A Needed Dose of Hope: Our Conversation with Kwame Alexander
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
Peace By Peace Productions
3.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The world feels very hopeless right now. This week's episode is a piece of magic that we hope makes it easier, even if just for an hour. We're revisiting one of our very favorite episodes with one of our very favorite people. Kwame Alexander joined us in 2021 to discuss his book "Light for the World To See: 1,000 Words on Race and Hope." His poetry, his words, and his spirit lifted us then, and we hope they will lift you now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Alyssa Malano, and I can't wait for you to read my new book, Sorry Not Sorry. |
| 0:06.0 | It's a collection of essays where I share my unapologetic thoughts on life, culture, activism, and motherhood. |
| 0:13.2 | You'll learn some things about me that I know you've never heard before |
| 0:16.6 | and share in my story as an activist. |
| 0:19.2 | This book is such a big part of my heart, |
| 0:21.6 | and so are you, and thank you for that. |
| 0:23.6 | Sorry not sorry is available now everywhere books are sold. Hi, I'm Melissa Molano. And this is Sorry Not Sorry. I am so excited about today's guest I can't even tell you. My guest is |
| 1:08.5 | Kwame Alexander. Kwame is a poet, educator, an award-winning author of more than 30 books for children and adults. |
| 1:17.0 | His newest book, Light for the World to See, A Thousand Words on Race and and hope is now available. |
| 1:27.4 | When I was a child, I wanted to be a fireman |
| 1:31.8 | and a doctor and a king. |
| 1:35.0 | The first two didn't work out too well. |
| 1:39.0 | In 2020, America was on fire. |
| 1:45.0 | Thousands of protesters marched on Washington last week to protest systemic racism and police brutality. The demonstration came 57 years after Martin Luther King |
| 1:55.2 | Jr's I Have a Dream speech. One morning we woke up and I was ready I had my clothes on |
| 2:00.5 | in my backpack and he says we're not going to school today and I say yes. |
| 2:05.0 | And he says because we're going to march over the Brooklyn Bridge and I say |
| 2:10.0 | uh-uh. I'm here to teach you about poetry. Are you ready for this? It is about to go down. |
| 2:15.0 | So look, I believe that words can change the world. I've always believed that. |
| 2:21.0 | I know it in my gut. It is a metaphorical thing, it is an |
| 2:25.8 | esoteric thing, and it's also a literal thing. The thing is, I write a bunch of |
| 2:30.1 | books for kids. I travel the world speaking to kids, or at least I did when the world was open. But how do I actually know it's working? Am I touching the lives? Am I actually inspiring, engaging, entertaining entertaining and empowering young people you hope and you right for that but is it actually happening and then like one day last week I get a lot of fan mail from kids and that's interesting to say as a writer to get fan mail. But hey, it is what it is. So I get fan mail from kids around the world and this kid wrote this fourth grader he wrote me this |
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