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My father, my birth and history 04232024 · Talk to Prince Show - Solving World's Problems

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A prayer, A prayer twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, it's the anniversary
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of It's the twenty fifth anniversary of my father since he passed away, And
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it makes me to reflect back on my life and try to reconnect myself from
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the beginning of my own being and to remember where it all started. And
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I was born in Cameroon and in the Northwest region it was called north West
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Province. And before the coming of the Portuguese, the Germans, the British
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and the Americans and all the external influences, and there was the Vungo Dab
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came down and that vane dub kingdom. Our ancestraes were kings and twenty feet
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my brother and always king. She would be the twenty fiith or twenty sixth
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king. So it's been a dynasty of royalty and traditions and cultures and ways
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of life passed from generations to generations and to my father. And when my
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father became king and in nineteen thirty three, I nineteen forty five, for
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I think, so I cannot be very precise, but I know my father
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was born in nineteen thirty three and he died in nineteen ninety nine. So
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when he became king, he took over from his father, King Sakh and
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King Saki was highly intelligent, came and I got educated in the religious studies,
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some sort of a Jesuit at his own time, he was and he
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believed in that monastic and way of life. It's a dee fated Christian that
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he became king and at the same time became a pastor. It only happened
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once because the traditions are constantly in conflict with modernity. But he was a
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person of both worlds. He was an enlightened, meant person and at the
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same time a prince, and his vocation and volition and desires was to serve
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God self Jesus. And he became a pastor. And because he was very
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talented, intelligent and good Christian person at the same time, they decided that
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he should be king. Had a lot of controversies, but he was only
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one that could take over a giant, a giant of a king called King
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Sangi. He was a very tall person, something was stiller than I'm seven
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fifty six, and they gave all types of notarition of his height. Some
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people said he stayed for more than fifty years one andre and fifteen years.
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So he was just a king at this time with so many repeatable futures,
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his looks, his height, and his age, his longevity, and he
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took over from a guy like that. That was during the time of colonization,
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if not mistaken, during the time of the colonization and the discovery put
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it that why when Africa was still being discovered before being canonized, and it
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was king there and by then the Germans, the Germans were in charge of
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that part nar called Cameroon, and the name Cameroon came from Cameras and the
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name was given by the Portuguese. They just came to that part of the
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world by the costs the Pacific coast, beautiful places there. They had some
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shrimps and the shrimps were so delicious, and people said they call the cameras
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the cameras and something prams and English and so Cameras Cameroon. So the name
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actually meant nothing but came from sharps. And that was the beginning where the
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dynasty were destroyed and the westernization and Christianization, and it became a difficult time
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for most of the kings. And my great grandfather, King Sanghi was king
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during that time and he took over the throne from May four, King Nie
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four, and it looks like his brothers were not really happy that it sud
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Be kame and they minimize him, and he happened to be very political driven
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type of king. And by then the Westerners were not known. They have
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not seen Caucasians and the explorer from Germany, you know Xenraph, you know
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his crew, and they were threatened to be killed in Cameroon and by then
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called the Cameroon. It was just territories of royalties and kings and their own
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kingdoms that is today reduced to villages, you know, just for reductionism to
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not accept them for who they were, to take away their dignity, their
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royalty and just reduced them to villages. But the legacy of those kings must
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be remembered, must be taught, because I am teaching cout of those kings
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and those legacies. So when Zingrav was in Cameroon, and they didn't like
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him being there because they assumed that they came for colonization and the anti Western
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construct of the stranger and would have done the licacy of slavery. So it
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was very suspicious and threatening to kill them. And I read somewhere that my
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great great grandfather, King Sangi sent his soldiers and sevens to go bring them
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for safety, and they came to the Vango Palace and they stayed there for
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solone and King sang It threatened the kings of all those places, the Ballei
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and all those regions that he's under my protectorate and you guys to leave them
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alone. Some say that without my great grandfather, the Zinger of the explorer
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from Germany, they won't be alive. And that was a caliber of my
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great grandparents and King Sangi. I read somewhere that he is the king that
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brought civilizing, brought westernization into Vingo Kingdom. And it's true him that his
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son learned the ways of the West and the religion of the West, Christianity,
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and got baptized as gave his life. And what's a Presbyterian Christian and
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deacon and to a pastor. And the church today, the Presbyterian Church today
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is they called King's Church, King's Church, and the Vingo Kingdom till it
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is reduced to just you know, most people have moved into the cities and
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the history is something that al must remember. And so when King Saki died,
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my grandfather, my father's father, and my father became king. And
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my father was a very tough warrior and very tough guy, very good looking,
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and some used to accusing that maybe he was bi ratio and that they
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got some Caucasian plot in him. He's a very light person, very handsome
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looking man with good futures, very attractive to so many women, and he
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became the king that got married to so so many women. But before he
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became king, and he was the favorite of his father, but some corrupt
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leaders tried to not make him care. He didn't go on. So they
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thought that my father was not landed enough. Because my grandfather, being in
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landed pastor prioritized education and most of his kids went overseas and said that mostly
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they came to America and we've never seen there. They came following the the
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Baptist mission and the Christianization mission driven works and studies, so they never came
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back. And because they didn't come back, Uh, my grandfather was already
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disappointed into travels and education. He started to attribute education to something that takes
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away the person away from his or her people and takes them to a foreign
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land that did never come back. So he became a little bit disillusioned towards
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his days about making a sophisticated, educated and like religious type of person as
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king. So he choose somebody that was pretty much a traditionalist my father,
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very rough prince that does not take no an answer, and the kingdom was
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all afraid of him. So very good Man where was powerful, very strong
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person, very courageous. He could fight and defeat or build up and nobody.
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People could gather on him and he'll beat them up. His charm was
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that he was very good looking, very able body. Got his big eyes
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and cheek bones, and so he was the talk, the attraction and the
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fear to my father father's father. My grandpa told I needed to give a
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king that would be the king that the people deserve, because some of his
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cabinets were not happy that he was. They was a Western eight nice and
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he was he's a Christian and believe in Jesus and the pastor and the king
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that he was he was a person of both worlds and they needed somebody to
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represent their tradition and they got what they wanted. So he choose my father,
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but some other guys, some other notables of kingmakers, we bribe teaches
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another person. They didn't go well because they will showed my father. And
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when they brought my father, the rag walk away because he knows were corrupt.
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And so my father became king. And when he became king, as
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he told us now, most of his brothers thought that he was not He
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was not what they wanted, even though they had no choice. Most of
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his brothers thought that they deserve to be king, not her. I use
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the word brothers because those African kingdoms, it's mostly patriarchical and Maria chavinistic society
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where kings are supposed to be mad, even though it is changing now and
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for good. I like that because women are better ladies than men. Truth
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and every man comes from a woman. Women are more intelligent than men.
