Noam Chomsky!!! & the great dead heroes Miles Davis, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jaco Pastorius, Jay Dilla,....Heaven, my dear FaTher in paradise....& The Solsonics (where are you????)
Music is in me...I breathe sounds, beats...Jazz, Funk, Afro-Beat, Neo-Soul....from Billie Holiday to N'Dambi or Badu....passing by Miles Davis & Jaco Pastorius....Fela Kuti....Roy Ayers...I won't be extending the list, or it might as well never end, but due to my serious affair with Undergound Hip Hop, yEs!!!, I'll drop down my faves of all time, be it daylight, dawn, present, past or future tense: Pete Rock, Common, Jay Dilla, Madlib, Slum Village, Ohmega Watts, Lightheaded, Jneiro Jarel, Sa-Ra, DJ Mitsu The Beats, DJ Cam, Gagle, Grap Luva, Grooveman Spot, Kero One, Panacea, Basic Vocab, Nicolay, Strange Fruit Project, The Procussions, The Roots, Mos Def, Talib, Zion-I, Platinum Pied Pipers, Gwizsky, Decompoze, Breakthrough, Deux Process, Five Deez, Choice 37, Blackalicious, Jurassic 5, Digable Planets, The Pharcyde.......these make my heart beat in a kind of boom-bap, boom-bap beat-freak pace;)
All by Tarantino & Almodovar,... ....Before Night Falls, Basquiat, Pollock, Bird, Fight Club, City of God, Amelie, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hotel Rwanda.... Black Movies in general...
Documentaries.
Politics/ History related....+ all by Pepetela & Manuel Rui(angolan writers).
Nelson Mandela