
Speaker 1: grateful because we forget the little things and we forget,
Speaker 1: you know, our blessings. One young lady saying you happy birthday,
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? It was beautiful. She
Speaker 1: just thought a thing, and you have birthday, And she
Speaker 1: was telling everybody else and telling everybody else is saying yes, yes,
Speaker 1: telling everybody else the same. Just she was thankful and grateful.
Speaker 1: They all came out their chancing saying happy birthday and
Speaker 1: gave you some love. You came down here to give
Speaker 1: him some love. Besides seeing you emotional and joyful about
Speaker 1: giving to the homeless today, seeing that young kid she
Speaker 1: couldn't have been no more than ten years old, with
Speaker 1: a pool with water in it, blow up fool with
Speaker 1: water in it, and was happy in the midst of
Speaker 1: all them homeless tents you know, had the music going.
Speaker 1: They're about the party and everything. It's hot outside like degrees.
Speaker 1: God was mirmorable. A couple of thoughts that I want
Speaker 1: to get down. If it ain't one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the truth about life? If it ain't one thing,
Speaker 1: it's another, It's all about balance. But that is challenging.
Speaker 1: And when your balance, something else is put on the scale.
Speaker 1: If it ain't one thing, it's another, that's just reality.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the way the heart beats up and down,
Speaker 1: up and down, up and down. If you live long enough,
Speaker 1: you will experience what I'm saying right now. The question
Speaker 1: is how you deal with it because it's always something
Speaker 1: to do. You know, the kids come home, they say, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta don't work. No, I don't have no harry.
Speaker 1: They don't want to do nothing right, they don't want
Speaker 1: to get better. You gotta push them to get better.
Speaker 1: You know, life is not stagnant. Life is moving. It's dynamic,
Speaker 1: it's not static. So therefore you need to always try
Speaker 1: to keep pushing forward. You don't want to. I got workers,
Speaker 1: you know, on my staff, there's no customers. But it's
Speaker 1: still something to do. It's still something to improve, it's
Speaker 1: still something that if it ain't one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Never get complacent, never settle.
Speaker 1: Always keep striving because if it ain't one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, Um, the only way
Speaker 1: you get better, the only way you improve, the only
Speaker 1: way you continue to go up. And that means what
Speaker 1: you're gonna go down to, that means what you're gonna
Speaker 1: flip flop, you're gonna fall, You're gonna have to get up.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to figure out how to keep moving upward.
Speaker 1: And doesn't mean you go backwards. Because if it ain't
Speaker 1: one thing, it's another. So expect that as a reality.
Speaker 1: To expect anything less than not if fooling yourself, you're
Speaker 1: deceiving yourself. And let me tell you, if you want
Speaker 1: to move in this world, you need to expect change
Speaker 1: and you need to understand that today is sunny tomorrow
Speaker 1: in my rain. But if it ain't one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: It's always gonna be something, always gonna be a challenge,
Speaker 1: always gonna be you know issue. But it's always gonna
Speaker 1: be some some sunny days. It's always gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: some violence moments, they're always gonna be that successful time.
Speaker 1: There's always gonna be all of that possessing just a
Speaker 1: moment of time. It's like life. If it ain't one thing,
Speaker 1: it's another. So you know, prepare yourself for that, but
Speaker 1: don't dwell on that, don't focus on that. Enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1: Life is about moments. Man, we have moments. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: right now doing this podcast. This is a moment. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm feeling. Um, this is what I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: it is what i'm sharing. But this is just a moment.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. That's how life is. If
Speaker 1: it ain't one thing, it's another and that's what you
Speaker 1: that's how you have to you know, moving this world
Speaker 1: is that expect change, Expect obstacles, expect success if you're
Speaker 1: looking for sussect because some of us not, some of
Speaker 1: us is not. Some of us a challenge by what ever,
Speaker 1: just trapped trapping our thoughts and trapping our mind, trapping
Speaker 1: us from just doing what we need to do to
Speaker 1: you know, to move in a way that would create
Speaker 1: the world that we want. So I whoop. You enjoy
Speaker 1: this segment called if it Ain't one thing, It's another.
