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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST EPISODE _15 _HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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us. We're ready. Are you in the club? They're getting wild from
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me and all the hey you I know you first, you're saying, well,
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what is she doing there? So my sister the the post of the
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labe but not denyed. Natalia Little John's wasn't feeling too well tonight. So
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guess what you guys got me? S see book out Petre Grimble, and
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guess what We're still gonna make it do what to do? Because we have
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an author, y'all. This lady has me on my toes, and I'm
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telling y'all sit back and just enjoy the ride. That's all I'm gonna tell
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you. So I am going to introduce to you guys, author Blossom Rogers,
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and she's gonna talk about her books, her life, her deliverance,
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her She's just gonna talk about it all, okay, So come on up,
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Girley, Come on up. How you doing. Come on, got
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that girl? I told y'all is already look at it, see all both
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of us. Tonight, y'all sit back and enjoy this ride. How you
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doing, girly? Listen, listen, listen what I tell you? God
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is good. I am doing well. I am doing well. First of
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all, I give God all the glory and honor. I thank you for
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allow me to share your platform, and we send in prayers to little mama.
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All is well? Oh yeah, well, yes she's I know she's
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gonna be tuning in. Hey mama, So missus Blossom, Yeah, girl,
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you gotta tell us about you first, give us a little rundown.
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Well, let me give you together at My name is Blossom, Blossom Rogers,
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truly grateful, recovering attic. I smoke crack for nineteen years, but
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God I have nineteen years clean. I am safe, safely, fire and
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filled with the Holy ghost. I still love the Lord and he loves me.
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I'm not perfect, but I save a perfect God. Oh right.
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I am the proud mother of three grown sons, thirteen grand babies, and
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three great grandchildren. Old yeah that part thirteen. The boys believe and be
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fruitful and multiplied. All right to the word. And I started early and
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two years ago I be sixty years old. So God is good. Uh,
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and smoke dope for nineteen of them years. But you know what I
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tell people, You know, they say, how can you be so jolly
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it? Because I'm free. We gotta remember when you could be true to
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yourself, you can be true to anybody else. God bless you. I
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am the author of four books from Underbridge one from Underbridge two. And they
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laugh, And when they laugh, I want somebody to catch this. In
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the natural and in the spirit. We got two kinds of laughter, and
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they laughing with us, are at us, Okay, So I want your
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to catch that because now now we got so much going on. You know,
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you got you think you have people that support you. Now I'm not
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gonna say I got some people that back me up, that'll fight with me,
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you know what I'm saying. But you can then you got some people
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that you in the boat and there in the back sitting the boat and putting
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holes in your boat with a butter knife, a plastic butter knife or that.
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So in this season, y'all ask God to show you who's with you,
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because we ain't got no time to be wasting it. You understanding.
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But like I said, I I love telling my story. I love the
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things I've been through. I'm not gonna say that they were easy, but
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we all know that everything works together for our good, for the ones that
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are called, the ones that love God, and the ones that are called
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according to His purpose. We got to get that thing right. In my
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first book, I talked about how I went through molestation and I want somebody
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to hit me bell. Well, when we were chillsen, when I was
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coming up, you could not go to school and tell the teachers nothing.
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We we You better not go tell nobody nothing. Because African Americans, we're
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raised. Whatever happens in the house stays in it house. But we're just
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as sick as our secrets. Okay, So yeah, yeah, wow,
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that was right because you know what, as long as we keep the secrets,
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that's what kept me out there for nineteen years because I couldn't talk about
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it. And when we're go through abuse as a child, will we ever
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have a natural relationship? You understand me, because our childhood is snatched from
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us. And you know, they always say she's so fast, but why
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is that child acting like that? You know what I'm saying. So we
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got Yeah, we got to start. But then you guys also remember too
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that you're dealing with generations of purses as well. And I believe in my
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heart that God has raised me up to break that I had. I was
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on the show last weekend and the pastor asked me, He said, Blossom,
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what kind of cabs that you used up being up under the bridge?
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It was a nineteen ninety three dynasty. He said, Well, God is
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allowing you to create a dynasty for your generation. So it's full circle,
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y'all. Why are we here on this earth? Are we gonna barbecue mill?
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Do it? When we stand before the Lord? We can't say they
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was gonna get mad with me if I did this. The books are not
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to hurt anybody. The books are to help somebody, you know what I'm
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saying. So Book one I talk about going through the molestation, and for
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anybody who went through it, if we were children, it was not our
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fault. As long as you continue to keep covering it, covering up or
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sweeping the burn of the rug, eventually you're not gonna baby walk on that
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rug. Because there's so many humps and bumps in it. So I talk
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about getting pregnant at an early age because, as we know, a baby
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don't keep a man. I talk about how I got married at an early
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age because my first husband was in the military. I said, money travel,
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I can get away from home, but at times we run. We
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can't run away from ourselves because sometimes we the problem. Okay, I'm just
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saying I'm talking about Blossom now. And then I talk about how I met
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a guy who was already on crack cocaine, and I don't know why.
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Let me tell save Blossom. We think we could change people, we can't
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change ourselves. It takes god. So in the club and I don't know
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why. You get in the club and you're getting looking in the mirror,
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dancing to yourself, and I looked over my shoulder and that he was that
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thing was fires all out there. He was smoking crack, you know.
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And then I used to think, let me tell us, like I used
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to think that if a god didn't beat you, he didn't love you.
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So when he started beating me and taking my money, I said, if
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I can't beat him, my my as well. Journal Because you got to
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remember, I didn't know where I belonged. Because my childhood had been snashed
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and messed up. You know, the enemy had already peeped into my future.
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He said, let me start messing with her. Now, anytime you
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have an assignment or anytime that you have been picked out to be picked on,
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the enemy is go and try to do his best to destroy us,
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to destroy you. Yeah. Yeah, but like I said, well thing,
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we have to remember that any anytime God calls you, anything that we
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do for the Lord, it shall last. Now. Is it gonna feel
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good? No, it's not. But we gotta continue. If you got
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a wipe or till, keep going. And I just want to encourage somebody
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tonight. Keep going. Don't stop, don't stop. Yeah, we're gonna
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fall short, but don't stay down there in it, you know what I'm
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saying. And stop letting people make it. See God, you know what
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God called us. Stop letting these sister sister flip Flop and sister plump tell
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you what you can't do. You understand me, because you know every time
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about I used to your sister flip Flop and sister Plump. Actually i'm y'all
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already because I wasn't ready for that one. We you know, we got
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to stop allowed because we're gonna be accountable when God come back, because we
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sitting here and be judging people. You know they want to they want to
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clean the fish, then catch you. You can't do that. You gotta
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let God. God don't want to that can can clean. So book number
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two, I talk about how the prison. My prison number is fifty eight
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ninety nine thirty one. I had that number for the rest of my life.
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It's just not a functional number. When I went to prison, were
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chopping trees, one girl on one side, well on the other side,
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So I did some hard time. I talk about how I had a man
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to leave me for another man. I also talk about how and I'm not
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judging them nobody I'm talking and everything I'm talking about, I'm talking about blossom
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story. Okay, I was delivered from a homosexual lifestyle because being molested and
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rape, Blossom thought that going with a woman was the right life for her.
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I can't. I ain't got no heaven or no hell to put nobody
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in. I also talk about when my brother was in prison, how he
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died and I couldn't come home to the funeral, so I had I had
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a lot of crushes to keep me on crack cocaine because I didn't want to.
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You know, some people say, you got you gotta hurt in order
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to heal. You know how them old people say, girl, take that
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baby off from going out there and playing because some little dirt gotta get it.
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You gotta get it's gotta be for the grid. I hurt this side,
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not the outside end. So I also talk about I did so much.
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I did ny take a thing. Like I told you earlier, I
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smoked dope. I didn't play with it. Either you're gonna do I don't
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like to be around anybody who say they fitnes do something. How you spell
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sit now even we're gonna do it, or you're not gonna do it.
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At both of your choices at that part it up. So I also talk
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about in my books, I talk about I did everything out there. Butt
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slept with the animal, and that was just the butt. Because if the
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dope boy would have said, blossom, I'll give you an ounce if you
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see what lasted. You know that commercial that say give nineteen cents a day
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for the dog because it's out, that would have been lasted if you would
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have helped me got my throat because I'm still a hustler, you understand me.
