Favorite Books
Kindred, Lilith's Brood, Wild Seed, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Wretched of the Earth, 2000 Seasons, KMT, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Poisonwood Bible, Invisible Man, Martian Chronicles, The Destruction of Black Civilization.
What I'm Reading
Secret Teachings of Plants, Becoming an Animal, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Game of Thrones, Hyperion.
Favorite Authors
Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, George R. R. Martin, J R. R. Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, Walter Mosley, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury Franz Fannon, Ayi Kweh Armah and Cornell West.
Influences
My family, Octavia Butler, H.P. Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Aye Kwei Armah, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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—Walt Whitman
About Mansa
I'm an aspiring writer currently pursuing my MFA in the Writing and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I write about a wide range of subject matters using multiple different forms of creative expression. I'm...
Mansa’s Favorite Books
Kindred, Lilith's Brood, Wild Seed, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Wretched of the Earth, 2000 Seasons, KMT, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Poisonwood Bible, Invisible...