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Navani

Approach Determines Outcome

About Me

I still believe in fairy tales. I live for the "A Ha" moments in life, the moments when something inside you clicks and makes sense for the first time. I am a daydreamer. Always pensive. I believe in being part of something bigger than yourself. Everything happens for a reason. There are signs everywhere, you just have to be open enough to see them and have faith enough to follow them...

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My Interests

I like to be challenged, learn new things, travel to places I have never been to before, smile, laugh really loud, make someone else laugh, listen to good music, spend time with the people I care about (and who care about me), discover exotic drinks, lay out on a beach, read, watch independent movies with sub-titles, read some more, watch a beautiful sunset, appreciate art and culture, hear spoken word, eat good food - especially eating out, writing of course, writing about music, hip-hop, writing whatever I feel at the moment, Big Hugs, kisses on my forehead, red velvet cake from the Cake Man on Fulton St and repeating lines from my favorite movies whenever possible...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can inspire me...

Music:

Nas, Biggie, Dead Prez, Jay Z, Mos Def, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Common, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Shakira, Goapole, J Davey, Lupe Fiasco, Mary J. Blige, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Coldplay, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan, Slum Village, Little Brother, Hector Lavoe and anyone else featured on my page...

Books:

Down these Mean Streets, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, We took the Streets, Autobiography of Assata Shakur, When I Was Puerto Rican, A Long Way Gone, Eat, Pray, Love
Currently on my nightstand: Skinny Bitch

My Blog

Lesson Learned

With the New Year just passing and me turning 30 this year, I have been in a particularly retrospective state lately. I guess leaving behind my twenties is very bittersweet for me. So while on one han...
Posted by Navani on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:16:00 PST

The Olivia Chronicles: Measuring Time and Knuckleheads

[For those of you new to me and my blog, Olivia is my cousin's four-year-old daughter/ love of my life. She continually enlightens me with her philosophies.]Olivia understands many things for a girl ...
Posted by Navani on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:18:00 PST

5 Minutes with Grandmaster Flash

I was lucky enough to catch up with hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash last week and pick his brain. When asked what he thought about the controversy surrounding the title of nas's upcoming album Ni****...
Posted by Navani on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:15:00 PST

Dream Deferred

A Dream Deferred - Langston HughesWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and su...
Posted by Navani on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:03:00 PST

Love 101

I am an inquisitive person; I guess it's a job hazard. So I constantly walk around surveying people for their thoughts on various topics. Lately, I've been asking my male friends for their thoughts on...
Posted by Navani on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:43:00 PST

Heroes

I had the opportunity to go a wonderful spoken word event this past Friday, totally spur of the moment that featured two of my favorite poets. I found out about the event the day of and almost decided...
Posted by Navani on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:58:00 PST

The Alicia Update...

FYI Alicia Keys has done it again. The years MIA from music scene and  the anticipation and wait for her latest album As I am were well worth it. I was just blogging about the lack of classic mu...
Posted by Navani on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:05:00 PST

Disposable

My life can easily be measured more so in music than actual chronological dates. I relate every phase of my life to a song that was out during that time period. Perhaps its part of the special relatio...
Posted by Navani on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:42:00 PST

Thought of the Day

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence" - H.L. Mencken
Posted by Navani on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:00 PST

The Olivia Chronicles: Dizzy Spells

Olivia has learned a new trick (in case this is your first Olivia blog, she is my four- year-old lil cousin, AKA the love of my life...who frequents my blog). I know that sounds terrible like she is a...
Posted by Navani on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:40:00 PST