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Guaranteed Human.

You have to understand that the majority of the time that black Americans is spent in this country,

it's been spent on the side of being an other.

And it still is today.

And it's important for someone to understand what the othering feels like

so that they can have

compassion for someone else. You can get into the complexities of the stories and the complexity

of the individual characters and everything they're going through. Ultimately, it's like,

listen, this is what it feels like. And if you look at that book and you go, it makes me

uncomfortable, understand that that discomfort is what other people are feeling. When you aren't recognizing book and you go, it makes me uncomfortable, understand that that discomfort

is what other people are feeling when you aren't recognizing them in their context and

what's really going on in the country.

Hey, VA fam.

I am, honestly, what an amazing idea I had to create a podcast where I can just get

incredible people to talk to me and people whose work I have gotten to enjoy. And this is the

first time I feel like, I don't think I've had an author of a fiction novel. We do lots of

author interviews at Brown Ambition, B.A. FAM. You know,

we do because we love our career and our finance books. But I am such a fiction fan. I mean,

my guilty secret as a personal finance and negotiation expert is that the majority of what I read has nothing to do with

business and finance. It is escapism. It is science fiction. It is fantasy, little romance. I love

books. They are so especially at a time like this crucial as like an escape route from reality sometimes.

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