Designing clothes,finishing school, volunteering, making friends, woking as an English teacher and runway instructor, making money, BEING A PIONEER, throwing fashion shows, working with teens, enlightening those who need it, UPLIFTING MY PEOPLE (and others as well)
Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, MLK, Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Iyanla Vanzant, Sista Souljah, my ancestors, IMAN, Russel Simmons, Kanye West, Jay-Z anyone who has had a positive influence in the African-American community and has an eye for entrepreneurship!!!
Old school (what you know bout that? :-),JAY-Z, Lyfe Jennings, John Legend, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Houston (the old one), Robin Thicke, Tupac, Biggie, Kanye West, Miles Davis, Kenny G, Ne-yo, Boyz II Men, BB King, Temptations, Wynton Marsalis, Jodeci, Fred Hammond, Sade, Trey Songz, Patti LaBelle...it's impossible to list them all!!!
ALL DISNEY MOVIES!!!, Beaches, Scarface, City of Joy, The Incredibles, Toy Story, BELLY, Shark Tale, Crash, Thirteen, ALI, Taking Lives, I Think I Love My Wife, Sister Act I and II, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bumfight, Major Payne, Butterfly Effect, Boyz in da Hood, Bluehill Avenue, The Wood, Fun With Dick and Jane, Do The Right Thing
Spongebob Squarepants :-), Japanese soaps (don..t ask...I don..t even know how that happened...)
Zane, The Coldest Winter Ever, No Disrespect (Sista Soulja), The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon( Toni Morrison), Memoirs of a Geisha (Andrew Golden), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), The Art of Happiness (the Dalai Lama), Solitude, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), all of Iyanla Vanzant..s books, Everything but the Burden, Ender Trilogy (Orson Scott Card)
My mother and father, who not only told me, but also showed me that you can overcome ANYTHING.