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But I hustle for God. You know, a lot of people say,
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how do you get on all these shows and stuff? Do you have
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a pr or a manager? No? I have God. And in the
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same way I used to knock on dope board doors. Can I do this
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or do that? Get a hitocrack? It's the same way I do with
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TV shows. I go in the inbox. If I'm coming to your inbox,
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I'm coming in there for about something. I ain't coming in enough for
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no games. So that's how God messes me to get on shows to tell
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my story because it's my story. You know what I'm saying, and nobody
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can tell it better than you. Nobody. And that one thing I'm not
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gonna lie on anybody. Each time he allows me to speak, it's more
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and more healing. Okay, So for nineteen years. It's a long time.
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So it's not just gonna disappear overnight, you know what I'm saying.
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So I'll be on a battlefield to the day God calls me home. When
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when when I stand before the Lord, I want to hear well done.
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I don't want to hear because I don't have so many other people to reject
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me. I don't want God to reject me. You understand I'm saying I
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want so much out of life the same way I used to hustle to get
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that dope. That's the same way I want life. I do not want
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to die and have never lived. You know what I'm You said something and
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I hope people are listening that you can explain. You can expect your deliverance
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to happen overnight. Yeah, you didn't get into what you've got into overnight,
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so you can't expect that to happen overnight. And for me, that
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was one of my problems. I was like, Okay, God delivered me.
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Okay, you know God, my heart is broken. Da da da
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da da. I'll never forget. A lady told me, she said the
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first step was to wipe your face. That was a lot to get out
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of me. Then you said something else before we even got online. That
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one stick with me. You say, don't let nobody bring your pass up
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to you. I always tell my kids this, your past is your past
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and only you can let it dictate your future. And you know what,
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because when people know about me, you have to God has to give you
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tough skin because some people can say some hurtant things. Some of the stuff
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I did, I did, and I ain't gonna tell me a lot I
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did. I did it, but I let people know you ain't read the
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whole book. You better stop playing with me. I hate, I despice
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anybody that talks at me instead of to me. Don't get it twisted.
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I'm saved, but I'm not soft. Please don't get it twisted. And
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I tell a lot of people that's because I'm quiet. See, I was
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a fighter when I was out there. I was writing. All the police
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officers knew me. That's the kind of you know, Felicia on Friday,
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she ain't have nothing on me? Wow, oh wow, I ask you
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can I borrow your riding lawnmower? And I was steal from you and selling
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your stuff back to people. Used to hate to hear me. You know
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how some people look at the block and say, oh, here come Mary.
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They would look at the block, said here come bloss and they put
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their whole house up and moved from me, crackhead. And I was a
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mean wow. You know what I'm saying. I started drinking at the age
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of five. My great grandmother was raised that if a child has wingworm,
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you give them beer. So some children fell in love with a horse on
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a merry go round or parade. My nickname was monkey. She said,
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monkey, gonna get your medicine. The girl was running. I don't know
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why them old people got them long go haul or baby, I'll be wide
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open. And it took both my little hands to open the refrigerator. And
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when I opened up the refrigerator, that was Coke forty five. You know
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that horse and Captain Morgan. We you know, oh we are thing because
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me and him had a good time when he was out there. But I
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tell people, a lot of people say, how can you talk about so
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freely? Because I'm free and God taught me how to forgive my abuser because
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I'm an teall you one thing hurt people, hurt people. The person did
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not grow up saying they wanted to molest a child, just like I didn't
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see I was an unfit mother. I was not like neb the Beaver's mama
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with an apron on and the vacuum because I done sold that, so I
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know I didn't have a genous that I'm saying. So I had to forgive
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myself for not being there for my sons. So and it took a minute
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for them to stop looking at me. Cock guide. So let me ask
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you a questions. So, forgiving yourself, how hard was that? Because
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I know that I'm even selling the process of doing that, forgiving myself,
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and somethings that can be easy. In some days it's like I don't even
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want to look in the mirror because it's like I cannot believe this craziness.
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So how hard is it? It's a process, because it's still the enemy
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still wants to bring stuff back. You know, he's an accuser of the
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brother. And you know what I'm saying. I remember hearing my baby calling
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me, oh, mama one time. Sometimes when I think about stuff like
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oh, he'll throw it back. But we have to remind ourselves God has
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forgiven us for that, you know what I'm saying. We don't if God,
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if God forgave us, who are we to not forgive ourself? See
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what I'm saying. But we trying to bring it back up? He said.
