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Una Fuerte Mami!

WIPE ME DOWN

About Me

You know, I could write anything here, and you'd never know if it was true or not until you got to know me...So I will put all the facades aside. I have been through alot. Seen alot. Lived alot. Lost alot. But I am constanly humbled by the miracles and unbelivable reprises I have been given. I am mother to a miracle of a child, daughter to a mother from whom I get my sense of humanity, confidence, humility, balance, caring and nurturing, and a father from whom I get my committment, pride, dedication, honor, and discipline. My friends list reads like a story book, from my siblings, to my cousins, and best friends....and of course the best of my newest friends. I thrive on music and the rhythms of humanity, the grind of the streets and the vastness of the sky. In some ways a dreamer, but in most ways a do-er. I love to laugh, see new things and meet new people. I no longer have expectations of the people I meet. You get back what you put out, so thats for you to deal with not me.Just a note for the men folk out there. Do not send me notes trying to "holla" you will be ignored. Do not ask if you can meet up with me to "chill"...I don't know you fool. I do have criteria (its like that nowadays I have every right to be picky about who I associate with) check my "interview" blog...not just a blog, that's real talk. I could care less about words, actions are the key to all that is April. It takes alot for me to take a man seriously and I am searching or looking for anything, but me.Rest in peace T (4/11/06...I wont forget)...I miss my guardian angel, keep watchin'.Artistic MySpace Layouts

My Interests

The Baha'i Faith, REPARATIONS, Music, promoting new artists,music, politics, education, music, public policy, international issues concerning African people, the rare people with integrity left in the world.

I'd like to meet:

My great grandfather Gerald Bullock, the first person enslaved on both sides of my family, Nat Turner, Souljourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Malcom X.

Music:

The Roots, Skillz, The Procussions, Deux Process, Donnie, Justus Leeg, Little Brother, De La Soul, Talib Kweli, DJ "Quote", Mos Def, Angie Stone, Goapele, Wale, Fort Tabarsi, Tabi Bonney, Jill Scott, Dwele, Dialated Peoples, Common, Eryka Badu, Sam Cooke, Wu Tang, Mobb Deep, DMX, dead prez, Sean Paul, TOK, any Baltimore Club Music (Big Up Blaze One Records), DC go-go, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Kool and the Gang, Cindy Lauper, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Kevin Locke, Phil Collins, New Edition, Boyz II Men, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Sugar Hill Gang, the Begees, Guns and Roses, Beastie Boys, Bahamadiah, Amerie, Amel Larrieux, Rhian Benson,Vivian Green, Astrud, Gypsy Kings, Cumbia Kings, Queen Latifah, Nas, Eartha Kitt, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Etta James, Eric Sermon, CCB, TMB, Notorious B.I.G, PAC, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Pitbull, Daddy Yankee, E-40 (never ever thought I'd write that but this last album is catchy...Im on the HYPHY train) lol, Immortal Technique,

Movies:

The Secret, GOOD Horor movies, psychological thrillers, Silent Hill, The Color Purple, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Ring (1 and 2), SAW, A Time to Kill, School Daze, Kill Bill (anything from Quentin Terantino), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Hotel Rwanda, KIDS, Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, Roots, Shaka Zulu, Sarafina, Rize, Scarface, the Godfather, Requiem for a Dream, Chocolat, Crash.

Television:

24, House (House is a fool), Law and Order and CSI(all of them), Dr. G Medical Examiner, Jehrico, Bones, American Idol, So you Think You Can Dance, Flavor of Love, Medical Incredible, Third Watch, Dave Chapelle, South Park (gotta represent the CO), Lost, PBS, History Channel, TLC Lifetime (hehe), CNN.

Books:

Rock My Soul, The Debt, My Bondage My Freedom, Things Fall Apart, My Soul to Keep, Wretched of the Earth, My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, The Between, The Good House, anything by Cornel West, Chinua Achebe, Octavia Butler, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Secret, The Total Money Makeover.

Heroes:

My mom, my dad, my grandparents, great grandparents, my daughter. T. all the single mothers and fathers living richeously.

My Blog

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No, seriously....     April Goggans
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:43:00 PST

Interview

Are you single? Why (by choice or circumstance)? Do you want a relationship, just friendship, or friendship with benefits? Why? Have you ever been married? If so is the divorce final? What turns you ...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

This is the rarest thing I encounter.....

My brothas, my brothas...this is so rare, I almost always never see it, I see the acting like it but not the real thing...let's build together to make this more of the status quo, the lack of thi...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:46:00 PST

My Bio

April R. Goggans M.A. is a dedicated single mother to a very bright nine year old daughter . Ms. Goggans received her Masters Degree in Clinical Sociology from the University of Northern Colorado (Dec...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST

life

God gave life to the Black body the dollar bought Man takes cheap shots that force body rot constant void widens inside the have nots swells upon swells of self denial bargaining for the weighted tria...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:51:00 PST

Being

Sometimes I feel like I have a shotgun pointed at my head but I dont fear death I breath ice some times and shoot fire from my eyes a constant state of elemental chaos for ever running from the junk t...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:38:00 PST

My Loss

My loss includes, me, her and him Me was so lost she did herself in her is who me lost while running from him him is who she lost at conception now, me, her and him are my loss through and within...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:34:00 PST

SCREAM

The roar of my thunderous thoughts leave my mind raging hot welling up inside of me the intensly laid plans begin to be so, softy, beating, fleeting, distinctly my heart is prepared for "he" I wave th...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:32:00 PST

The in between...

There is a place I spend idle time A space where confusion crowds my mind In between something but closer to nothing I find my heart never has time for real adjusting My understanding misses real just...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST

Friendship

Friendship. Wow, so many things can be said about the relationships and dealings we have with those we have deemed, "friends". For the most part, the people in my life at this point who are friends, a...
Posted by Una Fuerte Mami! on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST