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here is a copy of an interview i did with a magazine in Switzerland... the concept is so cool -- so basically here is my list to you!


Mahogany Browne (June 2004)
GIVE ME 5


5 favorite books:
Pearl Cleage: Deals With The Devil And Other Reasons To Riot
Michael Moore: Stupid White Men
Dan Brown: The Davinci Code
Asha Bandele: The Prisoner’s Wife
Iceberg Slim: Doom Fox

5 favorite authors:
Bebe Moore Campbell
Asha Bandele
Dan Brown
Iceberg Slim
Sappihre

5 favorite magazines:
XXL
King
Trace
Essence
Maxim

5 favorite TV shows:
Real World (dont ask)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (really, dont ask)
Charmed
The Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica
The Apprentice

5 favorite fruits:
Cherries
Mangoes
Peaches
Nectarines
Grapes! (if you know JivePoetic, you will get it lol)

5 favorite cities:
New York
Oakland
London (not so much anymore)
Toronto
Los Angeles

5 favorite english words:
Dilapidated
Marriage
Love
Sleep
Yo

5 favorite sayings:
You know what I’m sayin?
Its bigger than Hip-Hop!
Ight!
You are wife material.
Im down, like two flats on a dump truck

5 favorite animals:
staffordshire bull terrier
kitten
panther
monkey
bull

5 favorite human inventions:
laptop computer
2 way pager
airplane
telephone/cellphone
vibrator

5 favorite months:
april
october
january
november
december

5 favorite personal belongings:
my CD collection
my DVD collection
spongebob squarepants stuff (shower curtain, dvd's backpacks, blankets, toothbrush, etc)
jellybelly gumball machine
ALL of my shoes

5 favorite personal tragedies: (not favorite - but memorable)
crashing my mother's brand new car at the age of 16
the day my junior prom date revealed he was gay
watching the WTC crumble from my living room window
choosing poetry as a career instead of the role as his housewife
teaching poetry to teenage pregnant girls -- the turnover rate is every 3 months

5 favorite personal victories:
surviving in New York without any family for the past 4 years
raising my daughter alone
completing my first book of essays and poems
completing my first european tour
learning to love after mending a broken heart

5 favorite (auto)biographies:
Elaine Brown: A Taste Of Power – A Black Woman’s Story
Miles Davis: Miles
The autobiography of Malcom X
Hilary Clinton Rodham: Living History
Assata: An Autobiography

5 favorite things that make you sexy:
my mind
my eyes
my lips
my ass
my voice

5 favorite cartoon characters:
Spongebob Squarepants
Patrick
Squidworth
the South Park cast
Homer Simpson

DESERTED ISLANDIf you would strand on a lonley island, you would......take these three CDs/records with you:
Donny Hathaway
Nina Simone
Meshell Ndegecello

...take these three DVDs along:
Usual Suspects –I love Kevin Spacey's range in this flick
Love Jones – it makes me want to fall in love!
I Like It Like That – a cute latin indie film

...take these three games along:
Chess
Monopoly
Dominoes

...subscribe these three newspapers / magazines:
event though im stranded?? New York Times
XXL
KING

...take these three books with you:
Pearl Cleage: Deals With The Devil And Other Reasons To Riot
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States: 1942 - present
Sapphire: Push

...invite these three persons for a weekend:
my daughter
my deceased grandmother
Elaine Brown (only woman to run the Black Panther Party while Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba)

...learn these three songs by heart:
People Make The World Go Round
I Just Called To Say I Love You
Hakuna Matata (from the „Lion King“ Soundtrack)

...get these three pets:
elephant (but i aint picking up no elephany dung!)
leopard
chimpanzee

...miss these three things the most about living in a city:
takeout dinners
bright lights
parties every night...

start to learn these three things:
patience
self-reliance
SOS

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