riots she said publicly, "If Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?" Then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton denounced her. For a time, she was a member of the anti-racist rap group Public Enemy, and in the wake of the 1992 L.A. Souljah's outspokenness made her a flashpoint of national politics long before she wrote her bestselling novel. I want you to read books and be blown away because it was so close to your own soul and experience and you can take things from it and use it in your own real life." "I thought it alienated the reader, the way that it was written," she said. She also read Dante's "Inferno," which she didn't like. Preparing to invent her own underworld, Souljah researched religious texts for seven months, " nonfiction works that refer back to the major three books: The Torah, The New Testament and the Qu'ran." It doesn't resonate with what you can see with your eyes in the real world." "Growing up Christian, there's the devil and he has horns and a tail. "I didn't want to write a book where everything looks the same as how people expect or imagine," said Souljah. Though Winter's journey in "Life After Death" may take place largely in the metaphysical realm, there's still plenty of sex, danger and debauchery.
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