DANCING: hip hop, salsa, afro-haitian, ballet, modern... dancing/performing is what grounds me, keeps me centered. Movement, physical activities - keeps the juices flowing and the body rejuvenated...keeping good company with positive influences...exploring the City and rediscovering favorite haunts. Studying. SOULFORCE S.F. hip hop dance!!! co.
Consistent individuals.
Anything Bay Area. Talib Kweli. Goapele. Anthony Hamilton. Elemnop. Scratching by my bro or DJ Go! Vivian Green. Kanye West. Nas. Mac Dre. Portis Head. Eriaz Productions/Right Brain. Dane Errisson. Mandana Mofidi. Orishas. Angela-la's entire cd collection. Stevie Wonder. Young MJ. Buena Vista Social Club. Queen. Vivaldi (most classical composers). Scarecrow. Sam Totah. Safari. Lauren Hill. John Legend. Martin Luther. Paradise Hills. Ms. E. Fitzgerald. Nina Simone. Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Wu Tang.
The Alchemist. Kite Runners. Winners. Middlesex. The White Boy Shuffle - any Paul Beatty work. Haiku. A New Psychology of Women. Wicked. Mirror, Mirror. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. Ayn Rand. The Dictionary. Howard Zinn. Jane Austen. Lucy Maud Montgomery (childhood favorite). Kushiel series. cheesy romance novels from my girl Jack. poetry and cyphers from Poets with Rainbow Theatre. The Prince. The Sweet Hereafter. Anne Rice. Toni Morrison. Gustauve Flaubert. Michel Foucalt. Vonnegut. Dr. Suess. machiavelli. beckett (though he's infuriating). Louisa May Alcott (childhood fav). Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tolkien. Orson Scott Card. Salinger. Michael Connelly. Sylvia S. Mader. Carlos Bulosan. William Shakespeare. J.D. Robb. The God of Small Things. L. Hamilton. Sharon Shinn. Lynn Flewelling. My anatomy text. Jessica Hagedorn. Fast Food Nation. Hunter S. Thompson (have to be in a certain mood though). Haruki Murakami. My physiology text. The Harvard Guide to Women Health. E. Bronte. Isabel Allende. Surplus and Darger.
People who speak out. People who aren't afraid to be honest, to stand for what they believe in. And my Mama of course.