Who are the top 10 men who inspire you in some way?

How are they inspirational?

1. Gordon Parks.

For obvious reasons. He was a photographer. Highly productive and creative. Inspite of all the odds against him (born in 1912 to a poor black family with 14 kids) he lived out his full creative potential.

http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/intro_set.shtml

2. I won't name him since he's not famous. But he was one of my best friends before he died a year ago. He was an older brotha, a former mentor, who lived a life of great integrity. He was among the wisest men I've ever known. Patient. Understanding. Insightful.

I try to be like him.



I'll have to think some more about others.

Peace....


1.The Honorable Elijah Muhamad: Nuff said

2. The Honorable Louis Farrakhan Muhammad: Nuff said

3. Russell Simmons: cash/avbility to survive, and dominate

4. Bill Gates: cash..was able to have pie smashed in his face, and blew it off..billions...Microsoft...

5. Stephen Hawkings: Brilliant..Did not allow disability to keep him from expanding his mind o the realm of brilliance...

6. Dwayne Wade: the boy is a walking miracle...

7. Kirk kerkorian: My kinda business man...a sharks shark...

8. M. Night Shyamalan: : I love his mind...It is quirky, spooky, and full of intrigue..He chills his audience from a place they did not even realize existed in their mind.


9. Kwame M. Kilpatrick: Young black Mayor of detroit, who fought the full power of the media, was down in the polls by 20 points before election day...and came out swingin..and won....My man.

10. Dave Chapelle: This dude is funny on a Supernatural level...



Kai

• Benjamin Banneker--His guts
  
• Frederick Douglass--His activism
  
• Harry Ward Beecher--His progressive mindset
  
• Charles Hamilton Houston--His work
  
• Thurgood Marshall--His legacy
  
• Paul Robeson--His conviction
  
• MLK Jr.--His grabbing attention
  
• Bill Gates--His philanthropy
  
• Tupac--His complexity
  
• Geoffrey Canada--His current work to improve education

1. Malcolm X

2. Minister Louis Farrakhan

3. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

4. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. Booker T. Washington

6. Mayer Amschel Rothschild

7. Harun Yahya

8. Roy J. Nollie (my grandfather)

9. James McDuffie (my father)

10. L.K. Muhammad (my brother)

Well i cant put them in order of importance but here are 10 exceptional black men.

1. Marcus Garvey-Pan Africanism /Organizer
2. Malcom X Sharp Intellect/Black Pride
3. Chiek Anta Diop Genius
4. Kwame Nkruma Visonary,Pan Africanist/
5. Patrice Lamumba Freedom Fighter
6. Carter G. Woodson Miseducation Of The Negro"
7. John Henrik Clarke Tremendous Educator and Scholar
8. Bob Marley Revolutionary Music
9. Tupac Creatiity/ ability to articulate the life of the young black male
10. Adam Clayton Powell Greatest Politician Black people ever had
11. WEB Dubois. Tremendous Intellect/Scholarship/Pan Africanism

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Originally posted by ZAKAR:
Well i cant put them in order of importance but here are 10 exceptional black men.

1. Marcus Garvey-Pan Africanism /Organizer
2. Malcom X Sharp Intellect/Black Pride
3. Chiek Anta Diop Genius
4. Kwame Nkruma Visonary,Pan Africanist/
5. Patrice Lamumba Freedom Fighter
6. Carter G. Woodson Miseducation Of The Negro"
7. John Henrik Clarke Tremendous Educator and Scholar
8. Bob Marley Revolutionary Music
9. Tupac Creatiity/ ability to articulate the life of the young black male
10. Adam Clayton Powell Greatest Politician Black people ever had
11. WEB Dubois. Tremendous Intellect/Scholarship/Pan Africanism

Good list brother similiar to mine, I also have Garvey in the top spot.

Marcus Garvey
Martin Delany
Alexander Crummell
Harold Cruse
Diop
Carter G. Woodson

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Originally posted by ma'am:

• Benjamin Banneker--His guts
  
• Frederick Douglass--His activism
  
• Harry Ward Beecher--His progressive mindset
  
• Charles Hamilton Houston--His work
  
• Thurgood Marshall--His legacy
  
• Paul Robeson--His conviction
  
• MLK Jr.--His grabbing attention
  
• Bill Gates--His philanthropy
  
• Tupac--His complexity
  
• Geoffrey Canada--His current work to improve education

I like to also add some honorable mentions:

Oscar Mischaux--black film director pioneer of the '20s. Before Spike Lee, John Singleton and Robert Townsend, he started it all.

M. Night Shyamalan--I had to borrow from Sarecen's list.

Tavis Smiley--great journalist

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Originally posted by ma'am:

Who are the top 10 men who inspire you in some way?

How are they inspirational?

My Dad! - brilliant. loving. never critical. always accepting. a deep thinker. a musician. above all else - just a great dad!

My maternal grandfather - extremely loving. an awe inspiring leader. a committed activist and educator.

My paternal grandfather - just very solid as a man. a PhD in agriculture who taught at an HBCU his whole career and never lost his thirst and curiosity for knowledge.

My maternal great grandfather - a mover and shaker: a lawyer (graduated from Lincoln in the late 1800's), businessman - owned property, was on the board of directors of a black-owned rail road, founded a church, was a publisher of a black newspaper, was a state representative, etc.

My maternal great great grandfather - extraordinary vision, the tenacity to both dream wild dreams for himself (i.e. freedom) and the ability to make those dreams come true. among other things, humbly, he is the founder of American public education (he wrote the legislation for the first free and public schools in the country).

Nelson Mandela - i love the notion that he kept his "backbone stiff" for 26 years in the hold of a prison before coming out and leading SA.

Paul Robeson - he did it all: great education. great athletic distinction. great musical talent. i also certainly appreciate the strength of his character and political beliefs.

Joseph Cinque - for taking matters into his own hands and not accepting what appeared to be his fate.

Denmark Vesey - ditto

Colin Powell - for playing the game but not completely losing his soul. i will always give him big kudos for discussing his support of affirmative action at the rnc convention and, frankly, for resigning from the bush admin.