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Women live longer than men. Women have better problem service. Women see the
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bigger picture, men see the present. Women are more holistic, better strategists,
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have more patience, have more wisdom, have more care. Those are
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the qualities of leadership. Women are the most courageous because every hue man being
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comes from science comes from the woman, away from the humans that science might
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create in the future. Giving birth is bravery. Carrying a baby in the
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bell for nine months, it's bravery. And women are noted for their intelligence,
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the hard work, the diligence, and their dignity and beauty and child
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and positive energy, and don't make a good king a good quaint. I
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hope that they finally get that one day, but away from the destruction.
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So when my father became king, his brother's terrorising a lot, and they
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will come to the palace. He will say to ask for stuff. He
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will give them whatever they want. You're not satisfied. You give them women,
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give them property, give them land, give them lifetock, live stocks,
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give them titles, give them royal garments, and give them someone will
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give them the royal guns and royal stools. And sit there and satisfied.
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So he became so brave and set to himself that you're gonna create a war.
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You're gonna create a palace within the palace. You're gonna create the palace
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within the palace. And he said, on the journey to marry princess is
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from neighboring kingdoms, And and so he did. Every kingdom he goes there,
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he gets married to a princess. He looks for the chance, and
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he was some sort of Darwinist and natural selection type of person. He was
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so interested in Jean the jan Puul, that the prince should be pretty,
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to be tall, to be strong, to be healthy, so she would
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look. He will look for all those futures in our and women, and
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he could not stop getting married to them. And I got so many brothers
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and sisters. Most of them know me, some of them I don't know
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them, but we know each other into the blood and in love and care
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and looking out for one another. And with the size of the futures you
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see a prince or princess from that dynasty, you will not for the looks,
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the charm, handsome or prayer, tall and strong and very intelligent and
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enlightened and brave, are kind hearted. But those are the futures that pass
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on. They must seek to be intelligent, and you must seek to have
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dignity and class. You must be able to help yourself, carry yourself high,
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and be a the disposed of the community to help those in it.
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And then you could sacrifice your life for the lives of others, and you
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to live a life of humility and bravery she'll apologize for yourself, She'll apologize
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for being the prince should not apologize for the blessings that has been given to
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you by I've been due upon you by nature or by God, not your
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prince bone privileges. And it's your blessings, said an apologize for it.
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So we're taught not to be apologetic, and to be self determined and self
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reliant, and to work hard to stand tall. But these values were picked
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up by some, and many didn't. Though my father created a kingdom within
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a kingdom. The palace became so big, how so many women and so
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many children, so many pets and many types of animals, and er got
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many plantations and farm for coffee corn and some cypress trees and the livestocks,
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and hunting and carving sculpture. He was the greatest artist of all artists of
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kings that ever lived. Because something with evenal kingdom, one thing a king
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must do is to be an artist. A king must be able to create,
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create people, create ideas, create art, create things. Must be
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a visionary, a thinker, so that artistic way of living, to create
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beauty, satisfaction and happiness, to avoid boredom, you know, and redundancy.
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He must have the charm, the force of attraction, that that royal
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regalia, that when people see you, they see a mountain, a monument
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of a being like being that is clean in the heart and the deeds and
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sick knowledge and very knowledgeable. And it's a problem server. So thats where
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the quality is that we pass on to us. We need to have self
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preservation. And you must not eat if you are not hungry, and when
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aim you're hungry, you eight it will class. You must not speak,
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and we have nothing reasonable to say. It's better to listen. You must
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pay attention for us and have interesting what you do. Must be willing to
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create something new thatuch doesn't exist. You must love yourself, cherish yourself.
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I like those are who is sick to see what you can do. To
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work with people, ignore the differences sometimes and look for the things that buy
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you guys together. And always be willing to hunt. You know, I
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remember my parents teaching me how to shoot. Take us to go just hunt
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sometimes for game, just for fun. You must have sighting and deciting is
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not to shoot at a bird or be a good shooter, but a sighting
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is for the things of life that always put your eye. Always put your
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sight on the goal, on the mission, on the purpose for which you
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are or for that which you're doing. Don't be short sighted, have foresight,
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her vision. Look past the human when they talk to you, to
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see where they come from, the parents, the ancestry, the family type,
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and what did they do. Let them know that when see a person
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is not a person you've seen, you see in history. But at the
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same time, try to distinguish and identify that person for itself in order to
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find communalities, and said the Valice. And if people give, give more.
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If people are the best, see the ordinary, and if you are
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extraordinary, be a genius. Always try to be ahead, as it the
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competition is ingrained in our blood. And the aspect of creativity, entrepreneurship,
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trying to make something out of nothing, trying to create to put a dull
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price, or trying to multiply, to duplicate, to exponentiate that type of
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mindset to actively working. My father like people who work. It does not
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like idleness. He hated laziness entire to man and victim for it. It
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adds him to response. He will said, the person has no use.
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A person who is not active has no use. And the person who spends
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the time doing nothing was worth not living. And the person will constantly depends
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on others. It's amaisance to the system. And that at the Jim pull
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like that. It's a drag, it's a let down or a leakage.
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He has his own ways. He would like people who succeed and people who
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were hard to succeed and whatever they do, and his best friends where people
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will create something new or bring good news, news that nobody knows. Who
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was very interested to be ahead of his time, to know what is happening
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every way in the war. When people come to his court, he can
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therefore tell them what is happening in a while being an enlightened king and gnawing
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more than others, that's very important, he said. He gave you the
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power to be king. His fear was ignorance. That ignorance corrupts the mind.
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And if those allow, you are corrupted with ignorance, and you live
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in a utopia, and you live in the bubble thinking that you are everything
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when you're nothing. He was always scared of doing the same thing all the
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time, or just relying on the culture, traditions and religions, I came
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from. He likes something near, something near, and it was very interesting
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medicine, like planting flowers, planting trees, and planting plants. And he
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would tell us most times that the world is in the vegetations, that every
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illness, every charm, every mystic of the universe is in the plants.
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That the plants are not just meant for food or flowers, That the plants
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are medicinal and the plants are myschi. That the more you know plants,
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the more the universe is unveiled to you, and that the humans depends on
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plants. Modern plants depend on humans. That the human who knows plants has
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the secret of the universe, has a secret to life and the secret to
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longevity. And he reminders that way you eat food it plants, because he
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was always tell us that the body does not need all overeat and it's just
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the chemicals in the plants. Did the nutants that the body needs, just
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because that's why we need to send the rest of waste. And if you
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know the right plants, it's good for your mood, your medication, your
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mental state. So he was so much into plants, and through the help
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of the Seventh then the people that were that work that part of the royal
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crew, you know, and they retainers and the wives and some people were
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employed. He could cure every disease on this planet Earth. When people had
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cancers, of being poisoned or something that got no time to live on planet
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Earth. Mystically those people live again. And he was got a psychological healing
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and mind, body, soul, and he did the organs and and he
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has all these ways of he has all these ways of doing things. And
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he was a judge away from doing his traditional things and to healing or carving.
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And he was a very wise, wise judge work in the customary court.
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And how you take us to the court and we sit and see how
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he judicates, and how he listened to cases. And I made decisions and
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I got to learn a lot. It's true that that I decided. I
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studied law, and I studied law, and I did family law, because
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most of the time he was resolved family issues, and I was very interested
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in that. It stands to my father it was with a wise person,
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and his wisdom is still felt today. And it was said to me all
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the time that that that by the grace of God, at some of his
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children those who listen. So I wanted to take some of his gifts.
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I've always prayed for wisdom and knowledge, and that I wish that I the
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wisdom of my father, and some people say to that I do, and
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I said, it can be like that of my father. It was somebody
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that deeply admired, and I didn't spend a lot of time with her.
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And it takes me back now to my very beginning and as much as I
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can remember, and I was told that I left, but before leaving my
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father, and my first recognition of myself came from the gay nacologist of the
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hospital where I was born. And the gay narcologists name was par A tanger
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A Tangerina, and I knew him because he always said that he's my hospital
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father. And asked him one day, why you said that you are my
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hospital father. He said to me that I was the first child that was
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born and that hospital. The the gaynacologist said, I was the first person
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I was born there that war, that they had children. She was thus
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newly constructed on newly buried, and for some reasons, it happened that I
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was the first person to be bonded. So he never forgot me, and
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he will see me every time. I always let me know that I'm the
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first. I always remember to be the first. That it's your gift that
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God made you to be the first. In minute, remember that in many
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things you do, you're going to be the first. It's a good man.
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I've never seen him again for a long time. So I was born
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and up von go it's the kingdom and ups. I was born the hospital
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there, and I remember my mom and father telling me that when I was
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born and I was the fourth, I got Emmanuel and I got a Regina
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Emmanuel Richard and me and my mom said that was a big celebration and based
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on traditions and culture. When when the prince was born, you know'd have
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to be a festival for people to celebrate the birth of a prince. And
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it's not done again, but that's what needs to happen. And I grew
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up with so many brothers and sisters and wild play one another. We didn't
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have external friends because the family so big that just within one age group,
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you guys might be ten fifteen. Goddad had a lot of children, so
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you constantly swamp with brothers and sisters, with all types of games up,
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all type of plays. Now, you guys keep going places and the way
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you like, and you cannot feel exhausted. In a pool of thirty people
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with different ideas on how to play, you always get exhausted. So living
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in that group of march, one thing I learned so early was how to
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survive and how to how not to be the last, and her not to
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be forgotten, because with so many people you can be pushed around. You
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can be the last, or you can be forgotten. And I learned pretty
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young not to fight with my fist because I've seen brothers who fight with their
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fist and they always get bitten so bad. And the rule was that nobody
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tells anybody you don't go to man and did and said your brother did something
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to you or your sister did something to you that will make you look so
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weak. That was very shameful. So you need to be able to just
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keep that to yourself and learn. But rarely we will fight. But with
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a group of family like that, you've got some people that all they do
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is to cost trouble. And learn equally pretty early not to cost trouble,
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because I've seen the way you cost trouble. You are in problems and you
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get to become so vulnerable and your bubble is gone, and you become weak,
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and you need to apologize. You need to be asking for sympathy,
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and you know it just it makes the myth of you to be blonde away
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and causing trouble. You always be hind. So I learned pretty well that
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to be how to be relevant and a censure in the group. I discovered
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that you need to contribute. I learn to contribute more. And I pretty
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much discovered that you need to be able to develop new things and be intelligent
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in school and many things you do. You need to make yourself to be
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needed, make yourself to be wanted. You don't need to gossip. You
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need to be bringing new things, new tricks, and all those I did
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and I don't remember that must then with my dad, I remember festivals,
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kings coming to the palace, my dad carrying me on his lap, and
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people forcing money into my hands, and and I just trying to belong,
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just ten to be with the rest. Nothing spatial within, grow up with
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anybody being spacier. Everybody was a sign the rule of the palace. Everybody
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is equal, no matter who you are, smart, rich, down,
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stupid. Sorry to say all those words words even though you're nothing makes you
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not being the prince or the princess. We got the same respect, have
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the same love for one another, and we deeply care for one another,
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who die for one another. Then I just brought us some sisters. We
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are a kingdom within the kingdoms, got ruse with got societies and courts and
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sex within that teme kingdom within the kingdom called the royal family. Soon I
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left my father and my mom sol likey to have my mom. I remember
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my mom gave birth to a set of twins and I didn't like it because
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I loved my mom so much, and my baby's sitter spent a lot of
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time with me. I gave my baby sit a lot of travel, and
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that's when er I get to remember Perhape who she was to usk, Cause
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sometimes babies sitter or nannies, they do all the work and they don't get
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the credit. I did my best at my nanny till to day. It's
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always taken care of. When mama gets bath to the set of twins.
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You got Felicia and Ditamos, and her home was always filled with people and
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uh they were the first again, first set of twins for my father.
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So he was a whole big deal. And uh, I had one of
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my uncles that lived in Limber, Victoria, they call it Victoria was the
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coaster area the Pacific Ocean, a beautiful place. He got very beautiful resort
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and gardens and parks, an ocean line. And he came home. My
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uncle was called fu Fuango, king Offango, that was his name. He
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used to like me a lot. He's always to call me his kid.
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And he came home and my father said I should go and spend holidays with
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her. And I went and spent holidays with him, and never let me
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come back. And he was a Catholic, but work with Presbyteria, I
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think so when I came, so he wrote me in a Catholic school they
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call it Sea's Gardens. That was for his Catholic And that was the beginning
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of a new life. And my uncle once told me the other thing my
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father said to him, never let me know I'm a prince. And she
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learned treat me to anybody else, and let me know the ways of the
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West. That was his mission. And the wife Mammy or Mama Regina.
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Their mission was to make me land the ways of the West. So I
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went to Earls School, Catholic school, and loved that life. I made
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so many friends. And my uncle's wife did the It was a business lady.
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She was a business incline. She will selling everything everything, She will
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selling everything. She knew how to make money and should make me to learn
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how to make money. I would count the money for her. I will
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know her customers, and I'll learned to do what she did. I did
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it so well that she loved me more than her child and those who lived
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with us. And I was never to tell with the privilege. I was
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never to do with entitlement. I was about to tell to be a victim.
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I did what everybody did get punished for. Everybody got punished for.
