still grooven
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer/poet/screenwriter |
| Location | Oakland, California, United States |
| Introduction | ...i am then and now yesterday’s Oakland/today’s Tuskegee... daughter turned mother corset turned burning bra manicure and mousse turned fist and fro washboard ripples turned womb round struggle turned revolution hum turned song his turned mine... i am Love... a blessing wild and delicious i am memory and resistance organized and chaotic i am “greetings” and “s’up”... i am lover of we lover of words of poems of Nina Simone of Gwendolyn Brooks and We Real Cool of butterflies of living in rhyme and rhythm and NOT... i am lioness and gazelle swell and squall rose petal and thorn billowing dandelion parachute and the wind creating the dance... |
| Interests | hugging beautiful people |
| Favorite Movies | sparkle, color purple, monsoon wedding |
| Favorite Music | in general... jazz, r&b, calypso, latin, reggae, and anything i can drop it to... john legend, raul midon, mishell n'degeocello, the roots, chaka, lalah hathaway, donnie hathaway, donnie, rasaan patterson, will downing, rachelle ferrell, andre 3000, outkast, black eyed peas... |
| Favorite Books | life out of context (by walter mosley), being black: zen and the art of living in fearlessness and grace (by angela kyoto williams), your blues ain't like mine (by bebe moore cambell), woman at point zero (by nawal el saadawi), life of pi (by yann martel) |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
whittling with soap because i can craft something beautiful and engage all of my senses, bathe in its smell good usefulness.