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And I'm paraphrase and everything because I don't nobody say o if she changing
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the words in the Bible. But he's saying, if I forgot about it,
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what you're still talking about it? You understand me, So keep that,
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you keep that. You know what I'm saying. God, when he
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forgive us, he throws it in the lake of forgetfulness. He don't know
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what we're talking about. He don't wipe this out. What is she talking
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about? And that's the enemy wants to make us continue. That's what kept
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me out there because I didn't know how to forgive myself. I always,
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and I tell everybody, if I see somebody walking with their head down,
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pick your head up, because there's nothing down there, and there's nothing behind
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you. It's all in front of you. You understand me. And we
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all got a bridge. My bridge might not be yours and yours might not
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be mine, but we all got a bridge. Comes from up under that
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bridge. Walk over that bridge to your destiny. The enemy doesn't. The
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enemy despises connection. He despises it. So that's why he keeps conflict going
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on, like with us queens at times. See, that's nothing wrong with
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me telling you you're a beautiful person, because I ain't gonna take nothing from
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me. So you got to know who you are and who you belong to
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my name blossomed, and I belonged to him. Am I perfect, No
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when I get out of line. You know how the old people used to
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get the mottle switches and check you on them five to get you. That's
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what he do. He has the chest tis of bastard. You understand me.
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So, like I said, y'all, we got the I see you
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to pick your mouth up there just flapping and just clapping this. It's crazy
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because you're saying that we queens. So I went to event today at my
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daughter school and it was called Black Girl Magic, Black Boy Joy. Okay,
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all the kids were together and first that we were talking about our careers
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African Americans and in the careers, and then they separated the groups, the
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boys and the girls. I was like, okay, what we're doing.
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She started leaning and this's white, which is one of the teachers at school.
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She was like, little girls, we do not have to put each
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other's down. We are all and she just started spitting it out and we
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and the pearents are like, yes, please tell them that again. And
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the crazy thing about it is my daughter and her little friend just had it
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fallen out right before I got to the school. Wow lo and behold,
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they're sitting down there and they're listening to this. And I turned away to
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turn back to see them hugging each other saying they're sorry. She So if
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the kids can do this and uplift each other, we should be able.
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And that's why I love the crew that I am with. I love the
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crew. I love the fact that we all look out for each other,
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like, well, tree, she can I catch you? Was growing up
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it took a village to raise us because back then all the villages because the
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big mamas are in the clubs. Now they're not showing about how to cut
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no collar green or do a turkey or do a stuffing. They in the
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clubs. You know, we're trying to get okay, trying to get They
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When I was coming up, the next door neighbor beat you to the next
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door neighbor beaches and Mama beat you like how many beans I'm gonna get?
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And we could not talk about if Miss Sarah alied on you. You better
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not call Miss Sarah alive. You whole whole head that snatched off. Take
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my eyes out my head and make me look at myself what you did?
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Who did what I don't want to listen. When I went to the penitentiary,
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it wasn't hard for me to say yes, ma'am and no, ma'am,
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because it started at home. My great grandmother and my mother did not
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play the radio. You come in the room and not open your mouth,
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or company come over and you sitting there looking in their mouth whole foot that
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hits you in the face. You don't know what happened. But now these
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kids tell you that ain't where I heard it. You got it all wrong.
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Or you see them mother, and though they dressed alike with that's why
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we got so much. Now, I don't get you wrong. Yeah,
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I did a lot of things out there, but I was taught at home
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though, you know what I'm saying. So I got out there, and
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I had to get out there because if I want to smoke, I had
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to get out there and get it like draft, you know, because in
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the beginning they give you the stuff, but then later on you gonta do
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do what you gotta do. And I did everything that but slept with the
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animal, and that was just to Yet, how can I talk so freely?
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Because each time I speak that it's more and more deliverance I had to
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deal with this for the rest of my life. But I don't have to
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smoke the rest of my life, you know. And even though I have
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a clean time nineteen years June the fourth, I have twenty years clean.
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I live in Alabama, and so I moved to Alabama from North Miami.
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Okay, So when I moved to Alabama, I was now I had the
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woman to call me. We got a divorce doing the love and they say
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love you because he loved talking to other women and brought another woman in my
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home. See. I was the kind of crackhead that got the bird dead,
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Let's go get high. That's the kind of person. I didn't need
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a reason. But when that woman called me and told me she had been
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in my home, I had to really call out to the Lord, to
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cry to the Lord, because I had the most seasoned Saints sister flip floppers,
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knock knock, telling me to stay with that man. Well, if
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you dealt with Bubba doing that for the years, I don't have to do
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with that. I dealt with it back then because I was on dope.
