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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Back in UK.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
E s, gentlemen, I have your attention. Please the show
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stops it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Like hey.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
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Speaker 3 (02:20):
Go oh hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome
to another episode of Up Close.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And Personal with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Office Magazine.
I am yet waiting on my guests to arrive for tonight, y'all.
This is my final interview of tonight, and I want
to thank you guys that have roaded it out with me.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I am waiting for my guests to arrive.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
We're gonna blame it on the time difference if there
is one right now, and of course we know that
she's in the Virgin our so I'm not sure if
there's a time difference right now. But it's eight o'clock.
I know we sometimes have trouble getting on, so I'm
gonna give her a little while to get on.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
If she don't arrive in a little while.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Y'all, I'm gonna go ahead and end it because I
have definitely been stretching my voice on today and I
want to save what little voice I have left for
those that have an interview on tomorrow. So if she
does not arrive, in the next couple of minutes, y'all,
I'm gonna go ahead and end this interview and you
guys will be able to catch me on tomorrow. Right here,
(03:39):
we're gonna start out I think at two o'clock. I
think we have a two o'clock show tomorrow. Then we're
gonna start at too. We have a two o'clock or
four o'clock and eight o'clock on tomorrow's So if you
guys want to join me to tomorrow, you can join
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me tomorrow. Trying to wait and see if she's gonna
drop on excuse me, m hm. Y'all know, they always
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having some type of issues. It's the Internet. It's always something.
So I want to give her a chance to get
on because I know what she deals with, y'all, so
I want to try to give her a chance to
come on again. She's one of our group leaders, and
then she's also a host on the Crew podcast. So
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we have experienced some technical issues throughout this journey. So
we're not new to this, y'all. We we trust me,
we true to it. We're not new to it, but
we yet press. So while I'm waiting, I wanna give
her a couple of more minutes. I see she sent
a message saying that they were having some power issues.
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Of course, y'all know that doctor Chinchira is in the
Virgin Islands, and of course we know that they have
issues sometimes with connections and different issues.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
So here she is.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I wanna go ahead and bring her up so she
can introduce herself, and then we're gonna jump on in
the conversation, y'all. So let me go ahead and bring
her up and allow her to introduce herself, and then
we're gonna jump in this conversation. I'm not gonna be
before you long, y'all, because again I am trying to
reserve what little.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Voice I do have.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It is definitely come back from yesterday. I thank God
for that, but I am still a little weak. So
I'm not gonna be before you long. Let me bring
my guests in, y'all. She's not new to this. She's
she's a host over here on the network as well
as one of the group leaders here for the one
hundred Authors movement. So I'm gonna move out the way
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and allow her to introduce herself.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Hello, how are you.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I am doing well and feeling blessed, and I'm grateful
that you are able to get beyond any limitations, any
healing challenges, and I definitely rebuke any form that slows
out missionary Queen Angela. We're just holding you up high
so that you can stay healed and resourceful and powerful
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as the visionary queen that you are. It's an honor
to be here. Definitely an honor to be here.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Amen, Well, I thank you for being a part of
this movement. If you would there is so many facets
about you, if you would just share a little bit
about who is Queen Mother, doctor Genchiera.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Queen Mother, doctor Chenzirah is a grandmother, a mother, a
community developer, an activist, organizer, a priestess, ordained ministeria and
a holistic ambassador, natural pathic therapists, media technologist. When I
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need to be university professor in the day hours, and
I really am livicated, like not just dedicated, but my
life energy has always been about helping people, helping humanity,
helping women, men, families, children, elders, persons with special abilities.
It's like there's a lot. I'm grateful that you give
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me an opportunity to even highlight this other element of
the whool I am part of that identity. You know.
I am an African futurist. Some people refer to as
an afrifuturists. My intention is always to see the higher side,
the positive side, the elevated side, the ascending side, the
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blessed and divined presence in all things. And I am
a keeper of the energy that keeps the creative force,
the infinite source, the Creator, God, theta Eloheen, all the
names we use of the creative source that is infinite
and omnipotent at the center. I am an African queen,
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mother warrior. I have been involved in a variety of
things within my space here in the Virgin Islands of
the United States, specifically in II Saint Croix, the larger
of the four islands. That's my home grounds. And I
have very strong ties to Caribbean spaces, so people would
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refer to me as an ancient ancestral African indigenous naturalists.
In many respects, my heartstrings are always grounded on things
that honor those ancestors. Let me be very specific, venerated, positive, divine,
spiritually grounded ancestors, not just any ancestors that are guarded
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and guided by the Creator, by all the powerful, venerated
and omnipotent names we use. And I'm really honored to
just be able to share some of that through us
Speaks Networks, through pair Unk Networks, through the work I
do with African Queen Mother Warriors, the work that I
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get to be blessed with with Idle Network International, which
is an international collective that brings tradition African institutions together
with persons everywhere in the world. So it's over six
hundred kingdoms and ROMs that actually work together to restore, reconnect, repair, heal,
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and uplift all facets of our nation building, village building,
family building in the most positive way in the eyes
of the creator. And then, like I said, it's a lot.
And I do all of this with a lot of
strength from my centenarian mom who has blessed us with
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being on the earth and still remembering all her children's
names and which languages we speak from young at one
hundred and two, mulally et Heernice Davis, and I'm very grateful,
you know, to have my children my family. I don't
just say extend sometimes I say family like friend family
a little different, right, because it's not just my friends,
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but it's persons that respect and honor the journey work
that I've been involved in. You know, I work with
the Universal that or improve In Association African Community Rehabilitating
Committee twenty twenty, So for short U and ia ac
l RC twenty twenty. I've had the honor and privilege
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of working with the Caribbean Pan African Network as an
executive council member and representative, which lets me layer into
CARACOM through their Reparations Commission. So my reach may be wide,
but I do my best to remain humble and to
remain as my opticle so that I keep things grounded
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in truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine righteousness. And I
say that one twice, divine righteousness and harmony to the
best lin.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
So where in all of that that you do do
you find the energy in the time to share in writing?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I find, well, I'm writing all the time. I'm a
journaling fanatic. So from young and I was very fortunate
to be one of those young people that used to
go to public libraries just so I could read like
everything in the children's section and then read everything in
the next adult section that they allowed me to read.
When I was younger, and it encouraged me to take
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note of the things that I read, because you don't
remember everything. So I find time to write, not only
in my academic daytime engagement as a university professor, but
I find time to write creatively to actually for some
it may seem like therapy to be able to compose
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prose as well as poetry. I did a publication, matter
of fact, it was an international Society of Poets, and
I won an award, a publishing award like WOW two
thousand and four, two thousand and five, and they gave
me an opportunity to put together a collection of my poems.
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And that in addition to things I was doing when
I was much younger, writing about how do we teach
children that don't feel that they are teachable? And I
just kept composing. If it was a concept on reparations,
if it was a concept on Pan Africanism, if it
was a concept on the role of women in powerful
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places and still working in harmony with our families, our men,
our children, our elders, I would keep composing. I write
a lot, even for some of the publications for the
Caribbean Studies Association and other organizational entities, and so wherever
I get a chance to share a reflection and editorial,
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a poem, and then I love spoken word, So I
was like, you're right, so, and I think that that's
something I gathered from the very diverse or more correctly,
the diversification of cultures that I was exposed to, you know,
as a global traveler with my family as well as
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on my own.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So what would you say to that person that want
to write a book but just don't know what to
do or how to do it? What would you say
to them?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Go deep within your soul space and share what is
the voice that you like to compose. I'm going to
say again, go deep into your soul space and ask
divine source to give you guidance on what is the
element of your voice that you would like to be
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exposed and share with the public. And take time. And
sometimes it's a stream of consciousness writing. Sometimes it's just committing.
Let's say start at fifteen minutes that fifteen minutes today,
you're gonna stop everything, treat it like you brush your
teeth and just stop and just don't take the pen
or if you're typing, don't stop typing. Just compose what
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your thoughts are at that time for those fifteen minutes.
And when you start to make that a habit, then
it becomes a practice, then it becomes innate. Over a
course of time, you will find it. You'll be able
to share your voice in writing, You'll share your voice
in typing, and then be trusting enough to let persons.
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And that depends on the writer. Some people don't like
other people looking at their work or changing their words.
But be trusting enough. Find that person that will help
you and be not just a coach but more like
a guide. I'm going to use an African term that's
like a warrior guide, like a jegno, you know, and
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that some people like to use that term mentoring. But
it's not just mentoring, but it's someone that cares about
you enough to help you to express you and your
voice in writing and be around writers. Yeah, be around writers.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So I can tell that you had that person in
your life. Who was that person in your life?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I had multiple persons, and I must give thanks and
praise for that. One of those persons was my mother
because she could tell that I had a lot to
say because I kept talking a lot, and she would
encourage me. She said, go beyond the reading, go beyond
just a poetic verse, and compose clear prose of the
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things that you'd like to see, because you're always talking
about saving humanity and saving our people and working with
our people and helping women give birth naturally in natural spaceism,
so she can courage. She always encouraged me to keep writing,
even if it wasn't published in a top publication house,
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but to keep writing. And she would actually look at
my work when I was much younger and gave me
some drive and purpose. I had a professor at one point,
doctor Alonso Anderson. At the time, I was at the
University of California and San Diego as a graduate fellow,
and he ran the Institute of Cognitive Studies, and he
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would encourage me. He said, don't just write for academic purposes,
because I can tell that you have a lot that
you would like to say, and you need to mold
and hewme your craft because writing is not just you
just write for the sake of writing. You need to
tighten up your craft, focus on your voice, focus on
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your purpose. Go deep. And he used to call it
more of a spirit self soul of how you go
to your very essence to be able to compose. And
he was a pretty rough copy editor as well. He
didn't have you know, it was like already when he
was done. But it was so that I could improve
and strengthen my writing in that regard, not just academically,
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not just technically, but as a creative, inspirational, motivational author.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
There are a few others, but I'm gonna pause on
that one.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You mentioned that you have some pieces published. Would you
like to share those with us today?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I could. There's a piece that I composed called Listening
to Ancestral Wisdom Sacredshell Expressions, and it was grounded, as
I said, with an award that I was granted from
the International Society of And what I did is I
took pieces that were inspirations when I would sit by
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the water, by the ocean or the sea, and specifically
in Caribbean and African spaces, and I like playing the
conk show horn, which is you know the conkshow and
then they're crafted. The person that exposed me to that
here was one of our cultural icons, a brother named
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Juni Bomba Alec, and he made several conkshows for me
and I would play them, and after I played them,
similar to like the Singing Ball, I would be in
meditation and prayer and then I would write. And that's
how that particular publication came forth. And then some of
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my other writings have been around marinage and the resilience,
the power and strength of former enslaved Africans that chose
to be free, and the types of communities. So one
piece was heal heritage, education and arts legacy, and it
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was to be able to share what Marinage represents for
persons that came through that enslavement experience but didn't become
the enslaved experience. Make sure that we get that that
they kept their autonomy, they kept their sovereign strength, they
kept their spiritual traditions, they kept their institutions that kept
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them strong as human beings, and they were powerful enough
to help in sharing that humanity irrespective of the fact
that they were exposed to different elements of enslavement and
so forth. So it's a powerful opportunity. And then again,
like I said, I tend to do more academic riotings
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around pieces. Have another publication that's actually forthcoming that's navigating
within what we're doing in the one hundred authors to
watch in twenty twenty five that you've initiated in regard
to Meshcanet and persons are like Mesha who, But Meshcnet
is a divine, feminine principle of sacred work in the
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ancient East African tradition, and she is seen as a
woman of principle that focuses on developing and birthing sacred work.
So it's a self help publication on how to make
sacred work at the center of your day to day living,
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your everyday engagement. You know how you worship, how you fellowship,
how you recreate, how you study, how you engage in
corporate work, how you travel, how you present yourself to people,
how you speak, how you pray, how you meditate, how
you heal yourself. So they're like different, there's fourteen different
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elements inside of that. That's something that I've been working
on off and on because, again pulling from some of
my journaling, I've been able to incorporate chapters that are
now formulated. I usually do seven chapters. A chapter that
does a preparation or more specifically, an enunciation, and then
I use an ancestral traditional framework of going into preparation, opening, implementation,
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and then closing for the next phase so that persons
are able to take away from the writing when it's
around that kind of self care, self help, personal holistic development.
And then I have another collection of poems that I'm
toying with.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, Wow, sounds like you're going to be busy in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
So you hate it.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
So I'm trying to roll with you. You're not easy
to keep up with, Systgrey.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
No, I'm trying to keep up with you. Wow, I'm like,
where do you find time? But wow, to be like
you one day because you definitely are leading by example
and I thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
How can we support the things that you do.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Have about Are they in print?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Are they available?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Some are available, most of them are in pdf, slash ebookorm.
I've been very fortunate to have one of my spiritual
brothers of the Temple of Interpiece that's based in Jamaica,
and they also have carab Newsroom to give me a
two week window to reprint several of my publications through
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their network of their publication house of Temple of Interpiece.
And then, of course there are a number of my
articles that are available online as well, what has been
happening over the last four to six years has been
I've done most of my publications as audiobooks, so that's
being i should say, be revamped so that persons will
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have full access. Some will be on SoundCloud, some will
be on my YouTube page, so persons can just listen
and tune in to some of the content. And I
am giving myself the next ninety days to be able
to have the balance of what is out of print,
things that were done by Watermark Press that we didn't
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know were out of print, to be able to have
them available within that ninety day period. And so persons
can go to my YouTube page at ast speaks that
to A S T S P E A K S.
Of course you can look, you know you're doing www
dot YouTube dot com. Forward slash A S T S
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P E A K S. Right. You can also email
me if you have an interest in any of the
material and be specific, you know, if you want something
that's more around education or homeschooling, or cultural preservation, or
historic development or community development, or environmental science and technology
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or the arts, just give me a specific and then
that way I can give you a sample. Because I
always offer a sample first, and then we will go
into the more detailed pieces that are available that you
can go through Patreon and other sources to support as well.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
All Right, so outside of YouTube, where other platforms can
they find you on?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Well, persons can also find me on Facebook, they can
find me on Instagram. I haven't navigated with Snapchat. That
seems a little bit too short for me because I
speak more than one hundred and forty characters. And then
I have shifted out of other platforms. I tell persons
there's also a platform of Our Black Truth and of
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course what I do with the Crew podcasts, which will
be resuming on the first and third Thursday of each
month right here with the Crew podcast. So that's another
option for persons to be able to navigate and hear
some of the materials that I am either lecturing on,
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doing words sound empowerment with and the African Queen Mother
Warriors platform is also going to be launched in February,
so that's another separate opportunity for persons to really engage
and see some of the work and publications that myself
and other sisters are doing cooperatively, collaboratively and definitely collectively.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Wow Well, You're definitely doing some amazing things, So I
definitely want individuals to be able to follow and support
you being a part of this movement. What are some
things that you would like to leave with the movement?
What is one thing that you would like to leave
from you that you would like to leave your mark.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
On the movement.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
As an organizer for most of my adult life, I
would like to leave and I intend to leave institutional
traditions that persons can replicate so that they're intergenerational. It's
one thing for me to write a book or be
in an anthology, or do a television broadcast or an
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audio podcast. It's more important to be able to leave
a legacy of skills, talents, and expertise that allows for
the next generation to carry the baton, pass the torch
in a way that is ongoing. So it's for generations
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upon generations upon generations. So whether it's through various curricula
that I continue to establish to help persons to do that,
whether it's through self care initiatives and just little tips
that persons can maintain positive natural pathic that's my focus,
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natural pathic therapeutics healthcare, to make sure that their wellness
is on hope. And the third piece would be to
be able to show that fusion between culture, healing, arts,
technology and spirituality that really support life. So I have
a hashtag actionable Deliverables. So it's one thing for us
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to have these conversations and talk about the what you
can do, but then it's also how do you build
in your respective community and how we can work together
to support one another. Yes, women, Yes, it's mothers. And
when I say mothers, I'm speaking of the birth mothers
and the spiritual mothers. You may not have given birth
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through your womb for a child, but I'm sure you
have those youths that you have given birth to and
guide and support spiritually, right, and that's just the same
vibration of mothering. I like to say that for me,
it's going to be around the mothering, the care, the nurturing,
and the cultivation of the type of love that is
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institutionalized for generations upon generations upon generations, so that none
of us that are in this movement are able to
limit ourselves or commit any form of ancestral or spiritual treason.
I want to make sure people got that we would
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like to keep things in the highest and keep the
creator at the center of the work that we're doing
to the best of our bil We're still got some
frailties in some areas that could be tightened up, but
our intention is to be able to do that. So
for me, it's always about institution building through those different lenses.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Wow, that's amazing, and I'm glad to have you a
part of this movement. I am glad to have you
as one of the leaders to be able to help
lead and poor and to spread that motherly love that
you have. So we're glad to have you to be
able to share your expertise things that have helped you
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along your writing career and along your past period, because
it's not just about writing, but it's just those legis
that you can share with others that would help them
along the way. So I definitely appreciate you for stepping
into that leadership role and for being a part of
the movement because I know with all that you have
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going on, I.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Truly appreciate you. So thank you for being a part
of this.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And before we close, before we leave, I always ask
my listeners my guests to share with my listeners something
that would encourage them. And since we're talking about authors
and leaving a legacy, what you share with them, the
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importance from your perspective, the importance of being able to
leave a legacy of literary work that people can carry
on from generations to come.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
As I'm so grateful for that particular question, and that's
a question that ties to what I wanted to close
with anyway, my children, my birth children as well as
my spiritual children, are the other reasons that I do
the writing that I have been involved in. I didn't
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always hear our stories, our narratives in their storybooks. So
I used to just create them and just started being
a grill and just started being the storyteller and start
telling them things and acting out all the stories so
that they thought that I had my own collection. And
after a while, I started writing short stories just so
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that the children, my children, their friends and they can munity.
After a while, because we did a lot of extent
independent schooling, teaching with our community children to be able
to share the importance of legacy building, the importance of
nation building, the importance of cooperative engagement, the importance of
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keeping faith. For the term faith I'm going to use,
but I like to use that term that spiritual grounding
in what we were doing. We speak of education, but
I like to expand that to what many elders guided
me to understand its edification, so that we kept like
a virtuous moral grounding even in the type of education
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that we have been involved in, and to keep that
cultural sensitivity, that cultural accuracy, that heritage driven preservation, so
that our young people and are not so young people
comfortable in who they are, why they are here, and
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their commitment to ancestral legacy and to spiritual legacy.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Right.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I really encourage writers to be able to see how
our literary contributions. It's very important that we bring a
form of excellence. You may think it's perfect the first that,
but we need to bring that form of excellence to
our work, because that's why we're still remembering people like
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doctor W. E. B. Du Bois and Amy say there,
and Suzanne Says there, and doctor Martin Luther King Junior,
and doctor Coretta Scott King and doctor Betty Shabbaz and
Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman it's a journal truth and
Mary and MacLeod Bethune Cookman. That's why we remember that
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Amy Jacks Garby, Marcus Garby, as well Amy Ashwi, Garby
Kwame and Kruma. I can go down this list long.
Mawena Sawa. You understand. That's why we can talk about
bole Soyinka, I kui Oua Ma Chinua Achibe. We can
we remembering and I'm speaking of the literary, revolutionary literary persons.
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We remember fe La Kuti not only for his music,
but the lyrics, the literary element of his music. We
remember his mother, Olufumi Layo, right, who led fifty thousand
women in Nigeria even before there was an organization of
African Unity, before there was an African Union. Right, So
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they're like they left the literary legacy. Shake Antadap, doctor Josekanan,
doctor Jacob Correct. I mean doctor Asa Hill. I'm just
saying there's like a lot of persons that left, and
I'm leaving out some names. Doctor Marimba I knew who's
still amongst us, right, as well as others that and
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I refer to her as a professor even though she's
no longer in the quote unquote traditional contemporary universities. Right.
Sister Queen cis doctor Sandra Richard, Sister Queen part of
the African Quam of the Warrior Journey, Esther Hooksai, who
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brings a whole other layer of literary scholarship to her work.
Isis I'm like I can like this list is quite extensive.
Moya and Zuri who does work showing the connection of
our African revolution through music and culture. I mean, we
have so many that we can speak of that have
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provided literary pieces. Brother Lessana Sekou who leads the House
and the Hess publishers in Saint Martin, and I highlight
that like will perform his work as well as provided
in public like he's like the public keyishin public, Keyshine
public Aaish Brethren in the Caribbean. And I could go
on and on because we have a lot of persons
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and I always encourage right to us, look it right
to us. You know, doctor Carol Boyce Davies, she stayed
not only in the academic spaces but through a creative space. Right.
There's so many that are part of that list, you know,
(36:25):
when we speak of people like doctor Gloria Joseph Ancestress,
Audrey Lord Ancestress, and Audrey our second son. She was
the godmother had him walking when I thought that he
was going to take longer and would have him acting
like he was a writer when he was three and
four years old and did that with children. Right, and
(36:47):
people are still speaking truth to power from her work, right.
I think it's important to you know, speak of those persons,
you know, the Tony K. Bambada, you know, Tony Morrison,
Angela doctor, Angela d Dee. I mean, the list is
extensive in terms of women and men that have been
instrumental at leaving a legacy of excellence, not just writing.
(37:10):
You know, we're not just trying to do like the
just right for the sake of writing. And you don't
have clear vision, purpose, destiny inside of your work. But
the type of writing that person is going to read
it over and over and over and over and over
again for generations upon generations is going to replace Shakespearean literature.
That kind of excellence. Yeah. So that that way, for
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generations upon generations, people will remember the voices of excellence
and the voices that respect our ancestral legacy in ancestral times. Yes,
in contemporary times as well as in the afric futures,
realms and spaces. Wow, wow, you bringing it out, You're
(38:00):
bringing it out of me. I just need you to
know you're asking questions that I mean, I'm grateful for you,
visionary sister Queen Angela, because you're evoking things, You're forcing
me in a pleasant way to bring out things that
are just a reflection of what you've put in place.
You've created a platform, You've created many platforms for persons
(38:23):
to be able to do it in audio, video, written, term, literary, scientific, technolological, spiritual,
all of that. And you've done it in a very eclectic,
a very nurturing, a very cultivating and supportive way. And
I'm very grateful, and I am sure many I speak
for many other many of the other authors that are
(38:45):
very comfortable with what you have created. And not to
say that it's not hard work, and not to say
that you don't like be on top of us, where's
your stuff at? At we're at. So I'm grateful, grateful.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Well, I am grateful for you, guys. I tell you
that it is truly an honor to be able to
share your voices and to allow people to hear your voices,
because oftentimes we feel like we're voiceless and that we
don't have a voice.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I think it's an honor and a privilege to be
able to to share such amazing people that come from
different walks of life, different backgrounds, and they are and
you all have different messages, but the fact that we're
on want accord because we all want change and we
all believe that we can be that change. So I
(39:40):
definitely am I'm grateful, I'm humbled, I'm honored that that's
that's that's about it. You know, it's not often that
I'm I'm I'm without words, but I tell you you
you are amazing. What you do is amazing, and I
thank you, and I'm looking forward to working with you,
(40:05):
not just on the Crew podcast, but with this movement
and just seeing how you mother some people, because you know.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
We are in different levels.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
We have some that are new authors, we have some
seasoned authors, and we even have some that you know,
they're gonna be launching their first book. Throughout this movement,
they have been a part of anthologies and now they've
decided that, you know, they wanted to share their own book.
