Speaker 1: Yeah, my League Bus has how the knowledge you wanted.
Speaker 1: My league but has how the knowledge you need my
Speaker 1: League buds. Yeah, they have out the works that the
Speaker 1: whole wild world want to read. My League Bus books
Speaker 1: has been my passion for over thirty years. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to some of the customers in the community.
Speaker 1: They have supported me and have a love for books.
Speaker 1: Today I had the pleasure of speaking with one of
Speaker 1: my long term supporters and patriots and was able to
Speaker 1: answer them a few questions. I'm a long time support
Speaker 1: of my league book Telledge because I met this brother
Speaker 1: years ago, and when I met him, he was such
Speaker 1: an inspiration to me, and that wisdom and the guiden
Speaker 1: that he gave me through the books that he has
Speaker 1: in his bookstore opened up my eyes through a totally
Speaker 1: new way of life to where my consciousness it's at
Speaker 1: this such a high level that I watched, I walked
Speaker 1: such a life of total peace because of this brother
Speaker 1: right here. He was my first teacher and that brought
Speaker 1: me into the way of God that I am walking.
Speaker 1: I love him. I thank him so much. I thank
Speaker 1: God for his bookstory. It is such an inspiration. I
Speaker 1: remember back in the day when even the bus stops,
Speaker 1: at the bookstore right in from the bus stops. And
Speaker 1: at the bus stops, the bus drivers, you said, open
Speaker 1: up their doors. Just that here. But the brother was
Speaker 1: playing on his speakers just to wake up the community.
Speaker 1: He always had books of consciousness. He was never about
Speaker 1: bringing them books into his story. That was not about
Speaker 1: feeding and cultivating the mind of our people. This brother
Speaker 1: is a pioneer in our community. Brother Malite Mohammed's I
Speaker 1: love him piece. One more question, brother, how has books
Speaker 1: changed your life? Oh? Man? Well, one of the prophets
Speaker 1: has said, you know, read reading the name of your Lord,
Speaker 1: who creates. So it is through reading that you gain knowledge.
Speaker 1: So reading open up your mind to so many things, man,
Speaker 1: that it uh, it exposes you to a whole new
Speaker 1: world that uh media um in newspapers just won't you know,
Speaker 1: expose you too. So you find a lot of books.
Speaker 1: And there's also a scripture in the Bible that says,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, my people are destroyed for the lack
Speaker 1: of knowledge because they reject knowledge. So therefore knowledge is
Speaker 1: in the books, and it is through knowledge you're reading
Speaker 1: that you're elevated. So that's what that for books done
Speaker 1: for me. I love books. I can't even I can't
Speaker 1: get enough books I have at my I'm a barber,
Speaker 1: and where I work, I have tons of books even
Speaker 1: in my work station, you know, because I love to
Speaker 1: take time out to read, even on my spare time.
Speaker 1: Because of this brother. Thank you, This brother, like you said,
Speaker 1: he had lots of books. That is it's Barbara Shop.
Speaker 1: He's called to teach you, Barbara. Everybody normal. You're sit
Speaker 1: in this chair. He's gonna teach. He's gonna elevate, he's
Speaker 1: gonna help you see a different day. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: let you be a victim. He's gonna let you look
Speaker 1: into yourself and change your life. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a subject matter called words matter. Words matter. Why
Speaker 1: the words matter? Because words have meaning. Words form conversations,
Speaker 1: words form communications, words form books. I once saw a
Speaker 1: movie and the architect of the movie invented a windshield wiper.
Speaker 1: The meaning behind the movie was that he was an
Speaker 1: inventor and the big corporation stole his inventions. Um all
Speaker 1: too often all to common. Uh. In the history of America,
Speaker 1: we find stories like this with a small inventor king
Speaker 1: had a great idea. He was sitting in his car.
Speaker 1: The rain was storming. No one had a windshell wiper,
Speaker 1: and he thought about blinking. What if the car had
Speaker 1: a something could blink and wipe off the rain. At
Speaker 1: that time and the believe it's the fifties or the sixties,
Speaker 1: UH cars didn't have a windshell wiper. And it's like
Speaker 1: your ie lid, you know, you blink and e motions
Speaker 1: your eye. In this case, the blink is the going
Speaker 1: to remove the moisture the water. So he had this
Speaker 1: wonderful idea. He created the windshield UM he was ready
Speaker 1: to produce for a major auto manufacturer. It didn't work out.
