Happy Thursday yes it’s time for afterwork story and we salute all of our veterans yes because we know that the schools are not in session tomorrow and we just don’t take that as a long weekend or just like a holiday just to chill out but we salute those who have served who
Have protected who have honored so that we might be able to enjoy Liberty all right so what’s our book today let’s seeoo it is hey soulway soulway by L Nong Nong I remember the beautiful actress model oh she’s so gorgeous yes here’s a picture of her sway so
We forgive me but let’s uh let’s just Dive Right In because he just want to be able to enjoy this beautiful story silway was born the color of midnight oh she was very fortunate yeah beautiful brown my mom was a beautiful CoCo Brown and I said oh
Mama you never need to put any makeup on any foundation why why cover your face with that let your beautiful chocolate skin just glow that’s what I said but anyway that’s my mama she looked nothing like her family not even a little not even at all mama was the color of
Dawn hardly anyone at school looked like soe either people gave her sister Mish pet names like sunshine and Ray and Beauty oh they got that Backwards Baba the color of Dusk and Mee her sister was the color of High Moon people gave so names like Blackie and and night so felt hurt every time so she hid away while her sister made lots of friend friends isn’t that terrible that’s why when I hear
Students talk about one another I said oh no no no no no we don’t do that in here oh no we are all created special and beautifully we don’t tolerate that bullying and mean talk that’s why we were singing today happy talk by Nancy Wilson and Cannonball aderly happy talk
Talk about things that you want to do you got to have a dream if you don’t have a dream how you going to have a dream come true that’s the type of dialogue that our kids have to to have a habit of talking talking positive talk about the moon floating in the sky
Looking like a lily in a lake talk about a bird learning how to fly making all the music he or she can make happy talk talk about things you want to do so that’s what I’m saying these mean words night and and then we wonder why there’s so much
Cruelty as far as in the streets the car jackings because what are they feeding their hearts their minds and their tummies what’s their what’s their diet cruelty meanness so of course we’re going to see that manifested out in the streets car jackings robberies no type of compassion no type of sympathy empathy
Come on y’all we all have a role to play in this so dreamed of being the same color as her sister she wanted real friends too if we don’t get a hold of this right now some say it’s too late so she got the biggest eraser she
Could find and tried to rub off a layer of or two of her darkness that hurts oh sweetheart she crept into Mama’s room and helped herself to her makeup oh no she would hear about this from Mama oh so we decided to work from the inside out and ate only the lightest brightest
Foods can you believe this that some children actually feel this way with a stomach ache she went to bed early and turned to God for a miracle dear Lord why do I look like midnight when my mother looks like dog please make me as Fair as the parents I’m from
I want to be beautiful you are not just to pretend I want to have daylight I want to have friends if you hear me my Lord and would like to comply may I wake up as bright as the sun in the sky amen just like the sunshine we see in a
Bag when Mama came in to wake her for school the next morning so Rose to find not a trace of daylight in her midnight skin Oh seway told Mama Everything we have someone I was talking to today and probably 98% of what comes out of this person’s mouth it’s negative mean flashing out and you know hurting people hurt others of course and of course we can surmise that this person felt rejection early on and they felt
Like they weren’t worthy enough and then they just project that out into the world now what do we do we try to inject hope positivity joy peace from the outside in yeah you’re beautiful you’re enough Mama asked what is your name sway she muttered and what does it mean
Star talk about a star floating in the sky looking like uh Toy yeah peeking through the branches of the tree talk of about a girl talk about a boy counting all the ripples of the sea this is part of happy talk so his and children in general they’re all stars well his her
Mom reminded her that star meant seway and so a me star star You’re All Stars brightness is not in your skin my love brightness is just who you are as for beauty mama said rubbing so’s stomach the way she always did to comfort you are beautiful so Just the Way You Are
Do you understand what is going on with so many of our young people they they want to change their everything they don’t think they’re enough and then especially with social media oh with a comparisons oh it’s too much it’s too much for them they need to unplug for a little
Time I remember when I had some young people I was in charge of and then they were like what unplug I said and I predicted this day would be the way it is right now the amount of depression the amount of anxiety the amount of rejection constantly scrolling scrolling
On my life sucks oh I don’t have this oh that that’s for adults that’s for kids that’s for everybody well you are beautiful to me but you can’t rely on what you look like to make you feel beautiful my sweet real Beauty come real beauty comes from within from your mind
And your heart it begins with how you see yourself not how others see you now up to up you get and out you go up you get and out you go how could she as dark as she was have brightness in her how could she have
Beauty when no one but her mother seemed to see it how could she be a star oh yes honey hold your head up high as you can high enough to see who you are little woman life sometimes can be cold and hard hard and cruel but
Maybe no one else would tell you but you are Black Gold you are Black Gold that night a shooting star appeared at se’s window the night sent me the star said come with me ah so when hopped unto the star and off they went long ago at the beginning of time
