About Me
I am an easy going person who likes to relax and have a good time when I am not working as a teacher or making art. I am better in small groups meeting for brunch, dinner, a cookout, or a fishing and camping trip.
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Interests
Favorite Music
Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Sonnyboy Williamson, Son House, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, John Cage, Billie Holliday, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Boz Skaggs, Junior Wells, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, The Doors, Don McLean, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, ZZ Top, Taste of Honey, and Steppenwolf.
Current Favorite Artists / Bands: Big Bill Morganfield, Son Seals, Santana, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Buddy Guy, Alicia Keys, India Arie, Laurin Hill, Ali Farka Toure, and Cassandra Wilson.
Favorite Song: A toss up between "Compared To What?" by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, "What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye, "The Lowdown" by Boz Skaggs, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by Taste of Honey, "If There is a Hell Below We Are All Going to Go" by Curtis Mayfield, "Why I Sing the Blues" by B.B. King, "Magic Carpet", by Steppenwolf, and "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Favorite Album: A toss up between "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye, "Muddy Waters: Live at Mister Kelly's" by Muddy Waters, "Abraxas" by Santana, and "Swiss Movement" by Les McCann and Eddie Harris
Favorite Music Video: "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy. Of course my first choice is the original "Fight the Power" by the Isley Brothers.
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Favorite Movies
Farenheight 911, Hustle'N'Flow, Blue Collar, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song, Peetie Wheatstraw, The Border, Bordertown, Cool Hand Luke, Looking for Mister Goodbar, Nobody's Fool, Crossroads, Blade, White Men Can't Jump, Any Given Sunday, There Was A Crooked Man, Casablanca, A Soldier's Story, Small Time, Ray, The Wild Bunch, The Exorcist, Devil in a Blue Dress, Xala, The Greatest, Across 110th Street
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Favorite TV Shows
Judge Joe Brown, Deal Or No Deal, Anderson Cooper 360, The Situation Room, NFL Football, AFL Football, NBA Basketball, Girlfriends, Judge Judy, Divorce Court, Passions, Peoples Court, any sports show featuring Track and Field.
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Favorite Books
"Flash of the Spirit" by Robert Farris Thompson, "They Came Before Columbus" by Ivan Van Sertima, "The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America" by Samuel Yette, "African Americans at the Crossroads" by Clarence Lusane, "The Miseducation of the Negro" by Carter G. Woodson, "The Destruction of Black Civilization" by Chancellor Williams
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Favorite Quote
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." - George Santayana
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Journal
As we roll through the political season and as lifes tragedies seem to come at us one right after another, I find myself reflecting more and more on how blessed I really am, although I am not in the best of health and i do not have many of the loved ones with me that I have relied on for spiritual sustenance in the past. The winds of change are sweeping through the land. It is remarkable how much power positive thinking can serve to wake people up and rally us to move toward turning the page in our lives. When Barak Obama set out with his message of hope, little did people think that he would have gone so far and affected the thinking of so many people. It is a message which has found its time and place to be manifested.
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