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CARRYING A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND GIFTS.

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>> AND VIEWERS LIKE YOU.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PROGRAM ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF WTJX, ITS BOARD, STAFF, OR UNDERWRITERS.

>>> WRUM TO "THE BOOK KASE" I AM YOUR HOST A SOMETIME WRITER AND LONG TIME READER.

I INVITE YOU TO JOIN ME AS WE EXPLORE THE BOOK CASE AND CELEBRATE VIRGIN ISLAND´S AUTHORS AND TALENT.

EACH WEEK WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO A LOCAL AUTHOR AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR WORK.

A STORY TELLER LIVES IN EACH OF US AND I AM SO EXCITED TO GIVE OUR HOME GROWN STORY TELLERS A CHANCE TO TELL THEIR STORY.

THIS WEEK´S GUEST ON THE BOOK CASE IS THE AUTHOR OF "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" AND I AM SO EXCITED TO WELCOME HIM.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

>> THANK YOU.

>> MOST OF OUR COMMUNITY KNOWS YOU AS A CARDIOLOGIST, A LONG ESTABLISHED PHYSICIAN IN THE TERRITORY.

SO TODAY WE ARE GETTING TO KNOW ANOTHER SIDE OF YOU WHICH IS THE CREATIVE AND THE WRITER.

WHEN DID YOU FIRST START WRITING?

>> WELL, SINCE WE ALL WENT THROUGH SCHOOL I STARTED WRITING BEFORE I BECAME A DOCTOR.

I ENJOYED WRITING IN HIGH SCHOOL AND BOOK REPORTS AND WHAT HAVE YOU.

I HAD GREAT TEACHERS AND MY PARENTS WHO OFTEN MARKED UP MY PAPERS AND IT WAS FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I HAD TO RETYPE THEM AND WHAT HAVE YOU BUT I REALLY ENJOYED WRITING ALL THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.

I WROTE SOME ARTICLES AND JOURNALS FOR MEDICINE AS WELL, TOO.

AND A NUMBER OF ESSAYS FOR PRESENTATIONS, SO THAT IS REALLY I THINK WHERE I STARTED AT LEAST ON THIS QUEST.

>> FOR MORE ON THE TECHNICAL WRITING SIDE.

>> YES.

THEN I THOROUGHLY ENJOY READING AS WELL.

AS YOU SAID, WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL AND I THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD TELL THEIR OWN STORY.

>> SO FIRST I LOVE YOUR TITLE.

WHAT LED TO THAT TITLE?

>> IT WENT THROUGH A NUMBER OF ITERATIONS.

QUOTES FROM DANTE AND DANTE´S QUOTES AND I FIGURED IT WOULD CLASH WITH THE OTHER DANTE.

>> THE REAL DANTE, THE OTHER DANTE.

>> THE VERY FAMOUS ONE.

BUT I DO IT LIKE ILL LIT RATION, SO QUOTES AND QUIVER SORT OF FIT THAT BILL AND IT REALLY STUCK.

>> OKAY.

SO YOU THREW OUT, YOU KNOW, TIPS FROM DANTE.

WHAT WAS REALLY PLAN B OF "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" THAT DIDN´T PAN OUT?

>> I THINK PLAN B WAS A DISTANT PLAN.

QUOTATIONS, DPG QUOTES AND WHAT HAVE YOU BUT MY DAUGHTER REALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS A LITTLE PRESUMPTIVE I GUESS.

ESPECIALLY USING MY FIRST NAME BEING IT IS A FAMOUS FIRST NAME SO I DECIDED TO USE QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER.

I DID GET INPUT FROM OTHER PEOPLE ABOUT THAT AND A NUMBER OF PEOPLE REALLY LIKED THE TITLE.

>> SO WHY QUOTES?

WHY NOT POETRY, SHORT STORIES, NOVEL.

WHAT LED YOU TO JUST A COLLECTION OF QUOTES?

>> WELL, I THINK THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY FIRST BOOK.

AND SO THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST OF MANY AND I PLAN ON DOING A SECOND EDITION.

