If you loved Amena Brown on this week’s For the Love, you’re going to love this little bonus conversation. In Just One More Thing, Amena gets real about the dream she’d love to chase, the very specific summer joys she refuses to compromise on, and what it took to put her new book out into the world as her most fully herself.
🎤 Her secret dream?
Amena wants to be a background vocalist for Patti LaBelle. Yes, Patti LaBelle. 😂 She knows it’s a little ambitious, but she’s got the alto, the choir-girl credentials, and apparently a four-woman backup-singer vision ready to go.
🍑 What’s bringing her joy?
Summer peaches and heirloom tomatoes. And not those sad, pale grocery-store tomatoes in November, thank you very much. Amena will drive down the highway and buy tomatoes out of the back of someone’s truck in a paper bag, because apparently that’s how serious she is about seasonal produce.
📖 The bravest thing she’s done recently?
Putting her new book, Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl, out into the world. She says it’s the most herself she’s ever been in her work—and she even let her mom read it first, complete with a very specific warning about the language. 😂
🎥 Watch Just One More Thing above, then go listen to Amena’s For the Love conversation about leaving spaces that were hurting her, finding freedom, and what it means to finally get all the way free.
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