Speaker 1: My Leaky Boods has how the knowledge you want? My
Speaker 1: l has how the knowledge you needed? B Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have all the works said the whole wild world want
Speaker 1: to read My Leaky Boods. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshow,
Speaker 1: bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Malik, your host a Malik's Book Show. Well,
Speaker 1: we on episode thirty two. I lost my voice, but
Speaker 1: I got enough back to produce this podcast. Today We're
Speaker 1: gonna be discussing a very important word called hope. I'm
Speaker 1: going to the streets. I'm gonna talk to the community
Speaker 1: about their definition and meaning and how they apply hope.
Speaker 1: I also have my thoughts on the word hope and
Speaker 1: how in what it means to me. Now I also
Speaker 1: have a book review and the book review is on
Speaker 1: Sister Mother Warrior by author Vanessa Rally is Slave. The
Speaker 1: come out this upcoming Tuesday. So enjoy episode thirty two
Speaker 1: called Hope. I wasn't sure I was going to be
Speaker 1: able to do a podcast for this week because I
Speaker 1: lost my voice. Came out of nowhere. Never had that
Speaker 1: happened before. Now I've I've had a situation I remember
Speaker 1: years ago where I couldn't speak only because I had
Speaker 1: anxiety for briefly, but then once I calmed down, then
Speaker 1: I was able to words were able to come forth.
Speaker 1: But that was more of an anxiety shock type of thing,
Speaker 1: and it was brief this case. You know, it was
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon and I noticed my voice started changing, and
Speaker 1: then by Saturday, I completely lost my voice. This has
Speaker 1: never happened before in my life. Now my voice is
Speaker 1: not all the way on it, but I'm able to
Speaker 1: speak now. It was very challenging back back a few
Speaker 1: days ago. So I'm able to do my podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: able to push through and try to produce this episode,
Speaker 1: and I can think of no other subject matter, because
Speaker 1: you know, it was just I had a lot of
Speaker 1: expectation about a lot of different things. But it was
Speaker 1: a lot of things that I can't control. I can
Speaker 1: only control what I can control, but things I can't control,
Speaker 1: I really wanted, you know, to rely on what I
Speaker 1: call hope. You know. My expectation was that I hoped
Speaker 1: for these things to come to pass. I had expectations
Speaker 1: that I wanted to come forth. So I thought my
Speaker 1: episode should be on the world Hope because I think
Speaker 1: everyone or at least. Most people ain't gonna say everyone,
Speaker 1: but most people, I think you know, have some measurable
Speaker 1: hope in their life because it's a feeling of expectation
Speaker 1: and a desire for a certain thing to happen. It's
Speaker 1: also a person or thing that may may help or
Speaker 1: save someone grounds for believing that something good may happen.
Speaker 1: And it's also a feeling of trust, but a feeling
Speaker 1: of expectation desire for certain things that happened. That's really thinking.
Speaker 1: A lot of people to your strength on such a
Speaker 1: word like hope, and they have these feelings of expectation.
Speaker 1: Now that's a noun, and hope can also be a
Speaker 1: verb because you're looking for something to happen. You know
Speaker 1: verbs of action. So I'm looking for the action hope.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping, and I got expectations and a desire for
Speaker 1: something needs to come the past and and there's some
Speaker 1: things that I just cannot control. And we all if you,
Speaker 1: if you, if you live long enough, evolve long enough,
Speaker 1: grow long enough, then you know that you can't control
Speaker 1: everything and that there are times when there's just things
Speaker 1: out of your control. And we can hope, we can pray.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I'm just hoping for these high
Speaker 1: expectations because, um, it's just you know a lot of
Speaker 1: different things that are taking place and are happening and aspiring,
Speaker 1: aspiring and cascading on top of each other, you know. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I was just sitting here and saying, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do episode on the
Speaker 1: world Hope because I think this is something that you know,
Speaker 1: most people can relate to. And you know, I decided
Speaker 1: to go to the streets. I decided to interview various
Speaker 1: people and asked them their thoughts and would hope means them? Also,
Speaker 1: you know, have my thoughts on hope as part of
Speaker 1: this podcast that's going to be the name. Just you know,
Speaker 1: this episode thirty two is Hope, and so I want
Speaker 1: you to sit back, relax and enjoy this episode. Um.
Speaker 1: I would like to say this is that when my children,
Speaker 1: when I first had children, I had a lot of
Speaker 1: expect a lot of hope. I want them to go
Speaker 1: to college, I want them to graduate. I want them
Speaker 1: to make the NFL. I want them to make millions
Speaker 1: of dollars. You know, you know this is the typical
Speaker 1: thing I want them to sell on them to be,
Speaker 1: you know, as great as they possibly in. You know,
Speaker 1: I had those kind of expectations, and which is hope.
