Loving myself the way the Creator loves me, deepening my love for Afrikan People, Spiritual development, political activism, expanding my business, growing, facing my shadows as I reflect the light, producing film festivals, creating art, dancing, traveling, learning new things, history, all aspects of anthropology, science, astrology, helping my community, making this a better world for our children, teaching, using art as a tool of liberation, writing, music, cooking, networking,
The Second Annual Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival.
I'd like to meet:
Malcolm, Ernesto, Ida B. Wells, Winnie Mandela, Arundahti Roy, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Randall Robinson, My great great great grandmothers Malkonia and Ada the day that they were freed from slavery, President Fidel Castro, Assata Shakur, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Mary Magdalene, Martin Luther King Jr., Myrlie Evers, the husband that God chose for me, The Mirabal Sisters, President Michelle Bachelet, Aung San Suu Kyi, Harriet Tubman, Paulo Friere, Stephen Hawking, Paul Robeson, Robert Kennedy, Indirah Gahndi, dance under a Caribbean sky with Katherine Dunham, Fannie Lou Hamer, Cesar Chavez, John Lennon, Sitting Bull, Benjamin Franklin, Sojourner Truth, Marion Wright Edelman, Tavis Smiley, my parents before they had children, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Queen/King Hatshepsut, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jesus, Mary, the first woman that I descended from, John Coltrane, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair the day before the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Lena Horn, Abigail Adams, party with Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, Toni Morrison, Imhotep, Eduardo Galeano, Queen Christina, Danny Glover, Albert Einstein, Brian Greene, Gloria Naylor, Hiram Bingham, the former United States ambassador to France, Billie Holiday, and ask Octavia Butler what she discovered on the other side...
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Malcolm X at Oxford - December 1964
I am open to meeting Brothers and Sisters who define life on their own terms and are committed to making this a better world.
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness -- and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.
Confronting Empire,
Arundhati Roy
Porto Alegre, Brazil
January 27, 2003
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I freed hundreds of slaves in my life time. I could have freed hundreds more if they had only known they were slaves."
- Harriet Tubman
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i found god in myself
& i loved Her
i loved Her fiercely.
---Ntozake Shange
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i have seen Her and heard Her sing my soul
-Syk Houdeib
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
- Ernesto Che Guevara
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"Our greatest and most enduring strengths as a movement and a people derive
from our humility, our respect for others, our commitment to principle, our
love of Africa, our commitment to serve the interests of the poor of the
world, as best we can, our refusal to abandon what we believe in because of
battle fatigue. These we must never lose, simply because some among us tell
us to act in an arrogant and superior manner towards another human being who
lies by the roadside in pain, bleeding."
-President Thabo Mbeki
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“Let your culture be your condom when you’re fuckin' with corporate Americaâ€
-KRS 1
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Peace Begins Within
How do we find peace in a time of war?
How do we show love in a time of hate?
How do we find a way to show kindness
And not be taken for weakness?
It begins within
It begins with loving yourself into a peaceful tranquility
We are all children of God, sublime creations of our Creator
Our bodies are living temples and testaments to his plan
Once we become like our Creator
And start loving ourselves like He loves us
We begin to realize that by killing another
We are killing our self
Our Self
Self-Love----Love-Self
Love is the eternal answer to the eternal question
Loving yourself permeates love for other human beings
In the angelic faces of our children, I see God
We must show them
Peace begins within.
Rob Batista
Copyright 2007
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Music:
Sarah Vaughn, Prince, Trane, Miles, Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Tatum, Gladys Knight (and the Pips), Dianne Reeves, Ahmad Jamal, Bob Marley, X-CLAN, Fela Kuti, Cassandra Wilson, Jill Scott, Ledisi, Anthony Hamilton, Sister Carol, Public Enemy, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Mc Lyte, Mc Shan, Monie Love, old school Queen Latifah, Israel Houghton, Sheila E., Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badu, Billy Joel (yeah what about it????), Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, CeeCee Winans, Regina Belle, Teena Marie, Vivian Green, India Arie, Wynton Marsalis, Common, Kanye West, old school Aretha, Etta James, Leela James, The Roots, Binary Star, Lauryn Hill, Kem, Distorted Soul, some Nas (my state of mind is purple) and Pac when they were/are introspective and honoring women, Donald Byrd, U2, George Benson, KRS-I, BB King, Dead Prez, Karen Carpenter, all things Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Artur Grumio, Sting, Staple Singers, Ojays, Sunshine Anderson, Syleena Johnson, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Donnie Hathaway, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Minnie Riperton, Ladies Love Cool J, Will Downing, Brian McKnight, Black Star, Talib Kweli, Janet Jackson, Regina Carter, Branford Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, Kay Starr, Harold McKinney, SunRa, Duke Ellington, Nancy Wilson, The Winans, The Clark Sisters, Me Shell N'Degeocello (sp?), Chaka Khan and Rufus, DMX, Chubb Rock, Frank McComb, Amos Lee, Betty Wright(Tonight is the night..), Syk Houdeib, Offbeat Musiq, Atzlan Underground....
Movies:
SECOND ANNUAL DETROIT WOMEN OF COLOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Television:
PBS baby!!! Sesame Street!!!!, Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley, American Experience, The History Detectives, The Secrets of the Dead, Nova, Frontline, The Reading Rainbow, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, NOW, The BBC news, P.O.V., Oh yeah, other channels....Cold Case, CSI, Lost, Heroes, CBS Morning Show (every Sunday), Medium...To tell the truth, it watches me more than I watch it. Okay, I admit it....I am a TREKKIE!!!! DS9 and TNG - so funky!!!!!
Books:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Mama Day by Gloria Naylor, My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, It by Stephen King, The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Black Gods - Orisa Studies in the New World by Gary Edwards and John Mason, Tarot for a New Generation by Janina Renee, The Art of Aromatherapy: The Healing and Beautifying Properties of the Essential Oils of Flowers and Herbs, When and Where I Enter : The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings, Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner, Africans at the Crossroad: Notes on an African World Revolution by John Henrik Clarke, Metu Neter Vol. 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation by Ra UN Nefer Amen, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere, Blood In My Eye by George Jackson, They Came Before Columbus : The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Return to the African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality by Oba T'Shaka, Black Men: Single, Obsolete, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition by Haki Madhubuti, Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop, African Exodus by Chris Stringer, The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, Tomorrow's Tomorrow by Joyce Ladner, Spiritual Cleansing: A Handbook of Psychic Protection by Draja Mickaharic, From rebellion to revolution: Afro-American slave revolts in the making of the modern world by Eugene Genovese, Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham, Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions by Haki Madhubuti, Sankofa by Eleni Tedla, Segu by Maryse Conde, The Cointelpro Papers: ..s from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (South End Press Classics Series, Volume 8) by Ward Churchill, et al, Fannie Lou Hamer by David Rubel, Understanding Contemporary Africa by April and Donald Gordon, Developing Positive Self Images and Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu, There is a River by Vincent Harding, Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin, Free the Land! The True Story of the Trials of the RNA-11 in Mississippi and the Continuing Struggle to Establish an Independent Black Nation by Imari Abubakari Obadele, One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race by Scott Malcomson, Wonderful Ethiopian by Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Slave Testimony Ed. John Blassingame, Part Of My Soul Went With Him by Winnie Mandela, The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script by Diop/Leclant / Obenga / Vercoutter, Reflecting Black by Michael Eric Dyson, The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter, Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1790-1925 by Herbert Gutman, Dune by Frank Herbert, Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey, The Prophetess by Babara Wood, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay, Exterminate the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist, Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon, Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S., Planets in Transit by Robert Hand, The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, the Tomb, the Royal Treasure by Nicholas Reeves, The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker, Hand I Fan With by Tina Mcelroy Ansa, Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, Imajica by Clive Barker, Juxstapostion by Piers Anthony, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, Tapping the Power Within by Iyanla Vanzant, Jambalaya by Luisah Teish, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham, The World Beauty Book: How We Can All Look and Feel Wonderful Using the Natural Beauty Secrets of Women of Color by Jessica B. Harris, the Sherlock Holmes Series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, anything Dr. Seuss and thousands more..
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