Laila Ali! The Million Dollar Woman!

Laila Ali is the daughter of Heavy Weight Champion Muhhamud Ali. She herself is an undefeated Heavy Weight Champion, Model, Television Show Host and Co-host as well, and the Co-author of her own Book "Reach." Laila wedded former NFL Quarterback Curtis Conway in the summer of 2007. She is another Dream Girl because she allows her light to shine in many ways and continues to do so by *reaching (refer to her book) out to others who need her courage and inspiration, as well as those that are less fortunate and she has a special place in her heart for the less fortunate.

Unlike so many celebrities in the spotlight, Laila refuses to take people and what she does for a living for granted and she proved that when she opened up to the world, truely like no other, leaving her audiences and fans driven to reach. She reached out to those who have been in her shoes and are there now, but with a touch of love; she did this by sharing her most intimate life learned lessons. The Book is beyond all of that and more! Laila is a beautiful, jazzy, intelligent, intriguing, vibrant, and vivacious woman who has the talent to reach even higher heights, and at the same time, she dares those from all walks of life to believe in themselves and stick to what you want out of life with grace, poise, dignity, humility, love, and patience. What other celebrity, regardless of status and direction from which their fame comes, wants you to succeed at whatever you touch? NO BODY at all comes close to her. She not only talks the talk, but she walks the walk! Like it was stated earlier, NOT ONE NAME comes to mind, but hers! You go girl, with your bad self!

DREAM AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS


A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
A daydream; a reverie.
A state of abstraction; a trance.
A wild fancy or hope.
A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration: a dream of owning their own business.
One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful: Our new car runs like a dream.

Stil I Rise

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history With your bitter twisted, lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise

I rise
I rise.

Sweet Auburn Avenue

The True Dream Girls in collaboration!

This was one of the most enlightening experiences I have had in many years. There were so many people from all walks of life there to tour the various areas where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had lived, played and grew up. The Civil Rights Movement has affected not only African Americans but different nations of people all over the world. It astounded me to see so many different races of people; Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Indians and the list goes on and on.

Praise God for people like Dr. King who help to shape this whole world!

A MIND BLOWING FANTASTIC TIME!

The Dream Tour !

My favorite part of the Auburn Avenue trip to the King Center was learning that there was so much that I did not know. I also enjoyed going to the Holocaust Exhibit, I learned that Black History is in fact connected to the Jewish. The Jewish synagogue was bombed because of it's affiliation with late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.