(40:38):
So I'm excited that you are a part of this
as a leader, as a guide, as someone that can
encourage and someone that can you know, help mold these writers,
So I'm excited. I'm excited me too.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
That's why it's like we're reflections because when you guide persons,
lead persons, you also have to know how to follow.
You also have to know how to offer guidance with
strength and at the same time make sure that it's
coming from the writer, the author new or seasoned from within, right,
(41:19):
and to just help to cultivate that. You know, it
might be every once in a while we might tweak
and we're tweaking and strengthening one another. I need that
to come across. It's like, not because I'm creem mother,
doctor Sincero, and you know, I do this professorial piece
in the daytime that because there's gonna be things that
you're gonna share with me and share and teach me,
and then there's gonna be things that I'm gonna share
(41:40):
with you and teach you. And it becomes like reciprocity,
all synergized in a really positive way to the best
of our ability, right right, And that's why I'm all.
You know, when persons hear me speak in the matternature,
I don't do it too often because I know people
don't know what I'm saying and I don't want people
to think I'm saying something that is like frightening. But
(42:00):
when I'm saying amasu and pontere aura, makehi Paheru, all
I'm saying is that we give thanks and praise to
the One most high, that we live each day daily
for the One most divine, and that we will do
it tomorrow just as we do it today. And if
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we can at least agree on that, then we can
do an abundance of work together collaboratively, even if our
points of departure may appear different, even if our pathway
journey may look unlike the other, but we can do
it with a tremendous amount of respect and grounding so
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that the publications that come will be with excellence exponentially
and it will be with accuracy, so the persons are
clear on the things that they're saying and that they
relearn how to go within that creative space, that technical space.
(43:06):
If you need to give citations, you do so. If
you're doing free writing from what is just in your meditation,
your prayer, your vision, your voice, that's something quite different.
But it's going to all come together because we are
all about literary excellence for the greater good. Wow.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Well, I'm definitely glad to have you a part of
the one hundred Outer Movement, and I can't wait to
see what all is in store for twenty twenty five
in this movement. So thank you for stopping by and
sharing with us on today. I truly thank you for
your sacrifice, and I hope you enjoy the rest of
your evening.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
I shall, I shall, and you keep healing and you
stay strong because we need you to be healed and
stay in that realm of strength and power. All right,
Sister quin and Andel, Yes.
Speaker 5 (43:59):
Ma'am, that's I am. I've been.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
My friend was getting on me today about self care.
I told her I have made that a part of
my every day.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
I had to.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
I had to learn how to make that a part
of my every day even when I'm not feeling good.
I had to make sure that I did something special
for myself, that I did something.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
If it's just.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Lighting a candle and sitting in a hot tub of water,
that's something that's that's that's soothing to me.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And I've just learned how I had to incorporate something
in daily and made it a part of my daily
routine and not something.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
That I do.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Say, well, I got to plan this for a week. No,
I had to make it daily because yeah, I needed it.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
So I had.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Like I was telling my fri, I told her today,
she said, you should be resting. I say, I'm okay.
I say, because at from eleven to one, No, I said,
from twelve to one, I'm gonna be self caring and
I don't don't care what's going on.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
How about that? How about see that's what I'm saying.
When you can that's not a declaration, that's not even
a command. That's like a decree. I love it. I
love it.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
I love that I.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Had to had to and and I've learned from some
amazing people.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I had a notification today that I made for milli
growth last year. When I tell you, I am so
grateful because she is the reason why I know you.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Again, I tell you. She had a birthday TYPEE birthday.
She did on the twenty seventh. On the twenty seventh,
and I did not get to go see her. I
hope to get out there to see her in probably
a week or so. Yes, because she's not far from me. Yes,
I sent her a message. I sent her a message.
(45:53):
I sang, I sang in Spanish, I wish I could.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Yes, she is definitely, She's definitely one that's high up
on mind. I tell you she has definitely been a
pillar in my life over these last five years. We
we didn't and you wouldn't think we did.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
Not start off on good terms.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
That's how we use the episode.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
And I tell you now, you cannot separate us. Cannot
separate us.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
You cannot.
Speaker 6 (46:24):
She is.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
I'm telling you she has a special place in my heart.
And I am so grateful for her because of I
call her the Queen of gratitude, and because of that
that she showed to me, she was able to teach me.
She just don't realize how much she has taught me
over these last five years. But I'm grateful because some
(46:49):
of you guys would probably not like me. So she
was very inspiration inspirational and me really truly looking at
myself and truly finding out, you know, some things about myself.
So I'm so grateful because on this wild I wouldn't
even be doing some of the stuff that I'm doing
(47:09):
now if it had not been heard.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
Oh wow, that's powerful for real testimony. That's beautiful. Well,
we just quelago. So I hear you exactly. We hear you,
We hear you, we hear and we feel the sincerity
and what you're sharing because this is not just like
because we're on media. This is really because of the
kind of greatness of each of the women and men
(47:34):
that are coming together around this movement and have been
working with you over the course of you know, a year,
multiple years, and in some instances not even seeing one
another in physical space doing it this platform. So when
we get in the same physical space, right, I hope
(47:57):
the Earth ready.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
And it's coming. It's coming, It's coming, it is coming.
It's well overdue, and it's coming. And I'm saying twenty
twenty five, we gonna make it happen. We gonna make
it happen. We gonna make it happen. So y'all look out, y'all,
look out, look out. I'm telling you look out again.
I want to thank you for stopping by, and it's
(48:23):
the floor is yours. You get to close us out,
close us out in your special way.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
I am so grateful the gratitude that I have for
just being able to be a part of this movement
of one hundred authors to watch for in twenty twenty five.
This energy, this fusion is going to really allow us
to deal with some areas of excellence and literary engagement
that goes far beyond the contemporary boundaries of how we
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look at ligature and how we look at publication, and
how we look at sharing our voice, and how we
bring again truth, justice, order, reciprocity, bound balance, divine righteousness
and harmony in the not necessarily referred to it as
the feminine principle of my aunt, but just go back
to the English, keeping the balance so that when we're writing,
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when we are expressing our voice in literary spaces, that
we keep that energy of love, cultivated, love to some agape, love,
that nurturance for one another, so that yes, it may
appear that some of us are mothering and or fathering,
we're building our families so that we have generations upon
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generations upon generations of our truth in voice and in
written terms type words for eternity, not just generation upon generation,
but for eternity right. And we are very grateful for
this opportunity to be able to share and work it together.
(49:56):
So for those that are interested, you know where to
link with us to be able to be a part
of the movement, and even if you are on the perimeters,
give the support. Offer the support to each and every
author that chooses to make this legacy of excellence through
a literary lens available to you, your families, and the
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generations that Followful with you, always remain inspired. And remember
when we say us speaks, it's because we're building a
new legacy. Give thanks.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
Well, y'all know I had to give her her clap,
so I want to thank you again for stopping by
and sharing with us.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
I truly have been blessed. You have a good night.
Speaker 6 (50:48):
Good night, my sisterm be Well.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
I hope you guys were blessed just as much as
I was. I tell you, I have truly been blessed
over this day. I tell you, coming back from being
sick and then coming back and being able to share
these amazing authors. I tell you it's truly been a blessing.
If you've been missing the one hundred authors to watch
in twenty twenty five, you have truly been missing. There
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are some amazing authors to attached to this movement. If
you are a spiring author, if you are a season author,
this is an opportunity for you to connect, collaborate and
think about the community. So again I want to encourage
you to get connected to the one hundred authors to
watch in twenty twenty five. Until next time, y'all be blessed.
Back in UK.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
E s, gentlemen, I have your attention. Please the show
(02:01):
stops it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Like hey.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Seven six gord three shoot f.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Go oh hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome
to another episode of Up Close.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And Personal with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Office Magazine.
I am yet waiting on my guests to arrive for tonight, y'all.
