Breath. My Lunar Sisters and My Sistah Circle! The flesh-spirit connection. Besos. Tarot Card Decks. Brooklyn's Annual African Arts Festival. Smoothies. The babies. Aaron & Rahad loft parties. DJ Reborn & DJ Stimulus parties. Astrology & Numerology. Intimacy. Revolutionaries as Superheroes. Carol's Daughter. Addy & Ferro. Sugar cane and coconut water. Maps. People whose self-expression is cooking. Movement. Village Voice. Solar powered establishments & energy efficient products. Deep, dont-have-to-say-nothing, yearning, juicy, on-some-other-level, maybe-I-was-your-husband-and-maybe-you-were-my-wife, we-gon-feed-these-kids, me 'n you, ride or die, wash-your-feet, call-you-when-you're-thinking-of-me, love-my-momma, cross country trip type love. Drum circles & cyphers. Spaces for people to dream aloud: like Liberation Fridays @ Food 4 Thought and Landmark. The self-respecting video vixen. Collaging. Raw Desserts. Well traveled souls. Gatekeepers. The easily inspired.Oriah says it best..."It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes!'It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."
Nelson Mandela. Kara Walker. Muhammad Ali. Assata Shakur. Sanaa Hamri. Don Cheadle. Susan Taylor. Spike Lee. Goldi. ?uestlove.Self-proclaimed PHIYAH STARTAHS!!! Folks about community, village, tribe, love, self-expression, contribution, service, good food, music/dance, elders & youngsters partying/learning/praying together, connection to Spirit and ancestors, educating yourself, falling back to engender the leadership in others, world travel, and who are committed to having their work & their words & their presence nurture/alter/celebrate the human experience.
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heartbeats, libations, call & response, soundtracks, sweet honey in the rock at carnegie hall, lunar sisters chanting, pacific ocean waves on california coasts, wind chimes, ice cream man!, drumming, cyphers & freestyles, DJ Reborn & DJ Stimulus, Whitney (come back...), Prince (forever), when your significant other's car pulls up OR key is in the door OR ringtone goes off OR elevator hits your floor, love-making, my nephew clapping...
Coming to America, Trading Places, Harlem Nights, Best of SNL w/ Eddie Murphy, School Daze, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Knocked up, Rabbit Proof Fence, What the Bleep?, Matrix Trilogy, Rize, The Color Purple, Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Traffic, All Spike Lee Joints, Supersize Me, Waking Life, Best of the Chappelle Show, The Wiz, Good Will Hunting, Rain Man
The Last Days of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Boondocks, Like It Is, VH1 Soul, Law & Order, Cosby Show reruns, ANTM marathons, Run's House, Project Runway
1984, white boy shuffle, a right to be hostile, we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, their eyes were watching god, bringing the rain to kapiti plain, if beale street could talk, bullsh*t or fertilizer, the prisoner's wife, the secret language of relationships, journey to jo'burg, where the sidewalk ends, the giving tree, green eggs & ham, the very hungry caterpillar, killing the black body, corregidora, a million little pieces, the bluest eye, beloved, live from death row, whatever it takes, fast food nation, lady sings the blues, the color purple, memoirs of a geisha, a taste of power, in the time of the butterflies, in the name of salome, the poisonwood bible, tuesdays with morrie, conversations with god book 1, a people's history of the united states, cunt, makes me wanna holler, mama day, sisters of the yam, autobiography of assata shakur, push, all about love, love poems (nikki g), post secret, the way of the peaceful warrior, celestine prophecy, the invitation, the seven spiritual laws of success, think & grow rich, xenogenesis series (aka Lilith's Brood), your money or your life, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, the power of now, osiris rising, the prophet
Mah momma, mah daddy, mah grandmama, mah grandpappy, kehinde wiley, toni morrison, harriet tub for the luv, my nephew, susan l. taylor, asha bandele, octavia butler, mos def, don cheadle, dave chappelle, bruce lee, muhammad ali, billie holiday, cornel west, mama nabii & baba yosef, nelson mandela, assata shakur, tupac, oriah, fahamu pecou, professor pemberton, auntie doctor francine olivia shakir, jamilah seifullah, kelli williams, asadullah & jamilah, jamyla & pierre, TRAP thomas.