Do you know what mental toughness is? Well, mental toughness is the ability to accept the fact that you're human and that you're going to make mistakes - lots of 'em - all your life. And some of them are gonna hurt people that you love very badly. But you have the guts to accept the fact that you ain't perfect. And you don't let your mistakes crush you and keep you from doing the very best that you can. – Billy Jack
People who mean what they say and say what they mean.
Fishbone, Bad Brains, Stevie Wonder, David Ryan Harris, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Rick James, Living Colour, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Thin Lizzy, Earth Wind & Fire, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince, Jesse Johnson, King Black Acid, Barry Hampton, Ray Frazier, Public Enemy, Gil-Scott Heron, Violent Femmes, 24-7 Spyz, Richie Havens, Queen, Baggage-Man, The Coup, Lifesavas, The Goats, Lou Rawls, Parliment, Funkadelic, Jeffrey Gaines, Mos Def, The Roots, Ricanstruction, Common, Rakim, David Bowie, Stan Campbell, Jon Butcher, Otis Blackwell, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding, Donnie Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, King's X, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, UTFO, Maggie's Dream, Limbomaniacs, Meat Loaf, AC/DC, Judas Priest, RUN DMC (r.i.p. Jam Master Jay)
Big Trouble in Little China, This is Spinal Tap, The Mack, Hustle & Flow, Super Fly, Foxy Brown, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Say Anything, Fist of Legend, Valley Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi Driver, Planet of the Apes (the original), Jesus Christ Superstar, Nothing But a Man, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Casablanca, The Killing, The Wild Bunch, Carnal Knowledge, Modern Romance, Knightriders, The Warriors, Harold & Maude, Oldboy, Yojimbo, The Warriors, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, Enter the Dragon, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Blade Runner, Smoke Signals, Powwow Highway, Escape from New York, Cinema Paradiso (the short version), Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Hoop Dreams, Incident at Oglala, The Third Man, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fight Club (but I can't talk about Fight Club), The Apartment (and everything else by Billy Wilder), George Romero's zombie films, anything by Kinji Fukasaku (i.e. Battle Royale, Street Mobster), and a whole lot more.
The Shield, The Wire, Barney Miller, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, NYPD Blue, Star Trek, All in the Family, Taxi, The Tick, Behind the Music, The Rockford Files, Starblazers, Batman, Frank's Place
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Fahrenheit 451, I am Legend, To Kill a Mockingbird, Why I Hate Saturn, High Fidelity, If I'm So Famous How Come No One Has Ever Heard of Me?, Green Eggs & Ham, The School on 103rd Street, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, World War Z, Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlings mysteries, anything by Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Donald Goines, Powers, 100 Bullets, Dark Knight Returns (that's right...I read comic books! You got a problem with that?!?)
My Mother, My Grandparents, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, The Black Panther Party, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Ghandi, Luke Cage, Batman, David Walker (the abolitionist, not me).