Speaker 1: You know. Then some of those things come to past,
Speaker 1: yes some of them didn't. But I put these just
Speaker 1: projection of hope out, you know, on my children when
Speaker 1: they were born. And you know, I have five. I
Speaker 1: have five kids, five children and two are still teams.
Speaker 1: Three adults and so far. Um. I got to college graduates,
Speaker 1: and it was always my desire even if you become
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like this, you know, get the
Speaker 1: highest education as possible and use it to do whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you want to do. If you want
Speaker 1: to be entrepreneur, if you want to be electrician, if
Speaker 1: you want to work in corporate America, if you want
Speaker 1: to you know, work in Hollywood, or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do in sports or whatever. Still get that paper,
Speaker 1: you know, get that paper. This is a world of expectation,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a world of high expectation. So, um,
Speaker 1: when you live long enough, I'm pretty sure you're gonna
Speaker 1: throw out a lot of different expectations and desires. And
Speaker 1: you hope for a lot. You hope for a lot,
Speaker 1: and I think that you know what I wish for
Speaker 1: and hope for. Um, it's a world that is able
Speaker 1: to work together and be in harmony with each other.
Speaker 1: Because life is balanced life. You know, everything, ain't it,
Speaker 1: you know, in life ain't don't get along everything in life,
Speaker 1: you know, because friction, what I'm saying is fuses things together.
Speaker 1: Friction fuses things together. So you gotta have that. You
Speaker 1: gotta have opposition, you know, and that's sometimes how you
Speaker 1: know each other, you know. But the reality is that, um, um,
Speaker 1: we can't hope for a world that p people are
Speaker 1: able to work together and being in harmony and peaceful together.
Speaker 1: You know, always look at you know, I grew up
Speaker 1: and I watched a lot of animal channels. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of animal channels. And what I noticed is
Speaker 1: that you got all these different animals. You got all
Speaker 1: these you know, that the zabras, the lions, the you know,
Speaker 1: the giraffes, the elephants, and I mean just they and
Speaker 1: they moved together thousands of miles from one one source
Speaker 1: of water to the next. But they moved together. But
Speaker 1: yet they all have their little communities. They all have
Speaker 1: their different families and communities in areas, right, But yet
Speaker 1: you know, they moving together and the goal is to
Speaker 1: get to the water. So sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the predators got to eat, so
Speaker 1: someone getting knocked off along the way. But they all
Speaker 1: still moving together. So we gotta be realistic. I mean,
Speaker 1: we gotta be realistic. You know, everything ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: peaches and cream. There's gonna be some friction, all right,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean we can't be in harmony. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we can't move as one and fulfill the objective.
Speaker 1: In the case of the animals, it was the water.
Speaker 1: In case of life, its prosperity is peace, is financial independence,
Speaker 1: its homes, its friends. You know, it's all of these things,
Speaker 1: you know, food, shelter, clothing, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: obtain the necessities and desires and wants of life after
Speaker 1: you get your needs, because your needs come first. So anyway,
Speaker 1: this particular episodes call hope, I hope you enjoy. I
Speaker 1: just rolled up on a couple of most sisters, and
Speaker 1: I want to get there understanding the meaning and definition
Speaker 1: of hope and what it means to them. How you doing,
Speaker 1: young ladies, are good, good, good good. So tell me
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the word hope and what it means
Speaker 1: to you and how you understand it? Um, Well, thoughts
Speaker 1: on hope? I I understand hope to mean or to
Speaker 1: be an expression of no matter what's going on, it
Speaker 1: can always get better. And UM, as long as you
Speaker 1: do what you need to do to make it better,
Speaker 1: it will get better. UM. Hope is that element that
Speaker 1: keeps us positive when we're going through you know, turbulent times,
Speaker 1: because everybody goes through struggle. Everybody's got some issues, every
Speaker 1: eybody's got some stuff. But hope is that spark that
Speaker 1: makes it all okay. Hope is that element that helps
Speaker 1: us to see the light at the end of the tunnel, trusting,
Speaker 1: knowing that no matter what it looks like, feels like,
Speaker 1: tastes like, it's gonna get better. So hope is that
Speaker 1: the wind beneath the wings of a better day. What's
