When I was younger I loved reading very much but since the advent of television my reading habits have fallen off considerably. My first language is not English but a version of it which is "Creole" since I am a Belizean. My mother is Jamaican but my father was a Belizean. I felt that my earlier televison viewing habits have shaped my some of my opnions over the years but these days I try to instill in my nieces that we as black women have to be proud of ourselves.