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. Sister Souljah's fiction debut 'The Coldest Winter Ever' became an instant bestseller upon its release in 1999 and has sold more than a million copies. I want to write something that you never would have imagined.' 'And I say, as an author, if I write what any reader expects me to write then I've failed because that means the readers could have written the book. 'People have said, 'It's so unexpected,'' said Souljah. True to Souljah's insistence on consequences, the sequel begins with a hard shock: Winter is dead, stuck in a purgatory known as the Last Stop Before the Drop, and given one last chance to avoid eternal damnation. Finally, 22 years later, Winter is back in 'Life After Death,' out this week. 'But the character was always alive in my imagination,' Souljah said. She even planned to write a Ricky story (and still hopes to). So instead she wrote spinoffs: three books about Midnight, the handsome and capable lieutenant of Winter's father, Ricky Santiaga, and one about Winter's younger sister Porsche, who ends up in juvenile detention.

There are real consequences to the things that happen in real life.' 'Like ' Ta-da! Here she is,' and it's all good. 'I didn't want to feed the hood a fantasy that going to prison is a joke or a cakewalk,' she said. But because Winter Santiaga's story had ended with a mandatory 15-year prison sentence, Souljah felt she had to wait until Winter's time was served.

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