Awakening Self & Others; Poetry; Writing; Reading; Studying; Listening to music; Constant mental and spiritual expansion. In a nutshell: Chariot-Mounting, Eastward Traveling (Right Foot First), and Intellectual Warfare!
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Any that stimulate my brain cells, in a life-loving, respectful way: STEVIE WONDER; Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Johnny Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cassandra Wilson, Capleton, Toby Keith, PUBLIC ENEMY, COMPLETION, Sade, Meshell N'Degeocello, Billie Holiday, Etta James, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman, Thelonius Monk, Wynton Marsalis, COLDPLAY, Zap Mama, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Musiq, India Arie, Kindred, Tamar Kali, Arrested Development, Mos Def, dead prez, Poor Righteous Teachers, Game Rebellion, X-Clan, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers (The JBeez), The Roots, Cocoa Bruthas, Black Moon, Gangstarr, KRS-One, BOB MARLEY, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Fishbone, Ras Kass, Corrine Bailey Rae, Raheem DeVaughn, Caron Wheeler, Sting, U2, Sweet Honey in the Rock, PRINCE, GNARLS BARKLEY, The Wu Tang Clan, Natalie Merchant, Peter Gabriel, Smashing Pumpkins, Kem, Dark Sun Riders, GOAPELE, Jazzyfatnastees, Common (pre-Kanye), Enya, Tame One, Run DMC, Fiona Apple, Brahms, Bach, Chopin, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Rage Against The Machine, Angie Stone, Isley Brothers (pre R. Kelly influence), Anthony Hamilton, Phil Collins, CHAKA KHAN, Talib Kweli, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin (before she was riding down the freeway of love in pink cadillacs), The Temptations, Donny Hathaway, LALAH HATHAWAY, Sun Ra, Herby Hancock;
A Beautiful Mind; Love and Basketball; BAMBOOZLED; Do the Right Thing; School Daze; Mo Betta Blues; Get on the Bus; He Got Game; The Five Heartbeats; Hollywood Shuffle; The Spook that sat by the Door; The Seige; Higher Learning; Boyz in the Hood; The Matrix Trilogy; When We Were Kings; Clockers; 4 Little Girls; The Hunt for Red October; The Abyss; John Q; The Last Samurai; When the Levies Broke; One; Memoirs of A Geisha; The 6th Sense; Fields of Dreams; Shawshank Redemption; Crash; X; Monster's Inc; Fieval;
Jeopardy; The Colbert Report; Like It Is; NFL Football (preferably the New York Giants!!!);
Too many to list here. But a few that i highly enjoyed and recommend: The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by Amos N. Wilson, Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony T. Browder, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima, Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nationbuilding: Theory and practice in Afrikan-centered education by Kwame Agyei Akoto, Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children by Amos N. Wilson, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. I-IV by Jawanza Kunjufu, African American Males in School and Society by Vernon C. Polite, Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America’s Classrooms by Michael Porter, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy Leary, Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery by Dr. Na’im Akbar, We Real Cool: Black Men And Masculinity by bell hooks; Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the world's most Precious Stones by Paul Campos; The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner; People's History of the United States of America-1492 to Present by Howard Zinn; Metu Neter: Vols 1 & 2 by Ra Un Nefer Amen; Blueprint for Black Power by Amos Wilson; 48 Laws of Power (can't recall author's name); Dealing with People You Can't Stand: Bringing Out the Best in People at Their Worst (can't recall author's name); Licensing Parents; The Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing;