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Maisha a.k.a. Elder K

love so beautiful... and few there be that find it!

About Me

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet the following for various reasons including: To give thanks, to dialogue, to ask questions, to learn...My ancestors who survived the middle passage, my maternal grandmother, Harriet Tubman, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Jarena Lee, Jason White, Assata Shakur, Queen Nzingha, Jesus, Siddartha, the current Dalai Lama, Alice Walker, Art Tatum, Eldar Djangirov, Yolanda Adams, Sanaa Lathan, any open,conscious, committed folk!

Music:

I love so much music!!!!! Israel and New Breed, Kim Burrell, Yellowjackets, India Arie, Lizz Wright, Sting, Erykah Badu, Jilly from Philly, any project Jason White or Kevin Bond are on, Art Tatum, Chick Corea, Mos Def, Zap Mama, Me'shell Ndegeocello, much classical, contemporary gospel, etc... etc.... etc....

Movies:

The Color Purple, Bamboozled, most old school sci-fi, Fame (yes I still love that movie), When The Levees Broke, Block Party, Kundun, Sankofa, Brown Sugar, Malcolm X.

Television:

Don't watch regularly apart from news, documentaries, movie channels but when I do... Boondocks (yeah Huey!), Robot Chicken, CSI, The Wire.

Books:

Way too many to list... but at least ... liberative readings and interpretations of the Bible, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, The Prophet, They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black (Yay Baba!), my own dissertation!

Heroes:

Black women just for staying alive in this world! The House of Ndugu & Nzingha, Jesus.