Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.

I'm Karen Hunter, and this week we are honoring Malcolm X.

So I thought I would end the week with another Malcolm, Malcolm Jamal Warner.

The first voice will be his from H in plain view, which is a spoken

word album that he put together, featuring of all people, Dr. Daniel Black, which I didn't know.

He was a part of this. It was amazing as I was listening back to this, how many places in which

we have crossed, like how much in alignment we are right now. I'm loving the

alignment. Malcolm Jamal Warner is a seminal talent, and I absolutely love how he sees the world.

The man is whole and healthy, and you can hear it and what he talks about and how he moves in

the world. So up next, my interview with Malcolm Jamal Warner.

Stay tuned. Vulnerability can be a scary thing, even when we're on the men. Black boys boast

bravado not to seem broken, and often so do black men. I see you looking for clues, searching for cues, longing to know what I'm not telling you,

as if I'm hiding in plain view.

Even though I speak my truth, for some it just doesn't seem to be enough.

But when red tables turn timidly, some say they tell too much when they talk.

My most intimate thoughts belong to me, like a woman's body when she says no. So I reserve the

right to go as far as I'd like, and though I live in the public eye, I don't subscribe to the

dog and pony show. I've learned to discern who cannot accept all of me. I read the room before I

speak because I find that folks flee from honesty like we retreat from love. Vulnerability can be a

scary thing, even when we were on the mend. Hiding in plain view. That, ladies and and gentlemen is the amazing voice available now go get it

it is the one and only some of y'all know them as theo let me welcome the great though

wonderful the amazing Malcolm Jamal Warner hi thank you Karen thank you much. Oh, don't be covered in coquettish.

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