Speaker 1: Upcoming community events that will be hosted at Malik Books
Speaker 1: is the one and only the Beautiful Pop Culture Garcel.
Speaker 1: You know, the actress just on the Beverly Hills Real
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills Housewives as well as the show called The Real.
Speaker 1: Well guess what She's gonna be doing a book signy
Speaker 1: at Malik Books April eleven at six thirty pm her
Speaker 1: new book called Love Me As I Am signy hosts
Speaker 1: of that Malik Books in the Westfield Coast City Mall
Speaker 1: and on April thirty and planning a big event around
Speaker 1: independent booksellers. They were gonna have twenty authors and Our
Speaker 1: headliner is to very Cruise. He's gonna be headline our
Speaker 1: Independent book Store Day, so you want to come out.
Speaker 1: It's fun for the families, all ages. April thirty, from
Speaker 1: twelve to seven is the event. Now it's a free rent,
Speaker 1: but you got a register for the Terry Crews book
Speaker 1: signing his book Tough My Journey to True Power. Tough
Speaker 1: My Journey Through True Power by Terry crew book signing
Speaker 1: April thirty, Independent Book Store Day. Bus rs repeat. Go
Speaker 1: to Malik books dot com under events and register for
Speaker 1: the Terry Crews book signing at Malik Books on April thirty,
Speaker 1: Independent Bookstore Day. We just launched the book will bill
Speaker 1: two months ago and I feel very fortunate and bless um.
Speaker 1: The first time we did an event, it just spread
Speaker 1: it like WildFly one viral, people emailing US and DM
Speaker 1: and US and contacting us. And yes, it's hard to
Speaker 1: have libraries at schools right now. That's because you have
Speaker 1: not a lot of spaces for them. So because it's amazing,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Yeah, we we feel very fortunate.
Speaker 1: This idea we had about, you know, just before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and uh we went to work on it while the
Speaker 1: pandemic and put it all together. God make it a
Speaker 1: lot easier. Come out to the kids, and children and
Speaker 1: the youth, go anywhere, celebrate books. Absolutely. How long you've
Speaker 1: been the principal here? Three? Okay? So how many of
Speaker 1: these environmental childhood middle schools? Are middle schools? Are two
Speaker 1: middle schools? There's sports schools. There a few middle schools.
Speaker 1: To high schools. Okay, to middle to high schools. I say,
Speaker 1: and and and then they all started at the same time.
Speaker 1: Are the main high school I believe was almost twenty
Speaker 1: years the old here going on ten years and ten years,
Speaker 1: ten years and then their be that night is I
Speaker 1: believe eleven or thirteen years on? Is it the emphasis
Speaker 1: on environmental I'll see the plants, I see culture, everything
Speaker 1: to do. They have everything, the water, they understand, how
Speaker 1: they into systems, how they impactic THEO system, how this
Speaker 1: earth is theirs. Um, regardless of what anybody else says,
Speaker 1: We'll take them. Every student before the pandemical they move
Speaker 1: those three days, two nights, camping trips create charge every year. UM,
Speaker 1: we're all about that. Yes, what Um? So you're teaching
Speaker 1: sustainable yeah, sustainable practices. We're teaching about your carbon footprint.
Speaker 1: So you have a green Ambassador's class where every student
Speaker 1: has to take every year that they're here, and they're
Speaker 1: realizing how they can impact and cycle and compost um
Speaker 1: waste of virgin all of those things. I say, I see,
Speaker 1: I see. I have a podcast, Leek's Bookshew, So I
Speaker 1: want to feature someone sharing Environmental Charter School in Inglewood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me have your name again, Dr Matthews. Geneva Matthews
Speaker 1: got a doctorate's in um do doctorate in Educational Leadership
Speaker 1: and Social Justice. Okay, okay, yeah, so all of those
Speaker 1: things you can apply right here Environmental Charter Middle School
Speaker 1: and Inglewood. You know, I love I love my babies.
