I'm not competitive, cosmopolitan, or sophisticated (although I enjoy food, art, and culture). Sorry if your dreams have been dashed.
You Are New York
Cosmopolitan and sophisticated, you enjoy the newest in food, art, and culture.
You also appreciate a good amount of grit - and very little shocks you.
You're competitive, driven, and very likely to succeed.
Famous people from New York: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tupac Shakur, Woody Allen
What American City Are You?
Un-chemicalized and unaltered NAPPY KINKY NATURAL Black hair care [meaning ABSOLUTELY NO perms/relaxers, texturizers, silkeners, naturalaxers {so-called natural relaxers}, and no heat (curlers, flat irons, sometimes blow dryers, crimping irons, and any other burning tools of hair torture}; however, coloring is cool in my opinion], traveling and traveling and did I say traveling?, social welfare/justice, strangling kids and leading them out of the matrix, sleeping and more sleeping, all kinds of food, dining out, poetry slams/spoken word, theater (on and off Broadway), learning new things, reading, (learning new) languages, blogs, swimming, healthy lifestyle, taking risks that don't jeopardize my life, cooking sometimes, relaxing, massages, enjoying simple things in life, and fascination with things such as (but not limited to) the British royal family and North Korea.To clarify my stance on hair: I'm not even gonna bother explaining myself anymore. Don't bother me about my hair and I won't bother you about yours. And TRUST me, I have enough information about it that I could turn your world upside down if you decided to bother me about mine.
I'd like to meet:
Real, down-to-earth, non-psycho, conscious people who, at the same time, find time in their lives for humor (because being serious all the time is draining, tiring, and sometimes downright boring - as boring and draining and tiring as people who are shallow and superficial). And men, come correct or don't bother come at all. I've heard about a couple of you on here. (raises eyebrow) I do NOT have time, believe dat. (raises eyebrow again) So if you happen to like me (whether it's by reading or seeing), once again, come correct.If you KNOW your intent in contacting me is bad, DO NOT bother contacting me at all.Women - be careful who you meet on here and on the internet in general. Take some self-defense classes if necessary. Please, take care of yourselves.
Music:
Open to whatever sounds good, but for the most part.....R&B (EPD Luther), real rap and hip-hop (most stuff out now is bubblegum crap), jazz, classical, African, Haitian, Brazilian, salsa, other Caribbean (i.e. reggae/soca/calypso) on a much lesser scale.
Movies:
All-time favorite - Ghost. Others - Best Man, Ray, Kings of Comedy, Chris Rock's 'Bigger and Blacker', A Charlie Brown Christmas, Beauty and the Beast (yep, the animated version), Lord of the Rings, Face/Off, A Beautiful Mind, Meet the Parents, Bad Boys (1 and 2), Rush Hour (1, 2 and 3), Hitch, Spiderman, X-Men 2, Woman Thou Art Loosed, Schindler's List, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Hotel Rwanda, Brokeback Mountain, Man on Fire, Cidade de Deus (City of God), Why Did I Get Married, Supersize Me, Fast Food Nation, Juno, The Queen
Television:
In general if/when I have time to watch - Law & Order series, CSI series, Without a Trace, Cold Case (CBS and A&E versions), Judge Judy, Everybody Hates Chris, Chappelle's Show, Frasier, Will & Grace, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, America's Next Top Model, Queer Eye, The Biggest Loser, The First 48, Boondocks, Flip This House, The Suze Orman Show, Honey We're Killing The Kids, Shalom in the Home, Supernanny, Army Wives, The Game, What Not To Wear, travel shows, food/cooking shows, and anything else good (albeit rare) that comes on.
Books:
I'll read anything that's good. I've read stuff from Pearl S. Buck to Toni Morrison to Khalid Hosseini and etc. I'm not really into the new genre of "urban literature" (or, as G likes to call it, "thug chocolate butt candy"), where the grammar is garbage and the storyline is pretty much the same.
Heroes:
Dorothy Mae Jones, Harcourte Jones, Eileen Williams, Jeff Lebrun, George Washington Carver, Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and the people throughout the course of my personal life (too numerous to mention here) who have made an impact on who I was, who I am, and who I will become.
