| Influences | Good poets, bad poets, citywide poets, stateside poets, countrywide poets, international poets, my peers who are poets, people who don't know they are poets, singers who are superstars, singers who are underground, hip hop artists with off-the-chain plots to resurrect hip hop to new heights like KRS One and Talib Kweli, my neurotic and loving mom, my invaluable father, my immortal brother, my stepparents, my rebellious stepsister, BBC World News, Radio France International, Oprah, The Golden Girls, my next door neighbors, my past lovers, ex boyfriend from high school, Guru, my sorority sisters, Mr. Cook, Padilla, that guy who said I look like an oil spill, the marry man who try to fuck me, the man I wish I could marry, Ghana, USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Spain, France, Australia, India, China, Greenland, Antaratica, North Pole, some of Europe, most of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, I guess that would mean all of Africa influences me, Africans who want to be white, Africans who love being African, Europeans who try to save Africa, Europeans who profit from Africa's current condition, Americans who love the "I AM AFRICAN" campaigns, Americans who don't believe they are Africans and hate the "I AM AFRICAN" campaigns, kids who can outsmart me, kids who are smarter than me, my insomnia, my fear, my goals, my ambitions, my hopes for being healthy until 2067, my desire not to be broke, my passion to have beaucoup ching-ching in the B-B, the people who claim I am good poet, the people who say they can't stand me as a poet, and many, many other things, place, and people who do and don't know they are my influences. |
