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About Me

I was born in the congo/ I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx/ I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light/ I am bad/I sat on the throne drinking nectar with allah/ I got hot and sent an ice age to europe to cool my thirst/ My oldest daughter is nefertiti the tears from my birth pains created the nile/ I am a beautiful woman/I gazed on the forest and burned out the sahara desert with a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes/ I crossed it in two hours/ I am a gazelle so swift so swift you can't catch me/For a birthday present when he was three I gave my son hannibal an elephant/ He gave me rome for mother's day/ My strength flows ever on/My son noah built new ark and I stood proudly at the helm as we sailed on a soft summer day/ I turned myself into myself and was jesus/ men intone my loving name/ All praises All praises/ I am the one who would save/I sowed diamonds in my back yard/ My bowels deliver uranium/ the filings from my fingernails are semi-precious jewels/ On a trip north I caught a cold and blew My nose giving oil to the arab world/ I am so hip even my errors are correct/ I sailed west to reach east and had to round off the earth as I went/ The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid across three continents/I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal/ I cannot be comprehended except by my permission/I mean...I...can fly like a bird in the sky.../- Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping

My Interests

Sports (Tennis, Squash, Horeback Riding, Water and Downhill Skiing, Soccer); Reading; Travel; Animals; Experiencing life, through the ups and the downs, to learn as much as I can for the short time I am on this Earth.

I'd like to meet:

My Mother and Grandmother in Heaven; My unborn children, grandchildren and great grandchildren; People who aspire for greatness and inspire me to be greater; You.

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Music:

Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae, Rock, Alternative...whatever catches my ear.

Movies:

Sankofa; Glory; Forrest Gump; Braveheart; The Usual Suspects; Long Kiss Goodnight; To Kill A Mockingbird; The Warriors; Harry and the Hendersons; Constant Gardener; Twister; Amistad; Kamastura; Amelie; The Color Purple; The Addams Family; The Green Mile; The Incredibles....to name a few...

Television:

Entourage; Big Love; Dexter;Passions; Law & Order; Heroes; Cosby Show Reruns (holla back!); Anything on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and A&E; Professional Boxing, Ultimate Fighting, College Basketball (Duke vs. ____ ).

Books:

Harry Potter Books; Anything by Isabelle Allende and Kathy Reichs; Gregory Macguire books; Unforgiveable Blackness: The Biography of Jack Johnson; Slave Narratives; The Chronicles of Narnia; Any and All Cookbooks.

Heroes:

My Mother, for sacrificing her life in every meaning of the word to give me every opportunity to grow into the woman she knew I could be; My Grandmother, for being the foundation for all of her children and grandchildren that never crumbled no matter how much weight we put on her; My Aunt, for continuing in my grandmother's footsteps and filling her impossibly large shoes; My Dad, for never giving up on his dreams and showing me the true meaning of perserverance in the face of adversity; My ancestors of every race who's names I may not know who died fighting injustice, fighting oppression and loving their people, so that my cousins and I could live better lives than they were allowed.