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About Me

Be not flesh but Soul

Stretched out to eternity

Reaching for what is.

My Interests

nurturing my relationship with the Creator.enjoying my family.art.reflecting.writing.writing.writing.reflecting.sha ring.loving. fighting.painting.designing.numbers.shades.science(s). being in the company of nature. good food. holistic health. dance. experiencing music.the swings with my daughter.traveling our world. photography. watching people. making sense. making dollas. building. planning the work. watching it come into fruition. listening to the children. advocating truth. learning. changing. being the reality.src="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bssadjad/first_page /bismillah.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"nurturing my relationship with the Creator.enjoying my family.art.reflecting.writing.writing.writing.reflecting.sha ring.loving. fighting.painting.designing.numbers.shades.science(s). being in the company of nature. good food. holistic health. dance. experiencing music.the swings with my daughter.traveling our world. photography. watching people. making sense. making dollas. building. planning the work. watching it come into fruition. listening to the children. advocating truth. learning. changing. being the reality.

I'd like to meet:

freedom. those who reflect and really appreciate the human mind.body.soul. Muslimahs whos internal match their external.those who exude positive energy and prefer sour patch kids over twizzlers lol.really. sincere people.

Music:

KASIB.Liza Garza. Kamathi. Jimi Hendrix. The Fugees. L Boogie. Hasan Salaam. Amel Larrieux. Fela Kuti/Africa 70. Amir Sulaiman. ColdPlay. The Last Poets. AZ. Corrine Bailey Rae. Bilal.The Roots.iSekou kamau. Gods'illa. ProVerb. TriFlava. Maj Toure. Goapele. illmatic. Bob Marely.Common. Billie Holiday. Mos Def. Tribe Called Quest.Nasir Jones.Jill Scott. De La Soul. Black Mongoose. KRS1. Wu Tang. Sima Lee. Kweli. Hope. 13 of Nazareth. Lupe Fiasco. Res.Erykah Badu. Ella Fitzgerald. Little Brother. Maxwell. Dwele. W.Ellington felton. Substantial.Saul Williams. Olu Dara. Prince. Slum Village. Raheem DeVaughn. TuPac Shakur.Marvin Gaye.Zion-I. Alicia Keys. Bilal Salaam.Sade. Gill-Scott Heron.Greenday. Ken Starr. Les Nubians. JDilla. Outkast.Naima. MJ.Raphael Saadiq. India Arie.Kev Brown...and many many many more.i love this... .. width="425" height="350" ....

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Movies:

umm lets see...i like a lot of documentaries....Do the Right Thing. welcome to the doll house (the most stupid unfunny comedy ever which makes it really funny lol). requiem for a dream. Juice.Friday. The Temptations. Jungle fever. Imitation of Life.Malcolm X. couple other joints...

Television:

the news...though it aint nothin new. history channel, doraI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Books:

The Qur'an.

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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Seat of the Soul by Garay Zukav. Celestine Prophecy by James redfied.As the sun rises from the East by D Muhammad.To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, Huey P. Newton,The Art of Seduction...cant remember the author. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense by Suzette Haden. Play Ebony Play Ivory, Poetry by Henry Dumas. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes. Autobiography of Malcolm X as told through Alex Haley.How to Eat to Live by Elijah Muhammad, Funk Lore by Amiri Baraka, and this book called "beneath a black sun" by some woman named imani bilal that u MUST cop...1/07 :)

Heroes:

Do not say of those who are killed in Allah's cause, "They are dead." They are alive indeed, though you perceive it not (Qur'an, 2:154) - RIP Nashid H.Islam. Love you, forever.

My Blog

9 months til the death of A-Z.

i am not a poeti am pain with a selfish addictionpushing pens in veinsoverdosing on bicfollowing a path of blood stained rosespausing at stop signsto fantasize of razors making love to wristsselling m...
Posted by 'mani B. on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:11:00 PST

hearts odium: collab with yesika starr

screams smothered in rhythmless music limbs lean in awkward angles being from Afrika someone should know how to move in the right direction lost all of them Born from The Mother. But brotherly love Is...
Posted by 'mani B. on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:01:00 PST

haven. (revised)

petals grace wooden platforms offering beauty to the barren enthralled within swirls of gray smoke incense kiss the air with a gentle heat doesn't burn just warms the crevices of a divine soulthat que...
Posted by 'mani B. on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

a moment of silence.

collab with my partner in poetry, BlackVision. and the universe said "be of the present"... but there were no red bows and wrapping paper. just earth and air and people covered in their own despair o...
Posted by 'mani B. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:14:00 PST

epiphany.

today i am the rainthat jumps from burdened cloudstomorrow i will become the skyi will be everywherei will find myselfbefore i forgetwhere i've been hiding.
Posted by 'mani B. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:22:00 PST

i heart malcolm

SPELLMAN: What is the program for achieving your goals of separation? MALCOLM X: A better word to use than separation is independence. This word separation is misused. The 13 colonies separat...
Posted by 'mani B. on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:39:00 PST

48 hours in a day.

DisconnectEdwith timespace is his brother...and sometimes they fightfor starsto the point where blood is spilledshould we cry...the same we do over milk? life doesnt have a rewind buttonand blood does...
Posted by 'mani B. on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST