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Rising Up...

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Music:

I LOVE Music... basically I should say I-Tunes because I basically live and get all of my music from I-Tunes: Let's See there is The Temptations, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrel, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Otis Reddings, Earth Wind & Fire, And there is The Clark Sisters, Hezikiah Walker, Donald Lawrence & Tri-City, Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin, Adrianne Archie (amazing), yeah, there is a lot!!! Then there is Jill Scott, India.Arie, Lauryn Hill, Beyonce, Ledisi, Teedra Moses, Chrisette Michelle, Joss Stone, Emily King, (these ladies are hot on my playlist right now) Donnie, Kirk Franklin, John Legend, Musiq Soulchild, Kayne West, Jay-Z, Common, Bilal, D'Angelo (these men are hot on my playlist now)

Movies:

Hotel Rwanda, Crash, The Color Purple, The Devil Wears Prada, West Side Story, The Wiz, School Daze, What About Bob, Singin In The Rain, Romeo & Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio), Much Ado About Nothing (Denzel Washington), Midsummer Nights Dream, The Fighting Temptations, The Preachers Wife, Waiting To Exhale... I like all kinds of movies: dramas, comedies, musicals, classic movies, i like them all

Television:

Will & Grace, Friends, Martin, Living Single, Hangin With Mister Cooper, Family Matters, PROJECT RUNWAY, Clean House, RENO 911, The Cosby Show...

Books:

Nisa, The Color Purple, The Welcome Table (Maya Angelou), I know why the caged bird sings, The things they carried: Poetry: Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Spoken Word, Plays & Playwrights: August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Cheryl West (Before It Hits Home: AMAZING!!!) I love love love black playwrights...

Heroes:

Those who have inspired me, those who have been my muses for creativity, those who have corrected me with love and care, My ancestors... My mother (without her love i would not be here today) God (without him nothing is possible) My friends: they inspire me to continue to create. They inspire me through the lives that they live and through the way that we all are connected.

My Blog

to know that i was patient

i found you, now being able to truly say that i love you is an incredible feeling. to tell somebody about you, to show a picture, to fix that one special dinner. to look into your eyes, to see your sm...
Posted by Rising Up... on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:56:00 PST

The Gathering

Let me take this moment to touch you,To hold your hand-Let me take this time we have together,These few hours to anoint you,To anoint your body with my holy oil-Let me bless you,Let me honor you and o...
Posted by Rising Up... on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:18:00 PST

Dance History class with Donald Mckayle...

So today was awesome and wonderful, even though I am getting back into the swing of things, dancing none stop and honestly I am tad bit sore. But anyway, everything is wonderful, the best part of my d...
Posted by Rising Up... on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:28:00 PST

You Know.... Complete

You know Complete   in many ways you complete me almost like the sun completes the moon, like day completes night. you complete me, like yin completes yang, like A completes Z, you complete...
Posted by Rising Up... on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:35:00 PST

a new thing that i have written... dedicated to my Creator

My Everything                 You have become my everything My melody and my harmony- My on beat and my off-beat- My A-flat Major ...
Posted by Rising Up... on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:26:00 PST

Poetry: Robin's Song

Robin's Song   robins song has ceased the bird has flown away the cats meow no longer our lovers afternoon has gone gone with the wind left with our robins song   gone are the days of claspe...
Posted by Rising Up... on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:32:00 PST

The Meeting of Two Creations

The Meeting of Two Black Creations   black hands meet black eyes step further step closer together feeling one thing a common ground sacred ground a bed where ancestors bless the golden path be ...
Posted by Rising Up... on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:35:00 PST

tonight, i created a my space

sooooo, i am so freakin' exhausted and was going to go to bed, but decided to create a my space any way here it is. whoop-de-freakin'-doo!!!
Posted by Rising Up... on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:19:00 PST