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And one thing was good at school and soccer and tennis is to play tennis
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and er. We just started picking balls and ask what is this ball ball
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meant for? And gradually half interest in tennis. I so good at playing
44:31
soccer and a plettle of soccer, good at it, but I got injured
44:38
all the time, and I just when I traveled, I traveled overseas,
44:45
I stopped playing soccer and er I learned a lot there and er I stay
44:52
away. They took me to the cinema. I started going to the Cyllema
44:59
to see movies before people even know they're not there. We're movies. I
45:06
saw. I seen all the Chinese movies, all the Western movies. Yeah,
45:10
look good about the ugly and clean cleans Eastwood and all the cowboys or
45:16
the cowboy movies. And the music. I was very interested. I went
45:22
to the window. I was just a child. I could listen to the
45:27
sixties music, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, the eighties then
45:35
and I became in love. I fell in love with her. With Western
45:42
romans and western music. I could sing it. They cannot play mound on
45:49
mid nine. I will not know the title, but they became part of
45:52
my life into I remember that when color color TV came, I was just
46:07
a child. You know color TV came, It's in the eighties, it's
46:10
not I think then. The first person I saw was Michael Jackson. You
46:21
know, it's saw the trailer and in the cinema we saw color. But
46:28
most of the TV that was black and white and not old, but technology
46:32
that was not advanced and I remember so Michael Jackson and fell over him and
46:40
he's always been with me to today. I love his uh, his artistry,
46:47
you know, it's it's it's energy and bringing people together and getting something
46:52
new. Was pushing the envelopement, walking walking himself to that he did and
47:00
the message I'm a lover, I'm not a fighter, and you know we
47:06
are the world and beat it, you know. And I was interested in
47:13
Abba and I had a dream a song to sing you can see the Wonders
47:21
of the fairy Tale and Eric Clapton you got is it? Richard quest Or
47:34
and you got Max Yeah. And I'm not good at names, but I
47:43
was also interested in this music. And at the same time, I was
47:50
interested in the music of the time over there because my brothers will take me
47:54
to all these concerts where these artists came to from and sometimes as a kid,
48:01
I was just so interested in knowing that I'll follow the artists sometimes when
48:07
they go out after singing to go smoke a cigarette. I'll just listen to
48:10
what they say. I just admire, just admire people that people admired.
48:17
It's something made to to just like people that I liked. I was thought
48:22
that there's something in these people. There's some shining star, some light.
48:29
What is it that make people to be attracted to others? And what is
48:34
it they have? How do they build their talent? Wow? I was
48:39
very fascinated. So just sometimes follow this artist as a kid. You can
48:46
go where you want. You know, you just a little man. So
48:51
they don't play attention. I just stand by and listen to them talk and
48:55
look at their physiology, their gestures, and that's what they talk about.
49:01
And it's very interested in games for music. And I to go to the
49:09
soccer games, handball games, volleyball, volleyball and championships. And I used
49:19
to winters in boxing. Oh no, take me to boxing and all this.
49:23
I'm a kid. I took us aspect as if I could get myself.
49:30
But my interest sometimes was mad because I got a very good uncle in
49:37
the name of Christopher. And Christopher would take me places. He liked me
49:42
a lot. He would do what I want as the the guy that she
49:47
telled me like a prince. He just loved me and was so kind to
49:52
me. Through him, I learned a lot. When as I went to
49:57
the cinema, he worked there. So he worked there and sometimes he would
50:02
just take me with him. No, I'm too young to watch the movies.
50:07
But they're not some explicit type of movies. I just Chinese coom frough
50:14
and some Western movies. So I would just it was just I'll just be
50:19
watching the movies. Why just I just it was just part of his home.
50:23
So it became my home, and it was a learning moment to me.
50:30
So I knew a lot that people do not know. I exposed myself.
50:36
They exposed me to so much that people did not know. And I
50:40
was a little man, but the BRAINDA knows a lot of times. So
50:47
unfortunately for me, when I was in the sid grade, sixth sith great,
50:52
my uncle died and I was so young to know the of death.
51:01
Something he got killed. And they were a pretty beautiful wife, you know,
51:08
and not so much. I didn't know much about. That's a mystic
51:13
in itself. So I came back now to my parents to even walking down
51:22
there's somewhat too. They just called the village with the myth and the legacy
51:25
stays and I was not. I didn't know that place anymore because I left,
51:35
I said maybe six. I didn't. First I didn't like it because
51:40
it was just different or the city life is gone and you had some sort
51:45
of living in the traditional society with ruse and you could see people bow to
51:52
your father and before coming back to go back, only knew my father was
52:01
king. When there was a convention of a phone raising ceremony that they needed
52:09
him to be there. I saw somebody came there. They took me to
52:14
go see him. I got a red carpet and I saw this giant of
52:20
a man. I said, I remember this guy. Yeah, And I
52:29
saw just people gathered and he gathered around me and around him, and he
52:32
carried me on his lap together like yeah, I remember this lab carried me,
52:37
played with my cheek and asked me about school, and deep his hand,
52:42
hands in his pocket and brought it brought out a bunch of notes.
52:47
I just got. It was ten dollar notes and ten thousand notes. They
52:52
just a lot of money squeezing my hands. And I remember too, my
52:59
brother that came there with him to the zoo to see some live animals,
53:07
because there's always a concept of about African animals I everywhere over there or not.
53:12
I took them to the zoo and there'saw so many animals. For the
53:14
first time, and they always thanked me for that. So that's the only
53:19
went I remembered my father. I know who I was, and just not
53:24
short after my uncle passed away, so I need to go back to her.
53:30
And that was a different time for me. I also was used to
53:37
my Christian life and going to church and and and why in Limbay or Victoria,
53:45
I learned a lot of stuff and a lot of skills as she designed
53:49
my own dresses, created my own heart and tried to say it did not
53:52
go well, but that's not that I will not try. And I tried
53:57
to do a lot of things, so I've got a lot of else.
54:00
I learned how to do puppetry or draw kung fu characters and look for something
54:07
it look like an empty box or something like some candice, and play some
54:13
characters and stage, you know, and I will ask people to to do
54:19
some voice overs so to do entertain people. And sometimes people will guarded to
54:24
see what I do. And so I was a very creative person. And
54:29
when I went back there, it was not so much creativity, but it
54:35
was so much about following rules, traditions and cultures. And that's why when
54:42
I became a writer. The first thing I wrote. I wrote that be
54:45
suspicious of traditional religion characture. In the hands of great people, it does
54:51
the most good. In the hands of terrible people and m I do the
54:54
most harm. And the fear of traditional religion and character is that it's something
55:00
that was not started by you. It's something that's given to you. If
55:04
you embrace it, remember not to lose your individuality. I was very keen
55:12
with that, not to lose my individuality, intrinsic individuality. So I get
55:15
to write about this lyric then to value the importance of me being different.
55:24
I didn't want to be, and I didn't want to be the group.
55:30
I didn't I don't want to just be belong, be that belong you want
55:35
to confirm, to just follow. I wanted to lead. If I'm not
55:40
leading the group, I don't want to follow that which is good. I'm
55:50
selective to pick and choose what to follow. I can only follow what everybody
55:55
should follow. If you see me fallowing doing something that everybody does, just
56:05
be reminded I'm doing it because I must do what everybody does. I like
56:07
to be different. I picked that early on, I say, kid growing
56:12
up, one of myselfever's skills is to not be what people are, to
56:19
be something different. I never fight to be equal. Does it makes no
56:24
sense? I fight to be different. I don't want to be you.
56:30
I don't want to be me. But we can find some commonalities and work
56:36
on that. If we come together, we should come together to build something.
56:40
When we are done building that thing, we should go back to ourselves.
56:45
If you enjoy being, you have time for you and think and create
56:49
and have fun and the way you like with you. I've now I liked
56:54
pushing myself onto others. I don't like orders to push themselves onto me.
57:00
The only thing of cherish that bring people together is to work on something,
57:04
on a goal, something to contribute. I like that, but not to
57:12
follow. Why should you follow where you can lead? And so so when
57:21
I came back, I thought a lot to keep my individuality. When I
57:27
came over there with tradition, everybody dress in a particular costume, everybody do
57:32
the same thing, They danced the same, sing the same and because the
57:39
goal is to preserve the tradition, the religion and the culture. But I
57:45
came from the city where there is no goal but just to be here and
57:53
just do right. I like that. Sos a free minded, open minded,
58:02
open hearted, and open handed human. And I was not comfortable to
58:12
be thought to follow tradition, religion, or culture. I was raised to
58:22
elect to do it for myself because it's good. There's no good I shouldn't
58:27
follow it. There was only conflicts on the heart my father. You'd like
58:32
us to go somewhere as a royal family, and the family needs to dress
58:37
in a particular way and do some particular things. And I always thought that
58:45
if I do all those things all I'll be designed or believe everybody else.
58:51
And if I'm supposed to do it, on need to create something else to
58:55
be different. And but I came there spend good time with my father,
59:06
and I get to half a lot or learn a lot, or have a
59:14
lot of friends through him. Being with him, I learn a lot of
59:22
wisdom. Always liked to be by my father. He liked a lot of
59:27
work, So my brothers did not like to work. Because most of my
59:31
brothers did not like to work, so they spent the last time with him.
59:37
My father's formulat was, if you see me, you're going to work.
59:42
And I like work, so therefore I spend most of my time with
59:45
him, and while you're working, it gives you all the inspiration or the
59:52
wisdom. He tells you, all the stories, all the history and literature.
1:00:00
You learn a lot be with her. I learned the short time must
1:00:07
be with him alone a lot, or ask him so many questions. The
1:00:14
people will not ask because he is king. But since I didn't grow up
1:00:19
with him that much, I was some sort of like a stranger in her
1:00:24
culture, so I could ask any question I want. And sometime when I
1:00:30
ask questions that my father might think that people might funn comfortably asking that he
1:00:37
was jo said, they will say that I asked the questions of a fall,
1:00:44
and I could not occude. That's not a foolish question, only a
1:00:49
foolish question. And a foolish person who ask the king a question like that
1:00:53
so will make it to be that way. But he will always answer my
1:00:57
questions. Candied it to know a lot about the curature, the tradition.
1:01:02
And I remember asking one day, why do people bow to you or to
1:01:08
us? Why? Because, as a Christian will raise, that is to
1:01:17
bow to Jesus and God and not to anybody else. So bow to God,
1:01:24
don't bow to human Then why should people bow to you or to ask
1:01:30
the real family. And he will tell me that that's a tradition and the
1:01:37
creature and the way of life. That if he asks the people not to
1:01:44
bow, unnot be happy. They cannot tell them twas not to bow,
1:01:52
said, that's why he's there, kay. But he will like for them
1:01:57
not to bow. But that's all that now. And he will tell me
1:02:04
that I may be worried about the person bowy boy, while the person coming
1:02:09
to the palace being by him, gonna go out of the palace and tell
1:02:15
the story I was with the king. He would treat her with some dignity,
1:02:20
be given some drinks, giving some importance, you make some friendship.
1:02:24
You cannot tell stories, exaggerate a lie about it. I might even get
1:02:29
married with my dear a girl. Oh, have a job, just be
1:02:35
in the palace. That's what they gain for me being their king. So
1:02:40
I cannot take that away from them. So all these questions help a lot
1:02:45
to enlighten mind my view of the world of subjectivities in a reality and what
1:02:52
is and isn't and you know, and the constructs and objectivity to the reality
1:03:00
of being, that what is the being? So when I grew up in
1:03:05
my After my studies on my writings, I started asking all these questions,
1:03:12
who are we there? For? If every human being is born from a
1:03:15
wound, why should setting humans bow to others? Why are others called king
1:03:22
and prince and princesses? And if those people go somewhere else, nobody knows
1:03:28
them, that's just anybody else. Ask the question why is some people so
1:03:34
rich some people so poor? Why are some people so intelligent and some people
1:03:42
are not? Are you? Are we bond with this or we need to
1:03:47
learn it? Nature? And nature? Ask myself all those questions as what
1:03:54
is it in the human that is personal? The agent see or the autonomy
1:04:01
of the human? What is it that makes the human being away from itself
1:04:08
and from other selfs? And what influence does tradition, religious curatures and all
1:04:15
this? What does it have? What does how does what does it have
1:04:18
on the person or on the person? What influence and what effect? And
1:04:25
what effect does it compromise the being itself? Its individuality? So all these
1:04:32
questions I will ask. I could see the power that the power that my
1:04:38
father retained, and the love and charisma, the energy that he got one
1:04:44
he got, he got when he got somewhere, hap people will gravitate towards
1:04:47
it and power and subdue themselves and happily. It made me pondered why the
1:05:05
influence of traditional meter and culture humans so it is. It didn't last long.
1:05:15
In sixth grade seventh grade over there, I came towards the end of
1:05:19
the sixth grade, and so I went to the public school there by then,
1:05:28
yeah, they got closer and the public school, and it was the
1:05:34
last semester to t the next year the seventh grade where we got they need
1:05:42
to take an exams to go to middle school, so to go to middle
1:05:46
school, they called the secondary school to be precise, and we had the
1:05:57
exams in that. It was the first time too. It was the first
1:06:01
time for that school to be having the seventh grade and partaking in the national
1:06:08
exams. And the first time we did that, and the school got one
1:06:15
hundred percent. We scored so hard that school afterally gave us, gave us
1:06:23
testimonials. They call it to show that we are excellent students. And then
1:06:30
we went on to second school. Second discuss wants to go back now and
1:06:33
move away from my parents and to the school town up in that and I
1:06:43
that was the beginning from and secondary school. I had a scholarship and the
1:06:48
scholarship took me to high school. And from that scholarship, I went to
1:06:53
the university and the university I studied law. And after my graduation from the
1:07:00
law university, and during my graduation, my father died. Yeah, and
1:07:09
I remember that when I passed my high school diploma. He was so happy
1:07:15
that I took my younger brother and I we went to see the Prime minister.
1:07:20
He was so happy. And that was the last good times. And
1:07:27
after close to my graduation, my father died. He never saw me graduate.
1:07:38
I had I left voice funeral and the ceremony to go complete my final
1:07:45
exams. And that's a different time. And I could sit back and remember
1:07:55
the good times with my father and MUHM. Very grateful for my mother that
1:08:04
my mother was always there for us. And was I talking today about my
1:08:12
father and I talked about my mother another time because I'm talking today for the
1:08:19
to remember the twenty feet anniversary after the death of my father. That's why
1:08:25
I'm saying what I'm saying, just to reflect sometime, to have it on
1:08:28
record, tell my kids to remember and my father died and my brother became
1:08:43
king, my very good brother, my better my friend, and it became
1:08:48
a young guy who are just young, and I was supposed to support him,
1:08:56
to supported over a large family. I did a lot of sacrifice.
