jade
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer/student/dreamer/social/political activist |
| Location | columbus, ohio, United States |
| Introduction | "i speak skimpily to you about apartments i no longer dwell in and children who chant their disobedience in choruses. if i were young i would stretch you with my wild words while our nights ran soft with hands. but i am what i am. woman. alone. amid all this noise." |
| Interests | 8 o'clock coffee, 80's movies, 80's music, abandoned houses, activism, african cuisine, animal rights, anthologies, astrology, black literature, bookstores, buddhism, calla lilies, candles, caribbean cuisine, chai, civil rights, classic literature, classic rock, community, cooking, crossword puzzles, documentaries, dreaming, exercise, freedom, friends, handbags, harry potter, hip hop, historic buildings, holistic medicine, incense, indian cuisine, interior design, islam, jewelry, journaling, kissing, kundalini yoga, learning, love, motown soul, national geographic, new age literature, oldies, r&b, orchids, oriental cuisine, peace, personal evolution, philosophy, photography, poetry, politics, rain, raw foodism, reading, revolutionaries, runes, sad movies, sex, sexuality, sleeping, social/political magazines, spoken word, tarot, tea, the black arts movement, the harlem renaissance, the history channel, the moon, thrift stores, trees, underground hip hop, veganism, vegetarianism, wicca, wine, womanism, writing |
| Favorite movies | 12 monkeys, a beautiful mind, aladdin, almost famous, american history x, amistad, bamboozled, blood diamond, breakfast at tiffany's, brown sugar, charade, city of god, clueless, coming to america, crouching tiger hidden dragon, cry freedom, deja vu, dirty dancing, documentaries, donnie brasco, erin brockovich, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, finding neverland, fools rush in, forrest gump, frida, funny face, garden state, graffiti, harry potter, high art, higher learning, hotel rwanda, imitation of life, indecent proposal, joseph campbell and the power of myth, kids, lean on me, lost in translation, love and basketball, love jones, malcolm x, memoirs of a geisha, mo' better blues, my fair lady, napoleon dynamite, panther, pretty woman, pretty in pink, pulp fiction, pumpkin, purple rain, raise the red lantern, real women have curves, requiem for a dream, saved!, say anything, school daze, secretary, shawshank redemption, she hate me, silence of the lambs, sin city, sixteen candles, soul food, the big lebowski, the butterfly effect, the color purple, the da vinci code, the little princess, the story of us, the usual suspects, the wizard of oz, training day, v for vendetta, what dreams may come, what the bleep do we know, willy wonka and the chocolate factory |
| Favorite music | 311, aesop rock, alanis morissette, alice coltrane, alicia keys, amel larrieux, amos lee, angie stone, anita baker, aretha franklin, atmosphere, a tribe called quest, avant, babyface, bahamadia, bb king, ben harper, bessie smith, bilal, billie holiday, bjork, blondie, common, cream, d'angelo, danger mouse, david bowie, dead prez, diana krall, digital underground, dizzy gillespie, dj shadow, donell jones, duke ellington, erykah badu, fats domino, fiona apple, fleetwood mac, gangstarr, garbage, grateful dead, immortal technique, inda.arie, jack johnson, janet jackson, janis joplin, jean grae, jeff buckley, jill scott, jimi hendrix, jodeci, joni mitchell, josephine baker, journey, keith sweat, krs one, lauryn hill, ldplay, led zeppelin, leona naess, lisa loeb, lupe fiasco, luther vandross, mariah carey, mary j. blige, maxwell, me'shell ndeogeocello, mf doom, miles davis, mint condition, modest mouse, mos def, musiq, nas, new edition, nina simone, non-phixion, otis redding, outkast, pharoah monche, phil collins, pink floyd, portishead, prince, radiohead, raphael saadiq, ray lamontagne, rilo kiley, rjd2, rose royce sade, sam cooke, sarah vaughn, saul williams, silk, stevie wonder, sublime, system of a down, talib kweli, the beatles, the cars, the clash, the cranberries, the deele, the fugees, the last poets, the ramones, the rolling stones, the roots, the smashing pumpkins, the sundays, the vines, the wallflowers, the white stripes, the who, the yeah yeah yeahs, tom petty, toni braxton, tracey chapman, tupac, wyclef, zap mama |
| Favorite books | a night without armor, animal farm, anthologies, assata, beloved, between lovers, black feeling black talk black judgement, caramelo, cheaters, cotton candy on a rainy day, cunt, disappearing acts, friends and lovers, genevieve, girl interrupted, harry potter, how stella got her groove back, i know why the caged bird sings, invisible man, ishmael, jacob's room, jane eyre, jumping the green, liar's game, like water for chocolate, little women, lolita, long walk to freedom, maya angelou: the complete collected poems, milk in my coffee, mrs. dalloway, native son, naughty or nice, nickel and dimed, night, of mice and men, re: creation, said the shotgun to the head, shake loose my skin, she's come undone, she, sister sister, sonny's blues, stolen women, sula, the 7th octave, the autobiography of malcolm x, the bluest eye, the classic slave narratives, the coldest winter ever, the collected poetry of nikki giovanni, the color purple, the dead emcee scrolls, the glowing river, the hobbit, the house on mango street, the kite runner, the miseducation of the negro, the mists of avalon, the other woman, the perks of being a wallflower, the princess bride, the reader, the souls of black folks, the vaginia monologues, the yellow wallpaper, to kill a mockingbird, up from slavery, wicked |
The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
i won't. love will just have to come when it comes. if it comes at all.