[Crazy 8]

Quotation to live by:"Just let is roll off your back"

Books on my nightstand right now:The Souls of Black Folk; The Isis Papers; The Bible; The Miseducation of the Negro; a word search book

Favorite authors fiction:E.Lynn Harris; Omar Tyree; Toni Morrision; Alice Walker;

Favorite authors non-fiction:Soror Paula Giddings (for writing In Search of Sisterhood);Zora Neale Hurston; W.E.B Dubois; Carter G. Woodson; Frederick Douglass; Eldgridge Cleaver;

Favorite poets: Soror Nikki Giovanni; Maya Angelou

Favorite beach reading: Don't laugh but I've never been to a beach but I plan to go to one this summer

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

Writings that influenced how I live my life:The Bible

TV show I am not ashamed to admit I watch:Pirot (Biography Channel); Murder She Wrote; History International Channel (I'm such a nerd)

TV show I hate to admit I like: Andy Griffin or is it Griffith (hell I don't know, I just like it)

Favorite comic Strip:I don't read the comics

Movies I love so much I have watched them more than once:Friday (first one); Car Wash; The Wiz;

Web sites (other than your org’s) that I visit regularly:StopHazing.org; Cincinnatienquirer.com; my credit union web page; greekchat

Magazines I read regularly:Black Enterprise; Ebony (when I can which is usually at the hairdresser cause I'm too cheap to buy one); Jet (same thing); Essence (same thing)

Favorite type of music:All 80's and 90's R&B and Rap (I try to tolerate this new school stuff but it all sounds the same)

Last concert/performance attended:Okay don't laugh, the last concert I went to was back in 1986 the Fresh Festival (with Whodini, Run DMC, the Fat Boys) I know its sad.

Recording I play when my soul needs a lift:Gospel or Yolanda Adams "The battle is not yours"; or when my neighbors piss me off Wutang Clan

Person in my field I most admire: Soror Mary McCloud Bethune (she was an educator dedicated to uplifting her race as am I)

Living person(s) I’d most like to join for dinner and conversation: Hilary Clinton; Opera (did I spell her name right); Donald Trump; Condaleeza Rice (to ask her what the hell is she doing);Soror Dr. Dorothy Height;Soror Carol Moseley Braun

Heroes from History:Soror Mary McCloud Bethune; the Illustrious Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Harriet Tubman; Queen Hatshepsut; Marcus Garvey; Malcolm X; Dr. Martin Luther King; W.E.B. Dubois (whew too many more to name

If I had the power to order my city to read one book it would be:The Miseducation of the Negro cause they are truely (did I spell that right?) miseducated here in Cincinnati