Kirk Franklin
Appearances
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Taking A Breath & Learning To Rest w/Tammy Franklin
Even to the fault, I can be honest and say, and I've never said this on anything before, and I'll be transparent here to say, is that even to a fault that a lot of times I realize now that they were empty nesting, I probably invested even more into them than I even sometimes did her because with her, the natural man to do things is always the red bottom. the car, the purses.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Taking A Breath & Learning To Rest w/Tammy Franklin
You're always doing the things that you think are the things.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Taking A Breath & Learning To Rest w/Tammy Franklin
And they're not the things. And so I am guilty of that. I am extremely guilty of that. And it's not intentional. It's just what you end up doing because you're so busy trying to make it. And then when you come from poverty, you think that these things are the things that matter. but also it was a lot for me, a lot of the attention was these kids cannot feel what I felt.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Taking A Breath & Learning To Rest w/Tammy Franklin
and not having a blueprint for being a daddy, I overdid the daddy. You know what I mean? You know, it's like I would come in from the studio, you know, three or four o'clock in the morning and sit up in the chair so I wouldn't fall asleep so I could take him to school. You know, because like they cannot feel it. They cannot feel it. And so that's what drove me.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Taking A Breath & Learning To Rest w/Tammy Franklin
I don't, well, that would be for her to say, you know, you know, but, but, but, but whatever she may feel, I look back and go, you know, man, I did not learn. And then it's also the thing is that, you know, some things are taught, some things are