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What I listen to in the car and on my ipod: Michael Frank, Lil Wayne, Project Pat, Robin Thicke, Jill Scott, Donny Hathaway, Jean Carn, Edith Pilaf, Joi, Patsy Cline, Outkast, Lil Webbie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Avant, the Caravan Sisters, Musiq, Trick Daddy, Chris Brown, Chicago, Mahalia Jackson, Tweet, B.G, Carol King. Isaac Hayes,T.I.,Young Buck,Rick Ross, Jaheim and anybody from the deerty deerty.
some of my fav from my collection: Suddenly Last Summer, Cleopatra, Caligula, Imitation of Life(not Christ), Celluoid Closet, The Color Purple, A Raisin In The Sun, The Great Gatsby, The Crying Game, Scarface and any spaghetti western.My all time favorites are any of the 70's blackploitation movies featuring the character Dolemite.
3 books by John Steinbeck: The Grapes Of Wrath, Of Mice And Men, The Other Side Of Eden. All of James Baldwin's novels: Another Country, If Beale Sreet Could Talk, Giovanni's Room, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Going To Meet The Man, Notes Of A Native Son, The Amen Corner. A short story by Anton Chekhov named The Cherry Tree. Really any novel about greek myth or the american civil war will keep my interest. Anything by Mr. Patterson,especially Kiss the Girls.
Any individual who has risen to fame and or fortune, and still has the same humble humanity for others, and does good deeds anonymously without media fanfare, is a true hero. One that does not hide behind "his or her people" and truly has a voice whether it is something one wants to hear or not.