Deante’ Kyle

But it was cool when I got older.

And, of course, I made my decision to leave and then come back and then leave again.

You know what I'm saying?

But it was good when it was my decision.

Not somebody else deciding for me.

I think when you're a kid, that's the hardest thing about church is like,

It's decided for you.

We talked about this earlier in the show, and it made me think about these extremes that exist in our neighborhoods where a lot of times people want to talk about one end of the extremes of the violence and some self-deprecating behavior, some ignorance, but we don't ever talk about the other end of the spectrum, which is like supreme intelligence and

a high self-esteem, a lot of powerful black movements were in these same dangerous neighborhoods.

How have you seen that?

How was your experience in Harlem growing up and seeing those black movements?

And then adversely in Atlanta, same thing.

Because...

And were you in like the West End area?

Yes.

I had a salon in West End.

I'm already knowing where you at because I know what it look like out there.

So we've seen an emerging, powerful.

Yeah.

Those movements have always been like.