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I thought I couldn't do no better. You know, That's why you got
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to love yourself when I was coming up. We was at a house party
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and my cousin he's dead and God and I had a bag, had the
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bowl. Try to be a host. It broken up, tailor chips.
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He said, send out somewhere, baby Bubba lift. I cried, Oh,
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I cried. I wanted the lip operation at the age of eleven.
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But look at these women out, women going to get their lips blowed up.
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All I gotta do is line lip and roll. Girl, you better.
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I used to have dress down to my thighs because they represented my clean
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time. Now I'm dealing with a girl called alopecia. Baby me and Alopecia,
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we rock on. You got to love it. I'm not saying be
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conceited or high minded, but you've got to look in the mirror and be
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able to say, good, I love you. You look God my favorite
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song. I love me better than that? Oh my, that's my song.
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You got to And I tell everybody when I get that good girl on,
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y'all better, y'all better look out menas no Jesus. You know,
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each time he allows me to tell my story. You know, I love
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to laugh because I was I was a class clown. And I tell people.
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They My teachers used to always say, Blossom, sit down. You're
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talking too much, but your gifts will make room for you, but your
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character would keep you in the room. See, people don't realize that you
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caught that your character will keep you in the room. Are they happy to
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see you leave or happy to see you coming? You understand me. I've
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been on both sides. I've been on both sides. So, like I
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said, you love the Lord, love yourself, and help who you can.
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Stop. We have to stop putting people before what's good for us.
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Because everybody's not gonna pat you on the back and say you're doing a good
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job. You better encourage yourself. You understand me. Before I go on
25:30
shows, I always say, Lord, let me decrease so that you can
25:33
increase. People gonna pick up stuff and throw it back out there. Girl
25:37
she said she used to live with women. Yeah, I had one lady
25:41
to do that one time, and I looked at her face and I had
25:44
to get my mind together because I wanted to say some twists where that wasn't
25:48
choice. You understand me, But I made this statement. If you if
25:52
you ever had a man he went and cheated with somebody else, and came
25:55
back home to you. That's a threesome. It don't get it twisted,
25:59
you know what I'm saying. So, and I put all this in the
26:00
book to let people know. If I put out there on page forty three,
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I don't care what you say I think about me because it's deliverance.
26:10
Don't make me put my hat a point to tail and make it bang.
26:11
I already told you, don't make God. I would put it in the
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y'all used to hate listen. I got so depressed one time I set the
26:22
house on fire with me in it. So I tell you, do you
26:23
think I care about setting the fire with you? God changed me, not
26:29
no man, not no woman. I got tired of being beat up by
26:33
men, by women myself, and I was always fighting like that. But
26:37
you know what, in reality, I was fighting myself. I was fighting
26:41
myself. So with God best me to I went from treatment and treatment,
26:47
prison, jail, rehab, mental hospitality. That with mental illness as well.
26:52
And y'all, mental illness is real. We got to stop making it
26:55
seem like it don't exist. Deal with it because you know, back in
26:57
our days, if we had an auntie that said that the Thanksgiving to the
27:00
dinner table, hollering they were put in the back room and go back to
27:04
eating, pushing it up under the rug. You know what I'm saying.
27:08
So I've been in mental hospitals, been on medication. In Florida, if
27:14
you have an addiction, they give you a check. So when I found
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that you can get a check. No, baby, I went in my
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girlfriend. When she told me about it, I said, girl, how
27:25
you get a check? She said, bustom gotta act like you're crazy.
27:27
I said no, they might lock me upway forever. So but baby,
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I went through it. I had to go cause I didn't tell lies.
27:36
I hummed them. You know what I'm saying, that's the kind of person
27:40
I was. But when they gave me that money, they gave me back
27:44
paced seven, seven hundred and six nineteen cent. Girl, I got scared.
27:48
I thought it was gonna find me somewhere there. When we smoked,
27:51
we had so much a smoke coming out of the hotels, they thought we
27:53
was Indians in there. That's just how much of smoke was going on.
27:57
I didn't play with it. For me to be sitting here tonight in my
28:00
right mind, don't have a bill or a diaper on, piking flowers,
28:06
can't nobody see but me, and scratching the ears. That's not itching,
28:10
it's by the grace of God, because I was smoking five to six hundred
28:12
dollars a day or more. I smoked, though, but the God that
28:17
I served when I was in the crack house, because I had joined the
28:22
church and then I backslid. So when you cut backslide, it's seven times
28:26
worse. So I was sitting there in the crack house and I still have
28:30
the shirt, the shoes in the purse that I had on that night when
28:34
he called out the crack house and I started. I was in the room
28:38
with everybody, but then I wanted to get away. I knew it was
28:41
something happened. It was a totally different change coming. I had been up
28:47
for about two weeks, still trying to get high, but I wasn't high.
28:51
So I went into the kitchen and I had a piece of paper and
28:55
pencil in my purse, and I started writing God a letter. And you
28:59
know what people add, girl, You was writing God while you smoking crack.
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If he waited for the woman at the well, he knew where I
29:04
was. Okay, okay, what people were talking about when I found Jesus.
29:10
Jesus was never lost. I was the one that was in the doeboard.
29:15
But no far we get his hand. It's long enough to reach us,
29:19
you know what I'm saying. So I was sitting there smoking and writing,
29:25
smoking and writing, and the girl came in to give another hit a
29:27
crack and she said, I said, the next time you see me,
29:32
I'll be clean and sober, and she laughed, since she was laughing at
29:34
me, not with me. Okay. So I kept writing, smoking and
29:38
I took that last hit. I had the benefit two because I was so
29:41
tired. My eyelashes was tired, feet was hurting me, my mind was
29:45
hurting me. I just wanted to be delivered. Too scared to live it,
29:48
too scared to die. I was the kind of person I remember one
29:52
time I tried to kill myself with a gun, but I made sure what
29:53
now, bullet in there. That's the kind of person I was. When
29:56
I had took a bottle of pills, I made sure they knew what kind
30:00
of see. I was just talking about blossom. You understand me. That's
30:04
why I don't want to die and have not lived. I want so much
30:07
out of life I want to be able to leave my kids something, because
30:12
the wise person leaves an inheritance for your inn ration. You know what I'm
30:18
saying, Not just money, but I want to leave them wisdom as well.
30:22
When people try to throw their mama pass up, yes she did that,
30:26
but this is what she did with the rest of her life. There
30:30
you do, So God blessed. I got up and walked down in the
30:33
crack house, and I checked myself into the hole, into the mental hospital,
30:37
and I beg, the people don't let me go until you find a
30:40
place and that and God did God sit me in Miami. That's why I
30:44
went to treat me because I want to raise by town in Daytona Beach.
30:48
And I said, if I get down here in Miami and try to do
30:49
the same thing I did back home, they're gonna kill me down here.
30:52
So God blessed me got cleaned. So but I didn't go back to the
30:56
people, places and things. That's where anything when you want to change,
30:59
you can go back around. And I judged you, you know how something
31:03
talking about you know, I smoke crack, but you did powder. Or
31:07
you eat a pound cake and I eat lemon cake. It's the same thing.
31:11
We all doing something. We ain't got no business though, you understand
31:14
me. But let's work together to try to help one a lover. That's
31:18
what it's about. So God blessing, got married, moved here, went
31:22
through the divorce. But I didn't go back to getting high. Very first
31:26
time buying a home, lost at the foreclosure. But I didn't go back
31:29
to getting high. Brand new car repot, but I didn't go back to
31:32
getting high. So God blessing them. Then the book started opening, God
31:34
blessing me. I was on Past the Cliffe a Dollar show and we was
31:37
like, he said, Blossom, if you're not a comedian, you should
31:41
be, that's a millionaire. You understand me, to throw his shoe and
31:45
sold them back to them. But God, so God blessed being five projects
31:49
with TVN I've had my own TV show, my own radio show. All
31:52
this is because of the grace of God. I worked for the University of
31:56
Alabama. Let me tell you when God I opened that door for me.
32:00
I went to school in Miami and got my diplomba down there. I worked
32:04
on so many jobs with that diploma, state jobs, government. So when
32:08
the University of Alabama, I'm talking about the God we served. Yes,
32:13
when they did my background check, that's when they found out that the diplomba
32:17
was a fraud. But the God we served in twenty twenty, they said,
32:22
y'all can hire her. But she got a year to get her diplomba.
