WEBVTT - Our Children, Our Future 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.639 My league buds has all the knowledge you want. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 My league buds has all the knowledge you need. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.079 My league Buds, yet they have out the books that 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.960 the whole wild world one up read Malague Buds. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.560 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:20.960 Bookshelf, bringing a world together with books, culture and community. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.440 Ho my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.120 WHOA wait? 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.040 This has been an explosive weekend going into my birthday 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:39.479 March fourth. As a matter of fact, I skipped last week. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:41.080 I got sick. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:42.760 But I'm back. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.919 I'm stocked and I'm loaded with great content. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.000 But let me tell you this, this week I gave 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.640 my strength. I was back at one hundred and we 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:01.000 hosted several events. One at Adam's lam Mentory, a book 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.840 fair where I went out and I was able to 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.520 talk for just a few minutes with all the students 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.320 because they was curating a Black history celebration with drummers 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.600 and dancers. So I got a chance just to introduce 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.920 malikue in myself and our book fair and what we do. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.319 So I'm going to feature that. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.240 Little two minute segment because I think that it's inspirational. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:28.920 But outside of that. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:35.640 We also hosted Black Children Book Week at Malik Books 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:42.720 and that was incredible. We brought in, I'm not gonna 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:48.120 say brought in, but we helped host in partnership with CJ. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:54.760 Charles and six other black women children authors, a event 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.960 called the Black Children Book Week at Malie Books on 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:04.560 March second, and each author did a story time as 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.640 well as a book signing, and the community. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.600 Came out and we rocked it. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:15.120 It was electric, it was explosive, it was engaging, it 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:22.680 was phenomenal. It's always a pleasure when we target the youth, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.840 the young and our children because they our voice, they 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:27.680 are our future. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.280 And I got a chance to. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.799 Do a podcast right on the spot with all seven 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:35.440 to talk about that book. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:41.160 So I want to feature that podcast in the store 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:42.840 that we took. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:48.320 We that we did while they while we hosted the 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.520 Black Children Book Week. So this was a phenomenal week. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.000 Let me tell you something. We had community. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.160 Going all week long. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.000 That you know, we had other events. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.919 We had another event that we were the book official 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.000 book represented for Anita Phillips who wrote a book called 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.800 The Garden Within. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.560 I didn't get a chance because I, hey, my wife 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:13.320 had to go over there. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:14.720 And she had to host that event. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.280 I had to host the Black Children book we at 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.160 at Malik Books at the Westfield Coover City Mall, and 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.760 my wife had to go to West Angeles to host 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.920 the book signing and be there for the Garden within 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.200 at with the Need of Philip and conversation with the 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.800 first Lady at West Angeles. And that was just on Saturday, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.400 March second. But before that, like I said, we were 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:45.280 at downtown at a hospital called Oh No, I'm Sorry, 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.080 Santa Monica at St. John's at a hospital around Wednesday 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.800 where we curated a list of books for a hospital 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.840 Black History celebration and met a lot of nurses and 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.880 doctors and we got a chance to see Lift the 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.640 Divorce and sing with They have a daycare at the 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.200 Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, so we. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.360 All sang in. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:14.840 Unity with the preschool that's at the hospital and they 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.599 call it the Taste of Soul where they offer different 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:27.480 food curations from Black history, African, Jamaican, Caribbean, American, you know. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.680 So that was really nice and that was really positive 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.520 to be able to be in that space and celebrate 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.440 our culture, you know, and that's what Black History month 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.200 is all about. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.320 Even though Black History is thrown the sixty. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.279 Five days year, it's just taking time out to give 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.920 thanks an honor to now. You know, it's more than 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.479 just talking about slavery. It's about our contributions as to 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.680 American into the world. That's what typically now what Black 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.040 history is all about. Now, it's evolved because we evolved. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.440 And no critical race theory is gonna change that stop that. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.760 We're gonna tell our stories, tell our voices, elevate our stories. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.039 You know, our children. You know, it's our future. And 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:17.760 that's what this segment or episode is all about. You know, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.480 our children. It's our future. And I went to the 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.760 school at Adams Elementary out Long Beach and we hosted 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.320 a book fair and got a chance to inspire some 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.360 of the kids cause readers are leaders and leaders are 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.960 readers right read to achieve. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.640 That's what I told them. I was a message and. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.880 Did the Black Children Book Week at Malik Boys and 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.200 also I went to Pilgrimage and it's an honor. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.960 Look, Malik has been invited to a lot of events. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.839 It getting paid to speak my. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.960 Heart, getting paid to talk about something that's near and dear. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.719 I had I got paid three different honorariums. This week. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:05:59.800 I went to. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:06.479 Elementary Downtown also on Monday, I had two speaking engages 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.599 on Monday. I went and started off on Monday, I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:17.880 believe that's the twenty seventh February, and talked about at 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.400 Pilgrim Elementary, we had this first time I've met in 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.680 person all the black bookstores in Los Angeles or surrounding, right, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.480 So they brought us in to talk about black books, 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.680 black bookstore and our resilience, and they brought all of 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.240 us together this first time. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.520 I got a chance to meet some of the owners. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:39.200 I knew of them. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.760 We follow each other occasionally we DM each other, but 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.239 in this case, I was got a chance to meet 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:55.520 Nikki from Octavia booksheved in Pasadena, Ache from Salt Eaters 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.919 in Inglewood, and Jazzy from rever Rations Club just in 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:01.640 Los Angeles. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:02.320 So we all got a. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.719 Chance to meet and talk and have a conversation with 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.720 all the students about black Books. Our Story as and 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.240 I believe that's what it was called. I did a 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:18.000 podcast on the same title, Our Story. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.120 Our Voices, That's Crazy and my last matter of fact, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.800 that was my last episode. I did Our Story, Our voices. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.960 Guess what that was the title of this particular segment. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.120 So you know, Malik do what he always do. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.680 You know, he dropped you know, his insight, you know, 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.119 my experience and so forth. And I enjoyed it talking 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.960 being in a panel me in April. We got a 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.360 chance to talk and share our story and it was 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:47.120 wonderful this first time I think me and April was 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.960 in a panel together. So I enjoyed that and along 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.040 with the other bookstore so we did that and that 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.920 was really nice, and you know, we excited the kids 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.320 and the students there. I was wonderful for wonderful, wonderful, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:07.880 And so I'm gonna drop that conversation on this segment. Yes, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.320 our children our future, right, So I'm gonna drop that one. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.320 I'm gonna drop the conversation I had with Pilgrims element 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.400 I mean, I'm sorry, Yeah, that's Pilgrim that I just 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:24.960 talked about Adams Elementary. And also this segment I did 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:31.320 with the podcast with seven black women authors for Black 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.040 Children Book Week. I'm gonna drop that segments as well, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.040 because that went down this Saturday, March Sean, but also 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.320 on March I'm sorry, fabruear twenty seventh Monday, after we 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:50.040 left Pilgrims Elements, we went to downtown to this foundation 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.320 called you know what, I allude me and I'm doing 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.520 podcast live and I don't have it in front of me, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:57.880 but it's a foundation. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:58.959 They do great work. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.559 They try to solve the homeless. They try to bring 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.280 effect endeavors in education and. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.800 Social justice and so forth. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.079 And if I'm not gonna say, it was a care 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.040 foundation downtown in Los Angeles. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.080 And so they brought us in. They have a Black 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.600 history panel, they fed us, paid us. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:26.920 I got another art aron, so but that was a 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:32.200 great panel and a great discussion about black futurism, all right, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.559 about Los Angeles Black. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.120 To the Future. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.200 That's what that was called Black to the Future, and 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.040 I want to feature that on the segment, but I'm 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.320 not sure because of the time, but so I might 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.440 say that for a latter day. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.160 But I just wanted to share. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:56.599 The community outreach in the community events that I was 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.600 blessed to be a part of that is and speak 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.160 and so that one was Black Black to the Future, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.000 and we just talked about Los Angeles now and what 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.319 we can expect in the future. And so I want 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.120 to share my thoughts and what I had to say 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.680 on that. But I don't think that I'm gonna share 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.960 that on this particular episode because of the fact that this. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.360 It might make this one too long. So let me 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.520 say that one for late Black to the Future. Let 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.559 me say that for later Black to the Future. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.760 Let me say that for later Black to the Future, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:27.840 let me say that for later. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:28.960 You know, I'm feeling good. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.079 You can feel a vibe, you can feel the energy, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.280 you can feel the soul right now. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.040 And I'm hot. I'm hot, and I'm hot. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:44.280 So thank you, thank you, and enjoy this episode, our children, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:45.880 our future. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:56.400 History in mind. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.640 Today a special tree for you guys. We have a 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.920 lead bookst bookstore up here and he's an independent after 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.120 American business and he would like to come tell you 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:12.720 about his bookstore. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:20.920 Thank you, Miss Brown. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.160 Well, well, well, we got a beautiful day to put 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.320 on a book fair, don't you, and a clack. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.960 History of it. You need to thank your school you're 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.800 organizing this. Give it them around the poor break got 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:39.720 to be here today. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:40.640 I'm the lead. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.520 This is same bro, and we are the owners of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.120 Lafe Books. So we're going to host a book fair today. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.920 Now we got two locations in Los Angeles, one in 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.079 the Bone Hills Creacial Mare and one in Coba City 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.800 Westfield Mall Westfield Cova City Mall. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.120 So we got two stores, all right, So fank you 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.520 out to our soul. But today we're gonna give you 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.880 a taste of what we gotta. 