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Movies, Music, Rollerskating, Swimming, Bowling, Video Games (i really don't play them), Basketball, Football.
Ruby Dee - She is a woman of true grace and style! Sidney Poitier - He is a wonderful actor and a legend of the craft in my eyes. Jay-Z - The man is so freakin' talented and a business man in every since of the word! Oprah Winfrey - O.K. Who doesn't want to meet her?! Two words: Phenomenal Woman! Allen Iverson - AI is a baller to the bone! He is very passionate about the game and always gives his all. I respect him for that. Saul Williams - The brother has a way with words! Nelson Mandela - A dedicated man! If they were still upon this earth, I would love to have met Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Ossie Davis, Rosa Parks, and Richard Pryor.
I like all kinds... But here are a few artist that I dig:Billie Holiday, Teena Marie, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Jay-Z, Mos Def, Tupac, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Rose Royce, Kokayi, Outkast, T.I., Eminem, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Nas, Psalmayene 24, Fertile Ground, W. Ellington Felton, Raheem Devaughn, Illpoets.com Collective, 5th L, D.J. Quik, Digital Underground, India Arie, Kindred, De La Soul, Opus Akoben, Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5, Kanye West, Black Eyed Peas, Notorious B.I.G., New Edition, Eve, Michael Jackson (back in the day of course), Usher, Prince, TLC, Lenny Kravitz, The Temptations, Donny Hathaway, Aaliyah, Ras Kass, Dr. Dre, Gorillaz, Third Eye Blind, Ludacris, and definitely Go-Go Music (home grown baby!)...
Beetlejuice (my favorite), Car Wash, Never Ending Story, Snatch, Requiem for a Dream, Coming to America, The Terminal, Imitation of Life, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (crazy old movie, but good), Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare on Elm Street (3,4, and 5), Hamlet (with Kenneth Branaugh), Scarface, The Godfather (1 & 2), Akeelah and the Bee, The Italian Job
Old and New: Cosby Show, A Different World, The Facts of Life, Golden Girls, The Nanny, Different Strokes, Good Times, Living Single, Martin, In Living Color, Mad TV (when it first hit the airwaves, it was funny), You Can't Do That on Television (nickelodeon was the best), The Monkeys (yes, i know i'm wack for admitting to that), Jerry Springer, Oprah, Home Delivery, Extreme Makeover the Home Edition, Wife Swap, Trading Spouses, Medium, Smallville, WWE Smackdown, Celebrity Fit Club, Real World, ER (not as much anymore), My Wife and Kids, and Bernie Mac.
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary (narrated by Jasmine Guy), Assata by Assata Shakur, Selected Poems by Nikki Giovanni, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, Long Distance Life by Marita Golden, and the Complete Works of Shakespeare (i haven't read them all, Hamlet is my favorite.)
My grandmother and my aunts... I love them with all of my heart!