dance, music, art, healthy living.
independent artists, dancers, free thinkers, truth seekers
It is all about Aretha! I have recently reconnected with the greatness of the Queen of Soul.Life Favorites... Chaka Khan, Roberta Flack, Minnie Ripperton, Stevie Wonder (I got a ticket!), Nina Simone, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Funkadelic, Parliament and all variations and Jazz Inflected Electronic Music/Contemporary Disco(aka Club/Underground Deep House/GOOD Dance Music)...Other favorites include Me'shell Ndege'Ocello, Common, De La Soul, Fertile Ground, Erykah Badu, Amp Fiddler, Julie Dexter, Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Toure, Peven Everett, Fela, Wunmi and Imani Uzuri.
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"Peaches" by Dingda McCannon is my favorite lost book from childhood.FICTION: "Mama Day" and "Bailey's Cafe" by Gloria Naylor; "Song of Solomon" , "Beloved" and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison;"The Color Purple" and "Temple of My Familiar" by Alice Walker, "Middle Passage" and "Faith and the Good Thing" by Charles Johnson, "Homemade Love" and "In Search of Satisfaction" by J. California Cooper; "Wild Seed" "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler, "The Known World" Edward P. JonesNON-FICTION: "Vibration Cooking" Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, "Laurel's Kitchen" Laurel Robertson, "Salvation: Black People and Love" and "Sisters of the Yam" bell hooks, "The Artist's Way" Julia Cameron, "Sister Outsider" Audre Lorde
Pearl Primus , Nia Love, Marie Basse-Wiles, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, my mother, my step-mother, my grandmothers, Mama T, Sister Omelika and a whole bunch of other women living and ancestors who committed themselves to making things happen and who seem never to be cowed into sitting down and shutting up.August Wilson and Audre Lorde awake in me the desire to make, "something that means something..." If I get to do the choosing I want them as my ancestral godparents...