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About Me

I use to wonder where/how I'd find me, or if ever that was possible. I have accepted that it is a possibility, but far from a certainty, for I know not what I am searching for, but will feel it when I find it. Until then, I am a name, a face, a brother, a cousin, a son, a friend, a gay, an artist, a student, a negro, and a man; the combination of all resulting in a chaotic hysteria of individuality that only the strong can love. I'm not always that strong, but, then again, who really is? But you grow, and the growing makes you stronger...makes you happy. You grow into happiness. And that's hot. And that's me.
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My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Erykah Badu, Monica, Tamia, Jill Scott, The Roots, Corinne Bailey Rae, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan, Linda Eder, Audra McDonald, Heather Headley, Amel Larrieux (or however you spell it), D'Angelo, Maxwell, Anita Baker, Lauryn Hill, Toni Braxton, Mos Def, Common

Movies:

School Daze, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Waiting for Guffman, Conspiracy Theory, V for Vendetta, The Devil Wears Prada, What's Love Got to Do With It, BAPS, Dog Show, The PArty Girl, SubUrbia, Hysterical Blindness, Kill Bill, Angels in America, Soul Food, Boomerang, Eddie Murphy Raw, Coming to America, Beat Street, Electric Bugaloo, Clueless, Finding Nemo, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Hours, The Party, Girls Will Be Girls

Television:

Noah's Arc, Sex and the City, Project Runway, Will and Grace, Grey's Anatomy, Seinfeld, Fraiser, America's Next Top Model, Law and Order, Rome, Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency

Books:

Things Fall Apart, Beasts of No Nation, Invisible Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Brothers Karamazov, Black Boy, Black Like Me, Soul on Ice, A Soldier's Play, Fences, King Headley II, The Piano Lesson, A Raisin in the Sun

Heroes:

Angela Davis, Angela Bassett, Kathleen Battle, Leontyne Price, Paul Robeson, Sidney Portier, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Meryl Streep, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Amiri Baraka, Adamn Clayton Powell, Jr., Nat Turner, Elridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, W.E.B. DuBois, Cornell West, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Mandela, August Wilson

My Blog

Sweet Kisses

One, two, three, fourBut all the time I'm wanting moreFive, six, seven, eightBaby, you don't have to hesitateNine, ten, eleven, twelveThere's no way this thing can fail I can tell by your sweet kisses...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:52:00 PST

My Soul is as Black as My Face

I am Black. Black to the core. Inside and out, Outside and in, Forwards and backwards, Vertically and horizontally, Inverted and extroverted, Up and downways, Down and upways, Left and right,...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST

Suicide Sonata

If I could sleep within my shadow, Away, away from it all I would never wake, I would never wake I would never wake until fall If I could walk among the leaves, The leaves, the leaves of fall ...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:12:00 PST

Un-Birth...

He smiles and the sun shines He laughs and the wind blows He cries and the earth quakes He loves and the grass grows He dances and the world spins He falls and the ground supports And lifts him...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:16:00 PST

I Wonder...

Sometimes I flyinto a hazel skynot blue or greenbut shades of the in betweenand I wonder why the sky aint blue for meAnd I wonder why the sky aint blue for meSometimes I diveinto a murky brown seaNot ...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:00 PST

What Mama Taught Me...

One day...My brothers and I found an old photographof our motheras a college undergrad:Skin so radianteyes so tenderand hair that flowed like sweet tea with ginger;the warm liquid rushing down your th...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:59:00 PST

Crying Time...

Today I cried...Sometimes I push and pushand hope that somethinganything will come out I shoutLonging for the moistureThinking that if it cameIt would dissipate the painBut today I criedAnd I feel the...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:45:00 PST

Godsong

One day... God opened me up and said, "Son, I've a song for you to sing."And then he preceded to play itin my heartIt's rhythms pulsing through my arteries and veinsUntil my whole body was enrapturedw...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:47:00 PST

Why I Write...

When there's nothing to say Why don't I put my pen down for the day? Why do I sit here and continue to wait To intellectually masterbate? I guess I hope sudden genius will hit And a masterpiece...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:14:00 PST

So Long Song

To think that it's been so long Since we first said, "hello." So long since we all hugged and cried Or just chilled real mellow. So long the days we spent and so long the nights, That we never thought...
Posted by Dane "Joseveras" on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:07:00 PST