Samantha Ragland

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Social Media Producer for The Palm Beach Post
Location Florida by way of Kentucky, United States
Introduction Oh so Southern. Daddy's my hero and Momma's my best friend. They are poetry in motion and Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable (because my life under them is never dull). My older brother loved orange soda when we were kids, but I always wanted dr. pepper. And I have to fight my two younger sisters for the middle piece of anything, cake, corn bread, anything with a middle.
Interests God. poetry. music. life. love. And the expressions of such. Oh. And Black people. I.Heart.Black.People.
Favorite Movies Renaissance Man. Fight Club. Ever After. Independence Day (so funny!). Shawshank Redemption. Gloria. Rebound. Rosewood.
Favorite Music Oh there is so much, though only one favorite song... "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers. Oh yes. And the rest falls under all the fitting and not-so-fitting genre titles...blues (Etta James, Buddy Guy), r&b (Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott), country (Dirks Bentley, Tobie Keith), jazz (Lizz Wright, Louie Armstrong), hip-hop (learning...), and the list could continue, but there are others to make...
Favorite Books Anything by Ernest Gaines (such dusty Southern fiction), Sister Souljah (The Coldest Winter Ever), Danzy Senna (Caucasia), and all words poetry--Frank X Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, William Stafford, Saul Williams and on and on and on...