The Black intellectual man is the most misread person in his own community. Too Black for white spaces. Too articulate for street credibility. Too thoughtful for the masculine archetype. He exists in a gap that nobody built infrastructure for and navigates it mostly alone.
Solo traveling made me smarter and more confident in myself. it also taught me discernment like immediately. as soon as you hit that foriegn airport your intuition is on point. nothing taught me to trust my gut fully like traveling alone.