Music:
reggae - especially lovers rock
Movies:
the wooden camera - spring, summer, fall, winter...and spring - water, a deepa mehta film - the vertical ray of the sun - house of flying daggers - carandiru - eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - saving face - little miss sunshine - city of god - tsotsi
Books:
the fountainhead - paperbag princess - the polished hoe - the bonesetter's daughter - paradise of the blind
Heroes:
of course my momma and pops!