1:09:01
I forgot a lot of things. And before my father died, HIV was
1:09:10
rampant in the part of the world in Africa, and I was supposed to
1:09:15
be in the law firm after my graundation, to finish my stage, to
1:09:23
finish the internship with the law firm, and to be to write the biasams
1:09:28
and be my own lawyer. But I decided to create a non profit organization
1:09:34
to do something HIV I ah and I recruited was student law law graduates.
1:09:45
I motivated them that we should help and I'll go to the hospitals and pleab
1:09:51
with some doctors to come with us. And I'll use my money that I
1:09:57
used to have for my businesses. Mostly I was a business. I do
1:10:01
the photography. I was a freelance photographer. I like photography. I used
1:10:08
to make a lot of money there and a lot lot of money. I
1:10:11
was like pictures everywhere ministers, delegates. I I created something new that I
1:10:16
became part of something that I I would take a picture for you and give
1:10:21
you a frame. You know, it's just I need to make money,
1:10:25
big money. So my pictures were very expensive, and my setup, my
1:10:30
cameras would dress ourselves in black and like man in black, and so we
1:10:38
gave some spectacle for the people who took that picture. So I became so
1:10:42
famous and my work was good. I do what I did what people did
1:10:46
not do. I did this so fast, So I made a lot of
1:10:49
money, and I used that money to you know, for transportation for us
1:10:57
to move from place to place to you know, to gather people together and
1:11:01
talk to groups and associations and packets of people and schools, the seminars and
1:11:11
conferences to lecture on HIV AIDS, and it took some science students, and
1:11:19
so I spent most of my time with that. To avoid the the devastation
1:11:27
and the early deaths that the virus was doing to two people over there.
1:11:32
So I named the organization Cultures of Cultures of Values in Africa and a Free
1:11:42
Society cv S culture C for Culture v for Values CV Cultures of Values in
1:11:56
Africa c VA, and a free society that was the vile. So teach
1:12:01
people and power there to be good. And I had to take care of
1:12:04
themselves, take character sick. And we tried to demistify the myth on HIV
1:12:12
eights. That is a disease, that's real, it's contagious, and it's
1:12:17
it's any menial deficien see virus. And we lecture, give people condoms,
1:12:24
and the doctors and the nurses will you know, do the the biological and
1:12:31
scientific explanation of the virus, the transmission. One person talk about the transmission
1:12:35
and prevention and protection and how to stigmatization and what not to be scared of,
1:12:48
you know, you know, healthy person who shake somebody's hands. And
1:12:53
we spoke so much about hygiene and education. So that became part of me.
1:13:00
And there I became so supportive to my brother was king and to show
1:13:05
my support and unity, try to unite the family together, to be one
1:13:11
voice, one family, one kingdom and tour. I was so involved and
1:13:19
too. From there, I studied thinking that I need to live because I
1:13:30
remember I could not go overseas because my father did not when to go over
1:13:34
seas. And my father himself, his best friend, the best friend,
1:13:40
was on Israel. He was a military officer, and if he was a
1:13:45
general, a captain colony in the military. He loved my father so much
1:13:49
and was my father's good friend and to he once asked my father to take
1:13:56
me to Israel to go with him. And my father did not like us
1:14:01
to go overseas, and he was always worried if we go over seas,
1:14:08
well over treated the prince of princesses, and nobody will know us, We're
1:14:11
going to suffer, suffer suffering a lot because he had friends that been overseas
1:14:17
and came back and there's not a lot of suffering and a lot of discrimination
1:14:24
and racism and you know, stigmatization, and that he does no one us
1:14:31
to be to have that feeling that you're not in charge, that you're not
1:14:36
yourself, and that it was not comfortable for any system that let us know,
1:14:41
doub we're not on top of the world. That that because with royalty,
1:14:46
you know, you got the divine rights of king and all those ancient
1:14:51
concepts, so oh yeah, above the world. So and the system when
1:14:58
a carture that it was counter or contrary to that, and what's not really
1:15:05
happy with that? And it was just so worried that we might not make
1:15:10
it and move might. I was worried I might create some doubt about our
1:15:16
being about our own serfs. Was sworried about the confidence that he built in
1:15:21
us, that we might not think that we are both the world. I
1:15:29
remember ware ted that the least you can be it's equal, equal to everybody
1:15:38
else. We're gonna be less. Were you're born to be great, but
1:15:45
to better the artists were. The lowest you can get is equality, as
1:15:50
we were tired. So I don't know however, to see myself less.
1:15:57
I cannot do it. I don't know how to do that. It's not
1:15:59
in my jinker. I can only see somebody as equal. That's me just
1:16:03
being fair. And even those who don't like me, I don't see them
1:16:11
anything less, not equal. That's the minimum. That's the most I can
1:16:15
do. If not, I go back to my royal roots. I'm better
1:16:18
than nobody else. I am not comfortable doing that. So I prefer to
1:16:25
be better at things than somebody else, not as a person than somebody else,
1:16:30
because as natural phenomenon, humans are just humans. We're equal to anybody
1:16:35
else. So the royal concept that you are both people, it's not it's
1:16:42
primitive on civilized, cruel, repugnant and just wrong. I write a lot
1:16:47
about that. So my d you want us to go as this. But
1:16:53
when he left, I traveled. There was a before traveling. I work
1:17:02
for the government. You know, we work for the elections, and the
1:17:06
elections to the elections. It was the first time relations they are not really
1:17:12
free and fair for the first time through the United Nations. The British government
1:17:17
or the American government don't know much about that. And they wanted free on
1:17:23
fire elections and they created the Elections National Elections Observatory ornell And and the the
1:17:39
doors in charge of it, the the director, and the goal that they
1:17:45
had for that project was to make the elections not to look biased, suspicious.
1:17:49
So they wanted free minded people, pastors, lawyers, community leaders,
1:17:57
people, some moral character, some dignity, and people that can be trusted.
1:18:03
And for some reason I was selected to be part of it. And
1:18:09
I went there. I saw myself I was just this young little guy.
1:18:14
Were just two young guys there. All of us went to law school together
1:18:20
and got this. All pastors and all lawyers and and very important people in
1:18:28
society, people that people can trust. So it meant a lot to me,
1:18:32
and they appointed me a secretary to be to be in charge of a
1:18:35
particular region, the region where our kingdom was. So I took it very
1:18:42
seriously. And after the elections it was it was one of the few places
1:18:47
that the opposition won and the mayor of the opposition was just a young guy
1:18:56
like me, And so there's some sort of suspicious from system after that.
1:19:00
I that was because of me, that that the one that that the ruling
1:19:09
party lost the elections, and and pressure was put on me. I cannot
1:19:14
talk about a lot of pressure was put on me, A lot of threats,
1:19:17
A lot of bad things came upon me if I didn't do that.
