High Culture
Pop Kulshur

Nadie
El Cadador
de la Bruja

Sheila Chandra, singer.

Try her "Moonsong" album

Chinua Achebe, author. Check out "Things Fall Apart"

 
Cultural critic bell hooks is cool! Try "Black Looks"

Shizuma
From the anime, Strawberry Panic
Poet, essayist, Adrienne Rich: "Dream of a Common Language"

Writer Nicola Griffith.

Unique

 

 

Bettanty Hughes

Historian

Kieslowski's BLEU

Enough said.

Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/goldencompass/

Lyra!

Skip the Hollywood;
read the book

Sumika
Sasameki Koto

Kawasi Hasui. A "National Treasure"

My Neighbor Totoro

One of the classics
Yanki Super-rebel Ichiko
From Kamikaze Girls
Hey! It's Kim!