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"I
was a big MC Lyte fan…I loved Eric B. and Rakim, Tupac Shakur,
K.R.S. One…I wanted to look like IMAN, she was my hero…I
got in a fight once because I thought Grace Jones was prettier
than Mariah Carey, I still do…my favorite movie actor is
Samuel L. Jackson, no Denzel Washington-no Samuel!…"E.T."
is my favorite movie of all time…people rave about what a
good cook I am, I love to cook…I love American chitlins (chitterlings).
On the Nile River, we used to fry them with hot peppers, honey
and tomatoes. I love seafood and watermelon. Lobster is my favorite
food. I make my own ice cream and I make wine. I always hated
B.E.T., I still do…I loved movies by Ousmane Sembene and
Spike Lee. I'm a notorious fan of 1920's silent films and talkies
from the 1930's. My dream was to be a housewife married to Larenz
Tate (Menace to Society). I hated being tall, because I was taller
than all the boys I liked. I used to hate my chest, they were
so tiny…but they got big and fat once I started getting pregnant."
--Kola Boof
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Kola Boof starring
in the 1996 Egyptian film, Bint il Bilad
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| Kola
Boof is a Pisces (March 3, 1972)
Email
Address: kolaboof_email@yahoo.com
Favorite
Poet: Wanda Coleman
Favorite Place: Long Island, New York
Favorite Bookstore: SisterSpace in Washington, D.C.
Favorite Book of All-time: "The Bluest Eye"
by Toni Morrison
Favorite Politician: Maxine Waters
Favorite Animals: Dolphins!
Favorite Saying: "Youth is wasted on the young"
Favorite drink: Any kind of margarita.
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Kola Boof: "That Yolanda Ross (the actress who starred
in Cheryl Dunye's prison drama, Stranger Inside,) is
not a star actress in films made by Black filmmakers! She
is so incredibly gifted, so beautiful and natural, so completely
charismatic and talented. I truly believe that it's colorism
that keeps her from being a star. It'll take a White filmmaker
to give her a breakthrough while the Black men who make movies
continue their traditional prejudice against beautiful chocolate-skinned
actresses and continue to serve up straight-haired imitation
Black women like Rosario Dawson and Jennifer Beales...two
women who have stated publicly that they are not "black
women"...It bugs me that we can celebrate the beauty
of Micheal Jordan, Morris Chestnut and Denzel Washington...but
not the dark beauties who give birth to them. If it weren't
for the White men in Hollywood, women like Cicely Tyson, Alfre
Woodard and Angela Bassett would have never become major stars.
Black filmmakers should be ashamed!" |
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Regarding Heroes...Kola
Boof says that she was profoundly
influenced by the legendary Egyptian writer, feminist
and activist Professor--Nawal El Sadawi (pictured above). Kola
encourages all women to read Sadawi's feminist Muslim
masterpiece, The Hidden Face of Eve.
Kola's favorite Quote
by the Muslim Egyptian Author:
"The only thing that
diversity does is divides us from
our own people".--Nawal El Sadaawi
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Regarding SEX
in Kola Boof's upcoming novel Flesh
and the Devil...
Kola says, "I originally wrote Flesh and the Devil
in Arabic in 1995 and it was recently translated into English
by Egyptian poet Said Musa. I'm thrilled that it's being
released in America (2004) and I'm even more thrilled that
they decided not to cut the passionate sex scenes out. It's
a love story that spans over a thousand years in the many
lives of one black man and one black woman...from Africa
to America to Eternity. It's an erotic black love story
as well as a historical novel. It's really the story of
the Black Americans."
Flesh
and the Devil should be available in February
2004.
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Even after FOX
NEWS confirmed the "fatwa" death sentence on Kola
Boof and interviewed her at length concerning her affair
with Osama Bin Laden...the American Media Continues to demonize,
ignore and disrespect Kola Boof. The Connie Chung Show even
questioned whether or not Bin Laden would have a "black"
mistress.
WHY?
Says Kola..."I personally believe that it all stems
from the fact that they don't want a black woman...who LOOKS
black...to represent Nile River culture in literature or
as a symbol of desirability. I am a half Egyptian darkskinned
woman with nappy hair. It goes against all the carictures
that America has created about black women. The Mammy, the
Tragic Mulatto, the Oversexed Prostitute, the domineering
darkskinned shrew...I'm none of that. I represent the African
Goddess Flower, the Eternal Womb and womanism. I also have
no interest in multiculturalism. On top of that...I'm also
a Liberal Democrat who does not support Palestine or the
Arab nations, and many people in the media have mistaken
me as being Conservative Republican because of that. The
N.Y. Times especially lied on me and slandered me in
the article they wrote. It was a lot of bullshit...and as
for Connie Chung, there's a name for women like her, but
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REGARDING
HALLE BERRY...
Kola says, "I love Halle and I wish more black women
would stop whining about her career choices and support those
choices. I liked Monster's Ball, I didn't see that
character as a prostitute, and I enjoyed the love scene as
well. In this age, when black men have no regard for black
women's feelings and do anything they want with women of other
races, and have generally betrayed us anyway, I am glad to
see Halle present herself as a sexually autonomous black woman.
The days of saving ourselves only for black men are over--because
black men wanted it that way. I also think that Halle has
been very loyal to black women and respresents us very well.
Of course, I'm prejudiced because Halle has been sweet to
me. But she's one of the few biracial black women that I really
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Who Is Kola Boof's
All Time Favorite Author...
"Toni Morrison", says Kola. "But I don't
consider Toni Morrison a writer, I think of her as a musician.
Her book, The Bluest Eye, changed my life, as it
did so many people's, but I love her for so many reasons
that have nothing to do with her writing. To me, she's the
most beautiful black woman in the world. Naomi, Halle and
Iman aren't even in her league. Toni Morrison is the mother's
milk and the blood's ink, too."
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Kola's Favorite
Legends: Frida Khalo, Anna Magnani, Diana Ross, the goddess-like
Grace Jones, Hattie McDaniel, Miriam Makeba, Bette Davis, Sojourner
Truth and Nawaal El Sadawi of Egypt.
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ABOUT ALICE
WALKER: "To me, if you haven't read In Search of Our
Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker, then you're not a Black
woman, yet. That's the measuring stick. That's the book in which
Alice Walker gave us the wonderful word womanist and then
showed us what it meant. It is so astonishing to me that an American
Black woman from slave ancestors wrote the definitive book that
honors, upholds and qualifies the spirit and humanity of Black
women worldwide. It is a very African book. This is the book that
we must give to our daughters, and please don't complain to me
about Walker's sexuality. The fact that I am straight and Walker
is bisexual doesn't change the fact that we are both Black women.
This book is one of the tools that we must use in our new revolution,
a revolution that is way overdue…a Black girl revolution!!"
One of
America's greatest Queens, Harriet Tubman, said: "If
I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves…then
I could have freed thousands more."
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