Youth outreach, philanthropy, Music (the kind that just makes you wanna jump up and shake a tail feather and the kind that, 10 years later still has you catching on to key phrases, double entendres and hidden meanings), Books, Dance,Good intellectually stimulating conversation AND the conversations with the homies that don't make any kind of sense except to us,Chillin (work hard play hard...work harder etc;)Sleep (although its the cousin of death, you sometimes just gotta have it) Movies (especially the ones that make you think and have you sayin hhhmmmm at the end and then make you want to double back and watch it all over again)
All those who are meant to cross my path...
some old school Cypress Hill, De La Soul, the ginglin baby and goin back to cali Ladies Love Cool J, Run DMC, Slicky Ricky, Outkast. My west coast riders Pac, Cube, Snoop, Daz, Dre and the smooove sangin hookster Nate Dizzy, the Luniz (I GOT FIVE ON IT..yezir!) and the rest of them other cali gangsta hoo riders...bring in them East Coast swaggers Biggie, Jay, Nas, Pun.....AND for my ladies MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Roxanne Chante and the old school crooners and songstresses Tenna Marie, Anita Baker, Barry, White, Marvin Gaye, Minnie Ripperton before the crack Whitney, Nancy Wilson, Shade, Michel'le (Something In My Heart!,Al B. Sure, Mary J. Blige, Jon B. and the back in the day old school, (before the new wave boy bands) New Addition (again Bobby before the crack), Boys II Men and the before Beyonce and them children girl groups, SWV, En Vogue, Brownstone;new school crooners, Robin Thicke, Trey Songs, Tank, Ne-Yo.....and can't forget T.I.,Common, Mos Def and Talib,Jill Scott, Luda, Lupe, Kanyeezy, Les Nubians......u get the point, clearly I luvs my music:)
Deja Vu (love me some Denzel), Idle Wild, Crash, Love Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Memoirs of a Gesha, House Boat (throw back-Carey Grant and Sophia Loren. what ya'll know about that?), City of Angels, The Prestige (dope film), School Daze, Mulan...etc etc...
Law and Order(SVU, Criminal Intentent).... CSI (Miami, NY), Greys Anatomy...throw backs: Cosby Show, Fresh Prince, A Different World
Cane River, Red River, Kindred, The Red Tent, No Disrepect, Secret Life of Bees, The Coldest Winter Ever......Autobiography of Malcolm X, Their Eyes Were Watching God....plenty more
ALL the women in my family who have made me the woman I am and continue helping me to grow.