This is my final interview of tonight, and I want
to thank you guys that have roaded it out with me.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I am waiting for my guests to arrive.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
We're gonna blame it on the time difference if there
is one right now, and of course we know that
she's in the Virgin our so I'm not sure if
there's a time difference right now. But it's eight o'clock.
I know we sometimes have trouble getting on, so I'm
gonna give her a little while to get on.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
If she don't arrive in a little while.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Y'all, I'm gonna go ahead and end it because I
have definitely been stretching my voice on today and I
want to save what little voice I have left for
those that have an interview on tomorrow. So if she
does not arrive, in the next couple of minutes, y'all,
I'm gonna go ahead and end this interview and you
guys will be able to catch me on tomorrow. Right here,
(03:39):
we're gonna start out I think at two o'clock. I
think we have a two o'clock show tomorrow. Then we're
gonna start at too. We have a two o'clock or
four o'clock and eight o'clock on tomorrow's So if you
guys want to join me to tomorrow, you can join
(04:01):
me tomorrow. Trying to wait and see if she's gonna
drop on excuse me, m hm. Y'all know, they always
(04:37):
having some type of issues. It's the Internet. It's always something.
So I want to give her a chance to get
on because I know what she deals with, y'all, so
I want to try to give her a chance to
come on again. She's one of our group leaders, and
then she's also a host on the Crew podcast. So
(05:01):
we have experienced some technical issues throughout this journey. So
we're not new to this, y'all. We we trust me,
we true to it. We're not new to it, but
we yet press. So while I'm waiting, I wanna give
her a couple of more minutes. I see she sent
a message saying that they were having some power issues.
(05:23):
Of course, y'all know that doctor Chinchira is in the
Virgin Islands, and of course we know that they have
issues sometimes with connections and different issues.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
So here she is.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I wanna go ahead and bring her up so she
can introduce herself, and then we're gonna jump on in
the conversation, y'all. So let me go ahead and bring
her up and allow her to introduce herself, and then
we're gonna jump in this conversation. I'm not gonna be
before you long, y'all, because again I am trying to
reserve what little.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Voice I do have.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It is definitely come back from yesterday. I thank God
for that, but I am still a little weak. So
I'm not gonna be before you long. Let me bring
my guests in, y'all. She's not new to this. She's
she's a host over here on the network as well
as one of the group leaders here for the one
hundred Authors movement. So I'm gonna move out the way
(06:19):
and allow her to introduce herself.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Hello, how are you.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I am doing well and feeling blessed, and I'm grateful
that you are able to get beyond any limitations, any
healing challenges, and I definitely rebuke any form that slows
out missionary Queen Angela. We're just holding you up high
so that you can stay healed and resourceful and powerful
(06:48):
as the visionary queen that you are. It's an honor
to be here. Definitely an honor to be here.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Amen, Well, I thank you for being a part of
this movement. If you would there is so many facets
about you, if you would just share a little bit
about who is Queen Mother, doctor Genchiera.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Queen Mother, doctor Chenzirah is a grandmother, a mother, a
community developer, an activist, organizer, a priestess, ordained ministeria and
a holistic ambassador, natural pathic therapists, media technologist. When I
(07:33):
need to be university professor in the day hours, and
I really am livicated, like not just dedicated, but my
life energy has always been about helping people, helping humanity,
helping women, men, families, children, elders, persons with special abilities.
It's like there's a lot. I'm grateful that you give
(07:55):
me an opportunity to even highlight this other element of
the whool I am part of that identity. You know.
I am an African futurist. Some people refer to as
an afrifuturists. My intention is always to see the higher side,
the positive side, the elevated side, the ascending side, the
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blessed and divined presence in all things. And I am
a keeper of the energy that keeps the creative force,
the infinite source, the Creator, God, theta Eloheen, all the
names we use of the creative source that is infinite
and omnipotent at the center. I am an African queen,
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mother warrior. I have been involved in a variety of
things within my space here in the Virgin Islands of
the United States, specifically in II Saint Croix, the larger
of the four islands. That's my home grounds. And I
have very strong ties to Caribbean spaces, so people would
(09:05):
refer to me as an ancient ancestral African indigenous naturalists.
In many respects, my heartstrings are always grounded on things
that honor those ancestors. Let me be very specific, venerated, positive, divine,
spiritually grounded ancestors, not just any ancestors that are guarded
(09:30):
and guided by the Creator, by all the powerful, venerated
and omnipotent names we use. And I'm really honored to
just be able to share some of that through us
Speaks Networks, through pair Unk Networks, through the work I
do with African Queen Mother Warriors, the work that I
(09:50):
get to be blessed with with Idle Network International, which
is an international collective that brings tradition African institutions together
with persons everywhere in the world. So it's over six
hundred kingdoms and ROMs that actually work together to restore, reconnect, repair, heal,
(10:14):
and uplift all facets of our nation building, village building,
family building in the most positive way in the eyes
of the creator. And then, like I said, it's a lot.
And I do all of this with a lot of
strength from my centenarian mom who has blessed us with
(10:36):
being on the earth and still remembering all her children's
names and which languages we speak from young at one
hundred and two, mulally et Heernice Davis, and I'm very grateful,
you know, to have my children my family. I don't
just say extend sometimes I say family like friend family
a little different, right, because it's not just my friends,
(10:58):
but it's persons that respect and honor the journey work
that I've been involved in. You know, I work with
the Universal that or improve In Association African Community Rehabilitating
Committee twenty twenty, So for short U and ia ac
l RC twenty twenty. I've had the honor and privilege
(11:18):
of working with the Caribbean Pan African Network as an
executive council member and representative, which lets me layer into
CARACOM through their Reparations Commission. So my reach may be wide,
but I do my best to remain humble and to
remain as my opticle so that I keep things grounded
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in truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine righteousness. And I
say that one twice, divine righteousness and harmony to the
best lin.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
So where in all of that that you do do
you find the energy in the time to share in writing?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I find, well, I'm writing all the time. I'm a
journaling fanatic. So from young and I was very fortunate
to be one of those young people that used to
go to public libraries just so I could read like
everything in the children's section and then read everything in
the next adult section that they allowed me to read.
When I was younger, and it encouraged me to take
(12:30):
note of the things that I read, because you don't
remember everything. So I find time to write, not only
in my academic daytime engagement as a university professor, but
I find time to write creatively to actually for some
it may seem like therapy to be able to compose
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prose as well as poetry. I did a publication, matter
of fact, it was an international Society of Poets, and
I won an award, a publishing award like WOW two
thousand and four, two thousand and five, and they gave
me an opportunity to put together a collection of my poems.
(13:13):
And that in addition to things I was doing when
I was much younger, writing about how do we teach
children that don't feel that they are teachable? And I
just kept composing. If it was a concept on reparations,
if it was a concept on Pan Africanism, if it
was a concept on the role of women in powerful
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places and still working in harmony with our families, our men,
our children, our elders, I would keep composing. I write
a lot, even for some of the publications for the
Caribbean Studies Association and other organizational entities, and so wherever
I get a chance to share a reflection and editorial,
(13:57):
a poem, and then I love spoken word, So I
was like, you're right, so, and I think that that's
something I gathered from the very diverse or more correctly,
the diversification of cultures that I was exposed to, you know,
as a global traveler with my family as well as
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on my own.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So what would you say to that person that want
to write a book but just don't know what to
do or how to do it? What would you say
to them?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Go deep within your soul space and share what is
the voice that you like to compose. I'm going to
say again, go deep into your soul space and ask
divine source to give you guidance on what is the
element of your voice that you would like to be
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exposed and share with the public. And take time. And
sometimes it's a stream of consciousness writing. Sometimes it's just committing.
Let's say start at fifteen minutes that fifteen minutes today,
you're gonna stop everything, treat it like you brush your
teeth and just stop and just don't take the pen
or if you're typing, don't stop typing. Just compose what
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your thoughts are at that time for those fifteen minutes.
And when you start to make that a habit, then
it becomes a practice, then it becomes innate. Over a
course of time, you will find it. You'll be able
to share your voice in writing, You'll share your voice
in typing, and then be trusting enough to let persons.
