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YOU...THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON LIVING. Please support local artists, starting with me. Buy my new book and then tell a friend-to-tell-a-friend to also buy my book! Ten percent of all proceeds from the sale of my book will go to the Annie Pleasant Foundation for Children. Also, keep your eyes open for my next novel"The Head Mistress" & "Thus Spoke Brandi: A Book of Poems" (Coming to a bookstore near you)EMILY DICKINSON, WALT WHITMAN, ASSATA SHAKUR, BUDDHA, NAPOLEAN HILL, WALLACE WATTLES, PHYLLIS WHEATLEY, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, ALICE WALKER, SAUL WILLIAMS, MAHATMA GHANDI, KAHLIL GIBRAN, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, EMERSON, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR, SOLOMON, THE SUFI MYSTICS, BILL GATES, J. K. ROWLING, LANGSTON HUGHES, ZORA NEALE HURSTON, GORDON PARKS, AND MYSELF IN 10 YEARS. .. All Photos courtesy of Kim Roseberry (SheDriven Photography)
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MINE...Amid the Cacophony of Cries, by Brandi L. Bates (Brandi Bates)buy it today at www.51670.authorworld.com Khalil Gibran, Eric Jerome Dickey, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Great Gatsby, " F. Scott Fitzgerald "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, " James Joyce "Lolita, " Vladimir Nabokov "Brave New World, " Aldous Huxley "The Sound and the Fury, " William Faulkner "The Grapes of Wrath, " John Steinbeck "1984, " George Orwell "Slaughterhouse Five, " Kurt Vonnegut, "Invisible Man, " Ralph Ellison, "Native Son, " Richard Wright, "Animal Farm, " George Orwell "As I Lay Dying, " William Faulkner, "Go Tell It on the Mountain, " James Baldwin, "Lord of the Flies, " William Golding, "The Sun Also Rises, " Ernest Hemingway, "The Naked and the Dead, " Norman Mailer, "On the Road, " Jack Kerouac (ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF ALL TIME!!!) "The Age of Innocence, " Edith Wharton The Catcher in the Rye, " J. D. Salinger, "A Clockwork Orange, " Anthony Burgess, "Of Human Bondage, " W. Somerset Maugham, "Heart of Darkness, " Joseph Conrad, "Main Street, " Sinclair Lewis, Any thing by Ayn RAND, Aristotle, John Locke, Thomas Aquinas, Victor Hugo, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ludwig von Mises, Isabel Paterson, Sandra Cisneros': House on Mango Street, GABRIEL JOSE GARCIA MARQUEZ, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, anything by Arthur Schopenhauer, Cornel West, Malcolm X, James Cone, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Soren Kierkegaard, Herman Melville
MY MOTHER (BEVERLEE A. BATES), MYSELF (BRANDI BATES)NAPOLEAN HILL, WALLACE WATTLES, PHYLLIS WHEATLEY, JANET GARCIA-BURLEY, MARISSA JENNINGS, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, ALICE WALKER, SAUL WILLIAMS, MAHATMA GHANDI, KAHLIL GIBRAN, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, EMERSON, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR, SOLOMON, THE SUFI MYSTICS, BILL GATES, J. K. ROWLING, LANGSTON HUGHES, ZORA NEALE HURSTON, GORDON PARKS