The Troublesome Life of the Black Eccentric
“If a man loses pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau I am weird. Odd. Strange. Peculiar. I am also Black. This mix of traits can elicit different reactions from society; especially when your nature, displayed authentically, defies convention. My Blackness roams around in the sweet voids between those adjectives, violently gnawing at any stere