Esther Ikóro tells us what she ate for breakfast and digs into the dynamic of being BOTH...
Esther is a Senior at Morgan Park High School in Chicago who competed in this year's Louder than a Bomb poetry slam competition, presented by Young Chicago Authors. Young Chicago Authors are also Vocalo.org users...so are the Louder Than a Bomb All-Stars.
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Favorite Music
Curtis Mayfield, Black Merda, Rotary Connection, Fear Itself, Donald Byrd, Van Hunt, Windy City, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Dells, Dorothy Ashby, Johnny Nash, Tokyo Police Club, Honeycut, Willie Hutch, Junk Science, Median, Galactic, Kenna
Favorite Movies
Wattstax 1 & 2, Godfathers & Sons, Malcolm X, Gene Kelly & Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl", Dead Presidents, anything Kurasawa, Spaghetti Westerns, Set it Off, Blaxploitation flicks (if only for the soundtracks), Charly, The Landlord, The Inkwell, Love Jones, Enter the Dragon, Killer of Sheep, Bonnie & Clyde, Black Girl
Favorite Books
"The Book of Disquiet"--Fernando Pessoa, "Divided Soul"--David Ritz, "Right On: From Blues to Soul in Black America"- Michael Halalambos, "Sweet Flypaper of Life"--Roy DeCarava & Langston Hughes, "The Bluest Eye"--Toni Morrison, "The Wretched of the Earth"--Franz Fanon, "Nervous Conditions"--Tsitsi Dangarembga, "The God of Small Things"--Arundhati Roy
favorite Websites (other than vocalo.org!!)
"Everyone
as an Artist"
--Joseph Beuys, 1979
