Reading: African-American Novels, Autobiographies, Caribbean and African-American History, Christian Novels, Marriage and Relationships, Writing, Music, Dancing, and Photography
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This is from my friend, Mrs. G. I added some stuff to make it more personal. Enjoy. You, today's young person, wouldn't understand. Hey, what was the paper thing that you put on your fingers that had the colors inside? Then you picked a number, and then unfolded it to display the name of the person you liked? (four squares or some 'ish).Anyway.....Before WII, Playstation 1,2,and 3, video games, MySpace, cell phones, Internet, plasma screen tv's, HDTV, TIVO, DVR, CD's, DVD's back in the day, we had REAL fun. I'm talking about playing childhood games like hide and seek at dusk...red light, green light--123; red rover--red rover; ring around the rosie; London Bridge, before Fergie sang about it; hot potato; hop scotch; skelsies; jump rope; duck...duck...goose--you're it!; Mother, may I?; hula hoops, for practice, like S'more said, if you saw the "The Queens of Comedy", y'all know what I'm talkin' about. As a child, hanging out of your fire escape seeing shapes in the clouds. As children, running through the sprinklers on hot summer days. With your friends, running until you were out of breath. As a child, giving your friend a ride on the handlebars of your bike. With your friends,spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down giggling. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for any game. My scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made miraculously better. With my friends, playing kickball and dodgeball, stickball, until the first, no, second, no, third streetlight came on. Your parents stood on the front porch yelling and whistling for you to come home. This was before the pagers and cell phones were the norm. You were tired from PLAYING. All cereal boxes had that GREAT prize in the bottom. My favorite snack, Cracker Jacks, had the best prizes of all. I got the wedding ring once--just once! Walking with my mom and sister to purchase piraguas form the piragua man. I would run to get a coconut ice from the Coquito man. My favorite candies were Blow Pops, Pixie Sticks, Jolly Ranchers and Double Bubble bubble gum. With my daddy, buying ice cream from the Mr. Softee truck. With my grandma, going to the bodega, to get a ice pop with the two sticks. I would break it apart so I could share with my sister. At my grandma's, Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer. At my grandmother's house, I watched Saturday morning cartoons--Fat Albert, Josie and the Pussycats, the Pink Panther, School House Rock. As a child, my favorite tv programs were ABC Afterschool Specials, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Welcolm Back, Kotter--Hey, I'm Vinnie Barbarino... Every Sunday, I would go to Orchard Beach with my extended family. On Sunday, I would have a "million mosquito bites" and sticky fingers. As a child, swinging as high as I could to try and reach the sky and jump off the swing in mid-air. It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at Palisades Park or Coney Island. With my sister, pillow fights and jumping on the bed. With my cousins, many sleepovers. A black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH! As a child, wearing your new shoes on the first day of school. As a child, rainy days, while in school meant playing heads up, 7UP or hangman in class. As a child, getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. The school field trips were not the same without eating soggy sandwiches. As a child, nearly everyone's mom was at home to greet their kids when they came home from school. As a child, when being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to what awaited you at home. As a tween, your first crush. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. As a child, WORK meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes. This was a time when ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries. This was a time when nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. There was no one prettier than my MOM. Our parents and grandparents were respected and feared! And some of us are still afraid of em! As a child, an older sibling(s) were your worst tormentor and your fiercest protector. As a child, water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon. As a child, your abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare". As a child, your decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo". As a child, your mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!" As a child, "race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. As a child, money issues were handled by whoever was the banker playing Monopoly. It was not odd to have two or three "best" friends. As a child, you were old if you were over 20. So young people, please take time to reminisce over chilhood memories to see how much you have lived. For me, it has been quite a life.
Music:
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Billie Holiday, Stan Getz, Cal Tjader, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Jimmy Smith, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepsie, Thelonius Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Wes Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Harry Connick, Jr., Sade, Amel Larrieux, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Angie Stone, Floetry, Lelah James, Anthony Hamilton, India.Aire, Brand New Heavies, Kenny Lattimore, Robin Thicke, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, the Pharcyde, OutKast, Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, Eric B. & Rakim, The Fugees, DJ FunkMaster Flex, DJ Marley Marl, DJ Kid Capri, D-Nice, Guru, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, Yo-Yo, Salt N Pepa, Jurassic 5, the Roots, GrandMaster Caz, DJ Charlie Chase, Funky Four Plus One, Roxanne Shante, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Monie Love, De La Soul, Kayne West, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lisa Lisa, GangStarr, Timbaland, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Angela Bofill, Patti LaBelle, Luther Vandross, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Teddy Pendergrass, The Main Ingredient, The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, The Ronettes, The Crystals, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Price, Faith Evans, Shanice, Karen White, Blu Cantrell, SWV, Sunshine Anderson, L'il Mo, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Betty Wright, Chante Moore, Lalah Hathaway, Stephanie Mills, Heather Headley, Kem, Robert Randolph, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, The SalSoul Orchestra, Love Unlimited Orchestra, DJ Erick Morillo, Melba Moore, Stephanie Mills, Crown Heights Affair, The Ohio Players, WAR, Betty Wright, Freda Payne, George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, Cameo, Robert Randolph, The Rolling Stones, The Bee-Gees, Living Color, Jimi Hendrix, the Police, the Kinks, Peter Gabriel, the Who, Sly and the Family Stone, the Beatles, Joe Jackson, The Smiths, Blondie, Depeche Mode, the English Beat, General Public, New Order, The Clash, U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Mars Ill, the Cross Movement, Enock, Pigeon John, LA Symphony, the Procussions, 4th Avenue Jones, DJ Skillspin, Shei Atkins, Blase, Canton Jones, Pettidee, New Breed, Deepspace 5, Trinitee 5:7, John Reuben, Out of Eden, Grits, Peace 586, Sup the Chemist, Gospel Gangstas, DJ Maj, DJ Form, Shirley Caesar, CeCe Winans, Antonio Neal, Z'iel, Lisa McClendon.
Favorite Music Video: Common - I Have A Dream
Movies:
To Kill A Mockingbird, It's A Wonderful Life, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Ever After, Bulworth, Love and Basketball, Down in the Delta, The Lord of the Rings-The Return of the King, The Matrix, Mystic River, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe-Tales of Narnia, Grand Canyon, Pirates of the Caribbean, Leathal Weapon 1 & 2, Minority Report, Signs, Catch Me If You Can, The Sisterhood of the Pants, Real Women Have Curves, Tears of the Sun, Boyz in tha Hood, A Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones, The Fugitive, Open Range, Hotel Rwanda, Crash, A Beautiful Life, the Bangwagon, An American in Paris, Anchors Away, Casablanca, All About Eve, A Streetcar Named Desire, Runaway Bride, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, A Philadelphia Story, A Lion in Winter, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Serpico, Pretty in Pink, Heathers, the Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Diary of A Mad Black Woman, Woman, Thou Art Loosed, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Akeelah and the Bee, Because of Winn Dixie, Amistad, Blood Diamond, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without A Cause, Little Women, Citizen Kane, Miracle on 34th Street, Sixteen Candles, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Parenthood, Clueless, Cinema Paradiso, Maria-Full of Grace, Othello--Laurence Fishburne version--excellent, the Red Shoes, Never Been Kissed, Soul Food, the Shawshank Redemption, Hustle and Flow, Waiting to Exhale, Planet of the Apes, The Ten Commandments, The Passion of the Christ, Children of Men, Spiderman 1 & 2, The Transporter, Barefoot in the Park, Mother-in-Law, When Harry Met Sally, Die Hard, 16 Blocks, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Open Range, Runaway Jury, Frequency, A Beautiful Mind, The Straight Story, Wide Awake, Forrest Gump, From Here to Eternity, Sophie's Choice, Terms of Endearment, King Kong, Shakespeare in Love, Sliding Doors, Chocolat, Lilies of the Field, Titanic, 13 Going On 30, Porgy and Bess, Uptown Saturday Night, Sommersby, The Color Purple, Moonstruck, Hero, Sunshine State, The House of Flying Daggers, Napoleon Dynamite, X-Men, The Notebook, Man on Fire, Malcolm X, Heat, Scent of A Woman, All the Presidents Men, Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, Mask, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Elizabeth, The Secret Garden, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Untouchables, Angels With Dirty Faces, Some Like It Hot, Stranger on A Train, Notting Hill, Splash, Nine Months, Walk the Line, The Client, No Way Out, Dances With Wolves, Pulp Fiction, Four Brothers, Places in the Heart, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, The Great White Hope, The Sandlot, A Patch of Blue, In the Heat of the Night, The Defiant Ones, Roots, Roots: The Next Generation, Lackawanna Blues, Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection I & II, Raging Bull, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Do the Right Thing, The Negotiator, Traffic, Rosewood, What's Love Got To Do With It, Basic, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, To Sir With Love, The Women of Brewster Place, Sparkle.
