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Well, looks like Madea got the last laugh. Tyler Perry's attempt to banish the ol gal didn't translate into box office gold. The one review I read of his new movie "Alex Cross" panned it and early indications don't give it much of a chance to do nearly as well as any of Tyler's other openings. One has to wonder if Perry's core fan base are people who are big book readers or are even familiar with the Alex Cross character. The advance trailers of the movie were dark and intense, not inspiring anything to laugh about. When it comes to totin a gun and making threats, Meadea seems to have kicked Alex's ass.

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After absorbing all the comments on this thread, I'm convinced more than ever that writing a book calls for a lot of hard work, dedication and confidence. But it is also an endeavor where the odds against financial success are stacked against an author. It's amazing how seductive validation is, and apparently a published book fulfills a compulsion to make the world aware of one's existence by making one's self-expression available for public consumption and critical praise. In other words, writing a book is not only a creative project but also an ego trip. To believe in your book is to believe in yourself. Not a critcism because I, myself, have gone this route and there are, after all, worst roads to travel. If they could, everybody would write a book. Obviously some people are more driven than most, because I've also reached the conclusion that, to me, trying to establish a career writing books is more trouble than it's worth; unless you are enthralled with the notion of ars gratia artis. Just some musings. As for "The Coldest Winter Ever", for the life of me, I could never figure out why this book was so acclaimed. It was not particularly well-written, the characters were materialistic, superficial, shallow, unlikeable people, the story line improbable, and the author had the gall to inject self-serving chapters about herself into the uneven plot. My negative opinion probably had to do with the fact that I was past middle-age when I read this book which came out in 1999, and I had been spoiled by previously reading good books, as opposed to Sistah Souljah's demograph who were a younger breed, new to the reading experience because they could not relate to what was out there. Literary critics who did appreciate this book undoubtedly recognized that it was in the vanguard of a new genre which made it noteworhty. I also never took to the author because she was so militant and afro-centric but always wore straight bangs and a long coarse looking pony tail hair extension that looked like a horse's tail. Why not a natural "do" reflective of your esteemed culture??? Whatever.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ONCE SPOKE, WE AS A PEOPLE WILL GET TO THE PROMISE LAND.DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING COULD NOT HAVE ENVISIONED,THIS WOULD BE STOPPED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE'S HAND.BLACK PEOPLE SELLING,BUYING AND USING DRUGS.BLACK PEOPLE BECOMING FIENDS,SABOTEURS AND THUGS..STREET GANGS MAKING COMMUNITIES BECOME MIND CONFINED GHETTO'S..GANG WARS HAVING BLACK MEN ON THE GROUND SILENT BELOW....SOME BLACK PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHT SACRIFICES OF LONG AGO.SOME BLACK POLITICIANS HAVE BECOME PLANTATION OVERSEER'S AND HOUSE NEGROES..BLACK CHURCH,THE SERMON FROM THE PREACHERS VOICE.LOVE A WHITE GOD,WHITE CHRIST AND REJOICE.CIVIL RIGHTS SACRIFICERS,WEALTH,THE BLACK RICH WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN.BLACK RICH IGNORE THE POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES THAT ARE DETAINED..BLACK MEN SELL THE WHITE MAN'S UNITED STATES GROWN COCAINE..BLACK MEN CAUGHT SELLING DRUGS ARE IN A C ELL CONTAINED...NO BLACK UNITY,BLACK PEOLE DIVIDED,SILENCE WITHIN LOUD CHAOS..WE AS A PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN OUR OWN SELF GENOCIDE EXODUS....

Affirmation by Assata Shakur I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine in windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts, And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity. I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path. I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen the bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted. I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. I have walked on cut glass. I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference. I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if I know anything at all, it is that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.

INNER CITY,THE GHETTO,PLACE NEAR UJIMA LANE...BLACK MEN HAVE GATHERED UNITY THEY HOPE TO OBTAIN.NORTH,SOUTH,EAST,WEST WITHIN THIS COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM..ORGANIZING A BROTHERHOOD OF BLACK MEN, THE REASON THEY COME..SALAAM AND HUJAMBO TO EACH OTHER THEY GREET.GIVING IDEAS FOR THE COMMUNITY THEY SPEAK..MALCOLM X PICTURE,THEY OBSERVE UPON THE WALL, .AS THEY SPEAK OF HIS ONCE STRONG VOICE, FROM THE PICTURE,THEY HEAR HIS VOICE BECKONING A UNITY CALL./FIRE APPEARS IN HIS EYES WITHIN THE FRAME.HIS PRESENCE THE PICTURE SEEMS TO OBTAIN...ONE MUST HAVE A MIND OF REVOLUTION THE VOICE FROM THE PICTURE SPEAKS..SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS,SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS ,ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE ONE MUST SEEK..IT IS TIME FOR BLACK MEN TO STAND TOGETHER IN UNITY FORMATION..TO SPEAK AS ONE,UNDERSTAND AS ONE,NO LONGER LOST IN TRANSLATION. .IT IS TIME FOR BLACK MEN TO STOP BEING COMMUNITY SABOTEURS AND FIENDS.TO SPEAK RESPECT TO BLACK WOMEN,STOP CALLING THEM NAMES OBSCENE .TIME FOR BLACK MEN TO STOP LETTING THE DEVIL LURES,HAVE THEM IN DETAIN..DEVIL KNOWS WHEN WE ARE DIVIDED, UNITY WE CANNOT OBTAIN .TO THE GHETTO YOUTH,BLACK MEN SHOULD BE INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION.EMBRACE THE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES FOR UNITY TRANSFORMATION..EACH BLACK MAN SHOULD COME AND BE INVOLVED.FROM WITHIN THE ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS WE CAN SOLVE.BLACK MEN SHOULD STAND TOGETHER LIKE AN ANCIENT AFRICAN ZULU TRIBE..WITH UNITED VOICES LOUDER THAN THE ROAR OF AFRICA'S LION PRIDES/.OBSERVING MALCOLM X PICTURE IN SILENCE.THE MEN ARE CONVINCED THEY WERE IN MALCOLM X PRESENCE....