What are your five favorite books, and why?
"Because I could not stop for death", by Emily Dickinson, "The negro speaks of rivers", by Langston Hughes, "In the mecca", by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The complete works of Edgar Allen Poe" by Edgar Allen Poe, and "Banjo: A story without a plot", by Claude Mckay. These books profoundly changed my life. Challenging my consciousness as well as the values I've apply to my life.
What do you read for pleasure?
Anything dealing with politics and the political world. Reason being, politics allow me to access the truths people apply to their when it comes to demographics and geographics.
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