I ACTUALLY HAVE MORE QUOTES AND I´VE WRITTEN IN THIS ONE ADDITIONAL QUOTES THAT I HAVE COME UP WITH.

SO THERE WILL BE A SECOND EDITION.

>> WONDERFUL.

>> AND SO I WANTED THAT TO BE FIRST BUT I THINK I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO WRITE SOME NONFICTION AND FICTION BUT NONFICTION IS VERY DIFFICULT AND I´VE READ A NUMBER OF NONFICTION BOOKS AND THE RESEARCH THEY HAVE TO DO IS TREMENDOUS.

I´M NOT SURE I HAVE THE TIME TO DO THAT BUT I HAVE THE DESIRE.

HOPEFULLY I´LL GET TO THAT POINT.

TO REALLY DO IT ONE HAS TO HAVE A MASTERS OR Ph.D TO REALLY DELVE INTO AND BECOME PART OF THE STORY YOU ARE GOING TO TELL.

>> YOU JUST MENTIONED TIME.

YOU ARE A FULL-TIME DOCTOR, A CARDIOLOGIST.

>> CORRECT.

>> HOW DO YOU BALANCE WRITING WITH THE DEMANDS OF YOUR DAY JOB?

>> TO GET MOST OF THESE QUOTES ACTUALLY TOOK ABOUT MAYBE TWO YEARS OVER A TWO-YEAR SPAN AND OFTEN TIMES I´D COME UP WITH A QUOTE AND WRITE IT DOWN QUICKLY.

MY WIFE WOULD SAY THAT I´D STOP MID SENTENCE AND START WRITING A QUOTE DOWN.

IT WAS FRUSTRATING TO HER BUT SHE UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE PROCESS WAS.

ONCE I THOUGHT OF A QUOTE IF I DIDN´T WRITE IT DOWN IT WAS LOST.

>> SO IN YOUR QUOTES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK YOU HAVE YOUR QUOTES, YOU CREATED A THEME.

>> YES.

>> TIME HISTORY EVOLUTION, MEDICINE, AND ENVIRONMENT.

>> RIGHT.

>> WHY DID THE FIVE CATEGORIES SPEAK TO YOU?

>> WELL, I THINK PART OF IT WAS BECAUSE IT CREATED AN ACRONYM AND SO I HAD TO COME UP WITH THE PROCESS AND MY EDITOR WANTED ME TO WRITE -- I DO A LOT OF THINKING BEFORE I ACTUALLY WRITE.

I THINK THAT I NEEDED TO HAVE A STORY TO TELL.

AND THE STORY WAS AROUND THEMES.

AND IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO DO IT LIKE THAT.

OF COURSE I HAD, YOU KNOW, CATEGORIES THAT WERE TIME, HISTORY, EVOLUTION, MEDICINE, AND ALSO EVOLUTION.

SO THOSE ARE JUST FIVE OF THE CHAPTERS THAT I HAVE.

>> HOW HEAVILY WAS YOUR WRITING AND THESE QUOTES INFLUENCED BY YOUR BACKGROUND AS A SCIENTIST AND AS A DOCTOR.

>> A NUMBER OF THEM.

A NUMBER OF THE QUOTES WERE BECAUSE OF PATIENTS AND WE WERE TALKING AND I´D OFTEN COME UP WITH IDEAS BASED ON WHAT THEY SAID OR I SAID AND REALLY JUST THE MOMENT.

THESE WERE MOMENTOUS AND FULFILLING QUOTATIONS I HAD.

>> IT TOOK YOU ABOUT TWO YEARS TO WRITE THIS BOOK.

>> CORRECT.

>> FROM START TO FINISH FROM START OF THE IDEA TO PUBLICATION.

TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT PROCESS.

>> THE PROCESS BEGAN IN 2008.

>> WOW >> I STARTED WRITING QUOTES.

>> THAT´S 12 YEARS.

>> RIGHT.

I WASN´T PLANNING ON WRITING A BOOK AT THAT TIME UNTIL I DID A CONFERENCE, FAMILY CONFERENCE ABOUT OUR FAMILIES, OUR WEST INDIAN FAMILIES AT THE ALFRED O HEATH CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN ISLANDERS AND HAD TO GIVE A PRESENTATION.

