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Yeah, yeah. Good morning. Welcome to base Sunday, I'm Barbara Rogers This morning. We're coming to you from the Mexican museum in San Francisco where the works of the renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are on exhibit now that's free to back there. She's been dead for more

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than 30 years but her work is still very popular, almost more popular today than it was when she was alive. In fact, there are bits of freedom all over this museum, so much so that you get a little spooky feeling sometimes when you see her eyebrows

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on a pair of shoes, I'll tell you more about that later on in the program. But first I'd like to tell you about a contemporary artist. This one is a writer and she lives right here in the bay Area. She's written a new book called Waiting

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to Exhale and it's all about the relationships between black men and black women or the difficulty they have with those relationships. Her name is Terry Mcmillan and waiting to exhale has made her a celebrity with these tricks trip triples. This is good stuff at home with

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her eight year old son Solomon. Terry Mcmillan seems like a typical suburban mom. It's a barbecue and you have lunch. Thank you. Mhm. But when she goes outside her house these days, she's quickly reminded that she's no longer typical. She is now a member of the

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celebrities club, even though she doesn't like it saturday. I went to see dimensions dance. I couldn't even walk in the front door. I couldn't believe it all I'm saying is, wow, it's great. Everybody's reading. But my Lord, I mean at least 40 people stop me and

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I couldn't believe this. They are all clamoring for Macmillan now because of her new novel, waiting to exhale high on the New York Times best seller list for more than 10 weeks. Well, ma'am, it's against the law to burn anything except small amounts of trash in

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your own yard. It is trash. She said the book is the story of four women, good friends, all middle class, all black and all trying to find a good man but winding up with nothing but dogs instead, you need not be embarrassed because we still do

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want a man in our lives. Sometimes we go too far. I'm at the point now where And that's one of the reasons why I used the kinds of men that I did in this book. That we need to not let them get off the hook, even

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if we don't end up with and maybe the next woman that gets them, maybe they will have cleaned up their acts a little bit. So when Suzy gets home, she'll have herself a whole man as opposed to remnants. You know, Macmillan's writing rings so true that

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after her standing room only readings, audiences talk about characters as though they know them. He comes back to Robin Sad Story or baby. I miss you. Same line and praised the woman who's telling it like it is. I don't do a lot of pleasure reading And

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I'm already telling a lot of my partners about the book. I think it's a book they should read. What it does is it speaks to the kinds of issues that women, whether they're black or white or any race or background are facing these days. Speaking for

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myself and some of my friends, we've been through the same kind of stuff. Some people would say you're being hard and then I'm being hard and I feel like this I have a right to be. I've seen too many unhappy women, too many of them and

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I've seen too many men get away with murder. Now I went through the struggle in my twenties, okay. I struggled a little too much in my thirties with men. I'm not struggling with one of my forties because Mcmillan has written so realistically about black male female

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relationships. She is now expected to be an expert on the subject. She doesn't want that job, she says, but she does share an insight into what she thinks is a major problem with all men and relationships. It's almost as if men have this tunnel vision as

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if they can't do more than one thing at a time. I mean, it's like the same reason why I've always heard athletes who can't have sex prior to a game or two days before a game, they just can't, you know, it's like it'll just mess them

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all up. Yeah, it's just it's just the opposite with us. We get energy from, from men. Um If you if you if we're in love and we're excited and stuff like that, it's like we get charged up and for them it's like they get zapped and

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their little brains just turn into jello or something and they can't focus. And I just find that to be pretty phenomenal now for those of you who are really big fans of terry Mcmillan, another one of her novels, disappearing acts has just been turned into a

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screenplay. She hopes it will be made into a movie sometime next year. So keep an eye out for that coming up. Next native americans speak out about health care and unemployment.