Q How did you, how did you come to the idea for, for the business that you created Good Books?
A So it started in my parents' house, selling books through Instagram DM. And when I look back, Good Books started May, 2019, but it really has roots in 19 thirties, rural Mississippi. When my grandfather was born, he, um, along with my grandmother were sharecroppers and he left school To help out his family and didn't learn how to read or write, but he instilled in his children, his grandchildren, the importance of that, and he made sure that they knew how to, even though he, he lived to be 82 and he never learned. He raised his family, um, and showed us how important it was, and we officially launched a month after me and my mom were just having a conversation over breakfast, and it was kind of a lull, and she said, why don't we start a bookstore? And I was like, yeah, why don't we? And it kind of just happened super fast after that. We knew that we wanted it to be all Black books. We knew that we wanted it to be mobile and be able to bring Literature and prose to the people. And looking back, I see, like, that's such a huge part of why I was raised the way I was. I feel like it was very intentional, um, with our family trying to, you know, move past that point in history where it was hard for Black people to get access to books and learn how to read, and it was seen as more important to work and provide for your family, which is, which is important and which helped them surviv…
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