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(O)RIGINAL (G)ODDESS

I ALWAYS KNEW WHO I WAS

About Me

ON MY FOURTH DRAFT OF MY PERSONAL NARRATIVE.OOOH WEEE! "refraKtion" IS THE NAME, BRINGING TRUTH IS MY GAME, OF MI KEEDAH LOCA. I'VE LIVED LIFE BIGTIME, STRONG, AND HARD FROM MY GENESIS OUT OF A SURROGATE MOTHER'S WOMB. EVERYONE HAS A STORY AND CAN BRING IT AS THEY WISH.MINE COMES AS IT WAS AND IS. REAL... I'VE BEEN SHARING AND LIVING MY LIFE WITH OPEN PAGES AND BOLD PRINT SINCE AT LEAST AGE NINE.

My Interests

Children of the World Clothing design with an African/Indian stylized mind Funkified Skating To Oldies Theatre Production Libraries/Book Stores Writing for over 4 decades Anything my Sun Wone writes Dr. John Henrik Clark Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Cheik Ante Diop Gordon Parks Etc......

I'd like to meet:

CHANGEMAKERS OF YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW. TRUTH TELLERS AND NON EXCESSIVE LIARS. MEN WHO TRULY LOVE WOMEN RIGHT. COUPLES LOVING RECIPROCALLY. PEOPLE WHO ARE SOLUTIONS. PEN AND PENCIL WIZARDS. CROCHETERS AND KNITTERS, FANSTASTIC ARTISTS. MOTHERS WHO TREASURE THEIR OFFSPRING. FATHERS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN AS WELL AS OTHERS. FOLKS WANTING TO PRACTICE OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGES WITH ME. SOMEONE I CAN HANG WITH AT AN ESTATE SALE WHO WON'T GET BETTER DEALS THAN I. HEHEHE. PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHY I AM SOOO BLACK, AND THEY VALIDATE IT INSTEAD OF GETTING OFFENDED BY IT.

Music:

Luther Vandross Freddie Jackson Gene Chandler The Whispers Gerald Alston Bobby'Blue'Bland The Leverts The Dramatics Peabo Bryson James Brown Miriam Makeba Melba Moore Nancy Wilson Nina Simone Kathleen Battle Luciano Pavarotti Yolanda Adams Rufus ft Chaka Khan Issac Hayes Smokey Robinson Curtis Mayfield Thelonius Monk Wes Montgomery The Main Ingredient Buena Vista Social Club Give me the Motown sound fahevah, and then some! Stephanie Mills gives me the chills in the 70's and 80's. I watched Jennifer Holiday make old blue haired women cry on Broadway matinees of Dreamgirls in 1977! Me Phi Me and Get Set VOP Daily doses of true hip-hop...

Movies:

Street Wars Uncle Tom's Apartment Come Hell or Highwater Wild Geese 1 Great Expectations Macked, Hammered, Shafted, and Slaughtered Hollywood Shuffle (which I wrote an article about in the Portland Observer) "Hollywood and the Reel Real thing" The Five Heartbeats Harlem Nights The Bodyguard "Race" & "Black Exploitation"

Television:

I Spy,Honey West, Avengers Perry Mason (B/W only) Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone Man From U.N.C.L.E. It Takes A Thief Tribeca The Wire! Top Cat I'm irrked at Everybody who loves Everybody Hates Chris!!!

Books:

refraKtion (my personal narrative of Mi Keedah Loca) Enriching materials that stress my African ancestors participation in the development of the world. Revolutionary Suicide, Gerry Spence,Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, The Greatest Miracle In The World, Stephen King (on Writing) Barbara Neely, Eric. J.Dickey, Earthway,Return To Love, etc.

Heroes:

I AM my hero.

My Blog

"Walking on Air" by Rhonda Lee Richoux

Last night one of my favorite writers posted a blog on her mypsace Rhonda Lee Rainbow page.In my perspective she has found sweet/bitter tasting ways to let us sample just what has and is transpiring i...
Posted by (O)RIGINAL (G)ODDESS on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:03:00 PST