Saving the world/saving the race/saving myself/being a Lemieux girl/wine/ancestral spirits/art/freedom/Womanism/Negritude/my future marriage/my future kids/me/myself/and I.
myself. That'd be a trip, no?
Coltrane, N'Dea Davenport, Miles, Mingus, Me'shell, Digable Planets, Common, Marvin, Tribe, De La, Jill Scott, Van Hunt, Maxwell, Lenny Kravitz, Sade, Jimi, CHICAGO indie Hip-Hop (Thaione Davis, Pugzlee Atoms, etc),John Legend, Mos, Kweli, Bobby Brown, Al B. Sure!, Lupe, Prince, Stevie, SA-RA, Nina Simone, Souls of Mischief, old school Janet, EWF, Kem, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Patti, Oran "Juice" Jones's 'The Rain', most anything DJ Premier produced, Jeru, Black Moon, New Jack Swing...
Mo' Betta Blues, Love Jones, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Closer, Uptown Saturday Night, A Piece of the Action, Malcolm X, Vanilla Sky, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Do The Right Thing, Dreamgirls
She DON'T watch Channel Zero, or anything else for that matter.
Feminism Is For Everybody, Soledad Brother, The Bluest Eye, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Bulletproof Diva, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, The People Could Fly, AFRO-Bets Book of ABCs, Passing, Caucasia, Black Men: Single? Obsolete? Dangerous?, The Color Purple, Song of Solomon, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down
Beautiful, resilient Black children, my parents and a whole lot of my people who manage to be and do in the face of hate...