My interests, wow I don't think there's enough space here to list them all. At the top of the list would be my relationship with God and the church I attend. Next would be my family, I'm a family reunion going and visiting type of guy. My family and my neighborhood is where my writing comes from.
Music
The Stylistics, Public Enemy, Diana Ross, Wu Tang Clan, Lionel Richie, The Jungle Brothers, Teena Marie, Tribe Called Quest, Rick James (home boy), Slick Rick, Nat King Cole, Donnie McClurkin, Saul Williams, Phylis Hyman, Sade, The Jackson Five, The Supremes, John Coltrane, George Clinton...in other words, I love good music no matter what the genre!
Movies
Lady Sings the Blues, Glory!, Boyz In the Hood, Sparkle, Cider House Rules, Do The Right Thing..., Platoon, Pulp Fiction
*I also like live theater; Blues for an Alabama Sky, In De Beginning, The Color Purple and Rent are among my favorites....
Television
Law and Order! and The Wire
Books
Raising Fences, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, A Lesson Before Dying, Malcolm X, Roots....100 years and the Black Man's tale is pretty much the same.
Heroes
Jesus Christ for obvious reasons! Then My Father, My Mother!
About me: Ntare Ali Gault is the founder of Njozi Promotions which includes The Njozi Poets and Poetic Voices. With Njozi Promotions he has promoted and produced poetry slams and showcasing spoken word concerts.
He's the author of the soon to be published book, "The Sun Will Rise: A Memoir of an Urban Family."
Gault has written, directed, produced and performed in five plays as well as appearing in Studio Arena Theater’s summer production of “The Man Who Came To Dinner”, the Paul Robeson Theater’s “Woman From The Town", Ujima Theatre’s “A Colored Museum” and James Weldon Johnson's "God's Trombones." He also adapted, produced, directed and was featured in the play "Lady Day and Langston" as part of a co-promotion with Ujima Theatre Co. in March 2008.
Ntare is currently featured on BuffaloNews.com performing his highly acclaimed poem "In This Life" as part of the Buffalo News series on poverty in Western New York. He was won poetry slams throughout the region, most recently in Toronto, On.
Ntare hopes to publish his book of poetry "Ancestral Links: Love and other Revolutionary Mumblings" in 2009, with "Inner City Glamour" hopefully soon to follow.
Who I'd like to meet: The people I would most like to meet are the ancestors who directly brought me to this place. I would like to know their physical make up. I would like to meet both of my grandfathers because they passed .. my birth.
Historically I'd like to meet James Weldon Johnson and be able to find out what made him write the beautiful poetry that he composed. Dr. Charles Albert Tindley, the father of Gospel music, what type of man could write songs that's still being song in churches across the world almost 75 years after his death. I was mentored in music and life by his granddaughter the late Lauretta Anderson, she told me so many stories that it felt like I knew the man.
Hi Ntare, Do you know where I could see or get a copy of your poem "In this Life" (or the words to it)? I tried to find the video but it appears to be gone from the Buffalo News Web site. I hope your friends don't think you're crazy because a dog is talking to you! hehe! My ma thought of that poem because she saw a sign that says "Hope". And she remembered the line that goes to the effect, "Hope is the biggest four-letter word." Anyway, you rock the dog house! Jasps
I NEED TO TELL YOU A SECRET (LO0K AT #5) 2) THE ANSWER IS (L0OK AT #11) 3) D0NT GET MAD (L0OK AT #15) 4) CALM DOWN DONT BE PISSED ( L0OK AT #13) 5) FIRST (L0OK AT #2) 6) D0NT BE THAT MAD (L0OK AT #12) 7) I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I LOVE YOU! 8) WHAT I WANTED TO TELL YOU IS...(THE ANSWER IS ON #14) 9) BE PATIENT (L0OK AT #4) 10) THIS IS THE LAST TIME IMMA DO THIS (L0OK AT #7) 11) IM NOT MAD WHEN IM SAYIN THIS (L0OK AT#6) 12) S0RRY (L0OK AT #8) 13) D0NT BE GETTIN ALL HYPE (L0OK AT #10) 14) I D0NT KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS (L0OK AT #3) 15) YOU MUST BE REALLY PISSED OFF (L0OK AT NUMBER #9)
(HAHA .. ii Luv U .. && have A Jollyy Chriistmas !]
As America is witnessing the change of the guard, as is Hip-Hop. Enter artist Edreys aka Billy Drease Williams with the perfectly timed release of the new hit single "Get Free," an anthem for change, for reflection and for action. What also makes this hit single so groundbreaking is the video may be the first of its kind, as this animated video was entirely hand-illustrated by the artist himself, truly making it unique with his own vision, artwork and direction.
"Get Free" is a visual masterpiece married with Edreys' uncanny command of the rhyme in which he communicates that no one is without flaw or without vice but as a collective everyone can independently and interdependently "break the chain" and GET FREE!
As America is witnessing the change of the guard, as is Hip-Hop. Enter artist Edreys aka Billy Drease Williams with the perfectly timed release of the new hit single "Get Free," an anthem for change, for reflection and for action. What also makes this hit single so groundbreaking is the video may be the first of its kind, as this animated video was entirely hand-illustrated by the artist himself, truly making it unique with his own vision, artwork and direction.
"Get Free" is a visual masterpiece married with Edreys' uncanny command of the rhyme in which he communicates that no one is without flaw or without vice but as a collective everyone can independently and interdependently "break the chain" and GET FREE!