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.240 Elite books because look, as you can see right behind us, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.360 we stopped and loaded with books. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.360 Our specialty is African American and diversity of books. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.480 You know why because children are one percent of our future. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.800 You're the future leaders. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.320 Everything that these teachers do, everything that we do is 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:26.920 for you. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.959 You know why, because we got a pastor touch to you. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.600 And you know, books is a major part of your development. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.920 So that's why we do what we do with books. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.600 And we want you to see yourself. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.400 In these books so that you can love yourself in 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.000 these books. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:53.160 Because readers are leaders, and readers are readers. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.160 You got to read to achieve. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.800 I'm excited about the Black History of Bites is gonna 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.040 take place today and I just pray forul and thankful 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.280 and your school invited us to come out here and 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.160 be with you today and so want you all. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.840 To come over after the event. The Black History event. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.960 Come and see what we have in store for you. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.360 Don't bring some money too, because he's selling the books. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:27.839 All right, thank you, thank you, thank you. All right over, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.960 let's get a big record flood. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:38.920 I love the boy is strong and courageous. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.320 This was a wonderful conversation that took place at Pilgrim's 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.880 Elementary where four black independent bookstore owners were on set. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.640 Me and April with their Malik books representing and three 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.239 of the bookstores. And this is just excerts. The conversation 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:58.160 is just too long. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:58.520 The aria. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.840 I think I might air the entire conversation at another time, 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.520 but on this particular episode, I just pulled out the 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.200 excerpts when we got an opportunity to speak from the 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.240 questions that was asked. So and enjoy this conversation because 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:19.160 it's just my insight to our children, our voices. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.320 I lead books. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:35.080 I'm glad Sun was couse and last. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.880 All rights and I recalled books. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.840 The question that was asked, were any of us published 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.280 as bookstore owners? 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:02.200 UH collaborated well called The Horror Black Man, The Story 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.480 of Trying until We All Time. My chap was called 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:11.280 from delstation to Delemas and I talked about my childhood 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.960 growing up just like y'all growing up in a o 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.200 come our schools and things. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.720 They come across a long way as become Adulf. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.880 But Halloween still win regardless. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.800 Of what cards you're building back and so I'm. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.440 Very proud of eventually will have grown that chapel into 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:30.960 a full on bull. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.840 So you know I'm. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.800 Also ultimate city. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.800 All y'all gonna write is right now if y'all have 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:42.640 a sell all. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.360 I know y'all testing. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.920 All and probably all tet you all. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.600 This question is regarding what inspired me to become a 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:00.440 books story on. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:07.000 Her she took the back you saying I started reading this, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.480 you know when my journey, you know I had agree 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:15.280 with usc Black age seventh when I graduated, or one 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.040 thing I didn't have. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.560 I didn't have a knowledge of symbol. I didn't have 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:19.880 a good view of my symbol. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.840 I didn't think of myself. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.200 And all my ancestors in the positive man. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.400 That was my inspiration for open up the late books 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.200 because the books playing a difference. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.359 When I read, I began. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.720 To see a different world in a different perspect than 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.240 what I learned from college. And things today that you 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.640 might know, I didn't know my add seln when I 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.560 graduated with Let's See. So my inspiration was to give 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.640 voice or voices and to allow our voice to be heard. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.520 So I all know the books a world because. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.000 Since in nineteen ninety with the belief that if Boots 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.200 had changed my life. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.760 I feel it didn't change my community side. And anything 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.760 you want to from you fine, And it's kind of they. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.600 Got to get strolled with our stories, our voices. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.240 You know, our course matters and our stories matters. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.320 And we all have bookstores because a lot of these 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.400 schools for a long time. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.520 Wasn't in main stream boot stores. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.399 And these moved for hard and five and so we 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.840 opened up the space to provide our opportunity to talk 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.000 about our culture, my. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.640 Issue, our people get voice to the voises. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.119 And so that was my whole mission while I opened 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.440 up Believe Books in nineteen nineteen ninety. Now before that, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.280 in eighty four, so I ran an olympicated strong Olympia. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.159 I ran the nineteen eighty four of them games and 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:43.560 collegself and I ran. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:44.960 In one hundred minutes two hundred mine. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.840 I also was a mortgage and saw so I helped 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.440 people by a real estate because. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.640 It's home to the babies, investment that you will find 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.840 it you wanna play most most of y'all in the body, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.200 but a medal pars and that's why need That's what 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:05.080 team won. And as a result, he showed me something 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:10.359 to question. And so just like I told you, he 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:11.840 went to that's what I looked at. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.560 That support and I've got four hundred dollars on the 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.360 boots because I didn't know things yet. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:19.840 I had to begreefing for college. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.800 So everything you find in school you still learn your 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.520 own and Bootsto is a place you can go and 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.200 learn whatever you want to know and whatever you want 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:30.600 to be you find in a bull. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.359 Now I'm gonna passed this night to my wife because 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.920 anything you want to do is run by the soccer 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.960 fights and all of us laying soccrifics do what we do. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.240 And it hasn't been always a time and ourtunity where 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:52.760 in our communities which are undeserved, our people would just 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.960 walked out with Paige not Lisp. But it didn't discourage 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.720 us from making a difference. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.880 And still here every day I was there. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.479 There's nobody being in that story that time and because 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.360 what night issue is a wow all. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.399 This is something you'll find out that along. But whatever 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.760 you do in life and when you finds a sacrifice, nothing. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:15.959 Is done in an issue. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.520 Nothing is game or at night. You going to score 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.359 from the time you five to your eighteen, and then 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.240 you gotta design if you wanna go, compete and continue 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.760 your education. If you're not going to get sweet, you 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.159 wanna go unless. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:29.960 You make sicri fights. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.399 Lets you work hard, lets you study. Let's for me 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.520 you can be read to achieve. But I don't want 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.280 let me quite tell you about her sacrifice. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.320 How does do this talk about these sacrifice in your career. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.680 I'm a nurse fighter, and I see him have and 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.880 treating you that. I said, Wow, you get up every 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.480 day and nobody's coming to the store. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.800 I get up every day and work so hard. 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.560 Her and everybody's there because they have no choice to 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.480 be there. So I said to myself, well, during the pandemic, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.080 I said, you know, I'm going to work to say 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.280 that anyone else, but I'm coming home almost destroying my 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.879 own family because of the pandemic. So I told my husband, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.920 I said, i'm'a make a sacrifice and i'm'a go calling 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.320 you blindly with this book store. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.600 And I'm so grateful today that I. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:25.760 That I done that, and because we have two small 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.720 children that see me sacrifice a career that's not easy 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:37.280 to achieve, but I sacrifice that I'd loved and loved 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.480 blindly for him and my daughter during the pandemic. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.040 She's a reader, and she's a a visual reader. She 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.200 I see her. She sits at her desk or wherever 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.400 she has a book. Wherever she goes, she has a book. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.879 She's smiling and doing things. I'm like, Jordan, what are 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:54.240 you doing? 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.320 She said, I'm reading, And she could tell me what 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.800 she is reading and I can see it. So I said, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:05.280 I have to do something so independent that you've read 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.560 seventy books. Seventy books, and I said, this is amazing. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:10.360 This is what I'm supposed to be doing. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.440 So with that sacrifice, I did leave. 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.680 Nursing and I have been doing this ever since. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.520 So that is a great, big sacrifice. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:27.760 So Ever, so you're really to hear her how books 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:28.520 are really. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.040 At the center of her knowledge. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.960 And if you all take anything from this animal today 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.320 read re me, you're able to enter into a wholy 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.080 world with the morelos. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:43.640 Stevy read Oh Okay. This question is specifically for Lead 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:45.440 in April of Leading. 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.800 Books, and it says, you see, you didn't consider yourselves 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.520 to be both actress. 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:55.240 What legend to decide to use books specifically as a form. 0:21:55.040 --> 0:22:01.080 Of action or something. Yeah, I feel that her move happeness. 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.840 And it's because being in this business for like thirty years, 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:10.800 I've watched she was no age wrong become adults. I've 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.000 watched people my age when I started to come to 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.480 see the citizens and they they come back to. 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:23.240 The store, they cry, they tell us same you they. 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:25.600 Catch the only os without answering this store. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:31.080 And I realized empime over these thirty years and will 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:35.600 submaying and lot and how it encouraged them in many 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.320 different ways, inspired them and motivating them by through. 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.439 Reading the Bull and be happy to just be an 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:45.280 issue and being in position to be on the open 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:47.919 and they'll come in and then offer that. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.320 Space for them to see because we. 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.840 Talk about characters in books and one of the those 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.760 support ways of the Bull is to see yourself because 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.800 the birth lady a little more the it's sure and 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:02.280 when you don't see yourself, you saw fifteen pieces and 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:03.919 I is a boiler. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.959 How you do yourself as impoil, how you see yourself 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:07.640 as ampoiler? 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:11.359 And books you can see yourself. You can read about 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:13.320 yourself and you can beat yourself. 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.080 But the most important thing. 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.200 When you read a food is that you gotta find 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:23.040 love for yourself. And that straying poie because in our 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:25.040 comunity sometimes we've noted. 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.359 That because we don't see representations, we don't see ourselves. 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.879