General
AS LONG AS ONE MAN OR WOMAN IS OPPRESSED, NONE OF US IS TRULY FREE.
Music
Girl Talk, Air, Portisehead, Everything But The Girl, Ella Fitzgerald, Philip Glass, The Beatles, Erasure, Finley Quaye, Astrud Gilberto, Fisher, Erasure, The Kronos Quartet, Roman, Dusty Springfield, Chet Baker, Elton John, Django Reinhardt, U2, Annie Lennox, Fatboy Slim, Lady Gaga, Charlie Parker, Moby, Amy Winehouse, Brian Wilson, Fergie, Kanye West, Scritti Politti, Stan Getz, Nightmares on Wax, Al Green, Ari Gold, Crosby Stills & Nash, Pearl Jam, Billy Porter, The Vitamin String Quartet, Joe Cocker, Ben Folds, Black Eyed Peas, Eric Clapton, Elvis, The Doors.
Movies
Powaquattsi, Raising Victor Vargas, M, Ma Vie en Rose, Flawless, Night Falls on Manhattan, Angels in America, Moulin Rouge, Blood Simple, I Heart Huckabees, Any Given Sunday, Amores Perros, The Ice Storm, The Nightmare Before Christmas, All About Eve, City of Angels, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Wages of Fear.
Television
Rachel Maddow, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Anderson Cooper 360, Nightline, House, Keith Olbermann, Family Guy.
Books
At the moment, books on Africa: From Chinua Achebe's amazing Things Fall Apart to Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible.
Anything by Pema Chödrön or Karen Armstrong -- thanks for raising the bar!
Lots by Alice Walker, Eckhard Tolle's Power of Now and A New Earth, The God of Small Things, Bird by Bird, The Magic Mountain, Catch 22, How to Lie with Statistics, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Four Agreements, and my own novels, including my forthcoming book, IF THE RAINS DON'T CLEANSE.
Heroes
Human Rights advocates, drag queens, civil libertarians, firefighters, ethicists, anyone who struggles against the odds to overcome adversity and break down barriers for those who will follow.