Speaker 1: I love them. Ten years. I've seen so many students
Speaker 1: come and go and to have them. Sometimes they go
Speaker 1: to our local high schools. They come back in the
Speaker 1: summer after school. Sometimes as they shoom away like you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be in your new community, like go enjoy
Speaker 1: where you are. But they're telling me that they're like
Speaker 1: building recyclable clubs at their school. They're telling them like, well,
Speaker 1: why are we throwing the food waste from lunch in
Speaker 1: the trash? Do you know what you can do? With that,
Speaker 1: and so they're making it creates the change age in
Speaker 1: so we're happy they're not going to just to our
Speaker 1: school all the time, because if you just go to
Speaker 1: our schools, right, and you're also only gonna impact us
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to impact your community. I didn't and
Speaker 1: I wasn't super environmental conscious when I came here. I
Speaker 1: was still using reusonable water bottles. I now bring my UM.
Speaker 1: I have two kids under four, me and my husband,
Speaker 1: and so if they don't eat all their vegetables, will
Speaker 1: put it in a baggy and we'll bring it here
Speaker 1: to our compost because it feels a little better because
Speaker 1: those little ones. Sometimes it's waste a lot of food
Speaker 1: and it feels bad with that, but now at least
Speaker 1: can do something with that instead of just feeling like
Speaker 1: my trash can is full of unusedful food went bad.
Speaker 1: UM So they know they have reusable water bottles. They
Speaker 1: know that, and I think the pandemic have made a
Speaker 1: little hard to be environmental constious because we're also trying
Speaker 1: to be safe, which is still we're trying to find
Speaker 1: that balance, like how do you also you have the mask,
Speaker 1: but you're supposed is a disposable one you're supposed to
Speaker 1: use all the toilet paper, these napkins. You used to
Speaker 1: use towels, Now they want to use individual towels to
Speaker 1: wash your hands. So it's like it felt like a
Speaker 1: little bit of a step back, and we're trying to
Speaker 1: save ourselves. And then I think it's having a negative
Speaker 1: impact on the world. So it's trying to find that balance.
Speaker 1: That's that's true, right there. She is our green she is.
Speaker 1: She's amazing. It's amazing, she's amazing. Okay, ambassador, she's the
Speaker 1: green ambassador, she is the and she still is, she
Speaker 1: still is, she still is. You know you mentioned that
Speaker 1: balance and treating that. You know that infinite you know,
Speaker 1: you know, equal balanced on each side in life. We
Speaker 1: know that the minute you find that balance, some other
Speaker 1: storm hits. Every time I feel like it's quiet, I'm like, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: I we had a day. I thought, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I gotta get over that. I think I got a question.
Speaker 1: Is there ever such things about because you know it's
Speaker 1: you know, the formula just keeps changing. You gotta dept
Speaker 1: trying to just continue to build my wisdom to realize
Speaker 1: that similar to the ocean, like the way. You don't
Speaker 1: stop coming, don't stop, won't stop. But you're all built
Speaker 1: for it, even though you feel yes, But it's a
Speaker 1: lesson to be learned. And everything that we see in
Speaker 1: nation even lose track. If you study the way of
Speaker 1: the end, you see how they work collective. Yes, everybody
Speaker 1: have a purpose. And Yes, Malik Books is proud to
Speaker 1: be partnering where Harper College new publication Finding Me by
Speaker 1: Viola David. You heard me, the actress Viola Davis. Or
Speaker 1: April and Evening with Viola Davis and virtual event to
Speaker 1: talk about her new book, Finding Me, a memoir about
Speaker 1: the life and career of Viola Davis. So that's April
Speaker 1: four pm Pacific time. Go to Millie books dot com
Speaker 1: the register for the event. I can find no other
Speaker 1: title more important than do a book review for this
Speaker 1: episode because I have a huge upcoming event. A special guest,
Speaker 1: a beautiful soul, a successful pop culture actress coming to
Speaker 1: Malik Books. She's smart, she's beautiful, she's inspiring, and she's raw.
