I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a strang… - Saeed Jones

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I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.

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Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

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However many masks we invent and deploy, in the end, we cannot control what other people see when they look at us.

People don’t just happen. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.

A man might still decide that when he looks at you, all he sees is a nigger, a faggot, or both.

I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own. - Saeed Jones

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