I WAS NOT PREPARED.

I FIGURED THEY´D WANT THE OLDER INDIVIDUALS IN THE FAMILY TO GIVE THE FAMILY HISTORY BUT THEY CHOSE ME.

SO I WROTE OUT A SPEECH THAT HISTORY IS A THREAT TO OUR EXISTENCE.

A FRIEND OF MINE ON FACEBOOK SAID HEY THAT WAS A GREAT QUOTE.

SO THAT WAS THE IDEA I HAD WHERE I DECIDED I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK AND PUT ALL THE QUOTES TOGETHER.

AT THAT TIME I HAD MAYBE A HUNDRED QUOTES OR SO TO MY NAME AND THEN FROM THEN IT JUST TOOK OFF BECAUSE I WAS PUTTING WORDS TOGETHER SO THAT THEY WOULD MAKE SENSE AND I THINK THE QUOTES ARE REALLY THE SHORTEST DISTANCE YOU CAN GET TO MAKE A POINT.

YOU CAN BASICALLY TELL SOMEBODY A QUOTE, YOU KNOW, AND IF THEY GET THE POINT, THEN IT´S IMPORTANT.

SO YOU DON´T HAVE TO GIVE THEM A LONG DIATRIBE OF A PARAGRAPH FOR THEM TO GET THE POINT.

>> SO ONCE YOU ARRIVED AT THE IDEA YOU WANTED TO DO A BOOK OF QUOTES AND YOU PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT THE PROCESS OF FINDING A PUBLISHER AND GETTING YOUR QUOTES FROM I GUESS YOUR LAP TOP INTO YOUR BOOK?

>> WELL, ACTUALLY IT WAS BY HAPPENSTANCE.

AND OF COURSE WE´RE IN THIS DIGITAL AGE AND SO THESE COMPANIES ARE SENDING YOU INFORMATION.

I JUST SORT OF SAID YES SURE I´D LIKE TO WRITE A BOOK SOME DAY.

SO AUTHOR HOUSE IS THE PUBLISHER AND THEY KEPT ON APPROACHING ME BY INTERNET OR THROUGH THE INTERNET TO WRITE THIS BOOK.

SO I BASICALLY STARTED WRITING IT AND THEY WERE VERY GOOD IN TERMS OF GETTING THE INFORMATION TOGETHER AND WANTED ME TO PUBLISH IT A YEAR BEFORE I REALLY WANTED TO PUT IT TOGETHER.

I DID A FAIR AMOUNT OF THE WORK MYSELF.

IT IS A SELF-PUBLISHING COMPANY AND SO I ACTUALLY HAD MY OWN EDITOR.

IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE.

I DIDN´T WANT A BAD PRODUCT OUT THERE.

>> OF COURSE >> I WANTED TO BE SURE IT WAS TRULY MY QUOTES AND THE ISSUE WITH WRITING QUOTES IS YOU READ SO MANY THAT YOU´RE NOT SURE.

OKAY.

DID I ACTUALLY GET THAT FROM SOMEBODY ELSE?

BUT I USED A Q TEXT SCANNER TO DETERMINE THESE WERE ACTUALLY ORIGINAL QUOTES.

IT WAS GREAT.

I THINK BACK IN THE DAY WHEN YOU HAD TO DO IT YOURSELF -- >> YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO A LOT OF RESEARCH.

>> -- JUST TO MAKE SURE.

>> SO YOU´VE WRITTEN FOR YEARS.

YOU STARTED WRITING IN SCHOOL.

SO NOW WITH YOUR BOOK WITH "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" JOINED THE CANON OF VIRGIN ISLANDS WRITERS.

CONGRATULATIONS.

>> THANK YOU.

>> WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP HERE IN OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS WHAT WAS YOUR EXPOSURE TO VIRGIN ISLANDS WRITERS, TO LOCAL AUTHORS?

>> I WAS NOT EXPOSED TREMENDOUSLY TO THEM.