Speaker 1: your thoughts on person loses faith and hope? Um. The
Speaker 1: person that loses faith and hope is um for lack
Speaker 1: of a better expression, someone who um is uh just
Speaker 1: in a bad way because UM, as I said, everybody
Speaker 1: goes through something. We all have bad times, we all
Speaker 1: have hard times, we all have troubled times. But it's
Speaker 1: it's hope that gets us through that. So without hope,
Speaker 1: you know, you're in despair, and that's a bad and
Speaker 1: terrible place to be in my opinion, um, because that
Speaker 1: makes you hope less. So without hope, you know, without hope,
Speaker 1: you know there's no positive vision for your future. But
Speaker 1: as long as you stay hopeful, you know there will
Speaker 1: always be a brighter day. I was looking back there
Speaker 1: for one of your bags that featured, um, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite poets my um yeah yeah, and it said
Speaker 1: you know and still I rise. So you know that
Speaker 1: that's a testament of hope. It doesn't matter, you know
Speaker 1: where you are right here, right now, doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: you start. What matters is how you finish. And if
Speaker 1: you're hopeful you're finished will be positive, strong, and you
Speaker 1: will be successful, victorious, empowered and powerful. Hello. Hello, I
Speaker 1: ain't leaving you out myself. I'm coming straight tell you
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think Yeah, I think that having
Speaker 1: hope is important and it's a it's positivity and um yeah,
Speaker 1: feeling like there's something better than the situation that you're
Speaker 1: in now and just being hopeful for something, just knowing
Speaker 1: it's like having faith and hope intertwined like knowing something
Speaker 1: positive is coming, knowing something better it's coming, but just
Speaker 1: holding on, Yeah, and just holding on because people can
Speaker 1: get down in the rut and a lot of things
Speaker 1: are happening and moving fast, a lot of things in
Speaker 1: this world that we can't control. And you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta hope for a better day. You gotta hope
Speaker 1: for you know, better tomorrow. Um, it's the best you've
Speaker 1: got to offer, then the best death can be offered
Speaker 1: to you. It's hope, and it's not much, but it's
Speaker 1: something that is tied to your objective, your goals and
Speaker 1: how you see you know your world. You know, if
Speaker 1: if if you if if you know you come up
Speaker 1: with an idea and then you got to manifest that idea,
Speaker 1: the manifestation you gotta you gotta believe that it's gonna
Speaker 1: come true and believe that one day the vision and
Speaker 1: the goals that you set forth it's gonna become a reality.
Speaker 1: And hope. You know, that's you know, the things that
Speaker 1: you can't control, that part you can do. But the
Speaker 1: things that you cannot control, I can't control the sun
Speaker 1: gonna come out, the wind, the forces that sometimes we
Speaker 1: have to deal with every day. I can't control those things,
Speaker 1: but I'm hoping that those things change. I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: the day come their things are better. And then control
Speaker 1: your level of hope. You can control the decision to
Speaker 1: stay hopeful in the faith of all of that. You
Speaker 1: can control that, absolutely I can. And but the forces
Speaker 1: that are out there that we cannot control, then that's
Speaker 1: with prayer. That's where you know the hopefulness coming at hand.
Speaker 1: You know, UM, you know you you know I sometimes
Speaker 1: when I think the most extreme part of hope is
Speaker 1: when you know, when we were enslaved and we hope
Speaker 1: for a better day and we you know, someone's running
Speaker 1: off the plantation and some of us, um tried to
Speaker 1: free ourselves. They were looking for a better tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: they believe, They prayed, they dream, they plotted, and they hoped.
Speaker 1: The hope and the dream of the slave. You know
Speaker 1: what we are it we are their hope manifested. You know,
Speaker 1: we are their dreams manifested. That's the responsibility to stay
Speaker 1: hopeful for future generations. Right. Yeah, the third wind didn't
Speaker 1: walked in Mama's daughter. So I got to interview you.
Speaker 1: I gotta get your thoughts on hope. I gotta get
Speaker 1: your you know what it means to you, and you know,
Speaker 1: you look very young and you got a bright future.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure everything the mom's did was to you know,
Speaker 1: to set you up to wind, set you up to
Speaker 1: be great, and I'm sure she taught you to love
Speaker 1: yourself and so forth. But here I want to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the word hope and what it means
Speaker 1: to you and how do you incorporate it in your life? Um.
Speaker 1: To me, hope is just waking up every day with
Speaker 1: a sense of expectancy for good things and blessings to
Speaker 1: come your way, even when you're filling down, just knowing
Speaker 1: that you can, you know, trust that God will put
Speaker 1: better opportunities in front of you or have better days
Speaker 1: ahead even when you can't see the full plan. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think hope and faith are like really linked
Speaker 1: because hope can come and go, but if your faith
Speaker 1: is unwavering, then you always kind of have a good
Speaker 1: foundation a positivity. Did Mama teach you that? Yeah? My daughter,
Speaker 1: well said, well said, thank you? Yeah? And so what's um,
Speaker 1: what are you hopeful in the future? Actually, I feel
Speaker 1: like the word hope is not but I feel like
Speaker 1: I prefer to speak things into existence as as I
Speaker 1: feel like already was. So UM, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: manifesting positivity and success in terms of my professional career UM,
Speaker 1: my business UM, and my personal relationships and just like
Speaker 1: personal growth in different avenues. So I think, um, hope
Speaker 1: has to come with actions. So and you speak into
Speaker 1: a distance and you believing that it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So I would like to say I would like to
Speaker 1: manifest that. I think that's well said. I appreciate your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be queuing this up for me Leak's book show,
Speaker 1: bringing a World Together with Books, Culture and Communities, coming
Speaker 1: out this Monday. Now go to my website maleak books
Speaker 1: dot com and the first thing that pops up is
Speaker 1: the link to Leek's book show. Now, I just spoke
Speaker 1: to about five women from a podcast about the word hope.
Speaker 1: But I got my young brother here who's been a
Speaker 1: very very long time supporter and nothing but positive energy. Brother,
Speaker 1: I got to ask you your thoughts on the word
Speaker 1: hope and what it means and how it should play
Speaker 1: a part, if any, in your life. Well, that's that's
Speaker 1: a that's an incredible question. There Um, hope. It is
Speaker 1: a necessity, right, because we have to keep the hope alive. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a motivation, right to keep us uh going, we
Speaker 1: have to weather the storm. Um. Wow, it's uh that's
Speaker 1: an incredible question, sir. I that's what I have for now.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I think you hit it on the
Speaker 1: money on you know, it's a necessity and it's something
Speaker 1: that you know, the things we can control, I always say,
Speaker 1: and then there are things that we don't control. And
Speaker 1: then the things that we don't control, that's when sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta have prayer, you gotta have faith, you gotta
Speaker 1: have hope. Hope. It's oxygen without hope, that people will
Speaker 1: perish m hm. Hope gives you energy to move forward
Speaker 1: and to keep on pressing on to make yourself better
Speaker 1: and improvement every day. So you wake up in the
Speaker 1: morning with hope that you're going to have a better day,
Speaker 1: a fresh day, a new day, that you can see
Speaker 1: things in a better light. So, yes, hope, that's hope.
Speaker 1: You need it. It's it's part. It's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the Leak's book, you pod, that's what this is all about.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm in the streets and I got a
Speaker 1: couple of young ladies right here. I'm want to ask
Speaker 1: them about the meaning of hope. I'm putting them on
Speaker 1: the spot. I just want to come from the heart.
Speaker 1: Just tell me what's your meaning of hope and what
Speaker 1: it means to you in your life. Okay, So the
Speaker 1: mean of hope to me means since I am in
Speaker 1: the book story uh, our community coming together, um and
Speaker 1: understanding that our children are really our future. And at
Speaker 1: this point we need to come together to make so
Speaker 1: sure that school it's priority. Um. That not only when
Speaker 1: you see a child walking and you know they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be in school, that you stop and say something
Speaker 1: that you acknowledge, like I am here for you. I
Speaker 1: do not know you, but you are our children, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're losing. And I'm hoping that we come
Speaker 1: together to mode these children into being successful and and
Speaker 1: move on with life, because at this point, if we don't,
Speaker 1: we are really failing our children. You said something significant
Speaker 1: about the future of our kids, you know here Malik's books.
Speaker 1: One our want of our slogans or missions to say
Speaker 1: we believe children are our future. So we emphasize you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of kids, both a lot of children both.
