God/Goddess, music, movies, love, bodywork/massage, sex positive feminism, combating stupidity, living, fun, and general positivity
student of psychology and black history...always teaching, always learningpeople to chill with, hang out. equally cool geeks who read non fiction for fun.
definitely people into traditional african spirituality...yoruba/ifa, voudou, akan, lucumi, santeria...it's all good. several of y'all have gotten in touch already, which is great. alafia/benedicion! people into good (veggie) food & music...hanging out in all the extraordinary places in the md/dc/va area. i'm tired of seeing the same folks everywhere (even tho i love y'all....ha!)always
epics (the last emperor, malcolm x, scarface, lord of the rings, star wars)
love stories with wistful endings (joy luck club, crouching tiger-hidden dragon, the piano) martial arts drama, biopics, documentaries (eternal sunshine..., requiem for a dream, basquiat, eve's bayou, angela's ashes, baraka, godfather, hotel rwanda, southern comfort, frida, amadeus, angels in america, the butterfly effect, whale rider) comedy (guy ritchie films, the golden child, the life aquatic, ocean's eleven, ferris bueller, bowfinger, o brother where art thou, the royal tenenbaums, sexy beast, office space) blk folks being human (love jones, hav plenty, jason's lyric, spike lee joints) foreign cinema (life is beautiful, artemisia, ju dou, earth, carandiru, fire, kama sutra, like water for chocolate, osama, city of god) anime (ghost in the shell, akira, cowboy bebop, witch hunter robin, noir, crying freeman, wicked city, samurai champloo, memories, vampire hunter d, grave of the fireflies)don't really watch it. except for the simpsons.
the destruction of blk civilization, like the singing coming off the drums, the body electric, sparks of genius, the bible, african origins of the major western religions, the claiming of sleeping beauty, the bhagavad gita, zami: a new spelling of my name, the search for omm sety, breath eyes memory, the god of small things, the kama sutra, assata, sacred woman, the huey p newton reader, einstein: the life & times, the gospel of mary magdalene, push, the koran, the odu ifa, american dreams, the jesus mysteries, bullsh*t or fertilizer, from beirut to jerusalem, the wretched of the earth, the words don't fit in my mouth, ...said the shotgun to the head, jesus & the lost goddess, know thyself, the falsification of afrikan consciousness, enemies: the clash of races, the complete rumi, dune, memoirs of a geisha, the norton anthology of african american literature
...to name a few.a few:the goddess in all her forms, malcolm x, sonia sanchez, cassandra wilson, dr. ben, arundhati roy, water-air-fire-earth, my ancestors, billie holiday, mom & dad, every man i've ever truly loved (don't get cocky...there are only four of you), ai, deepa mehta, nikki giovanni, god in all his forms, my godsons, my little cousins: taylor, jay, talia, christopher, and sarah, mahalia jackson
and, on my best days, me.