Liberty
Transformation
Elevation
Fructification
Yoga
Martial Arts
Pruning and Gardening
Cleopatra Jones, cuz she was down for the people and took care of business;
Amenhotep, son of Hapu
Ptahhotep
Djabril Tarik
Hatshepsut
Nzingha
Makeda
Martin Delaney
Grandma Patsy
Grandmaster Da Liu
Lao Tzu
Too lengthy and eclectic and lengthy to name. simply i can enjoy the sound of crickets and birdsong; jazz and blues in all their moedrn forms (rock, metal, hip hop, spoken word/poetry); classical (european and other indigenous communities), and spiritual music
Too voluminous to name so i will give my genre faves, in no particular order:
Quilombo
The Tai Chi Master
Curse of the Golden Flower
Hero
Cleopatra Jones
Trouble Man
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Usual Suspects
Elmo in Grouchland
Muppets from Space
Galaxyquest
The Secret of NIMH
Amelie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers (with certain plot exemptions)
The Mighty Quinn
Blade 1 & 3
Batman (michael keaton)
Brown Sugar
30 to life
One of us tripped
Love Jones
The Brothers
Once upon a time when we were colored
The Color Purple
Catwoman
Boomerang
Austin Power, iMoM (all of them)
and of course.....
Pootie Tang
Burn Notice
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Octavia Butler (the pattern master trilogy)
Frank Herbert's Dune (1-6)
The Crown by Hannibal Tabu
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
The Ways of White Folks, Langston Hughes
and countless others.
Rev. Sidney Birdsong Sr.