WE HAD OUR STANDARD BOOKS TO READ IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HAD TO DO BOOK REPORTS AND DO RESEARCH AND WHAT HAVE YOU.

I DON´T THINK WE WERE REALLY EXPOSED AND THAT IS A SHAME.

I THINK WE SHOULD BE.

THERE ARE GREAT WRITERS AND I CAN´T PROFESS THAT I KNOW A NUMBER OF THEM.

I´VE BEEN, I THINK MY GENRE RIGHT NOW IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND I JUST FINISHED "CAST" AND IT IS A BRILLIANT BOOK BY A BRILLIANT WRITER.

SHE WENT TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

I WENT THERE AS WELL.

>> THAT IS WHERE WE´RE GOING TO FALL OUT BECAUSE I AM A HAMPTON GRAD.

>> WE INCLUDE THEM ALL.

MY YOUNGER BROTHER WENT THERE.

I THINK IT´S IMPORTANT TO GO TO THESE SCHOOLS AND UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY BECAUSE THE HISTORY IS TREMENDOUS.

AND SO THE READING THAT I´M DOING RIGHT NOW IS NOT ONLY MEDICINE BUT I DO A LOT OF READING ABOUT AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND, YOU KNOW, I ENJOY THAT.

>> YOU JUST FINISHED READING "CAST."

WHAT ELSE IS ON YOUR NIGHT STAND >> THE BOOK I AM READING RIGHT NOW IS THE SWORD IN THE SHIELD.

IT IS A BOOK ABOUT MALCOLM X AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, A REALLY GOOD BOOK.

I JUST FINISHED THE INTRODUCTION BUT IT GOES THROUGH THEIR LIVES AND HOW THEY ACTUALLY, THEIR PHILOSOPHIES CAME TOGETHER LATER IN THEIR LIVES.

THEY WERE THREE YEARS APART IN AGE AND DIED THREE YEARS APART AS WELL BUT THEY WERE TREMENDOUS INDIVIDUALS WHO JUST WANTED EQUALITY AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT´S ALL THEY WANTED.

THEY NEVER HARMED ANYBODY PHYSICALLY OR ANYTHING AND THEY ARE BRILLIANT MEN.

REALLY SMART INDIVIDUALS.

I ENJOYED READING MALCOLM X´S AUTOBIOGRAPHY MANY YEARS AGO.

>> FOR SOMEONE WHO PICKS OUT "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO GET FROM THIS BOOK?

>> I THINK THAT I WOULD LIKE THEM TO HAVE JUST AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUOTES AND TO GIVE ME THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUOTES REALLY.

AND ONE OF MY SEQUENCE BOOKS IS MAYBE WRITE A BOOK OF QUOTES OF THE BOOKS THEMSELVES SO MAYBE PICK TEN COOL QUOTES >> I PICKED OUT FIVE.

>> OKAY.

>> YOU HAVE THROUGHOUT YOUR BOOK YOU HAVE ALL OF YOUR CHAPTERS ARE AGAIN HAVE A THEME WITHIN THE GREATER THEME OF TIME, HISTORY, EVOLUTION, MEDICINE, AND ENVIRONMENT.

AND RELATIONSHIPS SOUNDS INTERESTING, IGNORANCE AND LEARNING SOUNDS INTERESTING.

LIFE AND DEATH.

I PICKED OUT SEVERAL QUOTES.

SO LET´S START WITH EVOLUTION IS NATURE´S THIS FOR THAT.

>> QUID PRO QUO.

I WOULD HAVE USED THAT.

I DIDN´T WANT TO BORROW IT FROM THAT PERIOD OF TIME ABOUT A YEAR AGO I GUESS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT QUID PRO QUO.

SO I THINK THAT, WHAT PANG IS THAT ON?

SO BASICALLY WITH EVOLUTION I BELIEVE THEY ARE ORGANISMS WITHIN OBVIOUSLY ON OUR PLANET AND THERE IS A GIVE AND TAKE.

BASICALLY WE CAME OUT BY LOTS OF GIVES AND TAKES AND IT IS BY HAPPENSTANCE WE ARE HERE.

WE WERE THE ONES THAT SURVIVED AND THAT IS THE CASE FOR EVERY ORGANISM HERE.

A MILLION YEARS FROM NOW WE MAY NOT BE HERE.

THERE MAY BE A DIFFERENT ORGANISM.

>> I THINK FOR THE READER OF QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER WHAT WE -- IN READING IT TODAY I´M SURE IF I PICK UP THE SAME BOOK A YEAR FROM NOW IN A DIFFERENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, YOU KNOW, CHANGING CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT, THAT MY INTERPRETATION AND PERCEPTION OF THE QUOTES WILL BE SHIFTED BY WHAT IS GOING ON AND SO WHEN I READ EVOLUTION IS NATURE´S THIS FOR THAT WHEN WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IN OUR WORLD JUST A BATTLE OF SCIENCE AND BELIEVERS AND WHO DOESN´T BELIEVE IN ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I SAID, WOW.

THIS IS A GREAT QUOTE.

>> I LIKE WOLVES NOW.

AND TWO YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, WOLVES ARE COOL.

I´M NOT, NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THEM.

BUT THERE IS AN ARTICLE I HAD THE TITLE WAS WOLVES CAN CHANGE THE PATH OF A RIVER.

HOW CAN A WOLF CHANGE THE PATH OF A RIVER?

WHEN YOU LISTEN TO A WOLF IN THE ENVIRONMENT THEY CAN CONTROL THE DEER AND ANTELOPE WHICH ACTUALLY EAT THE GRASS SO BY CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENT OR THE TUNDRA PER SE YOU CAN CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE RIVER SO THE RIVER ACTUALLY BECAME MORE CIURCIU US TO BY LIMITING THE POPULATION OF ANTELOPE AND DEER BY THE INTRODUCTION OF WOLVES.

>> AMAZING.

>> FRIENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS.

THE QUOTE THAT I PICKED THAT SPOKE TO ME WAS A PERFECT FRIEND HAS MANY IMPERFECTIONS.

>> THAT IS TRUE.

>> ONE OF US IS PERFECT -- NONE OF US IS PERFECT OF COURSE.

A LOT OF THESE QUOTES ARE UP FOR OTHER INDIVIDUALS TO INTERPRET.

WE ARE NOT PERFECT AND THE FACT THAT PERSON HAS MANY IMPERFECTIONS MAKES THEM A BETTER PERSON BECAUSE YOU CAN DEAL WITH THEM BETTER.

IF YOU HAD A FRIEND WHO WAS PERFECT YOU PROBABLY WOULDN´T WANT TO BE AROUND THAT FRIEND TOO MANY TIMES.

>> WHAT I THOUGHT OF WHEN I READ THIS AND WHEN I WROTE IT DOWN I THOUGHT ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND THAT SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY CREATES AN AURA OF PERFECTION WHEN IT REALLY DOESN´T EXIST.

>> TRUE.

WE DON´T SEE THE FLAWS OR THE STRUGGLES JUST PERFECTION.

>> THAT IS TRUE.

I THINK WE LEARN MORE FROM OUR MISTAKES THAN OUR VICTORIES.

>> I THINK WE HAVE TO.

THE VICTORIES, YES, A VICTORY, BUT I LEARNED DEFINITELY MORE FROM THE MISTAKES.

>> SO POLITICS AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.

INTERESTING CHAPTER TITLES.

UNDERSTANDING PEOPLES, PLACES, AND POLITICS IS UNDERSTANDING CULTURE.

>> YES.

I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF SOCIETY.

NOT JUST THE PEOPLE THE POLITICS TOO.

WE ARE GOVERNED BY OUR ENVIRONMENT ALL THE TIME.

>> I THINK SOMETIMES LIKE AN EFFORT TO SEPARATE CULTURE LIKE CULTURE STANDS BY ITSELF AS OPPOSED TO CULTURE BEING INFLUENCED BY THESE OTHER THINGS AND HAVING THE ABILITY ALSO TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE.

