I'd like to meet:
Good People with a balanced head on their shoulder that are in tune with culture, spirit, community, love, and self awareness. Is that too much 2 ask for?
Music:
All Kinds- Salsa, Merengue, Mambo, Jazz/ Afro-Cuban Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Calypso, Deep House, Oldies "Low Rider" style, R&B, Funk, Soul, Blues, etc...
Movies:
Scarface, Like Water for Chocolate, Selena, Bowling for Columbine, Fidel, Super Size Me, El Postino, The Freshest Kids, Frida, Whale Rider
Television:
CNN Headline News, Travel Channel, Sports Center- ESPN, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, Food Network, HDTV, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty
Books:
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Indian Givers (Jack Weatherford), For Marx (Loius Althusser), The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin), Eulogy for a Brown Angel (Lucha Corpi), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez), Down These Mean Streets (Piri Thomas), Home and Exile (Chinua Achebe), The Coldest Winter Ever (Sister Souljah), You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (Alice Walker), Blood in My Eyes & Soledad Brother (George Jackson)- just to name a few.
Heroes:
Mis abuelitos. Our ancestors and all who have made sacrifices for our well being as humans in the struggle!