acting, writing, listening to music, watching movies,
Intelligent people with a sense of humor
Jay-Z, TI, John Coltrane,Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire Billie Holliday, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, No Doubt, Eric B and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Fred Hammonds, India Arie, Count Bass D, Justone, Stevie Wonder, OutKast, Notorious BIG, etc...
Malcolm X, As Good as it Gets, HavPlenty, Do the Right Thing, School Daze, It's a Wonderful Life, 28 days later, Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind, City of God, To Die For, Cinema Paradiso, Bowling for Columbine, Ocean's Eleven, Star Wars series, Matrix I & II, Chasing Amy, Go, Pulp Fiction, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
A Different World, The Cosby Show, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, The Office, How I met your mother (shout out to Encyclopedia Black for putting me on to that), Entourage, Big Love, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, The Boondocks, Unscripted. Just about anything, except the Lifetime Channel!
Favorite book: "Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B Dubois, Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Pact, The Autobiography of Assanta Shakur, Angels and Demons, Confederates in the Attic, Books by Eric Jerome Dickey, The Miseducation of the Negro, Pryor Convictions
Jesus Christ, my Father who taught me my work ethic and Mother who taught me to dream, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert McFerrin (the first African-American male performer to sing at the NY Metropolitan Theater, also happenings to be my cousin, Darrell Gooden (my cousin - taught me how to hustle, shout out North Memphis!)