I'd like to meet:
The Current Dinner-Party Guest List:
John Brown, Allen Iverson, Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, Nat Turner, Reinhold Neibuhr, Kevin Garnett, Tracy Chapman, St. John Coltrane, Nico, Ralph Ellison, Roberto Clemente, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Elliott Smith, James Baldwin, Lauryn Hill, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Fidel Castro, Donovan F. McNabb, Ho Chi Minh, Rachel Harris, Richard Pryor, Emma Sickles, Jack Johnson (the boxer not the singer), Arundhati Roy, Jorge Luis Borges, Sapphire, Jean Michelle Basquiat, Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson, Edward Norton, Rigoberta Menchu, Michael Eric Dyson, Sonia Sanchez, Paulo Friere, George Carlin, George Clooney, Selma Hayek, Billy Upski, Zoe Saldana, bell hooks, Saul Williams, David Cohn, Bill Simmons, Toni Morrison, Rev. Al Sharpton, Audre Lorde, Ozzie Guillen, Derrek Lee, Scoop Jackson, Pat Hughes, David Roediger, Denis Johnson, George Lipsitz, Iris Marion Young, Bill Moore, Stephen A. Smith, Albert Pujols, Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Jeanette Winterson, Lonnie Lynn, Angela Davis, Gael Garcia Bernal, Frances Conroy, Bill Lawrence, Donald Faison and Zach Braff, Catalina Sandina Moreno, Eve, Audre Lorde, Steve Biko, Adrienne Rich, ?uestlove, Cat Power, Idina Menzel, Bill Ayers, James Cone, Lisa Delpit, Lawrence Bobo.
Books:
"I felt the cancelled life dreaming after me."
Heroes:
“I am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose…I count it all joy. ‘I have fought the good fight’ and have, as I trust, ‘finished my course.’â€