Gender	Male
Location	beaumont, texas, United States
Introduction	laid back, introverted (but affable), easy-going (yet assertive when necessary), humorous, hopeless romantic, family-oriented, sinner who's thankful for God's grace
Interests	hip-hop, reading and writing poetry, hanging out @ Barnes & Noble, watching documentaries, spike lee flicks, exercising (walking, swimming, weight training), chocolate chip cookies (my personal kryptonite), maranatha (the Lord comes)
Favorite movies	the pursuit of happyness, dead poets society, slam, love jones, malcolm x, bukowski: born into this, shaun of the dead, school daze, bamboozled, do the right thing, hustle & flow, summer of sam, the blues brothers, groundhog day
Favorite music	hip-hop, old school r&b, gospel/ccm, classical
Favorite books	the autobiography of malcolm x, black students/middle-class teachers, animal farm, the harlem renaissance reader, cyrano de bergerac, the pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream, the screwtape letters, fahrenheit 451, the giver, the island of dr. moreau, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, the devil's disciple, a midsummer night's dream, inside of me: lessons of lust love and redemption, the seventh octave, love is a dog from hell, God's gift to women, the pilgrim's progress, the da vinci deception, bling

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

No...because love can sometimes be a cold experience which can eventually break you into pieces [this is my attempt at pseudo-philosophy ;-)].