The Black Pages: The Memoir Setting Me Free by Antonio Ricardo Cannady
“All through Cannady’s memoir, what shines by way of is his honesty, humility and heartfelt want to assist others overcome their challenges.”
In line with society, to not point out his circle of relatives, Antonio Ricardo Cannady had zero probability of constructing one thing of himself. Born into an abusive family within the ghettos of Orlando, Florida, he got here up within the 80s with a complete technology of poor Black youngsters whose lives had been formed by a violent, unpredictable and unforgiving world.
A Childhood Formed by Violence and Betrayal
It was a world that left him emotionally stunted by the point he hit puberty. A world that advised him to belief nobody, not even himself. A world from which there appeared no escape, with nobody there to information him by way of the chaos. A world of poisonous love, gutting betrayals, escapist addictions, grueling labor, and the every day risk and actuality of violence.
Quick ahead forty-something years. Cannady has not solely confronted his demons however conquered them to a big diploma. He’s discovered success in stints as a screenwriter, musician, filmmaker and now as a neighborhood activist advocating for youth training necessities on emotional intelligence. The Black Pages: The Memoir Setting Me Free is his story of how he bought there — and the way he stays on the trail to changing into the most effective model of himself he will be.
Dealing with Demons and Conquering Adversity
If there may be one attribute that may be credited with Cannady’s survival on the curler coaster on fireplace in an earthquake that’s been his life, it’s this: braveness. The braveness to observe his passions. The braveness to step out of his consolation zone and take probabilities. The braveness to get again up after being knocked down. And essentially the most brave factor of all? Opening up his coronary heart to inform his story to the world.
The Black Pages is, by turns, susceptible and uncooked. Cannady pulls each skeleton out of his closet and into the sunshine of day. His violent upbringing and poisonous romantic entanglements. His struggles with habit and sobriety. His many missteps and misplaced alternatives. But additionally his perception and knowledge, hard-won from years of remedy, medicine and self-reflection.
We observe him by way of the highs and lows, from leveraging his athletic skills to get into a greater highschool to his struggles to finish a movie manufacturing diploma. From the cusp of a document deal to the halls of a drug rehab heart. From working within the hellhole of a slaughterhouse to a six-figure tv screenwriting gig. From a gun barrel jammed in opposition to the again of his head to the sensation that something is feasible once you set your self free. It’s as if Cannady has lived many, many lives. And he nonetheless has many extra lives left to reside.
Sharing Knowledge: The Path to Self-Actualization
All through Cannady’s memoir, what shines by way of is his honesty, humility and heartfelt want to assist others overcome their challenges. He reassures readers who had been born into comparable trauma and chaos that change is feasible, that you may take cost of your circumstances, beginning wherever you might be with no matter you might have, and constructing and rising from there. He demonstrates that it isn’t a easy, linear journey to success. You’ll backslide. However the universe will reward you for forgiving your self and attempting once more.
Cannady strongly believes that if he had the instruments of self-knowledge he wanted as a youth, he might have prevented the various patterns of ache he had inflicted on himself and others. However he additionally acknowledges that these experiences are what inform his successes, not despite, however due to. His gratitude extends not solely to the optimistic issues that occur to him however to the teachings the destructive experiences have taught.
Every challenge he’s ever undertaken, whether or not it resulted in failure or success, has been only a part of an much more bold and necessary challenge: self-actualization. It’s a challenge Cannady strives to share with all of humanity so we are able to every heal from trauma, achieve a vital understanding of ourselves and one another, and create a greater world collectively.
About Antonio Ricardo Cannady:
Antonio Ricardo Cannady is an impartial Filmmaker, Writer, and Neighborhood Activist, who at present resides in Los Angeles, California.
Publish Date: 4/9/2024
Style: Memoir
Writer: Antonio Ricardo Cannady
Web page Depend: 224 pages
ISBN: 9798881120481