Favorite Movie Clip: Love & Basketball
Television:
Gilmore Girls, Alias, the Closer, Ugly Betty, the Jeffersons, Good Times, the Cosby Show, Dharma & Greg, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Dirty Jobs, A Different World, Everwood, Any Day Now, Seconds From Disaster, Survivorman, Everybody Hates Chris, How I Met Your Mother, The New Adventures of Old Christine, the Bridge, American Experience, Independent Lens.
Favorite TV Scene: Gilmore Girls - Season 1 - Sookie and Jackson
Favorite TV Dialogue: (Cut to Lorelai and Sookie walking down the street.)LORELAI: "Your boobs are bigger than mine"? I'm a mental case.SOOKIE: So apologize.LORELAI: I was too mad and stupid to apologize last night and she was gone before I got up this morning. What is wrong with me?SOOKIE: You're very possessive of your sweaters.LORELAI: Sookie.SOOKIE: No, I understand. I'm the same way. If somebody breathes too hard on my paring knife I'm like a crazy spider monkey.LORELAI: It's not about the sweater. It's about the golfing thing and the liking it thing. She had fun, Sookie. Just like my mother said she would.SOOKIE: Yeah, that's got to hurt.LORELAI: She should have fun. I mean, I want her to have a good relationship with her grandparents. Just because I don't doesn't mean she shouldn't, right?SOOKIE: Right.LORELAI: Right. So then why was I trying to get her out of Friday night dinner? I mean, what am I trying to do -- undermine their relationship?SOOKIE: No you weren't.LORELAI: Yes I was.SOOKIE: Yes you were.LORELAI: Yes! I'm four years old!SOOKIE: You're jealous.LORELAI: Oh I'm not jealous.SOOKIE: Yeah, you are. You're jealous 'cause they like Rory better than you.LORELAI: Oh thank you for the hug.SOOKIE: See, I'm bad at advice talks. Could we talk about soup? 'Cause I'm good with soup.LORELAI: Oh I'm sorry. You're fine. I'm all mixed up. I left that life, you know, the club, my parents. I ran from it as soon as I could. It just -- it never occurred to me that she might want it. It occurred to my mother though. God, I hate that she was right.SOOKIE: You don't know that she -- ooh! Oh my God!(Sookie spots something across the street. Without looking to see if any cars are coming she crosses the street, causing a guy to fall off his bike to avoid hitting her.)BIKE GUY: Hey, watch it!LORELAI: Oh! Aah! (to Bike Guy) Are you OK? OK.(Lorelai looks both ways before crossing the street to catch up to Sookie.)SOOKIE: (to strawberries) Look at you! You're beautiful!LORELAI: I have to be more adult about this. I mean, if the country club life is what she wants, more power to her, right? You know, little white gloves and coming-out parties. That makes some girls happy, right?SOOKIE: (while admiring the strawberries) Sure, yeah. If they're on Prozac, absolutely.LORELAI: I just never thought that I'd raise that kind of kid, you know? I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that kind of kid. I just never thought that was Rory. Maybe it's not. I don't know. Am I obsessing? Sookie? Hello? Do I have to put on my strawberry costume to get your full attention?SOOKIE: No, I'm sorry. You have a strawberry costume?(Jackson walks by and sees Sookie)JACKSON: Unbelievable!SOOKIE: Jackson!JACKSON: So this is what we've come to? You sneaking around behind my back buying somebody else's strawberries?SOOKIE: I was desperate!JACKSON: You disgust me!SOOKIE: I needed the strawberries!JACKSON: Well now you have 'em. I hope you're happy together.SOOKIE: Jackson -- wait!JACKSON: No!(Jackson walks away. Sookie follows him.)SOOKIE: Come on Jackson.JACKSON: No.SOOKIE: Jackson, we can talk about it.JACKSON: No.SOOKIE: Jackson, get back here!JACKSON: Get away from me!(Sookie chases him down the middle of the street where they almost get hit by a car.)
Books:
I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou, Lady Sings the Blues: The Autobiography of Billie Holiday, All by Myself - Lauren Bacall, The Interuption of Everything, Waiting to Exhale, Mama--all by Terry McMillan, A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry.
Heroes:
Martin Luther King, Sister Theresa for their stand in social equality and justice. My friends, Terry, Lois, and Carole who showed me compassion and unconditional love. My grandparents who loved me so much and my mother who showed me, by example, how to forgive.
Favorite Bible Verse: "In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will". - Ephesians 1:11
Favorite Bible Verse: The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"
Current CD Listen: Holy Hip Hop - Vol. I
Current Movie to Check Out: Pride starring Academy Award Nominee Terrence Howard opening March 23rd, 2007--Here's the trailer:
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