THE FACT THAT YOU PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER, I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS.

>> AND LIT RATION IS A POWERFUL TOOL ONE CAN USE AND IN THE BOOK "CAST" SHE USES A LOT OF METAPHORS, TOO.

I REALIZE I WAS USING A LOT OF METAPHORS AS WELL.

>> SO LIFE AND DEATH.

STAY WOKE WHILE YOU´RE LIVING.

>> WHILE WE ARE ALIVE WE NEED TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR THE FUTURE SELF OR FOR YOUR OFFSPRING AND I THINK THAT MALCOLM X, ALL OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS MADE IT BETTER FOR US TODAY.

AND THE NUMBER OF US MAY THINK THAT THINGS GOT BETTER BUT SOME THINGS ARE BETTER AND I WAS LISTENING TO AN AUTHOR WHO IS A PROFESSOR AT PRINCETON AND HE WROTE DEMOCRACY IN BLACK.

I HAVEN´T READ THAT ONE YET.

I JUST SAW IT LAST NIGHT.

A BRILLIANT MAN.

>> I LISTENED TO HIM ON TV.

WOW.

>> HE IS BRILLIANT.

HE BASICALLY SAID THAT, YOU PLEASE BE, WE HAVE A TIME NOW WHEN I CAN BE A PROFESSOR AT PRINCETON WHEREAS MY FATHER COULDN´T EVEN BE A STUDENT.

SOME THINGS HAVE GOTTEN BETTER.

SOME THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE TOO.

WE STILL HAVE THAT STRUGGLE AND I HOPE MY QUOTES CAN ACTUALLY BE A CATA LIST.

>> IT´S LIKE A JOURNEY TOWARD CONSCIOUSNESS AND THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A MOVEMENT TOWARD UNDERSTANDING.

>> RIGHT.

>> BECAUSE THE WORLD ISN´T -- THE WORLD IS EVOLVING AND AS PEOPLE WE´RE EVOLVING.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY DYNAMIC QUOTE.

>> WHEN YOU´RE ALIVE, DO THE THINGS YOU SHOULD BE DOING.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

YOU MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOMEBODY´S LIFE AND THEY MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MANY OTHER PEOPLE´S LIVES.

SO A NUMBER OF AFTER AMS WHO ARE MY HEROES AND HEROINES, THEY´RE INFLUENCE TO ME WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT.

I NEVER MET THEM.

BUT THEY ARE A MAJOR INFLUENCE TO ME.

>> WHEN IT COMES TO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, THE INCORRECTLY EDUCATED MAY DO MORE HARM THAN THE UNEDUCATED.

>> YES.

THAT IS TRUE.

YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BRILLIANT BUT ARE USING HISTORY IN THE WRONG MANNER CAN DO MORE DAMAGE THAN THE IGNORANT.

I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE INDIVIDUALS ARE TRAINED PROPERLY AND UNDERSTAND THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND BE FAIR TO EVERYBODY.

THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AFRICAN HISTORY OUT THERE, THE AFRICAN DIASPRA IS TREMENDOUS AND HAS TOUCHED EVERY PART OF THIS PLANET.

>> WHEN I READ THIS AND WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT IS THAT THE EDUCATED VOICE ISN´T THE LOUDEST VOICE AND TO CIRCLE BACK TO SOCIAL MEDIA WE´RE HAVING ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION THROWN AT US ESPECIALLY IN OUR NEWS CYCLE JUST 24/7 AND SOMETIMES THE LOUDEST VOICE THAT YOU HEAR IS THE ONE THAT´S JUST THE WORST.

UNEDUCATED, UNINFORMED, OR MAYBE TAKING A KERNEL OF TRUTH AND TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY AND YOU´VE SEEN THE DAMAGE THAT CAN DO.

>> TRUE.

>> SOMETIMES THESE PEOPLE HAVE THE BIGGEST PLATFORMS.

AND POSITIONS OF POWER.

>> WE NEED TO HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAINED, EDUCATED, AND ARE BEING FAIR TO EVERYONE TO BE THE SPOKES PEOPLE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, OUR WORLD COMMUNITY.

>> SO SINCE I´VE BEEN DOING ALL THE TALKING AT THIS POINT, DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE PASSAGE OR QUOTE SINCE I´VE SHARED MY FAVORITE.

>> GOSH.

I DO.

I WROTE A NUMBER OF THEM HERE.

THE ONE THAT IS ON THE COVER IS THERE IS NO GOOD PATH TO NOWHERE.

AND SO IF YOU´RE GOING NOWHERE, IF YOUR LIFE IS JUST HORRIBLE, THEN WHATEVER PATH YOU ARE TAKING PROBABLY ISN´T GOING TO BE A GOOD PATH.

UNLESS YOU ARE DEVIATED FROM THAT PATH.

AND SO THE CONCEPT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, NOTHING IS A BAD THING.

MEANING THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE, BE ON A GOOD PATH TO A GOOD PLACE.

>> FROM YOUR QUOTES I AM ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND REMEMBER THE THOUGHT PROCESS OR TRIGGERED YOU TO WRITE THE QUOTES?

>> SOME DO.

AS I WAS DOING THEM I THOUGHT I REALLY SHOULD PUT THE DATE AND WHAT HAVE YOU BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO CUMBERSOME AND I PROBABLY WOULDN´T HAVE PUT IT IN THE BOOK ANYWAY.

SO A NUMBER OF THEM.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES IS DEALING WITH IGNORANCE IS LIKE PUSHING JELLO THROUGH STEEL >> I SAW THAT.

LET´S TALK ABOUT IT.

>> AND SO I WAS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH A FAMILY MEMBER AND JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW CERTAIN THINGS OR THEY HAVE A PER VERSE ATTITUDE ABOUT SOMETHING.

I SAID, GOSH.

JUST LIKE PUSHING JELLO THROUGH STEEL.

I HAVE TO WRITE THIS ONE DOWN.

I THINK IT IS A PRETTY GOOD ONE.

>> JUST IMAGINE TRYING TO PLACE JELLO THROUGH A STEEL WALL AND YOU CAN´T DO THAT.

IT IS SO BASICALLY IF SOMEONE WANTS TO REMAIN IGNORANT YOU CANNOT CONVINCE THEM OF ANYTHING.

WE SEE IT A LOT IN TODAY´S WORLD.

WE JUST NEED TO ACCEPT THE SCIENCE.

THERE ARE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SPENT THEIR WHOLE LIVES DOING THIS AND SO WE CAN HAVE CELL PHONES AND CARS AND WHAT HAVE YOU.

IF YOU DON´T BELIEVE IN THAT STUFF, THEN DON´T HAVE A CAR OR GO BACK TO WHERE WE WANT TO GO TO BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

>> RIGHT.

BUT WHAT WE SEE SO MANY TIMES IN OUR TIME IS PEOPLE ARE PICKING AND CHOOSING.

>> CORRECT.

>> I WANT THIS BECAUSE I LIKE THE -- I BELIEVE IN THE TECHNOLOGY AND I LIKE THE PHONES AND ELECTRIC CARS BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE TELL YOU I DON´T BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION.

>> CORRECT.

I THINK MAN HAS TO REALIZE THAT WE ARE -- THE UNIVERSE REALLY HAS, WE´RE PRETTY MUCH NONEXISTENT.

IF WE DISAPPEAR TODAY THE UNIVERSE WOULD NOT PICK UP AT ALL.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS WAS ONE THAT CARL SEGUIN WAS THE ORIGINATOR OF.

HE WAS A SCIENTIST AND HE ASKED VOYAGER ONE, NASA TO TELL VOYAGER ONE TO TURN HIS CAMERA AROUND AND TAKE A PICTURE OF THE INNER PLANETS AND ALL YOU SAW WERE STREAKS OF LIGHT AND A PALE BLUE DOT AND THAT WAS EARTH.

HE BASICALLY SAID EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO MAN HAS HAPPENED ON THAT PLANET.

