All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson

As a child, I always knew I was different. I didn’t know what that meant at the time, but I now know it was okay to be that different kid. That being different didn’t mean something was wrong with me, but that something was wrong with my cultural environment, which forced me to live my life as something I wasn’t.

“We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.” Paul Laurence Dunbar

Knowledge is truly your sharpest weapon in a world hell-bent on telling you stories that are simply not true.

“Your cousins are your first set of friends,”

No one’s days are infinite, and I can’t keep anyone here forever.

That moment was very Nene to Kandi when they said, “WE SEE EACH OTHER.”