1:19:24
And and the last threat was that the the fear not to be. And
1:19:34
I had a friend that said to me that since I like to teach like
1:19:42
your people say so like you a lot. That that the Chinese are preparing
1:19:45
for the Olympics, the Beijing Olympics, and the system opened up under one
1:19:53
foreign teachers, and he said that may be a good fit. And was
1:20:00
my escape out and I just left. I didn't tell nobody because most people
1:20:03
were like, why go to China. I've always I loved I loved the
1:20:08
Chinese culture. Since I grew watch a lot of Chinese movies, the careful
1:20:13
the things you watch when you're a kid. I watched a lot of Chinese
1:20:16
movies. So I ended up in China, and I watch a little Cowboys
1:20:20
movies. And I'm in Texas, so I say a lot, you know,
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And and I went to China and and and there was not another story.
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Did the part of the world, China, India, Hong Kong and
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all that part of the world. And I had a good time and did
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every time and get into trouble with the system, but with the good Chinese
1:20:53
people, like the people, like the culture, like the food, like
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their good heart. And h I met my wife. My wife was my
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assistant, my Chinese assistant. And I saw her. I loved her,
1:21:15
you know. I went back to my father's principle of natural assolection. And
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gin Pool a very slim, tall Chinese lady, very beautiful. And I
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said to myself that with my height, we're gonna we can. I think
1:21:30
we can make some pretty babies. That was not my thinking. I just
1:21:33
wish that she could love me, and so I spoke about her. My
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wife's name is Rica and Yao Lee, Yeah, Chinese English name is Rica
1:21:47
and were called Czarees and very pretty lady. And that's school. Uh the
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gold is school. Uh may Flower not kidding, may Flower International School,
1:22:06
not the ship of the Mayflower that I later sailed to America, but I
1:22:11
was the name of the school, may Flower International School, and the school
1:22:16
was a very big school. It's a school that got from kindergarten to college
1:22:24
kindergarten. It's the division for the school from kindergarten to college. I want
1:22:27
to start there and just move leave the school and go have job somewhere.
1:22:32
Huge concept, very smart guy that got that project. And I met my
1:22:39
wife there. When I first went, I was supposed to teach in high
1:22:43
school college. I said, no, I want to teach kindergarten and the
1:22:46
kids at primary school, not just My vision was to learn Chinese and but
1:22:57
too able to contribute to innocent that you look different from them, and how
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to build human relationship from people that don't know you and look all like you.
1:23:13
They're normally at that age. Did you see and get scared and cry?
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I like, who is this? It looks different? But I became
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the laugh, Oh that's cool that that's my best time and the kids will
1:23:28
follow me away. I go, not kidding and the kids. And I
1:23:34
met my wife. She was my assistant. So I will tell everybody that
1:23:39
I love her. I don't know what to say, and I will see
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her. I will just admire her, and my friends will push me to
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go to her that I love her. So I got a friend from I
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think India. Yeah, I got some friends. Some of the friends that
1:23:56
we come INTERNA must teach us that, and some Chinese teachers. They were
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like, go talk to her. And I go to her and no fibble.
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I don't know what to say. I will say some gibberish and she
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knew all of her And one day we went to school. Got after classes,
1:24:19
you walk and go to the park and just have some fresh air.
1:24:26
And I happened sometimes go with her when for a walk and stood and she
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held my hand. That's the best of my life. She held my hand.
1:24:41
If I didn't pee my pants, my pants, I almost I must
1:24:46
pay my pants. She held my hand and I just started speaking gibberish.
1:24:53
She said come down, and she just helped me. She doesn't she speaks,
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but last and she held my hand out and that was the best of
1:25:03
my life. She changed my life. And I came back and I spoke
1:25:12
a lot to my friend. I called my cousin, my cousin, and
1:25:15
spoke on the phone about everything, and I could not stop speaking gradually,
1:25:23
gradually. That was the the beginning of our beginning. And that's the best
1:25:30
thing that ever happened to me. And we finally became married and we're here
1:25:44
now. We have three kids. And through her, I went back to
1:25:55
my to me, to my childhood. The fashion I used to design and
1:26:00
became the fashion designer, and the artworks I used to draw. I became
1:26:08
an artist, and the philosophy of my father. I would listen to my
1:26:13
father the wisdom. I became a philosopher. I created a new type of
1:26:18
art god Triangleism, and a new type of patent type of design called Vuno
1:26:25
Dope. To remember the Vungo my story of vun Goo and then Dup where
1:26:30
I was born, and the hospital in which I was born, Vungo my
1:26:33
father's kingdom, and then up then Doped the hospital which I was born,
1:26:40
and to remember that and attacked my father for that and too, and learn
1:26:51
a lot from her. As a king, you don't king is much of
1:26:59
a job. You know, sometimes the parents we don't have that time like
1:27:03
ordinary parents with you. Well, little time I heard my father what's my
1:27:10
best days? Or my jokes with him? And he always speaks in parapose
1:27:16
and in ironies, and he tells you your character, but what it is.
1:27:27
If you acted foolish, he calls you a fool. If acted smart,
1:27:30
he calls you intelligent. If you acted kind, say you're a good
1:27:35
person. If you acted bad, you tell you a very bad human.
1:27:43
He tells you as it is. This is on what you're doing, and
1:27:47
you will let you know. I want to be the first to tell you
1:27:51
that that's the character that you are. Now you're acting as he said.
1:27:56
And if you don't like to be sad, then stop doing it. If
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you want to be a fool, to be called a fool, or act
1:28:03
like a fool. If you want to be seen like an idiot, the
1:28:08
art like an idiot. If want to be seen like a good person,
1:28:13
they do good things. I learned from him not to pretend doubt. It's
1:28:17
facade of scamming or lying about yourself. And I learned a lot self written
1:28:26
much about that. It's difficult for us trying to be ourselves. But the
1:28:31
best thing you can always find is being yourself. And I created the things,
1:28:38
the art, the philosophy, and the designs to be something liberating,
1:28:47
something that take me back to my text, me back to my roots,
1:28:50
to create something new, text me back in the palace with my brothers and
1:28:56
sisters. To be able to be different, right, not to be the
1:29:02
same, not to confirm, but to create something new. You know,
1:29:06
to be relevant, to feel that you're living a fulfilling and purposeful life,
1:29:14
making sure that you work for it and positively stay active. I am willing
1:29:20
to contribute at those values. Stay with me. And the five principles that
1:29:30
my dad gave to me. I remember them every time, every day.
1:29:40
The first, it's not half hate, no hate. I don't hate anybody
1:29:45
in the world. I might disagree with you, but I have no reasons
1:29:47
to hate you. I cannot hate you. I cannot do it. It's
1:29:50
not in my darnay. And don't pretend when you need to be sincere,
1:30:00
because pretending we need to be sincere but cause a lot of damage. I
1:30:05
learn that from my dad. We can pretend just to just to make faith,
1:30:10
and but don't pretend when somebody needs your sincerity. Second rule and from
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my second principle, and don't have love well or have love well or love
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don't do things because people are watching. Do things because people are not watching.
