Ibaye, Ibaye, Hatshepsut, Mary Magdalene, Marguerite Guilloire, Zora Neale Hurston, Anais Nin, Daguerre, Joseph S. D. Guillory, Yassanne, Go Mom, James Baldwin, Anwar Sadat, Lorraine Hansberry, Bela Lugosi, Octvavia Butler, Tituba, Henriette Delille, Gregoire Guilloire, Loren Yvette Guillory, Celia Cruz, Frida Kahlo, Don Robey, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Che Guevara, Louis Casio, Mary Cretchin, Lestat, Ben Franklin, Jorge Amado, Basquiat, Toussaint, the first and the last one off the boat ...But, in the mundane world...Barbara Chase-Ribaud, Chaka Khan, Starhawk, Kevin Bacon, Dennis Quaid, a "real svengali", Martin Lawrence, Barack Obama, Isaac Hayes, Wole Soyinka, Ted Danson, Julie Taymor, Shonda Rhimes, Euzhan Palcy, Ysamur Flores-Pena, Leon Ichaso, Zahi Hawass, Don Cheadle, Danny Glover, David E. Kelly, Kola Boof, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Hortense Spillers, Fred Moten, Wahneema Lubiano, Henry Louis Gates, Cornel West, Bettye Saar, Diamanda Galas, a tax guru, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Bill Gates, Nick Nolte, and so many, many more...