| General | Writing, cooking, learning, laughing, loving, basketball, dancing salsa, activism, good poets, running, warm beaches with white sand, people that have mastered the fine art of telling the truth. | | Music | Artists that move me: Stevie Wonder, Dianne Reeves, Mary J. Blige, Lauren Hill, Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Angie Stone, nas, Gil Scott Heron, Public Enemy, La India, Ice Cube, Minnie Riperton, Chaka Chan, 2Pac, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Outkast, The Roots, Foundation Movement, Floetry, Mos Def, John Legend, Jill Scott, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, AZ, En Vogue, India Arie, Lady Enchantress | | Movies | My classics: Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Antoine Fisher, Silence of the Lambs, The Matrix, Crooklyn, Easy Money, There's Something About Mary, A Bronx Tale, Broadcast News, Fargo, American Beauty, Strange Days, Alfie, Friday, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, I Like It Like That, Office Space, Chasing Amy (my fave love story of all time), Cousins (my second fave love story of all time) | | Television | KILL YOUR TV - JBAN! This IS the matrix and tv is that long tube hooked into the back of your head. I'm still a robot sometimes, so there are some shows I try not to miss: Real Time with Bill Maher, Weeds, Def Poetry Jam, Basic Black, The Wire, Turn It Up with G. Garvin, The L Word, Boondocks, Seinfeld, Inside the NBA | | Books | Some books that I FELT: all about love by bell hooks; The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley; the Cook and the Carpenter by June Arnold; Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat; My House by Nikki Giovanni; Cuando era Puertoriquena by Esmeralda Santiago; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Charlotte's Web by E.B. White; When Harlem Was In Vogue by David Lewis; Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde; The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood; She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb; Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah | | Heroes | MOST OF MY HEROES DON'T APPEAR ON NO STAMP. I herald people that live their life in a way that reflects their love for self and awareness of the universe. I respect and admire those individuals that create a synergy between what they want to do, need to do, love to do and what makes them feel right with the world. |
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