Being <i>black</i> can get you killed. Being <i>gay</i> ca… - Saeed Jones

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Being black can get you killed.

Being gay can get you killed.

Being a black gay boy is a death wish.

And one day, if you’re lucky, your life and death will become some artist’s new “project.

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

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The first book that stopped me was for parents dealing with gay children. The introduction was worded like it was intended for readers coping with a late-stage cancer diagnosis. I put the book back on the shelf, wrong side out.

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 woman raises a boy into a man, loving him so intensely that her commitment finally repulses him.

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