WE NEED TO PRESERVE IT AND TREAT OTHER PEOPLE WITH RESPECT AND NOT HAVE WARS AND DO THE RIGHT THING.

>> I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE, A BIG PART OF YOUR THEME, THE ENVIRONMENT.

>> YES.

WE NEED TO PROTECT IT.

THIS IS PLAN A AND PLAN B IS NOT MUCH BETTER THAN PLAN Z. WE´RE LIVING ON THE MOON IS NOT ANY BETTER THAN LIVING ON MARS AND WHAT HAVE YOU.

>> HOW YOU APPROACH THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR QUOTES INFLUENCED BY YOUR EXPERIENCES AS A VIRGIN ISLANDER AND CARIBBEAN PERSON?

>> I THINK I NEED TO -- WE ALL NEED TO BECOME BETTER IN CONSERVING AND PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT.

SOMEONE COULD SAY, WELL, YOU DRIVE A COMBUSTIBLE CAR, A CAR THAT USES GASOLINE, WELL, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

I´M NOT A SCIENTIST.

I DON´T KNOW HOW DO THAT.

I GUESS I COULD WALK TO WORK EVERY DAY AND RIDE MY BIKE.

IT IS A POSSIBILITY.

>> NOT VERY SAFE.

>> EXACTLY.

WITH POTHOLES AND WHAT HAVE YOU.

THAT IS A POSSIBILITY.

I´M ONLY ONE PERSON AND IT TAKES THE ONE PERSON AND WHO IS GOING TO BECOME TWO AND THREE AND FOUR AND GO FROM THERE.

>> I LEFT MY TIME QUOTES.

THE BEST PROPHET IS TIME.

ALWAYS THE PREDICTOR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

IT´S OBVIOUS.

IN DUE TIME WHATEVER HAPPENS IS WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

>> RIGHT.

I ALWAYS TELL MY -- LOOK, I´VE BEEN ON THIS EARTH LONG ENOUGH TO SEE HAIR STYLES COME BACK AND CLOTHES STYLES.

>> AND BEING AN ENEMY OF TIME IS TRULY A WASTE OF TIME.

JUST DON´T FIGHT IT.

YOU NEED TO USE YOUR TIME WISELY AND RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE´S TIME AS WELL.

SO, YES.

>> SO FOR READERS OF "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" WHO ARE THINKING WOW, THAT´S A GREAT BOOK, HOW DO I TELL MY STORY?

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ADVICE TO THE CREATIVE PUBLISHING.

>> WELL, I JUST SAW A PATIENT TODAY AND SHE HAS BEEN THINKING ABOUT WRITING A BOOK FOR A LONG TIME.

I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT WOLVES.

YOU SHOULD TALK ABOUT GOATS.

SHE WOULD LIKE TO WRITE IT BUT SHE JUST HAS NOT SAT DOWN.

I TOLD HER, IT´S YOUR STORY.

YOU NEED TO WRITE IT.

>> THERE IS A STORY TELLER IN EACH OF US.

>> THAT´S RIGHT.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

DR. GALIBER IT HAS BEEN MY PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU AS MY GUEST ON "THE BOOKCASE."

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY AND TELLING US ABOUT "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" AND WE HOPE TO SEE MORE OF YOUR WRITINGS.

MORE "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER."

AND MORE WRITINGS AS YOU DEVELOP AND EXPLORE OTHER WRITINGS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

IT´S BEEN A PLEASURE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR LOCAL TALENT DR. DANTE GALIBER AND HEAR MORE ABOUT HIS BOOK "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER."

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON "QUOTES FROM THE QUIVER" OR ANY OTHER BOOKS FEATURED ON THIS PROGRAM VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.WTJX.ORG.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS AND WE´LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK WHEN WE TAKE ANOTHER BOOK FROM "THE BOOKCASE."

♫♫ >> THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PROGRAM ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF WTJX, ITS BOARD, STAFF, OR UNDERWRITERS.

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THIS BOOK STORE CARRIES A SELECTION OF BOOKS, GIFTS, AND FAIR TRADE PRODUCTS.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.UNDERCOVER BOOKS.COM.

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