1:30:38
And what you were doing in private, but we need to do in
1:30:42
public. If the public we preve, we prevail or permit, which means
1:30:53
don't be used to back to you feelings or this stealing or hiding around.
1:31:00
And he said, they make you look awful, makes you look weak,
1:31:02
you know, will be yourself and make you to be subsilient. It creates
1:31:06
fear and insecurity, insufficiency and inadequacy in you. And learn that from my
1:31:13
father and tell us don't have envy and jealousy. He said, don't have
1:31:23
jealousy. Every one envy, envy to be great. Envy people who are
1:31:32
great in a positive sense that you like to be like them, not in
1:31:40
their person. You like to learn what they do and do better. And
1:31:47
don't have negative competition. Have positive competition. And then that from my father
1:31:56
that through positive competition you grow a lot. But to negative competition you're fighting
1:32:01
yourself. You're fighting your words, serf and evenly end up heading you or
1:32:09
HEARDing orders again and make it to me dependent, subsidient, insecured, insufficient
1:32:16
and inadequate. And be good, be kind, be intelligent, be generous,
1:32:28
be brave, and learn to unite. Learn to build or destroy,
1:32:34
then to find consciensus. Let people be themselves. Always have something to agree
1:32:41
on than to disagree on. Love yourself first, facun love others. Be
1:32:48
kind to yourself, Be kind to yourself. Be proud of you, and
1:32:58
certificate to self destroyed or to self terminate. Be happy to be in your
1:33:04
own element. Learn to have the things that attract people to you. Always
1:33:11
trying to find reasons to be positive. And if you have a less to
1:33:15
say, I don't say anything. Cause beera to be quiet and make a
1:33:27
fool of yourself, and learn from your father to be to have humor,
1:33:35
a would to be laughed at or to make people laugh, not to be
1:33:42
too serious, to enjoy life, to have class, to have dignity,
1:33:50
to be clean and neat, to stand tall and be poor and brave,
1:34:00
to be a monument of a person and on height behind people. Let their
1:34:05
voice be heard every where yo go. One thing is true. Humans are
1:34:14
humans. They all act to saying if pushed through all I learn a lot
1:34:19
from my father, learn lot about internal healing and external healing. Are to
1:34:27
seek your inner peace, but to great beauty, satisfaction of happiness. This
1:34:36
are the guiding principles of my philosophy intrinsic individuality. That the being must develop
1:34:45
their self first before taking that self to the community. For the human being
1:34:51
is not an island, but the community. And learn from my father there
1:34:58
yore nobody. Because you say yore nobody, you are always somebody to somebody.
1:35:08
I learnt from him. I don't believe in racism, believe in bad
1:35:13
people, that they are bad people. That even if they are not racist,
1:35:18
they might be sexist, they might be bigots. To a bad person,
1:35:25
it's a bad person. They just need a dress to wear. That
1:35:29
dress can be racism or sexism or something else. If you take away the
1:35:34
dress or the shield or the cover, the person just a bad person.
1:35:43
And if people are bad people, you need to ask what makes them bad.
1:35:48
Just trying to understand what makes them bad cann make you guys find something
1:35:55
in common they guests can work on. Don't Joe, don't conclude, don't
1:36:02
be so that quick, and don't miss rush. I take your time to
1:36:11
leave, knowing that one day you are not going to be here. Always
1:36:15
live, remembering that you need to have somebody to pass on the wish you
1:36:26
have learned, the wish you have made. Always think about family, take
1:36:33
care of your family, love yourself and family was made. Sure that your
1:36:40
kids are treated well. Prioritize education and character. That the best gift to
1:36:47
a kid is character. Because of character, so much can be made.
1:36:57
Don't learn to be clean all the times, willing to derry yourself, to
1:37:02
do tough work or dirty work. Criminality is for the poor and the poor
1:37:16
are does what? Division in the mind and poverty of the mind or powert
1:37:24
of effort is self termination? Not to be a prince? There being a
1:37:34
prince is not a title. Is Your character? Is how you elevate yourself,
1:37:43
how uplift others, how you help those in it? Are you build
1:37:48
character in you? I develop yourself and how you make of yourself a good
1:37:56
example? How you make people to be proud of you. I may put
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want to be here. That's what it means to be a prince. I
1:38:11
talk my father for all of that. He's always with me and er for
1:38:17
a strange feet anniversary, I chose to make this recording and forgive my accent,
1:38:26
forgive my voice, forgive maybe some mistakes did the my speech or whatever
1:38:32
that I might I'm trying to recollect. And the most important part of me,
1:38:38
I don't read when I speak. I speak spontaneously. As I'm talking
1:38:42
to you now, I'm not reading anything. I've taught myself to just think
1:38:46
and speak. So all what I've said to you by not happening chronology in
1:38:53
the order you might like, By just try to give traces of my story,
1:39:00
as if I'm trying to recollect a dream, trying to recollect the dream,
1:39:04
the dream of my life and my father and the day my father died,
1:39:14
and are the dream, and that I go the way of all the
1:39:20
earth, and be thou stronger assured us off a man. Now if you
1:39:27
live the ways and live in my ways and and my testament and my testimony
1:39:32
to live in truth. Neither promise that I made to the house of David
1:39:39
when I come to pass or we come true. And my sister wake me
1:39:45
up and said that is dead. She stopped me from dreaming the dream.
1:39:51
Then my father came in my dream to wish me good bye, but he
1:39:57
gave me the promise of the house of David. There was no doubt.
1:40:00
We are the house of David. And name myself Israel for that we are
1:40:10
the house of David. But the dreams of King Solomon and King David that
1:40:14
was promised he shall not come to pass. I remember my father. He
1:40:25
once said to me all the time that people always say that I got the
1:40:32
money Tree. That is that people get married to him because they learned that
1:40:38
he got the money to Tree, that they always have his money. And
1:40:43
then they thought he got a lot of money. And he said to him
1:40:47
that, yeah, I have money. Money is in the mind. That's
1:40:55
what I got. The infinite mind. An infinity mind can create infinity wealth.
1:41:01
The mind is that which is infinity. Poet is of the mind,
1:41:06
and wealth is of the mind. Happiness is of the mind, and sadness
1:41:13
is of the mind. That which builds comes from the mind, and that
1:41:17
which destroys comes from the mind. That the human being is the mind.
1:41:27
And learn a lot how to be a father. Try to be downs to
1:41:35
him and downs to my mother. My father Christopher King so for the second
1:41:48
and my mother, Queen Christina Nomona, so proud of that. I so
1:42:00
one day tell the story of my mother, so blessed to have there,
1:42:12
so pleased that they were there for us, to take care of us,
1:42:15
to inspire us, to show us away, give us the light, the
1:42:23
candle and the torch or the light bulb to go places that they have never
1:42:30
been and that they might never be. Must be not grateful to God and
1:42:38
parents. I'm a lucky person. I'm blessed. I have what people don't
1:42:46
have, what people don't have. Must thank my parents for that,