(15:38):
And that depends on the writer. Some people don't like
other people looking at their work or changing their words.
But be trusting enough. Find that person that will help
you and be not just a coach but more like
a guide. I'm going to use an African term that's
like a warrior guide, like a jegno, you know, and
(16:00):
that some people like to use that term mentoring. But
it's not just mentoring, but it's someone that cares about
you enough to help you to express you and your
voice in writing and be around writers. Yeah, be around writers.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So I can tell that you had that person in
your life. Who was that person in your life?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I had multiple persons, and I must give thanks and
praise for that. One of those persons was my mother
because she could tell that I had a lot to
say because I kept talking a lot, and she would
encourage me. She said, go beyond the reading, go beyond
just a poetic verse, and compose clear prose of the
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things that you'd like to see, because you're always talking
about saving humanity and saving our people and working with
our people and helping women give birth naturally in natural spaceism,
so she can courage. She always encouraged me to keep writing,
even if it wasn't published in a top publication house,
(17:11):
but to keep writing. And she would actually look at
my work when I was much younger and gave me
some drive and purpose. I had a professor at one point,
doctor Alonso Anderson. At the time, I was at the
University of California and San Diego as a graduate fellow,
and he ran the Institute of Cognitive Studies, and he
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would encourage me. He said, don't just write for academic purposes,
because I can tell that you have a lot that
you would like to say, and you need to mold
and hewme your craft because writing is not just you
just write for the sake of writing. You need to
tighten up your craft, focus on your voice, focus on
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your purpose. Go deep. And he used to call it
more of a spirit self soul of how you go
to your very essence to be able to compose. And
he was a pretty rough copy editor as well. He
didn't have you know, it was like already when he
was done. But it was so that I could improve
and strengthen my writing in that regard, not just academically,
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not just technically, but as a creative, inspirational, motivational author.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
There are a few others, but I'm gonna pause on
that one.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You mentioned that you have some pieces published. Would you
like to share those with us today?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I could. There's a piece that I composed called Listening
to Ancestral Wisdom Sacredshell Expressions, and it was grounded, as
I said, with an award that I was granted from
the International Society of And what I did is I
took pieces that were inspirations when I would sit by
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the water, by the ocean or the sea, and specifically
in Caribbean and African spaces, and I like playing the
conk show horn, which is you know the conkshow and
then they're crafted. The person that exposed me to that
here was one of our cultural icons, a brother named
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Juni Bomba Alec, and he made several conkshows for me
and I would play them, and after I played them,
similar to like the Singing Ball, I would be in
meditation and prayer and then I would write. And that's
how that particular publication came forth. And then some of
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my other writings have been around marinage and the resilience,
the power and strength of former enslaved Africans that chose
to be free, and the types of communities. So one
piece was heal heritage, education and arts legacy, and it
(20:09):
was to be able to share what Marinage represents for
persons that came through that enslavement experience but didn't become
the enslaved experience. Make sure that we get that that
they kept their autonomy, they kept their sovereign strength, they
kept their spiritual traditions, they kept their institutions that kept
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them strong as human beings, and they were powerful enough
to help in sharing that humanity irrespective of the fact
that they were exposed to different elements of enslavement and
so forth. So it's a powerful opportunity. And then again,
like I said, I tend to do more academic riotings
(20:52):
around pieces. Have another publication that's actually forthcoming that's navigating
within what we're doing in the one hundred authors to
watch in twenty twenty five that you've initiated in regard
to Meshcanet and persons are like Mesha who, But Meshcnet
is a divine, feminine principle of sacred work in the
(21:15):
ancient East African tradition, and she is seen as a
woman of principle that focuses on developing and birthing sacred work.
So it's a self help publication on how to make
sacred work at the center of your day to day living,
(21:36):
your everyday engagement. You know how you worship, how you fellowship,
how you recreate, how you study, how you engage in
corporate work, how you travel, how you present yourself to people,
how you speak, how you pray, how you meditate, how
you heal yourself. So they're like different, there's fourteen different
(21:57):
elements inside of that. That's something that I've been working
on off and on because, again pulling from some of
my journaling, I've been able to incorporate chapters that are
now formulated. I usually do seven chapters. A chapter that
does a preparation or more specifically, an enunciation, and then
I use an ancestral traditional framework of going into preparation, opening, implementation,
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and then closing for the next phase so that persons
are able to take away from the writing when it's
around that kind of self care, self help, personal holistic development.
And then I have another collection of poems that I'm
toying with.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, Wow, sounds like you're going to be busy in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
So you hate it.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
So I'm trying to roll with you. You're not easy
to keep up with, Systgrey.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
No, I'm trying to keep up with you. Wow, I'm like,
where do you find time? But wow, to be like
you one day because you definitely are leading by example
and I thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
How can we support the things that you do.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Have about Are they in print?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Are they available?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Some are available, most of them are in pdf, slash ebookorm.
I've been very fortunate to have one of my spiritual
brothers of the Temple of Interpiece that's based in Jamaica,
and they also have carab Newsroom to give me a
two week window to reprint several of my publications through
(23:36):
their network of their publication house of Temple of Interpiece.
And then, of course there are a number of my
articles that are available online as well, what has been
happening over the last four to six years has been
I've done most of my publications as audiobooks, so that's
being i should say, be revamped so that persons will
(23:59):
have full access. Some will be on SoundCloud, some will
be on my YouTube page, so persons can just listen
and tune in to some of the content. And I
am giving myself the next ninety days to be able
to have the balance of what is out of print,
things that were done by Watermark Press that we didn't
(24:19):
know were out of print, to be able to have
them available within that ninety day period. And so persons
can go to my YouTube page at ast speaks that
to A S T S P E A K S.
Of course you can look, you know you're doing www
dot YouTube dot com. Forward slash A S T S
(24:40):
P E A K S. Right. You can also email
me if you have an interest in any of the
material and be specific, you know, if you want something
that's more around education or homeschooling, or cultural preservation, or
historic development or community development, or environmental science and technology
(25:01):
or the arts, just give me a specific and then
that way I can give you a sample. Because I
always offer a sample first, and then we will go
into the more detailed pieces that are available that you
can go through Patreon and other sources to support as well.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
All Right, so outside of YouTube, where other platforms can
they find you on?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Well, persons can also find me on Facebook, they can
find me on Instagram. I haven't navigated with Snapchat. That
seems a little bit too short for me because I
speak more than one hundred and forty characters. And then
I have shifted out of other platforms. I tell persons
there's also a platform of Our Black Truth and of
(25:49):
course what I do with the Crew podcasts, which will
be resuming on the first and third Thursday of each
month right here with the Crew podcast. So that's another
option for persons to be able to navigate and hear
some of the materials that I am either lecturing on,
(26:10):
doing words sound empowerment with and the African Queen Mother
Warriors platform is also going to be launched in February,
so that's another separate opportunity for persons to really engage
and see some of the work and publications that myself
and other sisters are doing cooperatively, collaboratively and definitely collectively.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Wow Well, You're definitely doing some amazing things, So I
definitely want individuals to be able to follow and support
you being a part of this movement. What are some
things that you would like to leave with the movement?
