Alexandra Joye Houston
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My blogs
Humility in the Age of Self Promotion
Blogs I follow
Are You IN?
Hair It Is
paisley trunk
Rants & Raves of the College Man! Life is Poetry
The Black Socialite
About me
Gender
Female
Industry
Arts
Occupation
Dancer/Choreographer/Actress/Singer/Filmmaker/Writer/Educator
Location
Harlem
,
NY
,
United States
Introduction
West Africa meets Marie Antoinette, smattered with Afro-punk, 50's pin-up girl, and sassy like Claire Huxtable
Interests
Creating and experiencing other's creations
Favorite Movies
FAME,
Purple Rain,
Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette,
Brown Sugar
Favorite Music
The Roots,
Lupe Fiasco,
Nouveau Riche,
Erykah Badu,
Coldplay,
Phillip Glass,
John Coltrane,
Feist,
A Tribe Called Quest,
Yo-Yo Ma,
Kanye West,
Bjork
Favorite Books
Breath,
Eyes,
Memory and The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat,
Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston,
Beloved,
Sula,
Song of Solomon,
by Toni Morrison,
Getting Mother's Body by Suzan Lori-Parks,
Third Girl From the Left by Martha Southgate,
Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage,
In Search of Satisfaction by J.California Cooper,
The Color Purple,
by Alice Walker,
White Teeth and On Beauty by Zadie Smith,
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin