Music:
Gospel and Some R&B
Movies:
Derailed, Random Hearts, Shawshank Redemption, Bone Collector, Steel Magnolias, The Color Purple, Erin Brokavich, Drumline...to name a few!
Television:
Grey's Anatomy, HOUSE and Dancing with the Stars, Law and Order and all of the CSI's.
Books:
Anything by Donna Hill, Pearl Cleage, Diane McKinney Whetstone, J. California Cooper, Bernice McFadden, Mary Alice Monroe, E. Lynn Harris...to name several! (there are others)
Heroes:
All of my ancestors...those who gave their lives so that I could have the right to life as I know it today!