Grammy award-winning musician Pharrell Williams will soon be known as an Author. 

Putnam Books for young readers have announced that Pharrell Williams has signed up for four picture books, starting with a celebration of childhood inspired by his hit song Happy.

The publisher has planned a first print run of 250,000 copies of Happy, which will be published on 22 September, and will feature photographs of children from around the world “celebrating what it means to be happy”.

For the last couple of weeks I have been hearing these interesting lyrics in a song that is being used to promote the upcoming season of "Being Mary Jane" on the BET Network. Finally, I located the song and lyrics and decided to share it with our readers.

Flawed Beautiful Creatures by Stacy Barthe

Sometimes we're insecure, we're fragile
Sometimes we laugh at each other to make ourselves feel better
Sometimes we lie, sometimes we say things
That we really don't mean
But in the moment, seem like the thing to do

[Chorus:]
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures

Is it a crime if a man kills to protect his own from harm's way?
Who will be the judge anyway?
What would you have done if the gun was in your hands
Feet were in his shoes?
Guess you'll never know what you won't do
'Cause in the moment might seem like the thing to do

[Chorus:]
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures

Sometimes we gotta lose it to find it
We gotta lose
Sometimes we win, we live a while then gotta die
Why? Why?

[Chorus:]
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures
We're all flawed beautiful people
We're all flawed beautiful creatures.

View the music video for Flawed Beautiful Creatures here.

Congratulations goes out to Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant on their novel, Far From The Tree going to the big screen.

Producer/Director Jessica L. Funches along with Chris Beal from Chris Beal Productions will be producing the project.

The producers really want to build the audience for the film starting NOW! If you are on Facebook, please go to the Far From the Tree - The Movie Facebook Page and give it a "LIKE," and also share the page and request your friends to "LIKE" it as well. If you are not on Facebook, please send an email to farfromthetreemovie@gmail.com, indicating your plan to see the film when it is completed and to spread the word to your friends, neighbors, community networks, book clubs, churches, alumni groups, Greek organizations, etc.. 

You can also post casting suggestions on Facebook and/or include them in an email. Who would you like to see as Della? Celeste? Ronnie? Niki? Everett? Doug? Will? Lester? Let them know!!

To learn more, be sure to visit Donna & Virginia's website at www.DeBerryandGrant.com.

Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer to director Ava DuVernay’s MLK film ‘Selma,’ which will have a limited release in the U.S. on Christmas day and will open wide on January 9, 2015.

Along with the trailer is the lyric video for Common and John Legend’s original song “Glory”, which was written for the film. The music has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Song In a Film.

“SELMA” is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for all people – a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and led to President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The film’s release will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the landmark legislation.

View the trailer here.

God Help The Child by Toni Morrison

Who isn't crazed with excitement for Toni Morrison's new novel? We don't know much about the upcoming book, but we do know that, like many of her previous works, it will examine race, family dysfunction, and how past traumas reverberate through to the present. If her past books are any evidence, we can also expect it to be utterly awesome.

God Help The Child is due in bookstores April 30, 2015. Be sure to add it to your reading list!

Wisdom, as you may be well aware, is a state of mind acquired over a period of time. No one is born with an inherent sense of wisdom. It is learned and developed in our minds as we grow, and as we make mistakes in our lives. A life without mistakes would be a fairly redundant one as there would be absolutely no scope for growth.

If you listen carefully to what the people around you say and if you have the ability to read between the lines, you will sense the wisdom that is imparted to you by every single human being. Many of us would not notice these words of wisdom, as we would be unable to perceive it, but that does not mean that it does not happen.

We have a tendency to cling onto wise words and thoughts about life and love by writers, world leaders, celebrities and superiors, simply because we are programed to listen to what they have to say. The wisdom that is imparted to us from other unlikelier sources more often than not simply gets lost in translation. Before you get into reading some wise sayings by famous people, keep in mind that wisdom is not collected, it is acquired. Learn from your own enriching experiences and pay close attention to detail.

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“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.”

- - Barbara de Angelis 

"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby..."

- - Jeanette Winterson

"Joy and hope are never separate. I have never met a hopeful person who was depressed or a joyful person who had lost hope...It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have the opportunity to choose joy. It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love."

- - Henri Nouwen

The wait is almost over for the thriller/drama, Gone Girl.

Gone Girl is an American mystery film based on the 2012 novel of the same name written by Gillian Flynn.

This film unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his beautiful wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Emily Ratajkowski and Tyler Perry.

Watch the trailer.