Stephen Bess

• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Leo
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: Preoccupation with Writing
• Location: Washington : D.C. : United States

About Me

I am a writer, photographer, and student of history living in the Washington DC Metro area. Thanks for visiting! My moto: "I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization." Frantz Fanon, (Black Skins, White Mask - 1952, trans. 1967)

Aren't papier mache cuts the worst?

No, but papier machete is. Now that's a knife!

Interests

• Books
• Reading
• History
• US History
• Photography
• South Africa
• Gullah Culture
• Theater
• Poetry
• African Diaspora
• African American Literature
• African American History
• Literature
• Language Arts
• African Culture
• Literacy
• Writing
• Metaphysical Poets
• Learning
• travel
• Ethnic Food
• Wine
• Cultural Anthropology
• Human Rights
• Ethnic Art
• Truth

Favorite Movies

• A Soldier Story
• Raisin In The Sun
• The Color Purple
• A Bronx Tale
• City Of God
• Basquiat
• A Lesson Before Dying
• Sugar Cane Alley
• The River Niger
• Dead Presidents
• Daughters Of The Dust
• Devil In A Blue Dress
• Independent Films
• Oscar Micheaux
• Gordon Parks

Favorite Music

• Jazz
• Jazz Funk
• Blues
• Classic Soul
• R&B
• Hip Hop
• Old School
• Afro-Cuban
• Lucky Dube
• Bob Marley
• Marvin Gaye
• Nina Simone
• Billie Holiday
• John Coltrane
• Common
• Mos Def
• Curtis Mayfield
• Otis Redding
• Sam Cooke
• Muddy Waters
• African Music
• Reggae
• Stevie Wonder
• Earth Wind and Fire

Favorite Books

• The Bible
• How can man die better?: The life of Robert Sobukwe
• John Henrik Clarke
• Black Boy
• Richard Wright
• The Bluest Eye
• Jean Toomer
• Cane
• Notes From Underground
• Caribbean Literature
• The Devil Finds Work
• Octavia Butler
• Edwidge Danticat
• Leadbelly: Poems
• The Salt Roads
• I Write What I Like
• August Wilson
• The River Niger
• English Literature
• American Literature
• Frantz Fanon
• Black Skin White Masks
• Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl
• Aime Cesaire
• Discourse on Colonialism
• Ernest J Gaines
• Ishmael Reed