REALNESS *
The greater, yet mostly vacant world that dwells beneath the surface of our individual social interactions. *
Philosophy(Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics) *
Music *
Poetry(and all kinds of written expression) *
Etymology *
Humanitarianism *
History *
Physical Fitness *
Love & Happiness *
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved with the same level of thinking with which we created them" ~~Albert Einstein~~
"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." ~~Friedrich Nietzsche~~
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence." ~~Friedrich Nietzsche~~
"No march, movement or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step." ~~Angela Davis~~
"You know it makes me unhappy
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up" ~~Tupac Amaru Shakur~~
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up."~~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.~~
"Hope is not blind optimism" ~~Barack Obama~~
WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET!!??........
MY DESTINY........
Before that??........
Anyone who can help me reach it
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"People are ungrateful, fickle, dissembling, anxious to flee danger, and covetous of gain. So long as you promote their advantage, they are all yours and will offer you their blood [when the need for it is scarce]. When the need arises, however, they will turn against you. The prince who bases his security upon their word, lacking other provision, is doomed."
~~Niccolo Machiavelli~~
I LOVE MUSIC (Listening and Creating). LIFE WITHOUT IT WOULD NOT BE LIVABLE. I listen to a melange of music........all kinds o' shyt.
ANIMAL RIGHTS
“I hope to build more then an army, Make more then just music money. I’m aiming to give a life time supply of food and shelter to the youth whom really need it by doing what I love the most, which is music. I don’t see how u can have 5 houses and 5 cars and not help your fellow brothers and sisters who have nothing." ~~Dante Moody~~
“You wouldn’t ask why the rose that grew from the concrete has damaged petals. On the contrary, we would all celebrate its tenacity. We would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses; this is the concrete; and these are my damaged petals.†~~Tupac Amaru Shakur~~
"To be born into a free society and not be born free is to be born into a lie." ~~James Balwin~~
"I have come to recognize that true relatives aren't always related by the blood that flows in your veins, but by the blood, sweat and tears that is given for the common good of all." ~~Leonard Peltier~~
"We're caught between Bin Laden who's a violent Islamic religious fanatic and Bush who's a violent Christian religious fanatic." ~~Ras Baraka~~
I've alwayz fantasized about directing feature-length movies.
"V For Vendetta"
"Brown Sugar"
"Mo Betta Blues"
"Do The Right Thing"
"Poetic Justice"
"Jason's Lyric"
"Juice"
"WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE: The Black Panther Library"
"A Time To Kill"
"The Omen"
"Something The Lord Made"
"Malcolm X"
"Four Little Girls"
"40 Year-old Virgin"
"Dream Catcher"
"Dave Chappelle's Block Party"
"The Wiz"
"A Huey P. Newton Story"
"Gang Related"
"Classified X"
"Love & Basketball"
"Training Day"
"The Passion of the Christ" (so inaccurate)
"Walk Out"
"Take A Giant Step"
"Shrek" 1and2
"Madagascar"
"Mr and Mrs Smith"
"300"
"Deep Cover"
"Chiken Run"
"Tupac: Resurrection"
"Finding Nemo"
"City of God"
* Def Poetry Jam
* Boondocks
* History Channel
* Animal Planet
* The Wire
* Oz
* Martin
* CSI
* A Different World
* Goodtimes
* Real Time with Bill Mahr
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MY BOOKS
The Art Of War
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Revolutionary Suicide
The Black Panthers Speak
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
War Against the Panthers
The Shadow of The Panther
The Huey P. Newton Reader
Panther
Seize The Time
Soledad Brother
Blood In My Eye
Aristotle's Politics: Unabridged
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought- Kant: Political Writings
Leviathan
Reflecting Black
An Introduction To Political Philosophy: Revised Edition
Harvard University Press: Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches
Princeton Readings in Political Thought
Nobody Knows My Name
Notes of A Native Son
We Want Freedom
Soul on Fire
Soul on Ice
This Side Of Glory: The Auto Biography of David Hilliard and The Story of The Black Panther Party
Ready For Revolution
Will You Die For Me
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Last Man Standing
Live From Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Death Blossoms
Playing In The Dark
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Oxford Philosophical Texts: Utilitarianism
Sister Outsider
I Am Because We Are: Readings In Black Philosophy
How To Rent A Negro
I Ching: Book of Changes
Free At Last
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
The Tupac Shakur Collection: Sheet Music
Nicomachean Ethics
The Audacity of Hope
Dreams From My Father: A story of race and inheritance
Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Everyday
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
The Prophet
Gray's Anatomy
Whatever Floats Your Boat
Introduction To Sociology by Henry L. Tischler
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook Of Transactional Analysis
Seeking Solace
Verbalizions Of Enlightenment
Things Fall Apart
The American Experience: Poetry
Creative Writing
Culture & Values: A Survey of The Humanities
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
The Apartheid State in Crisis: Political Transformation in South Africa 1975-1990
Strategies for Successful Writing
Clencoe Health
World History: Continuity and Change
Law for Business and Personal Use: 15th Edition
What Color Was Jesus?
