“I always saw black excellence around me 
and online but it didn’t feel like it was mine 
because I was not perceived as fully black. 
I felt queerness made me even less black. 

Being both black and queer, 
affirming that I exist, 
I am here and I have been here 
long before this moment,
the first people were black
and queerness predates its modern meaning. 
Queerness predates its derogatory meaning. 
Queerness predates, colonialism 
and Christianity. 
Queerness predates any hate attached to it.”