social change, social consciousness, learning, spoken word, meeting people, people watching, intelligent conversation, seeing and being seen, reading, singing, clubbin, kickin back, hip hop, traveling, the beach, breaking cycles, plus size modeling, make up, growing, the Philippines, spirituality, doin' the right thing, movies, eating, card-making, spending time with my family and my friends
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Dead Prez, Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar, The Roots, J Dilla, Kanye West, Little Brother, Raheem Devaughn, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Jill Scott, Sade, Anthony Hamilton, Ben Harper, Chrisette Michele, Outkast, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, 80's, KYXY 96.5 (San Diego's version of L.A.'s KOST 103.5--Kels, Jame and Ash I know you feel me on this), hot 92 jamz, old skool love songs, rap, hip hop, R&B, neo-soul, anything with soul or a good beat or meaningful lyrics, oh yeah and Jame and Ash's music...lol.
Fahrenheit 9/11, Crash, Bowling for Columbine, Team America World Police, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Forrest Gump, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Remember the Titans, 50 First Dates, The Hurricane, The Green Mile, American History X, Love & Basketball, Empire Records, Romeo & Juliet, Man on Fire, Spellbound
The Autobiography of Malcolm X,
Anything by Toni Morrison--I LOVE her! (Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, Love)
Anything by Alice Walker
(In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart),
Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Raging Uterus, Black Like Me, The Color of Water, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Invisible Man, There are No Children Here, A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, White Oleander, The Second Shift, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Giving Tree, Things Fall Apart, The Poisonwood Bible, The House of the Spirits, all the Harry Potter books and a LOT more...
My dad and mom: Jaime and Genevieve Flores, my grandparents: Maura Usita Flores, Trinidad and Esperanza Palmea; my sisters: Jamielee and Ashlee Flores; all my relatives, Beth Everhart, Donna Everhart, Kathleen Garrison, Miya Chen, Stella Choe, Sheryllene Go, Friends Camp counselors, Camp Colby counselors, Queency Mateo, Kelsey Moore, Jose Rizal, Ralph Nader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, I Was Born With Two Tongues (www.2tongues.com), anyone not selling out for what they believe, anyone doing their part to make this world a more understanding and better place without violence or oppression...