Reading (literacy is fundamental, folks, and more kids really need to learn that), writing, the beach (there's nothing like laying in the sun getting all bronze and sexy), music and media (you've got to know what's going on in the world to figure out how to fix it).
Billie Holiday (she has gotten me through some hard days), my half-brother (long story, if you want to know, ask), Asha Bandele (her words are lyrical to me), Jay-Z (you've got to respect his hustle), Kanye West (confidence is SO sexy)
R&B, hip-hop, jazz, reggae, some alternative, anything that makes my hips move...as long as it sounds good, I'm open to listening.
Scarface, Sparkle, Friday, Weekend at Bernie's, Speed, West Side Story, Sixteen Candles, The Notebook, Mahogany, Lady Sings the Blues, The Color Purple, Fade to Black, Pulp Fiction, Brown Sugar, Love Jones, Hotel Rwanda, Dreamgirls...but I'm not really into films. I'd rather live life than watch it.
The Wire, Boondocks, Chappelle's Show, Law & Order (all of them), Nip/Tuck, Girlfriends, Entourage, Sex in the City (reruns, now), SportsCenter, any reality TV trash du jour (the true definition of "guilty pleasures")
The Prisoner's Wife, Things Fall Apart, Catch-22, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, any Eric Jerome Dickey or E. Lynn Harris book, Volunteer Slavery,...there's too many of them to name here.
My mother and God