smiling at strangers, politics, love, qualitative analysis, my friends, wandering around my neighborhood late at night, hip hop!!!, urban policy, welfare rights, getting a really good deal, norman, studying, time alone with norman, board games, having people over my house, learning, brightly painted walls, immigrants rights, drinking, reading popcorn literature, reading good books, cooking, fine wine, socialized medicine, generally being nosy.
People who have been there. Mentors. People with great ideas.
mos def, common, spoon, the notwist, brazilian girls, india arie, billie holiday, elliott smith, eyedea, jean grae, the faint, musiq, old aretha franklin, the isley brothers, erykah badu, old stevie wonder, all natural, the beatnuts, rjd2, kanye west, bilal, the avalanches, antibalas, art farmer, de la soul, tribe called quest, hot hot heat, grant green, talib kweli, bill evans, paul bley, jim hall, sonny rollins, astrud gilberto, cadallaca, beck, call and response, prince, jill scott, angie stone, the roots, blackalicious, dilated peoples, otis redding
bus 174, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, do the right thing, purple rain (in that campy 80s way)
24, ugly betty, veronica mars, project runway, america's next top model, law & order, top chef, coupling, the daily show
Pinochet and Me by Marc Cooper, Another Country by James Baldwin, Can't Stop Won't Stop Jeff Chang, Small Island by Andrea Levy, anything by Margaret Atwood, the Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, Tar Baby by Toni Morrison, Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer, the Ethnic Myth by Stephen Steinberg, the Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Time To Die by Tom Wicker.
norman. katha pollitt. ida b. wells. people who quit without regret. my entire family.