Joie de Vivre
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Wordsmith |
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Introduction | "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (1975) |
| Interests | Bamboozled, Purple Rain, West Side Story, Carmen Jones, Napoleon Dynamite, Crash, Talladega Nights, Office Space, Juno, City of God...anything by Spike Lee or Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill series, especially). |
| Favorite Music | PURE HIP-HOP (Tribe Called Quest, Boogie Down Produvtions, Wu-Tang, Rakim, De La Soul), REAL HIP-HOP (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Roots, Dead Prez), JAZZ (Ellington, Coltrane, M. Davis and Monk) and FUNK (Gnarls Barkley, Jamiroquai, Thievery Corporation, RJD2, Phish, and Van Hunt) or anything by Gil Scott-Heron & Billie Holiday...I'm also really into T.I. these days! |
| Favorite Books | Song of Solomon, Cornel West: A Critical Reader, Topdog/Underdog, Things Fall Apart, The Mis-Education of the Negro, For Colored Girls Who Have Considred Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enough, The Wedding |