Speaker 1: With this new memoir, unforgettable roller coaster ride that charts
Speaker 1: the many ups and downs both personly and professionally she's
Speaker 1: experienced in her three decades of acting career, creating her massive,
Speaker 1: famed star on the Jamie Fox Show, The Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: house Wise, and The Real I'm speaking about the talented
Speaker 1: actress Garcella Barvo her new book, Loved Me As I
Speaker 1: Am Said, to release April twelve. Loved Me As I
Speaker 1: Am brings together the voice of both the good girl
Speaker 1: and the rebel to deliver unflinching examination of her success
Speaker 1: and ongoing challenges as a mother, a wife, a daughter,
Speaker 1: a simbling and friend. Loved Me As I Am is
Speaker 1: a new holst barred look at one woman's extraordinary journey
Speaker 1: and newfound and refreshing approach to a new and more
Speaker 1: exciting life. The book has some incredible and extraordinary pictures
Speaker 1: of our Garcella growing up and throughout her acting and
Speaker 1: most successful career as an actress. These pitches are an
Speaker 1: exclusive look as a child, as an actress and mother,
Speaker 1: just reflecting her personal life as well as many celebrities
Speaker 1: that she's meant and had relationships over the career. I
Speaker 1: think one of the highlights of the book is when
Speaker 1: Garcela opens up about loving herself first, understanding who she
Speaker 1: is first, and appreciating who she is for she wrote
Speaker 1: a letter to herself acknowledging that she is enough. But
Speaker 1: along the way, something happens where you forget those things
Speaker 1: that we remember when we were young and innocent. But
Speaker 1: along the way she wants to please everybody and help everybody,
Speaker 1: and you can lose yourself in that, trying to make
Speaker 1: be somebody different in somebody, some for somebody else. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, at this moment in time, And even though
Speaker 1: it took decades and decades and most of cardselves life,
Speaker 1: she's found herself loved me as I am, not love
Speaker 1: me as someone else wants me to be. So in
Speaker 1: this Discovery There's No Holds Bar book, Garcella reveals the
Speaker 1: emotional suffering she experienced from the emotional battles between a
Speaker 1: revalous nature and her desire to be a good girl.
Speaker 1: It's not easy being a successful actress and mother in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and particularly she had a child at the beginning stages
Speaker 1: of her career and it didn't land slider, it only
Speaker 1: elevated her. And so that's a testament to women in
Speaker 1: their careers that you can have at all as well
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're not gonna have challenges and ups and
Speaker 1: downs and doubts because Garcella reveals it all into no
Speaker 1: holds book Love Me As I Am. Another gym in
Speaker 1: the book that you'll find is Garcella Jims and the
Speaker 1: one that stuck out to me was the one she
Speaker 1: said for me, friendship without intentional participations is just lips service.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something that hit me, because
Speaker 1: we all have had friends that only offered up lift
Speaker 1: service they don't participate is one sided and that's not
Speaker 1: a real friendship. As we get older, we get a
Speaker 1: little wiser hopefully, but listen to Garcella gyms give a
Speaker 1: lot of flavor to this book. I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: my book review of Love Me As I Am by Garcelle,
Speaker 1: So pick up your copy today and if you're in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. April eleven, at six thirty pm, stopped buying
Speaker 1: the League Books in the Westfield Co City Mall because
Speaker 1: we are hosting to Love Me As I Am book
Speaker 1: tour with the beautiful actress Garcella signing her new book
Speaker 1: and discussing her new book at Mileage Books, moderated by
Speaker 1: Sherry Sherpert and Christine Quinn. Thanks for listening to me
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