Said the star there was night and day and they were sisters there was night and day it was created they loved each other very much okay so personification metaphor day night but people didn’t treat the sisters the same M look at that lovely nice pretty people gave day pet names like
Lovely nice and pretty people gave night names like scary bad ugly she felt hurt every time well Knight got fed up and walked right off the Earth Day stayed behind and enjoyed making everybody happy in the Sun but then day grew too long they began to really miss her sister so did everybody
Else yeah we need both night and day black and white there had to be a way to get her back day set off to find night and she did I miss you said day I miss you too said night but you don’t know what it is
Like to be treated badly for being dark you’re right I don’t they replied but what I do know is that we need you just the way you are come and see night returned and the people rejoiced we need the darkest night to get the deepest
Rest we need you so that we can grow and dream and keep our secrets to our ourselves the Stars chimed in brightness isn’t just for daylight light comes in all colors and some light can only be seen in the dark while day had a Golden Glow with night everything had a silver
Sheen elegant and fine yes indeed day told her sister when you are darkest is when you are most beautiful it’s when you are most you could it be that night did not need to change not even a little not even at all you’re perfect just the way you are
Remember Billy Joel song I love you just the way you are yeah don’t go mhm now that night and day were back together a little bit of night returned today in the form of Shadows and a little bit of day returned toight in the form of moonlight they were inseparable
From that moment on and promised to celebrate the brightness in each other whether people chose to see it or not celebrate who you are what you have oh that’s beautiful you see the star explained we need them both on their sunniest day and their Darkest Night and every shade in between
Together they make the world we know light and dark strong and beautiful isn’t this a wonderful read we need to be reminded so Rose the next morning beaming there would be no hiding anymore she belonged out in the world dark and beautiful bright and strong yes look at that beautiful smile
And if she ever needed a reminder of her brightness she could look up at the sky on the darkest night to see for herself let’s remind ourselves she is beautiful you are beautiful you are great soe felt Beautiful Inside Out yes you might hear some mean things throughout the day but remind yourself
That you are special oh that’s beautiful much like soe author’s note I got teased and taunted about my night shaded skin from Lita I pray to God that I will wake up with paler skin I tried all sorts of things to lighten my complexion my mother told me often that I was
Beautiful but she’s my mother of course she’s supposed to thing like that it wasn’t until I was much older that my feelings about my skin changed it helped me to see darker skinned women being celebrated for their beauty if they were beautiful I could be too I begin to see
Myself differently while both soe and I had to learn to see our Beauty I hope that more and more children begin their lives knowing that they are beautiful that they can look to the beauty in the world and know that they are a part of it and yet what is on the
Outside is only one part of being beautiful yes it is important to feel good about yourself when you look in the mirror but what is even more important is working on being beautiful inside Right charm is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord a
Man who fears the Lord a boy a girl who fears the Lord they greatly are to be praised cuz all this Fades all this fades it changes okay beauty that truly shines through that’s important the journey I went on was very different from soe’s Nighttime Adventure but the lesson was the same
There’s so much Beauty in this world and inside you that others are not awake to don’t wait for anyone to tell you what is beautiful know that you are beautiful because you choose to be know that you always were and always can be treasure it and let it light the way in
Everything you do I used to say it’s not so much how I look but it’s how I see right I want to be able to live from the inside out and look out and appreciate the beauty outside the trees the sky the clouds the sun I want to appreciate the
Creation yeah like this beam coming through yeah it’s cool it’s cool to dress up and to celebrate it’s more so your perspective how you see things all right Vash T Harrison the author illustrator she did a great beautiful job on all these beautiful illustrations let’s read about her she’s is a New York
Best-selling illustrator author so she writes books too one of her books little little leaders bold women and black history and she’s an NAACP image Award winner she earned her ba from University of Virginia with a double major in media studies and Studio Art and she received
Her MFA MFA masters of Fine Arts in film and video from Cal Arts where she rekindled a love for drawing and painting beautiful now she uses her love of both film and illustration to craft beautiful stories for children so she’s she’s found her happy and Lupita we know
About her she’s a Kenyan actress from Africa and producer her first feature film role was in 12 years of slave for which she received her Academy Award for best supporting actress as well as multiple accolades including the Screen Actors Guild award the Critics Choice Award the independent Spirit award so
Much so much so much so much she lives in Brooklyn go on ladies we’re so proud of you thank you for reminding us what true beauty is it doesn’t matter our skin shade our race listen we’re all created wonderfully fearfully especially for a time now so
Let our light so shine all right have a good evening in daylight or at night time cuz we know it’s about to get dark but you make sure that you shine through what
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