Shaka Senghor: Letters to the Sons of Society pt. 1

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Oprah sits down with New York Times bestselling author, mentor and criminal justice activist, Shaka Senghor, for a powerful conversation about his new book, Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom. After being incarcerated for nearly two decades for second-degree murder, Shaka walked out a transformed man in 2010. In this conversation, Shaka shares the lessons he's learned as a father to his sons Jay and Sekou. He also shares why he believes mindfulness, radical honesty and vulnerability are key to healing and living an authentic life.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now.
0:24.0	Hello, Shaka Senkor. Hey, how are you? Oh, so good to hear your voice. I just want to
0:32.3	welcome you back to Super Soul. I'm excited to share your new book with everybody called
0:37.8	Letters to the Suns of Society of Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty and Freedom. What a beautiful
0:45.3	title. It's actually a clarion call to black sons and all sons, actually, all families,
0:53.1	an invitation to love, honesty and freedom. But I know you wanted to speak directly to your
0:58.3	son. So congratulations, Shaka, on another really thoughtful, meaningful, beautifully written
1:05.5	book.
1:06.5	Thank you so much. I am truly just honored and excited to be here to really talk about all
1:14.2	the things that, you know, the book really reflects, you know, the love and honesty and
1:18.9	really the freedom. Because I think you only get free when you address what it means to
1:24.1	love and to be honest with yourself.
1:26.5	Well, that's a powerful quote. You only get free when you're able to address what it means
1:31.7	to love. I'm writing that down right now. You come up with some good ones. Thank you
1:39.1	so much.
1:40.1	Before we talk about Letters to the Suns of Society, which is now available everywhere, books
1:45.0	or so, I want you to remind our listeners of your story. Many of you who listened to
1:49.8	Super Soul, remember my first interview with Shaka, had such a profound impact on me.
1:55.4	I've been talking about him for years and even wrote about it in the book that I did
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