What is one thing that you would like to leave
from you that you would like to leave your mark.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
On the movement.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
As an organizer for most of my adult life, I
would like to leave and I intend to leave institutional
traditions that persons can replicate so that they're intergenerational. It's
one thing for me to write a book or be
in an anthology, or do a television broadcast or an
(27:21):
audio podcast. It's more important to be able to leave
a legacy of skills, talents, and expertise that allows for
the next generation to carry the baton, pass the torch
in a way that is ongoing. So it's for generations
(27:41):
upon generations upon generations. So whether it's through various curricula
that I continue to establish to help persons to do that,
whether it's through self care initiatives and just little tips
that persons can maintain positive natural pathic that's my focus,
(28:02):
natural pathic therapeutics healthcare, to make sure that their wellness
is on hope. And the third piece would be to
be able to show that fusion between culture, healing, arts,
technology and spirituality that really support life. So I have
a hashtag actionable Deliverables. So it's one thing for us
(28:25):
to have these conversations and talk about the what you
can do, but then it's also how do you build
in your respective community and how we can work together
to support one another. Yes, women, Yes, it's mothers. And
when I say mothers, I'm speaking of the birth mothers
and the spiritual mothers. You may not have given birth
(28:47):
through your womb for a child, but I'm sure you
have those youths that you have given birth to and
guide and support spiritually, right, and that's just the same
vibration of mothering. I like to say that for me,
it's going to be around the mothering, the care, the nurturing,
and the cultivation of the type of love that is
(29:09):
institutionalized for generations upon generations upon generations, so that none
of us that are in this movement are able to
limit ourselves or commit any form of ancestral or spiritual treason.
I want to make sure people got that we would
(29:30):
like to keep things in the highest and keep the
creator at the center of the work that we're doing
to the best of our bil We're still got some
frailties in some areas that could be tightened up, but
our intention is to be able to do that. So
for me, it's always about institution building through those different lenses.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Wow, that's amazing, and I'm glad to have you a
part of this movement. I am glad to have you
as one of the leaders to be able to help
lead and poor and to spread that motherly love that
you have. So we're glad to have you to be
able to share your expertise things that have helped you
(30:10):
along your writing career and along your past period, because
it's not just about writing, but it's just those legis
that you can share with others that would help them
along the way. So I definitely appreciate you for stepping
into that leadership role and for being a part of
the movement because I know with all that you have
(30:31):
going on, I.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Truly appreciate you. So thank you for being a part
of this.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And before we close, before we leave, I always ask
my listeners my guests to share with my listeners something
that would encourage them. And since we're talking about authors
and leaving a legacy, what you share with them, the
(30:59):
importance from your perspective, the importance of being able to
leave a legacy of literary work that people can carry
on from generations to come.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
As I'm so grateful for that particular question, and that's
a question that ties to what I wanted to close
with anyway, my children, my birth children as well as
my spiritual children, are the other reasons that I do
the writing that I have been involved in. I didn't
(31:35):
always hear our stories, our narratives in their storybooks. So
I used to just create them and just started being
a grill and just started being the storyteller and start
telling them things and acting out all the stories so
that they thought that I had my own collection. And
after a while, I started writing short stories just so
(31:56):
that the children, my children, their friends and they can munity.
After a while, because we did a lot of extent
independent schooling, teaching with our community children to be able
to share the importance of legacy building, the importance of
nation building, the importance of cooperative engagement, the importance of
(32:20):
keeping faith. For the term faith I'm going to use,
but I like to use that term that spiritual grounding
in what we were doing. We speak of education, but
I like to expand that to what many elders guided
me to understand its edification, so that we kept like
a virtuous moral grounding even in the type of education
(32:43):
that we have been involved in, and to keep that
cultural sensitivity, that cultural accuracy, that heritage driven preservation, so
that our young people and are not so young people
comfortable in who they are, why they are here, and
(33:04):
their commitment to ancestral legacy and to spiritual legacy.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Right.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I really encourage writers to be able to see how
our literary contributions. It's very important that we bring a
form of excellence. You may think it's perfect the first that,
but we need to bring that form of excellence to
our work, because that's why we're still remembering people like
(33:32):
doctor W. E. B. Du Bois and Amy say there,
and Suzanne Says there, and doctor Martin Luther King Junior,
and doctor Coretta Scott King and doctor Betty Shabbaz and
Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman it's a journal truth and
Mary and MacLeod Bethune Cookman. That's why we remember that
(33:54):
Amy Jacks Garby, Marcus Garby, as well Amy Ashwi, Garby
Kwame and Kruma. I can go down this list long.
Mawena Sawa. You understand. That's why we can talk about
bole Soyinka, I kui Oua Ma Chinua Achibe. We can
we remembering and I'm speaking of the literary, revolutionary literary persons.
(34:17):
We remember fe La Kuti not only for his music,
but the lyrics, the literary element of his music. We
remember his mother, Olufumi Layo, right, who led fifty thousand
women in Nigeria even before there was an organization of
African Unity, before there was an African Union. Right, So
(34:38):
they're like they left the literary legacy. Shake Antadap, doctor Josekanan,
doctor Jacob Correct. I mean doctor Asa Hill. I'm just
saying there's like a lot of persons that left, and
I'm leaving out some names. Doctor Marimba I knew who's
still amongst us, right, as well as others that and
(34:59):
I refer to her as a professor even though she's
no longer in the quote unquote traditional contemporary universities. Right.
Sister Queen cis doctor Sandra Richard, Sister Queen part of
the African Quam of the Warrior Journey, Esther Hooksai, who
(35:20):
brings a whole other layer of literary scholarship to her work.
Isis I'm like I can like this list is quite extensive.
Moya and Zuri who does work showing the connection of
our African revolution through music and culture. I mean, we
have so many that we can speak of that have
(35:42):
provided literary pieces. Brother Lessana Sekou who leads the House
and the Hess publishers in Saint Martin, and I highlight
that like will perform his work as well as provided
in public like he's like the public keyishin public, Keyshine
public Aaish Brethren in the Caribbean. And I could go
on and on because we have a lot of persons
(36:05):
and I always encourage right to us, look it right
to us. You know, doctor Carol Boyce Davies, she stayed
not only in the academic spaces but through a creative space. Right.
There's so many that are part of that list, you know,
(36:25):
when we speak of people like doctor Gloria Joseph Ancestress,
Audrey Lord Ancestress, and Audrey our second son. She was
the godmother had him walking when I thought that he
was going to take longer and would have him acting
like he was a writer when he was three and
four years old and did that with children. Right, and
(36:47):
people are still speaking truth to power from her work, right.
I think it's important to you know, speak of those persons,
you know, the Tony K. Bambada, you know, Tony Morrison,
Angela doctor, Angela d Dee. I mean, the list is
extensive in terms of women and men that have been
instrumental at leaving a legacy of excellence, not just writing.
(37:10):
You know, we're not just trying to do like the
just right for the sake of writing. And you don't
have clear vision, purpose, destiny inside of your work. But
the type of writing that person is going to read
it over and over and over and over and over
again for generations upon generations is going to replace Shakespearean literature.
That kind of excellence. Yeah. So that that way, for
(37:34):
generations upon generations, people will remember the voices of excellence
and the voices that respect our ancestral legacy in ancestral times. Yes,
in contemporary times as well as in the afric futures,
realms and spaces. Wow, wow, you bringing it out, You're
(38:00):
bringing it out of me. I just need you to
know you're asking questions that I mean, I'm grateful for you,
visionary sister Queen Angela, because you're evoking things, You're forcing
me in a pleasant way to bring out things that
are just a reflection of what you've put in place.
You've created a platform, You've created many platforms for persons
(38:23):
to be able to do it in audio, video, written, term, literary, scientific, technolological, spiritual,
all of that. And you've done it in a very eclectic,
a very nurturing, a very cultivating and supportive way. And
I'm very grateful, and I am sure many I speak
for many other many of the other authors that are
(38:45):
very comfortable with what you have created. And not to
say that it's not hard work, and not to say
that you don't like be on top of us, where's
your stuff at? At we're at. So I'm grateful, grateful.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Well, I am grateful for you, guys. I tell you
that it is truly an honor to be able to
share your voices and to allow people to hear your voices,
because oftentimes we feel like we're voiceless and that we
don't have a voice.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I think it's an honor and a privilege to be
able to to share such amazing people that come from
different walks of life, different backgrounds, and they are and
you all have different messages, but the fact that we're
on want accord because we all want change and we
all believe that we can be that change. So I
(39:40):
definitely am I'm grateful, I'm humbled, I'm honored that that's
that's that's about it. You know, it's not often that
I'm I'm I'm without words, but I tell you you
you are amazing. What you do is amazing, and I
thank you, and I'm looking forward to working with you,
(40:05):
not just on the Crew podcast, but with this movement
and just seeing how you mother some people, because you know.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
We are in different levels.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
We have some that are new authors, we have some
seasoned authors, and we even have some that you know,
they're gonna be launching their first book. Throughout this movement,
they have been a part of anthologies and now they've
decided that, you know, they wanted to share their own book.
(40:38):
So I'm excited that you are a part of this
as a leader, as a guide, as someone that can
encourage and someone that can you know, help mold these writers,
So I'm excited. I'm excited me too.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
That's why it's like we're reflections because when you guide persons,
lead persons, you also have to know how to follow.
You also have to know how to offer guidance with
strength and at the same time make sure that it's
coming from the writer, the author new or seasoned from within, right,
(41:19):
and to just help to cultivate that. You know, it
might be every once in a while we might tweak
and we're tweaking and strengthening one another. I need that
to come across. It's like, not because I'm creem mother,
doctor Sincero, and you know, I do this professorial piece
in the daytime that because there's gonna be things that
you're gonna share with me and share and teach me,
and then there's gonna be things that I'm gonna share
(41:40):
with you and teach you. And it becomes like reciprocity,
all synergized in a really positive way to the best
of our ability, right right, And that's why I'm all.
You know, when persons hear me speak in the matternature,
I don't do it too often because I know people
don't know what I'm saying and I don't want people
to think I'm saying something that is like frightening. But
(42:00):
when I'm saying amasu and pontere aura, makehi Paheru, all
I'm saying is that we give thanks and praise to
the One most high, that we live each day daily
for the One most divine, and that we will do
it tomorrow just as we do it today. And if
(42:21):
we can at least agree on that, then we can
do an abundance of work together collaboratively, even if our
points of departure may appear different, even if our pathway
journey may look unlike the other, but we can do
it with a tremendous amount of respect and grounding so
(42:46):
that the publications that come will be with excellence exponentially
and it will be with accuracy, so the persons are
clear on the things that they're saying and that they
relearn how to go within that creative space, that technical space.
(43:06):
If you need to give citations, you do so. If
you're doing free writing from what is just in your meditation,
your prayer, your vision, your voice, that's something quite different.
But it's going to all come together because we are
all about literary excellence for the greater good. Wow.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Well, I'm definitely glad to have you a part of
the one hundred Outer Movement, and I can't wait to
see what all is in store for twenty twenty five
in this movement. So thank you for stopping by and
sharing with us on today. I truly thank you for
your sacrifice, and I hope you enjoy the rest of
your evening.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
I shall, I shall, and you keep healing and you
stay strong because we need you to be healed and
stay in that realm of strength and power. All right,
Sister quin and Andel, Yes.
Speaker 5 (43:59):
Ma'am, that's I am. I've been.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
My friend was getting on me today about self care.
I told her I have made that a part of
my every day.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
I had to.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
I had to learn how to make that a part
of my every day even when I'm not feeling good.
I had to make sure that I did something special
for myself, that I did something.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
If it's just.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Lighting a candle and sitting in a hot tub of water,
that's something that's that's that's soothing to me.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And I've just learned how I had to incorporate something
in daily and made it a part of my daily
routine and not something.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
That I do.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Say, well, I got to plan this for a week. No,
I had to make it daily because yeah, I needed it.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
So I had.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Like I was telling my fri, I told her today,
she said, you should be resting. I say, I'm okay.
I say, because at from eleven to one, No, I said,
from twelve to one, I'm gonna be self caring and
I don't don't care what's going on.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
How about that? How about see that's what I'm saying.
When you can that's not a declaration, that's not even
a command. That's like a decree. I love it. I
love it.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
I love that I.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Had to had to and and I've learned from some
amazing people.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I had a notification today that I made for milli
growth last year. When I tell you, I am so
grateful because she is the reason why I know you.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Again, I tell you. She had a birthday TYPEE birthday.
She did on the twenty seventh. On the twenty seventh,
and I did not get to go see her. I
hope to get out there to see her in probably
a week or so. Yes, because she's not far from me. Yes,
I sent her a message. I sent her a message.
(45:53):
I sang, I sang in Spanish, I wish I could.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Yes, she is definitely, She's definitely one that's high up
on mind. I tell you she has definitely been a
pillar in my life over these last five years. We
we didn't and you wouldn't think we did.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
Not start off on good terms.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
That's how we use the episode.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
And I tell you now, you cannot separate us. Cannot
separate us.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
You cannot.
Speaker 6 (46:24):
She is.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
I'm telling you she has a special place in my heart.
And I am so grateful for her because of I
call her the Queen of gratitude, and because of that
that she showed to me, she was able to teach me.
She just don't realize how much she has taught me
over these last five years. But I'm grateful because some
(46:49):
of you guys would probably not like me. So she
was very inspiration inspirational and me really truly looking at
myself and truly finding out, you know, some things about myself.
So I'm so grateful because on this wild I wouldn't
even be doing some of the stuff that I'm doing
(47:09):
now if it had not been heard.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
Oh wow, that's powerful for real testimony. That's beautiful. Well,
we just quelago. So I hear you exactly. We hear you,
We hear you, we hear and we feel the sincerity
and what you're sharing because this is not just like
because we're on media. This is really because of the
kind of greatness of each of the women and men
(47:34):
that are coming together around this movement and have been
working with you over the course of you know, a year,
multiple years, and in some instances not even seeing one
another in physical space doing it this platform. So when
we get in the same physical space, right, I hope
(47:57):
the Earth ready.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
And it's coming. It's coming, It's coming, it is coming.
It's well overdue, and it's coming. And I'm saying twenty
twenty five, we gonna make it happen. We gonna make
it happen. We gonna make it happen. So y'all look out, y'all,
look out, look out. I'm telling you look out again.
I want to thank you for stopping by, and it's
(48:23):
the floor is yours. You get to close us out,
close us out in your special way.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
I am so grateful the gratitude that I have for
just being able to be a part of this movement
of one hundred authors to watch for in twenty twenty five.
This energy, this fusion is going to really allow us
to deal with some areas of excellence and literary engagement
that goes far beyond the contemporary boundaries of how we
(48:49):
look at ligature and how we look at publication, and
how we look at sharing our voice, and how we
bring again truth, justice, order, reciprocity, bound balance, divine righteousness
and harmony in the not necessarily referred to it as
the feminine principle of my aunt, but just go back
to the English, keeping the balance so that when we're writing,
(49:13):
when we are expressing our voice in literary spaces, that
we keep that energy of love, cultivated, love to some agape, love,
that nurturance for one another, so that yes, it may
appear that some of us are mothering and or fathering,
we're building our families so that we have generations upon
(49:36):
generations upon generations of our truth in voice and in
written terms type words for eternity, not just generation upon generation,
but for eternity right. And we are very grateful for
this opportunity to be able to share and work it together.
(49:56):
So for those that are interested, you know where to
link with us to be able to be a part
of the movement, and even if you are on the perimeters,
give the support. Offer the support to each and every
author that chooses to make this legacy of excellence through
a literary lens available to you, your families, and the
(50:20):
generations that Followful with you, always remain inspired. And remember
when we say us speaks, it's because we're building a
new legacy. Give thanks.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
Well, y'all know I had to give her her clap,
so I want to thank you again for stopping by
and sharing with us.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
I truly have been blessed. You have a good night.
Speaker 6 (50:48):
Good night, my sisterm be Well.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
I hope you guys were blessed just as much as
I was. I tell you, I have truly been blessed
over this day. I tell you, coming back from being
sick and then coming back and being able to share
these amazing authors. I tell you it's truly been a blessing.
If you've been missing the one hundred authors to watch
in twenty twenty five, you have truly been missing. There
(51:12):
are some amazing authors to attached to this movement. If
you are a spiring author, if you are a season author,
this is an opportunity for you to connect, collaborate and
think about the community. So again I want to encourage
you to get connected to the one hundred authors to
watch in twenty twenty five. Until next time, y'all be blessed.
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