"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

Your name on Tribe.net:

torrid_wind™

Location:

New York City

Gender:

male

Age:

older than I look

Your Tribe profile:

http://people.tribe.net/tribe/torrid_wind

Relationship status:

single - open to dating

Sexual Orientation:

Gay

Fav movies:

Paris Is Burning, Fleeing By Night, Malcolm X, Good Will Hunting, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, A Few Good Men, Aliens, Angels In America, As Good As It Gets, The Hunt for Red October, Michael Clayton, Zodiac, Syriana, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Silence of the Lambs, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jackie Brown, Sense and Sensibility, JFK, Nixon, Heat, Mystic River, Evolution (boxed set), Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, Love Actually, Dolores Claiborne, The Ski Trip, Punks, The Lookout, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker, and loads more.

Fav books:

The Heart of Sufism, Black Boy, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speehes, A Visitation of Spirits, In Cold Blood, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, The Bhagavad Gita (translated by T. Nikhilananda), Autobiography of Malcolm X, A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, Beloved, The Life You Were Born To Live, Beyond Within, My Flute, Vanishing Rooms, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Way of A Pilgrim, Giovanni's Room, Homecoming: Reclaiming & Championing Your Inner Child, (and many others)

Fav music:

David Wilcox (the American, not the Canadian), Michael Jackson, Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin, Oleta Adams, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Al Green, James Taylor, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Chick Corea, Regina Belle, Marvin Gaye, Livingston Taylor, Brenda Russell, The Isley Brothers, Peabo Bryson, Mariah Carey, Donna Summer, El DeBarge, Bruce Springsteen &, the E Street Band, Richie Havens, Abbey Lincoln, Keith Jarrett, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Gil Scott-Heron, Al Jarreau, The Beatles, Jonathan Butler, (and many more).

Person(s) on your awesomeness list:

El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz (formerly known as Malcolm X), Huey P. Newton, Muhammad Ali, Sri Chinmoy, Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriet Tubman, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, my father, and Barack Obama.

Anything else you'd like to share:

Some of the things I love about life are: the scenery of the white lines on the highway at night... nibbling on a lover's neck and feeling him yield himself to me... the way wind feels on my body, or the way it sweeps around the bedroom as I lay snuggled under the covers... spooning with a special friend all night... the sound of music from an acoustic guitar being played with melodic and rhythmic authority... the smell and taste of a black man's dick... being tantalized by a warm mouth as my nerve endings dance... pushing myself up into my baby, lost in the love of him... having him receive me whole and hungrily push back against me for more... public speaking... creative writing... beauty in any form... the open sky... starry nights... dreadlocks… androgynous men… spending time alone… spending time with my friends... finishing a project... sensing something Greater than myself in joyous bursts from the center of my chest... the surcharging silence-smile of Self in my meditation...waking up... answered prayers... the distraction of strong attraction... connecting with someone "on the high level"... witnessing someone's love for me being displayed… the opportunity to be of service to others.