Speaker 1: They took his invention, they mass producing put it on
Speaker 1: all their cars. Then all the other carmakers did it,
Speaker 1: and eventually it took him about a decade where he
Speaker 1: sued and had a lawsuit, and eventually UH ultimately one
Speaker 1: and they settled and they paid a lot of money,
Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions of dollars. But the point
Speaker 1: here is about words, and he defended himself in the trial.
Speaker 1: He defended himself. He was the attorney as well as
Speaker 1: the witness, and he successfully defeated the major Automo mobile
Speaker 1: industry leaders and let me tell you what he did.
Speaker 1: Was one of the points when I'm about to say
Speaker 1: about words and how words matter, is the fact that
Speaker 1: this guy, you know, he didn't invent words. None of
Speaker 1: us invent words. But if you arrange these words in
Speaker 1: a certain way, because you can't try trademark the or
Speaker 1: a or words that we just are simple words that
Speaker 1: we use every day in our vocabulary. But if you
Speaker 1: take these words and you arrange them in a way
Speaker 1: that's different than everyone else, then that's your intellectual property,
Speaker 1: that's your copyright, that's your trademark. And that's what he
Speaker 1: pointed out. That's what he pointed out when he was
Speaker 1: on on the trial on the bench, and he told
Speaker 1: Ford and all the big automobile companies, he said, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I didn't come up with the transistor.
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with all the different engineering parts.
Speaker 1: They were already here. But what I did do was
Speaker 1: put them in a certain way and created my intermediate
Speaker 1: wish your wipers. And that was my invention, and that
Speaker 1: was my contribution, and that's what I brought to the world.
Speaker 1: And someone else came along because they had more money
Speaker 1: and a big team of lawyers and they stole it,
Speaker 1: and then they wanted me to get credit for what
Speaker 1: I invented. And see that's my point. You take words
Speaker 1: and you can arrange them in your way. That's your art,
Speaker 1: that's your literacy, that's your masterpiece. But words matter. When
Speaker 1: I was growing up, it was a nursing round. You
Speaker 1: gotta be careful with these nursery rhynds because they filled
Speaker 1: with words that can be destroy them. Sticks and stones
Speaker 1: may break my bones and words will never hurt me.
Speaker 1: It was a devastating nursery rhyme. In this nursery rhyme,
Speaker 1: I don't I wasn't invented it. Maybe they wasn't aware
Speaker 1: at the time how powerful words are. There are people
Speaker 1: who suffer from trauma, from emotional harm, emotional hurt, and
Speaker 1: just thinking about something that happened to them and they
Speaker 1: feel it like a bat hit them. They feel it
Speaker 1: like somebody punched them, They feel it like they fell
Speaker 1: off a cliff. You know, the state of mind. A
Speaker 1: lot and go on in the state of mind, particularly
Speaker 1: when you think something is real and it exists in
Speaker 1: your mind. So if you bite on words that are
Speaker 1: destructive and hurtful and harmful, and you have low self
Speaker 1: esteem and you view of yourself is very harmful to yourself.
Speaker 1: Then that mindset can make that reality true in your
Speaker 1: mind and you can feel what's not reality, you can
Speaker 1: feel it as though it exists. So you know, we
Speaker 1: have to be careful because words matter, words matter. We
Speaker 1: should never see that's the nursery rhindi kids. We should never, never,
Speaker 1: never advocate that nursery rhyme. It shouldn't be said again.
Speaker 1: It should be decommissioned, decommission because words matter. Words matter.
Speaker 1: A lot of kids suffered growing up and listening to
Speaker 1: that nursery rhyme and never never thought the words could
Speaker 1: feel so hurtful and so harmful. You know, when you
Speaker 1: tell a person you ain't gonna be nothing, you ain't
Speaker 1: going nowhere, you ain't gonna do nothing. That's devastating to
Speaker 1: a child, that's devastating to an adult. The physical reality
Speaker 1: is one thing, but the spiritual and the mental is another.
Speaker 1: And these invisible words that sometimes people taught that words
Speaker 1: never would never hurt what they do they do. That
Speaker 1: universe exists and it can exist in our mind. So
Speaker 1: words matter, So words matter, eliminate that childhood nurse to rhyme.
Speaker 1: Don't ever see that one again and teach their words matter.
Speaker 1: To be careful about the words that you use because
Speaker 1: they can be destructive and hurtful and harmful. This is
Speaker 1: why words matter, because words have energy, words have forced
Speaker 1: words create growth or words can tell you down. And
Speaker 1: it's very important that you choose your words wisely because
Speaker 1: the ultimate aim with words is too create, is to evolved,
Speaker 1: it's too develop a masterpiece. You know, you set a
Speaker 1: goal in mind and an objective of mind. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta put the words in place in order to
Speaker 1: achieve the objective and the goal. So words matter. Words matter,
Speaker 1: and words that's what make up books. And books have
Speaker 1: been around since writing, and we hand down some of
Speaker 1: the best of our best in books so that people
Speaker 1: can learn from the success and failures of those who
Speaker 1: came before you. We many of us are inspired by
Speaker 1: the words of others. Many us draw inspiration from the
Speaker 1: words from others. Words matter. Words can either build you
Speaker 1: up or words can tell you down. But don't ever
Speaker 1: believe words can't hurt. And we should never say that nursery, rhyme,
Speaker 1: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words won't
Speaker 1: hurt me. When words can kill you, words can destroy you.
Speaker 1: So be careful about the words you use because it
Speaker 1: can turn down or the words can lift up. But
Speaker 1: we need to be clear their words matter. Words matter.
Speaker 1: You know, in society, um everyone has their tribe, everyone
Speaker 1: has their community, everyone has their group or their gang.
Speaker 1: In certain words affect these groups differently. But we have
Speaker 1: to be mindful of these types of words because words matter.
Speaker 1: So choose your words carefully. And when you decide to
Speaker 1: sit down and become a writer, take that in consideration.
Speaker 1: When you become a writer, when you want to create
Speaker 1: that masterpiece, when you will him become a literary artists,
Speaker 1: when you want to write a story, choose your words carefully,
Speaker 1: target your audience carefully because words matter. Words matter, whether
Speaker 1: we're speaking, whether we're writing, they matter. And our children,
Speaker 1: it is very important that when we're speaking to our
Speaker 1: children that we lift them up with positive words and
Speaker 1: we don't turn them down. Don't believe, don't ever believe.
Speaker 1: Their words are not hurtful and destructive because they have energy,
Speaker 1: they have these words have power. They're unseen. But that
Speaker 1: vibration and that sound either gonna make you feel good
Speaker 1: either it's gonna make you cry or it's gonna make
Speaker 1: you laugh. So it's important that we understand how words matter.
Speaker 1: My book review for this week is a book that
Speaker 1: came out as a result of a podcast. These two
Speaker 1: iconic figures had a podcast called Renegades Born in the USA,
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama, the former President of the
Speaker 1: United States of America. The name of the book Rene Gates.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's an illuminating book. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great book for the holidays as well. It's
Speaker 1: a coffee table book filled with a lot of pictures
Speaker 1: never before seen. It depicts the conversations that former President
Speaker 1: of Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen had on the podcast
Speaker 1: and the book Rene Gates. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 1: talk about that masculinity. They talk about them being husbands,
Speaker 1: talk about them being family men, and talk about their
Speaker 1: profession which both have achieved the normal success in this world,
Speaker 1: one being the former president of the United States and
Speaker 1: one being a iconic international musician. You know, greatness. One
Speaker 1: thing I know personally is that in greatness it's a
Speaker 1: common thread, hard work. I can't simplify that enough. Dedication,
Speaker 1: stick towardness, belief. Renegade is a very colorful picture book
Speaker 1: filled with many pictures of Barack Obama and Bruce springs
Speaker 1: Stein as children, as teens, and as adults. You love
Speaker 1: these pictures that filled with a lot of life. They
Speaker 1: filled with the success that they've had over their careers,
Speaker 1: and some of their writings, some of their conversations they
Speaker 1: had on the podcast. It's just filled with a lot
Speaker 1: of insight to two icons that you can get to
Speaker 1: a little closer and a little better. A lot of
Speaker 1: common denominators between the two. One of them is that
Speaker 1: they love America and they devoted their life to lift
Speaker 1: up America. So they talk about a lot of things
Speaker 1: that they just have in common. In this book illustrates
Speaker 1: that in pictures and in the conversations, and it's put
Speaker 1: together very well. You know, it's divided into different section
Speaker 1: as it gives and it gives you a different look
Speaker 1: into both. So bring Renegades into your home. It's a
Speaker 1: great addition to your coffee table and a great conversation
Speaker 1: piece as you sit around the table and you talk
Speaker 1: about icons that have transformed the world. Thanks for listening
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