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About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Ro
Birthday: 08/24/1981
Birthplace: L.A.
Current Location: Atlanta
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5'11.99999 - Lets just say six feet
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: Nigerian
The Shoes You Wore Today: I don't know ... brown?
Your Weakness: yeah right, like I'm telling you so you can use it against me
Your Fears: see answer to above
Your Perfect Pizza: Papa John's Chicken Alfredo
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get Rich or Die Trying (well... maybe not die)
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: i think everybody's favorite is LOL
Thoughts First Waking Up: what time is it? Geez!!! How come nobody woke me up?
Your Best Physical Feature: ! ... no, i'm not gonna say it - too easy
Your Bedtime: I'll sleep when I'm dead
Your Most Missed Memory: if I'm missing a memory doesn't that mean I forgot?
Pepsi or Coke: Sprite
MacDonalds or Burger King: Wendy's
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Arizona
Chocolate or Vanilla: Strawberry
Cappuccino or Coffee: Frappuccino (I'm a non-conformist. Can you tell?)
Do you Smoke: nope
Do you Swear: he!! muthafu@%ing naw
Do you Sing: i do a little sumthin
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Attended College: twice
Do you want to get Married: eventually
Do you belive in yourself: if I don't, who will?
Do you get Motion Sickness: naw, i can handle it
Do you think you are Attractive: once again ... if i don't, who will?
Are you a Health Freak: I try and keep it tight
Do you get along with your Parents: yep
Do you like Thunderstorms: i like the Quiet Storm. Does that count?
Do you play an Instrument: not yet, i'm working on it
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: a better question would be, "when was the last month that you didn't drink alcohol?"
In the past month have you Smoked: nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: nope
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Oreo's come in boxes now?!? When that happen?
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: nope
In the past month have you been on Stage: if I have, I was too drunk to remember
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: y'all aint ready to see me Skinny Dipping
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: define stolen? cuz I tried to tell her she gave me too much change for it. She shouldn't have been on her cell phone.
Ever been Drunk: what happens in Vegas ... Miami ... Atlanta ... DC ... LA ... and Yemen stays in Vegas, Miami, Atlanta, DC, LA, and Yemen
Ever been called a Tease: for like 5 minutes ... then it was on!
Ever been Beaten up: By my mama, yes.
Ever Shoplifted: nope
How do you want to Die: umm, i don't? what kinda question is that?
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I am grown.
What country would you most like to Visit: Japan
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: doesn't matter
Favourite Hair Color: doesn't matter
Short or Long Hair: doesn't matter
Height: doesn't matter
Weight: that's a trick question and i aint answering
Best Clothing Style: whatever looks good on you
Number of Drugs I have taken: 5th
Number of CDs I own: I have no idea, they get lost like socks in the dryer
Number of Piercings: none
Number of Tattoos: pending
Number of things in my Past I Regret: i suppressed all those memories
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!There is never a tragedy in trying Never a tragedy in dying to be the only one to succeed Even though the world consistently attempts to impede your progress You digress … never! How clever of you to pursue with persistence (In spite of resistance) (In lieu of assistance) And, somehow, always accomplish your goalsHow courageous of you to sew your very soul to the seams of your dreams To tie it in a knot to the ends of infinity So it could exist for an eternity So it could exist even after you die Even when you no longer have the strength to try Even when the Sun stops burning… and the oceans dry
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My Interests

Reading, Writing, Watching movies, playing basketball, watching football, eating, sleeping, waking up, playing pool, and being happy.

I'd like to meet:

Any intelligent people with open minds, a good sense of humor, and some level of decency - Entertainment lawyers, PR people and other up and coming professionals - Saul Williams, Christina Milian, Common, Dave Chapelle, Mos Def, and Oprah.

Music:

I pretty much listen to everything. In heavy rotation right now is Common, T.I, James Blunt, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Jill Scott, Floetry, Maxwell, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Hoobastank, Etta James, Ne-yo and a whole lot more. I love all kinds of music.

Movies:

Fight Club, The Last Dragon, Coming To America, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Malcolm X, John Q, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Tombstone, Love Jones, 40 Year Old Virgin, Slam

Television:

Heroes, Sportscenter, re-runs of The Cosby Show (I missed them when I was a kid), House, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, GPBTV, The History Channel, National Geographic, TLC

Books:

The Da Vinci Code, The Street, Native Son, Said the Shotgun to the Head, The Bible, The Quran, No God But God, Letters to a Young Poet, How to Make Love All Night (I know, there's kind of a contradiction in there somewhere but hey ... i'm human) and the book I'm trying to write that never seems to want to be finished.

Heroes:

My grandmother, My mom, Malcolm X and Batman.

My Blog

Make-Up [poem]

Baby, Come as you areand stop hiding behind those beautiful liesthat half smile, those fake nails, those pretty aqua eyesyou've buried your soul so far beneath the surface that I wonder how it survive...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:57:00 PST

Braille [poem]

you've written the soul of your self in brailleand I've sent my fingertips to sail over your skin to readI can feel meflowinginbetween the tiny grooves of youyour lips, like your hips aretrembling...i...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:52:00 PST

Renaissance: My Rebirth

What happens when a man finally accepts the fact that everything he'd hoped for, everything he believed in was all an illusion?  What happens to a man when he loses his w...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:47:00 PST

Where Dreams Hide [poem]

I've walked through crowded inner city streetsto the urban beats of drug needles falling to the feetof pleasure addicted minions who move in unisonthrough alleyways and burnt out abandoned buildingsgl...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:34:00 PST

Her Roots [poem]

I wrote this piece a while back (before India Arie's "I am not my hair") because I noticed a trend in some of the black women I was close to toward a more natural look.  It lead me to yet another...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:35:00 PST

(un)Spoken Word: 7 years Old [poem]

A while ago I was having a conversation with myself, as I often do. I know, I know - sounds crazy, but I told myself a long time ago that controlled insanity is the foundation of imagination. Any...
Posted by E. Pharaoh on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:25:00 PST