Living in the hood gives you an advantage because you see, hear, and experience things that you could not otherwise perceive or observe anywhere else within the city limits. Although few avoid police contact, it is still a training ground that develops the strongest minds. It develops the best actors and the best actresses. Scientific minds also came out of the hood . . . doctors from all fields of study have come out of the hood. If you research them and emulate their talents and skills, you will become just as great. Be proud to live in the hood because there is no better place (if you are receptive) that could totally shape you into a well-rounded human being. This book (Hood Talking in the Hood) will answer some, if not all, of the questions that you have been trying to answer for years regarding the enclosed subjects. These matters have been affecting our community to the point that disrespectfulness, brutalization, imprisonment, and death have been the outcome. We must correct these and all other issues that are causing us to lose sight of our individual, family, and societal values. I hope and I pray that you decide to not only question these issues but to do something about them as well. We must stand up and talk about what must be done to change and improve the conditions of our community. So let us stand and fight until we unite as one people . . . one nation pursuing truth, justice, and equality. If you apply the contents of this book to your life, it will not only enable you to communicate and function better, but you will become more enthusiastic and empowered to help others to come into a broader understanding of how to get along and relate to people. "Never before has there been such a book to display human consciousness in such a way." If any quote, concept, paragraph, or chapter inspires or enlightens you, don't hesitate to further encouraged and share its thoughts with your children, friends, and relatives. Like the drum beat of ten thousand years ago, we must communicate and pass on the traditions that kept us alive throughout the millennialism of our golden age. Our greatness is our destiny.