The Black Seminoles
Key Concepts In Critical Theory: Racism
Hannibal: Enemy of Rome
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Second Edition
The African Origin of Christianity: A Biblical and Historical Account
Negroes With Guns
Roots
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism
The Known World
I Will Wear No Chain: A Social History of African-American Males
The People of Africa: The Egyptians
Black Women In Antiquity
Collins Medical Dictionary and Health Guide
The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics
Black Skin White Masks
The Wretched of The Earth
James Baldwin: Collected Essays
They Came Before Columbus
Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
The Lost Cities of Africa: Revised Edition
Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion In History and Memory
Rebellion in Rhyme: The Early Poetry of John Henrik Clarke
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
African Wisdom
The People of the Cape Verde Islands: Exploitation and Imigration
Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation
Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War
Social Psychology
Malcolm X Speaks
A Taste of Power
The Musician's Business Legal Guide
Holy Blood Holy Grail
The Fire Next Time
Women Race and Class
Assata: An Autobiography
The Quotable Rebel
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Medical Dictionary and Health Guide
Black Women In Antiquity
The Holy Bible
Signs of the Times
The Mark of The Beast
Radical Son
An American Dream
The Road to Serfdom
From Socrates to Sartre
The Republic of Plato
The Symposium
Vasari on Technique
Descartes: Discourses on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations
Rousseau: The Basic political Writings
From Miseducation To Education
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Locke: The Second Treatise of Government
Mill: On Liberty
Beyond Good and Evil
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
The Classical Mind: Second Edition
Civilization of Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
My Face Is Black Is True
Five Plays By Langston Hughes
African American Literature: Voices In A Tradition
Pagan Christmas
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Tears for Water
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Poems of Emily Dickenson
Six Plays of Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Angela Davis: An Auto Biography
The Prince and The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Classic Slave Narratives
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
A Raisin In The Sun
Revolutionary Road
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
Moby Dick
Leo Tolstoy
The Me Nobody Knows
The Souls Of Black Folk
Native Son
Native Son: Spark Notes
American Apartheid
Paul Robeson Speaks
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones
Transbluesency
Blues People
Freedom Is Not Enough
The Knights Templar
The Last Templar
Custodians of Truth
Black Marxism
Marx and America
Capital: Volume 1
The Communist Manifesto And Other Revolutionary Writings
The Communist Manifesto
Discourse on Colonialism
Why I Love Black Women
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and The Color of Disaster
Wit Will and Walls
Across Boundaries
Marcus Garvey: Life and Lessons
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
The Black 100 by Columbus Salley
The Life of Malcolm X
Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader
The Death and Life of Malcolm X
Growing Up X
Why We Can't Wait
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation In America
A Tale of Two Cities
Black Bourgeoisie
Shoot-Out In Cleveland
A Black Theology of Liberation
Beat of A Different Drum
The Summer That Didn't End
What's Going On
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Greek Trajedies
Prentice Hall Literature: The English Tradition
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Smith's Bible Dictionary
The Heart of A Woman
The Black West
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World
GOD
“You have no feeling for the fact that prophetic human beings are people who suffer a great deal: you merely suppose that they have been granted a beautiful “gift,†and you would even like to have it yourself. But we do not heed that it is their pains that make them prophets.â€
~~Friedrich Nietzsche~~