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Quotation to live by: "Be who you are, and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
- Dr. Seuss
Books on my nightstand right now: Son of a Witch - Gregory McGuire; Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Favorite authors fiction: George S. Schuyler, Walter Mosley, J.K. Rowling
Favorite authors non-fiction: Donald Bogle, W.E.B. DuBois
Favorite poets: Langston Hughes
Favorite beach reading: magazines
Book or author other people praised but I never liked: White Teeth
Writings that influenced how I live my life: African American History
TV show I am not ashamed to admit I watch: The Wonder Pets (I have a 4 yo)
TV show I hate to admit I like: Pimp My Ride
Favorite comic Strip: Calvin & Hobbes; The Boondocks
Movies I love so much I have watched them more than once: The Color Purple, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, On the Waterfront, Clueless,
Web sites (other than your org’s) that I visit regularly: AllHipHop.com, CNN, The Leaky-Cauldron, New York Post gossip,
Magazines I read regularly: ESPN Magazine, In Style, Parents
Favorite type of music: Jazz
Last concert/performance attended: The Langston Hughes Project
Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz Featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet
Recording I play when my soul needs a lift: Fly Like a Bird - Mariah Carey
Person in my field I most admire: African American Women (can't choose one)
Living person(s) I’d most like to join for dinner and conversation: Oprah, Qunicy Jones
Heroes from History: my grandfather, Howard U grads, African American trailblazers
If I had the power to order my city to read one book it would be: Black No More - by George S. Schuyler
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