Quotation to live by: As long as it is the will of God, I rejoice that I am as I am. ~ Maria S. Stewart, Farewell Address, April 14, 1834
Books on my nightstand right now: You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again by Suzanne Hansen, Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards, The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards, and 5 or 6 others.
Favorite authors fiction: Sophie Kinsella, Kimberla Lawson Roby, Eric Jerome Dickey, Bebe Moore Campbell, Terry McMillan,Yvonne McKinney Whetstone, Lolita Files, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Bernice McFadden, author of Amelia Bedelia, Zora Neale Hurston, Bertice Berry, and _______________________ (quite a few others)
Favorite authors non-fiction: Dorothy Height 
, Lalita Tademy, Claude Brown, Zora Neale Hurston
Favorite poets: Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes
Favorite beach reading: I don't live near a beach to read on but let's pretend beach = couch. Anything by one of the authors listed above and a few others who have caught my fancy over my reading lifetime.
Book or author other people praised but I never liked: No comment but it's not Zane, lol.
Writings that influenced how I live my life: The Bible, many of my fiction and non fiction readings including Dorothy Height's Open Wide the Freedom Gates
TV show I am not ashamed to admit I watch: Cartoons, a myriad of them including Hey Arnold, The Proud Family, The Boondocks, Spongebob Squarepants, etc.
TV show I hate to admit I like: Jeff Foxworthy, lol
Favorite comic Strip: The Boondocks
Movies I love so much I have watched them more than once: Shawshank Redemption, Legally Blonde 1 and 2, The Color Purple, Roll Bounce, Like Mike, Miss Congeniality 1 and 2, Waiting to Exhale, Roots, The Green Mile, Remember the Titans, Lion King, Mulan, ______________ (100s more)
Web sites (other than your org’s) that I visit regularly: Greekchat, quite a few blogs, Tetris website, Yahoo, my bank, Television Without Pity, four four
Magazines I read regularly: none
Favorite type of music: R & B and gospel
Last concert/performance attended: 2001 Indiana Black Expo with Jill Scott and The O'Jays
Recording I play when my soul needs a lift: Gospel by either Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, John P. Kee and a few others
Person in my field I most admire: Many
Living person(s) I’d most like to join for dinner and conversation: Soror Dorothy Height (reading her autobiography increased my love, respect and admiration for her), Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, the survivors of the 1963 incident in Americus, Georgia, Soror Rae Lewis Thornton, Vivian Green, Magic Johnson, Amel Larrieux, Lina, Steve Harvey, Aaron McGruder
Heroes from History: Anyone who persevered in the face of adversity and gave so that others could stand today.
If I had the power to order my city to read one book it would be: I agree with Miseducation of a Negro by Carter G. Woodson but I would also mandate that all men, young and old, read Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown and all women read If You Want Closure in Your Relationships, Start With Your Legs.