32:24
Who do stuff like that. But the God we served, though,
32:28
he'll show your favor. So I got my diplomba in ninety days. So
32:32
I have an Isaac and I have an Ishma. You know, understanding I
32:36
mean. So then when they did my background check, my supervisor she said,
32:38
Blossom. I said, yeah, she said, your background check came
32:42
back. I know what's on the background check because I did it. She's
32:45
say, it came back eight pages. You think they made a mistake.
32:50
No, ma'am, everything to the period, to the side in the paper,
32:55
top of the paper. I did it, you know, like I
33:00
said. You know, then God bless it started. I went before habitat
33:05
because if we don't have a safe place, we'll go back to the people,
33:08
places and things. So habitat and I was asking them, they built
33:13
me a home for women that want to stay clean and sober. But the
33:15
God we serve, because I'm a nonprofit organization from under Bridge safe Haven Home
33:21
for women. So the God that we served when I got my status,
33:24
she said Blossom, I met with the board. I met with the board.
33:29
We can't build a house, but we're gonna give you a piece of
33:31
land that we're never gonna use. So I have my land, I have
33:36
my blueprints, I have my build of permit. I have been approved by
33:38
God in the city. We get the house six six women, says three
33:42
women. So the first house will be called from Underbridged Safe Haven Home for
33:45
women. They stay eight months to a year. My second home will be
33:51
called Tiers from Underbridge because I cried many tears up under that bridge, and
33:55
that'll be for women and children. Like I said, I want to leave
34:00
a legacy. So when I'm dead and gone, ten years after my death,
34:05
what what kind of mark did we make here on the earth. We're
34:12
going to heaven. You know the Lord, you're the professor that he's the
34:15
Lord of the Lord. But what did you leave here on this earth?
34:20
I don't want to leave fifty eight nine nine thirty one. That's my prison
34:22
number. I don't want to leave that. So like the like the Man
34:25
of God told me last week, you say, you slept in a dynasty,
34:29
but God's preparing you to leave a dynasty. And that's what I want
34:32
to do for my generation. I want to last year, this time in
34:37
my hometown, the park that everybody used to get high end and this guy
34:42
got killed out that they cleaned it up. So Mary bethrew McCloud's first little
34:46
house that she started her college in. They bought me put inside the park.
34:51
But we also have Miss Mary Harold Black Historial Museum. So this time
34:59
last your five other women and myself were put into that museum. So when
35:04
my kids, when my grandkids, and my great man and my great man,
35:07
when they go through that museum, they gonna see their grandmama sitting up
35:10
on the wall. Not no prison number, but they gonna see me up
35:15
there with my book. But it's the same town that spin on me and
35:17
kicked me and said that would amount to nothing. So that's why we can't
35:22
worry about what people say. Who would have thought that I'd have been sitting
35:25
on the wall in the same hometown. And then God bless it, November,
35:32
my documentary came out from under a bridge, and I just found out
35:37
yesterday that I've been nominated for Best Documentary in June, so please keep me
35:45
in prayer. I'm so excited, you know. But I'm the one that
35:52
came from up under the bridge. You understand me. I'm the crackhead.
35:54
I'm the you know this, the man could say whatever, it's what God
35:59
said said say so in June God's will, I'll be going to Virginia.
36:06
And like I said, when when the director, because she's won many awards
36:12
and I'm still you know, she's telling me and I'm still floating. I'm
36:16
like, we got picked. But so baby, you know I'm gonna have
36:21
that tight girl on so when they do call from under the bridge, I'll
36:24
be able to go up there. Baby, I almost stress. See I
36:31
get mine from Len Bryants, where you get yours from. But i'ma I'm
36:35
gonna check out Lin now. I'm gonna check out her because I don't want
36:37
nothing to hanging. I want her to be nice and tight. But I
36:39
walk up there because think about it, I smoked dogs, I've been to
36:45
prison. Yeah, God bless it. My life story is on the screen,
36:49
nominated for Best Documentary and I'm a Meetnail and I tell everybody it's gonna
36:55
be a movie. It's gonna be a I tell people, don't forget the
37:00
ain't Blossomed because it's gonna it's gonna be real. It's real. You got
37:02
to encourage yourself, not being cocky, but you gotta have to be your
37:08
number one supporterer. You how Angela always tell us we have to show up
37:15
for ourselves first. And if you showed up tonight, girl, I gotta
37:21
be real with Blossom so that way I could be real with anybody else.
37:24
And it's well. It is well. So like I said, my name
37:29
is Blossom Rogers and if you want to reach out to me, my phone
37:31
number is three oh five seventy five, three eight one sixty four. You
37:36
can hit me up on Facebook, you can hit me up on Instagram.
