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Quotation to live by: When people show you who they are believe them-Maya Angelou


Books on my nightstand right now: The Mortgage Encyclopedia, Pipe Dreams by Solomon Jones, Empress Orchid-Anchee Min, The Last Empress- The She-Dragon of China by Keith Laider


Favorite authors fiction: E. J. Dickey, E. Lynn Harris, Amy Tan, Kimberla Lawson-Roby, Yolanda Joe,


Favorite authors non-fiction: Nathan Mc Call, Tavis Smiley,

Favorite poets: Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou

Favorite beach reading: don’t do the beach

Book or author other people praised but I never liked: Anything by Zane

Writings that influenced how I live my life:

TV show I am not ashamed to admit I watch: Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends

TV show I hate to admit I like: This Korean family drama ( had subtitles but wasn’t hard to follow)

Favorite comic Strip: Boondocks, The Lockhorns and Cathy

Movies I love so much I have watched them more than once: Gone With the Wind, All of Star Wars (I-VI), Godfather I & II, Shawshank Redemption, Friday

Web sites (other than your org’s) that I visit regularly:
Prudential Fox Roach, Yahoo Music, Wachovia, Epicurious, Cooking light

Magazines I read regularly: Cooking Light, Black Enterprise,

Favorite type of music: R & B old school rap, some gospel, opera, 80’s music, classical jazz,

Last concert/performance attended: The Roots at the Kimmel Center

Recording(s) I play when my soul needs a lift: The Beatitudes, Handel’s Messiah, Stevie Wonder

Person in my field I most admire: Alton Brown

Living person(s) I’d most like to join for dinner and conversation:
Morgan Freeman, Bill Clinton, Iyanla Vanzant

Heroes from History: Hatshepsut, Queen Elizabeth I, Harriet Tubman,

If I had the power to order my city to read one book it would be: Dante’s Inferno. Even though it was done in Venice in the 1300’s I think if folks could see what they do in life here still may find then in the pits of hell in the afterlife and it’s not always about not following the Ten Commandments.