Navigating Anger: Embracing Our True Selves 🌱🔥

Corwin CJ Moneyway Johnson reflects on anger rooted in his hood background and how suppressing it affects identity. He references Steve Harvey and the Kings of Comedy while exploring self-restraint and personal growth as ways to plant seeds for change.
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That's how I am when it comes to certain conversations. Don't come talking to me this, that, or third. You will see my anger rise up out of me. I could be laid back and chill. I do got a part of me that came from the hood, like Steve Harvey said in Kings of Comedy. I can get— what he say? Uh, you might see me in a suit and tie, whatever, this and that, he say, but, uh, I can get out of this suit and tie and I can get hood if, if, if that's where you— if that's where you want me to take it. But not trying to be hood. Hood is in me, you know what I'm saying? So I ain't got to sit there and try to act like I'm hood. It's in me. It's in me. Suppressed, but it's in me. But it, it, it will— it can come out. So certain things I can't— you know, as I'm planting seeds to y'all, I'm planting seeds to myself, you know what I'm saying? I'm planting seeds for myself. I need to work on not becoming angry of a certain thing. I don't get angry about everything, but certain things will push my— push my boat. So that's a practice that can trans— that's a practice that can transform not just our words but our relationship. Uh, so let me get out of here, man. I ain't gonna do no ad— no ad-lib. I got a few things
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