| General | Poetry, Music, Chess, Movies, Writing, Internet, Tennis, Making 'Things to Do' lists, Seeing the fabric of the Black community repaired from the damage Slavery, Jim Crow and other acts of racism have inflicted.
Favorite site: HARVEST INSTITUTE | | Music | Artists: Van Morrison, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, Tom Petty (& the Heartbreakers), Mississippi John Hurt, James Carter, Erskine Hawkins (my dad intro'd me to his music), Count Basie, Hal Ketchum, Charley Pride, Marty Stuart, George Strait, Majek Fashek and many more.
Favorite songs: Slow Burn (T.G. Sheppard), Africa Unite (Bob Marley), Let It Be (The Beatles), We Ride (Mary J. Blige), C.C. Rider (Mississippi John Hurt), Sweet Soul Music (Arthur Conley), Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison's original and Cassandra Wilson's remake version), Your Last Day (Joey DeGraw), We Belong Together & Chariot (Gavin DeGraw), Shouldn't It Be Easier Than This (Charley Pride), I Wanna Know (Joe), and Get Right Back to Where We Started From (Maxine Nightingale). | | Movies | Comedies: Quick Change, Rushmore, Slapshot, There's Something About Mary, King Pin, Memron, Election, Hangin' With the Homeboys
Dramas: Rambling Rose, Dogfight, Freedom Song, Ruby in Paradise, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Last Stand at Wounded Knee, Manic
Action: The Matrix (1st one), Point Break
Horror: Nightmare On Elmstreet, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake), Dark Water, Dawn of the Dead (original and remake) | | Television | Punk'd, tennis, That 70s Show, tv one, classic comedy, sports (hockey, baseball), Skate Maps (the zoo york crew) | | Books | authors: Dr. Claud Anderson, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Stephen King. | | Heroes | Dr. Claud Anderson, Dr. Frances Cress Wesling, Bob Law, my Mom & Dad, strong men, kind men whom are good to children and people on the 'fringes' of society (like the homeless and the 'uncool'), and all those who came before me, fought for my existence and fought for me to be respected as a Black person and as a Black woman. |
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