00:00As a cis man, a heterosexual man, as a black man, as an African man, my shadow is, I see my shadow.
00:08I know what I've done. I know who I am.
00:11The only way that I can heal and grow from that is really looking at myself, my brothers, with a keen eye,
00:20accepting my whole self, my darkness, my brightest and highest self.
00:26That's number one.
00:27This character allowed me to embrace the sinister side of me.
00:34Egba, which comes from Legba or Papa Legba or Eshu, for those who follow Aoife or wherever you're from,
00:41there's a trickster deity like this guy.
00:43When Europeans encountered this kind of trickster deity, of course they thought this was the devil.
00:48But in fact, that deity is often a gatekeeper between worlds and a steward of chaos
00:55and also being crafty.
00:58And I've always related to that character, the tricksters, the magicians.
01:03So none of them knew that in me.
01:05So it wasn't nothing to put on a little smile.
01:08I have a little Chessire cat in me, but he allowed me to be a little bit more sly.
01:13So that was a beautiful thing.
01:15But I think it starts with the honesty of really looking at yourself in a mirror.
01:19I love that. I love that.
01:25And I love that.
01:31I love that.
01:35I love that.
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