im interested in love. books, cooking, eating, travel, photography, transformation, organizing, activism, writing, community, creating all kinds'a dope-ness, maintaining, trying my damnest to be healthy and more awake everyday. im interested in remembering and remembering to let go.
id love to have even more awesome people in my life... smart folks, who see the beauty, ugliness, absurdity and profoundness around them and aren't too cynical or serious to laugh, smile and shake ya ass to good (and sometimes bad) music. .. Read my VisualDNA ™ Get your own VisualDNA™.. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow
.. if you dont know you betta ask somebody, cuz peeenus will make you shoot somebody in the dayum face!!artists in the order that they come to mind: janell monae, super fresh DJ's, erykah badu, van hunt, jill scott, the old lauryn hill ( you 'member her dont you?), goapele, a few hyphee and other local cats (BAY AREA stand up!), coltrane, miles davis, barrington levey, marley, (some) floetry, michelle n'degeocello, im warming up to doria roberts...beyonce's fine ass, t.i, jay-z lil wayne andre 3000 (keep you heart 3 stacks!! keep yo heart!!)etc.. as time passes i realize im becoming more particular about the folks i can listen too, for example, i still love ?est love but im over the Roots...types that come to mind: soul, hip hop, dance hall and (all of the sudden) house
Noah's Arc, the L word, anything dave chappell, america's next top model, project runway, flavor of love, heros
anything by: octavia butler, tananerive due, khalil gibran, donald goings, iceberg slim, aaron mcgruder, ((bell hooks)),toni morrison, audre lourde, alica walker, jack kornfield, poems of shel silverstien, angela davis, the i ching, tantra books....and all the books i have yet to write speeches and letters from: malcolm x, martin luther 'da kang,' el che, angela davis, lumumba, steve biko
the amazing women in my family (passed, living and yet to be born), the people in my life that love me, because they have perfected what i'm still learning to do. the women and men in my life that hold me in love, teach me about the world and myself and challenge me on my bullshit. (also, see authors above)