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About me

Gender Female
Industry Government
Occupation Working for the man
Location california, United States
Interests Reading, current events, politics, dreaming of Cuba, teaching the pets to bark on command (including the cat), food, restaurants, long conversations, nice hugs, shoes, shopping, cooking, vegging out, going for a run, manicures, a nice cocktail, a good film, traveling, friends, family and a lot of other things that I'm still trying to figure out.
Favorite Movies Gone With the Wind, Eyes on the Prize, Philadelphia, All About Eve, Goodfellas, Casino, Shrek, The Notebook, Dirty Dancing(although the more I watch it, the more it seems like a bad tv movie), Amorres Perros, City of God, Crash, Traffic, Bowling for Columbine, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Red Dragon, Dead Man Walking, Boys Don't Cry, Ma Vie en Rose, The Hurricane, Glory, Hoop Dreams, Wag the Dog, Spellbound, Dumb and Dumber, Whalerider, Interview w/a Vampire, Born on the 4th of July, Boomerang, American History X, Cruel Intentions, Office Space, Election, Love and Basketball, Hotel Rwanda, Boyz in Da Hood, Menace to Society, To Die For, Wedding Crashers, Old School, Heat, A History of Violence, Brown Sugar, Brokeback Mountain, Walk The Line
Favorite Music Bob Marley, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z, Green Day of course!, The Beatles, Kanye West's first CD, Common, U2, Lauryn Hill, Jil Scott, D'Angelo, Dancehall music, Dr. Dre, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, M.I.A. some other stuff that doesn't matter as much...
Favorite Books Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Lovely Bones, anything by Leon Litwack, Black Boy(actually anything that has anything to do with Mr. Wright and his enraged genius), Machiavelli's The Prince, The Nuremberg Trials, The DaVinci Code, James and the Giant Peach, To Kill a Mockingbird, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Babbit, Souls of Black Folks, Bo Knows Bo, Charlotte's Web, M Butterfly, Gone With the Wind, Diary of Anne Frank, 9/11 Commision Report(Please! Everyone should read this), Memoirs of a Geisha, Dirty Girls Social Club, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Autobiography of Malcolm X, anything touched by Mr. John Steinbeck or Mr. Hemingway, Woman Hollering Creek, What Should I do With My Life......