37:38
Blossom Rogers. I love to talk. If you need to speak and give
37:42
me a call, I'll be right there with my girdle. But other than
37:45
that, I've had a great time hanging out. Put you on this Friday
37:50
night. You know you know you coming back. So we're gonna have her
37:53
on mind show. You guys, may we say by four May fourth May
37:59
four, So she's gonna be on my show again. You're I can't the
38:07
energy that you have, the blessings that are on you. Man, if
38:15
you can only it's it's this this season, everybody I've had on this show,
38:22
my show so far has just given me confirmations like Okay, Terrace,
38:27
look you thank God got you. I'm gonna show you and this person what
38:31
I'm supposed to tell you. I'm gonna show you in this person says you
38:34
don't want to listen to me, Terce, I'm gonna get these other people
38:37
to come on your show and you're gonna listen to them, and you're gonna
38:39
walk away every show with a piece of nugget. And I appreciate the nuggets
38:43
you have given me. Hey man, by the grace of God, I
38:46
a God. I got a shout out to my family and the young lady
38:52
her name is Amanda, and she she told me some stuff a while back
38:57
and it started to come and like I said, you know, it's just
38:59
true a blessing where people could speak positive stuff into your life. You know
39:04
what I'm saying. But I ask that God show you favor for hanging out
39:08
with me and just and just just trusting and loving me for who I am.
39:14
You know what I'm saying, I ask God to show you favor because
39:16
everybody's going through something and I ask that God just in larger territory and we'll
39:22
be seeing each other made a for when we're gonna have some fun to get
39:28
I've been to have my girl about the end, so yeah, I might
39:30
have to go get me and I think it might be having a whole episode
39:36
with that one. But you know, but thank you for coming on you
39:40
guys. We want to thank you for being with us tonight. Y'all go
39:46
repleat this one. There were so many different nuggets in this show. Catch
39:51
the replay, go back and listen to it again. Motivate yourself, show
39:55
up for yourself, because if you show up, God is already there.
40:00
He is waiting for us to do it. Amen is waiting for us to
40:04
do it. See God move me for you terce girl Eatoian. I think
40:08
so, I truly think so. Amen, bless her, Thank you,
40:15
thank you, thank you in his grace and his mercy. Oh and you
40:22
know what, let me tell y'all something. I actually had a slide show
40:24
me tonight like I was gonna talk about children's literacy, and when she popped
40:30
on, I was like Okay, okay, how are we gonna do this?
40:31
How are we gonna do this? I got nervous, and then I
40:34
was like nervous, what teres? Why? And you just came in and
40:38
just you know, like yo, because you know that's what it's called supporting
40:45
one another. It's a village. This was a village to like a village.
40:51
And I'm just talking to people like where are the villages? I'm looking
40:54
for the villages. I want to be in the villages because I remember when
40:58
I grew up it was a village and it was so much love. So
41:04
plas you part of my village? Can I come in yours? Come on,
41:07
baby, but you cut up. I got a switch for you.
41:10
Okay, cut up, and I got a switch for you. I'm looking
41:15
gonna pull your own, and it better come back right. You know how
41:17
the old people say, go out there, get your switched, and if
41:20
you come back with the small one, you go back. And then you
41:24
still running out to switch because they don't win to pull it from the ground.
41:29
I remember, and and they give me the opportunity to take twigs off.
41:31
But if they got to get it, you got the twigs on it.
41:34
Don't let them plan it up. Oh my lord, thank you guys
41:43
for being here tonight. Tomorrow I will be on again at eight o'clock.
41:47
I will have guests author Tasha writes, and she will be talking about her
41:54
I think, an American erotic book called Strange. So that's tomorrow night at
42:01
a PM. And then next week, you guys, we are talking children's
42:07
literature. Let's get our kids back to reading. If you guys can only
42:13
know the statistics that I have seen when it comes to our babies African American
42:20
and children of color, and how we are lacking when it comes to just
42:25
general reading skills. So all next week on my pages we will be featuring
42:30
children's books and we will be giving away some children's books, so tune in.
42:37
Thank you again, Ms Blossom. You guys have a wonderful night,
42:42
good night bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found
42:54
a new book to read or a new author to explore in in two weeks
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for sc book yus and friends chat MHM. Have a good evening, fye