Music:
This list will never be complete but, here it is in part...Mahalia Jackson, Chanticleer, Soul Stirrers, Clara Ward, Dorothy Love Coates, Shirley Caesar, James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, MJQ, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Michael Franks, BB King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Sarah Vaughan, Leontyne Price, Jesse Norman, Kathleen Battle, Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Eartha Kitt, Dinah Washington, Julie London, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Caldwell, James Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Bessie Smith, Mozart, Beethoven, Chicago Joe Jones, Grieg, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Pachelbel, Nina Simone, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Creedance ClearWater Revival, Al Green, Johnny Hartman, Helen Humes, Valaida Snow, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Josephine Baker, Grace Jones, Michael Franti and SpearHead, Three5Human, Percy Faith,
Movies:
the Good Earth, Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Madame X, ...Heat of the Night, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet, the Organization, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, They Only Kill Their Masters, Salt and Pepper,...Impossible Years, Hornet's Nest, Gone With the Wind, Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead,...Gristle, Hit Man, Black Mama White Mama. Night of the Living Dead, Dead Presidents, Boys In the Hood, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jeepers Creepers, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Willie Dynamite, American Pimp, Super Fly, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, Shaft in Africa, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, GoodFellas, ...Godfather, West Went the Women, The Women, Blacula, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Scream Blacula Scream, Braveheart, Rob Roy, Schindler's List, Star Wars,...Matrix, Alien, Aliens, Mine, Yours and Ours, Goodbye Girl,...Good Earth, Daddy Long-Legs, Eat Drink Man Woman, 300, Waitress, Jesus' Son, 7 With a Match, DayTrippers, GirlTown, Fracture, the Grey Zone,Hostel II, A Mighty Heart, Garden State,
Books:
Currently reading: As a Man Thinketh by James AllenDivided Soul:...Life of Marvin Gaye; Parable of the Sower; Imago; the Good Earth; Grapes of Wrath; Jubilee; Roots; Tobacco Road; Harry and Ruth,...Devil's Advocate; Kindred,...Chaneysville Incident; ...Kite Runner; I Thought My Father Was God,...Abiding Gospel of Claude Dee Moran; Reading New York; God Project; All Around the Town; The Stand; IT, 'Salems Lot, On Writing, Divided Soul, On the Road, Pigman, Book of Ruth, Midnight Club, Nectar in a Sieve, Holy Bible, I Never Sang For My Father, Autobiography of Malcom X, On Death and Dying, Battlefield of the Mind, Four Agreements, Eat Pray Love, Cross, You Can Heal Your Life, Black Lightning, The Homing,
Heroes:
My Mother, My Friend...Forever