Speaker 1: Why because we want to create self esteem, self awareness,
Speaker 1: love himselves because that's tied to success. So when you
Speaker 1: mentioned about you know, our young and our you, then
Speaker 1: you know that you know, it is what maleak books
Speaker 1: mission is all about. Now, I see you have your
Speaker 1: daughter here, she kind of scooting away. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: her though, Come on over here with my sister. I
Speaker 1: need to get your meeting the hope. I just understand
Speaker 1: you just were graduated with school, Carson High School, Carson
Speaker 1: High School. You go to college. Alright, alright, that's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. I imagine that mom had hoped that one
Speaker 1: day you will graduate from college. Yea, hello, we first
Speaker 1: year to get through high school. So tell me you
Speaker 1: know you're young, I've been coming. What does hope mean
Speaker 1: to you? Um? Hope. It has a lot of definitions. Um,
Speaker 1: just hope right now for me is hoping that you know,
Speaker 1: I get good grades in college and I'm able to
Speaker 1: be successful. Um, you know, get my doctor degree later
Speaker 1: on in life. But you know, just hope is like
Speaker 1: hoping that throughout time that everything would come together. You know,
Speaker 1: you said something here, you said, I'm hoping to get
Speaker 1: good grades. Some things we can control some things we
Speaker 1: can't control. You can control them grades. Now, we don't
Speaker 1: need hope for your grades because you can control that.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things in this world that
Speaker 1: we we don't can't control, and we hope that's what
Speaker 1: your mom was speaking to. This change gonna come, you know,
Speaker 1: Sam cook song, so that you can control, you know,
Speaker 1: even if you got to spend extra hours to study
Speaker 1: to become what you want to be, you can control that,
Speaker 1: you know, mostly you know. I mean I went to college.
Speaker 1: I had a professor and when the final grades came out,
Speaker 1: the grades, um, he had me down as a C. Well,
Speaker 1: I did my own calculations, and my calculation said I
Speaker 1: should had up being in this class. So I had
Speaker 1: a one on one meeting when he was a former FBI.
Speaker 1: Um I was it was criminal justice. He was a
Speaker 1: former a former FBI and he's a professor and we
Speaker 1: went down through the grades. He saw the calculations. It
Speaker 1: came out of B and he said told me, I'm
Speaker 1: still not changing your grade. That's what you're gonna be
Speaker 1: dealing with the things you can't control. So when you
Speaker 1: think about that story I just shared with you, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be too much because it's like I can't do
Speaker 1: nothing because that's the professor. But it's like that's like
Speaker 1: I could appeal. I could have one took it. How
Speaker 1: I didn't. There's there's still channels because there's still got
Speaker 1: uh steps. You can appeal outside of him, but I
Speaker 1: didn't do that, you know. But there's checks and balances
Speaker 1: in place. There's still things that we can do to
Speaker 1: bring it better tomorrow. Because he was just pure racist
Speaker 1: and didn't like the fact that I did well in
Speaker 1: his class, so he went out of his way to
Speaker 1: deem me. And you're gonna suffer from that because the
Speaker 1: color of your skin, it is Marca, it's the reality.
Speaker 1: Don't walk. Yeah, what it says, my shade is beautiful. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so mama. With Mama giving you a hard time, it's
Speaker 1: because she want to see you win. She want to
Speaker 1: see you develop, She want to see you elevate, She
Speaker 1: want to see you, you know, become all that you
Speaker 1: was born to be. Yeah, that's true. Get annoying enough,
Speaker 1: but I know it's not of love. I gotta think
Speaker 1: of it that way. Yes, yes, well, hope it's important.
Speaker 1: So that's why I wanted to ask because sometimes it's
Speaker 1: all we got left. Sometimes we ain't got nothing. We
Speaker 1: can't control what's going on around us, but we can't
Speaker 1: still hope. What you think people in prison holding onto hope,
Speaker 1: that's all they got someone in here for life. We
Speaker 1: have to make sure that our young youth are educated.
Speaker 1: Am I saying? Everybody have to go to school, but
Speaker 1: you have to still be educated some type of way. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: young ladies, thank you for this interview. Appreciate it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on Relik's Bookshew bringing the World together with Books
Speaker 1: Coaching community. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You heard
Speaker 1: from the adults. Now let's hear from the team's young lady.
Speaker 1: I would like to know what you think about what
Speaker 1: hope means to you and how hope is important in
Speaker 1: your life. Um, Hope is something that you need UM
Speaker 1: in order to get UM, in order to get like
Speaker 1: lots of things done, and it's something you have to
Speaker 1: have in yourself and your family. Uh. You have to
Speaker 1: have hope that they um like they love you and
Speaker 1: that they will protect you and whenever you need to
Speaker 1: be protected. Well, it's a beautiful thing. Where you heard
Speaker 1: it from the team. I got the thoughts on record,
Speaker 1: but I had to get someone a little younger to
Speaker 1: see what their thoughts about it. Your hope is going
Speaker 1: to evolve. As you get older, you you'll get a
Speaker 1: better and deeper and meaningful understanding because knowledge works like this.
Speaker 1: The more you know, the more your world evolves. And
Speaker 1: so as you get older, you see hope today. It's
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