A black devil’s tendencies

• Uncooperative
• (Dismal) – [they’ll] laugh at your jokes louder than anyone else, but won’t tell any jokes; their mission is not to initiate joy.
• (Exaggerative) – when it’s cold, they’ll say “it’s freezing.” Or, when hungry they are “starving.”
• (Egotistic) – never have anything nice or positive to say about anyone or anything other than themselves.
• (Pessimistic) – they overindulge and totally absorb themselves in a negative conversations or actions. But when there is a positive conversation they have little or nothing to say.

  Example: If you were to say, “wow, that is a beautiful dress you’re wearing,” the negative person leans over and says, “yeah, but the shoes don’t match and she should do something with her hair.” Instead of letting the person have the compliment and praise, they have to add their negative thoughts.

• (Secretive) – they’ll never tell you about their past life. They’ll have you spill your guts about your life and encourage you to say more, but you won’t hear about them.
• (Single-minded) – when everyone is doing the right thing, they always have another way to do this or that.
• (Paranoid) – they always think everyone is using them.
• (Wily) – (they try to) justify always “getting theirs” any way they can.

You’ll say that pertains to alot of people, but think about the person who has more than just one disagreeable characteristic, and is very negative and always initiates negativity.

Excerpted from Are There Black Devils? by Dr. Malachi Z. York-El.