Sports, music, dancing, politics, movies

R&B, neo-soul, hip hop, classical, alternative... really anything but country, especially:, prince, musiq, stevie wonder, John Legend, Common, Tracy Chapman, Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, Joss Stone, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Leela James, Counting Crows, The Roots, Outkast, Nina Simone, Blackalicious, Orishas, Ben Harper, The Supremes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Winehouse, the Isley Brothers, so many more

Seven, heat, princess mononoke, spirited away, Fresh, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Incredibles, Toy Story 2, City of God, O Brother Where art thou, Tsotsi, The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, Finding Neverland, Children of Men

The Plague, The little Prince, The brothers Karamazov, The conscience of a Liberal, Invisible man, Dreams From My Father, Cosmopollitanism, The Corner

24, Prison Break, West Wing, Law and Order, PTI, SportsCenter, Scrubs, heroes, The Wire, MI-5, Chuck

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men."

-FDR

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

-JFK

"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease"

-Robert Kennedy

"And what I've concluded about life, when all is said and done, we must forgive each other, and redeem each other, and move on."

-Hubert Humphrey

"Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
-Augustino Mandino

"...If you can do something that has some sort of impact on someone else, and that person can go on and have a better life, even if you never get any public recognition for it, that's something that is much more lasting. That's something that can trickle on throughout history"
-Joey Cheek

"...But for fate, we—the fortunate and the unfortunate—might have been each other."
-Bill Clinton

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
-Nelson Mandela