WRITING, soul searching, reading, praying, laughing with my dearest friends, walking and loving life! Here is a poem I wrote and published in 2005:
Maya Angelou, the Harlem Renissance Writers (Especially James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston), William Shakespeare, Alice Walker, Robert Frost, Chaucer and my late paternal great-grandmother because I heard she was fiesty like ME! I..ve ALWAYS wanted to meet Jesus, but I am not in a rush!!!!Maybe I can meet you too!
Smooth Jazz, Anita Baker, the late George Howard, Narissa Bond, Miles Davis, Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner, Sade, Mississippi Mass Choir, The Winans, Carlton Pearson, Donnie McClurkin, Smokie Norful, Prince and Yolanda Adams.
The Color Purple, Devil in a Blue Dress, Man on Fire, Four Brothers, Ray, Beaches, X Men, Madagascar,Monsters Inc, Some Like it Hot, Westerns, Dream Girls, Pride, Madea..s Family Reunion, Daddy..s Little Girls and A Time to Kill.
Nip/Tuck, Oprah Winfrey Show, Cold Case, Without a Trace,All Law and Orders, CSI (All), All My Children, Good Morning America, Girlfriends, Half and Half and 20/20.
The Bible, Chicken Soup for the African American Woman..s Soul, Color Purple, Everything by Maya Angelou, Waiting to Exhale, I Tina, Can..t Keep a Good Woman Down, Who Moved my Cheese, Invisible Man and books by Eric Jerome Dickey.
Dr. Zelema Harris, my dearest friend and former College President. She is the only one that believed in me back in my darkest days of depression and self-hatred. Thanks for nearly 20 years of friendship, Zelema. My mom, simply for being MY Mom.