Tina Knowles
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321 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Tina Knowles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Probably this ice thing. Have y'all tried the ice?
Yes, put your face in the ice or either get an ice cube. Blue taught me this. You take an ice cube. It's the babies.
Yeah, they get all the hacks off of YouTube.
Well, you can take an ice cube. Well, actually, Jules taught me that. He was like, Grandma, you don't have to put your face in it. OK. Because that's really hard. But just use the ice cube, and it kind of lifts up stuff.
Oh, I think to love unconditionally your children, your grandchildren, the people that you have in your life, and to be respectful and just... You know, a father figure to people that is not all about being about yourself, like an unselfishness.
That's what it pays. I mean, you know, handling things.
I think you can. This is pretty good. Well, I love this artist. He's an African artist in Lagos. And I've got several paintings from him. And he always puts cherry blossoms behind it. And his paintings remind me of my mom. You know, I grew up in this little town. raggedy house, but my mom had the most beautiful rose bushes and she just had this green thumb and there were flowers everywhere.
We always had flower wallpaper and, you know, flowers were so representative of her and her spirit. Yeah.
Well... You know, I thought I'd never do a memoir because, as you know, my family is super private, more so than me. But I always felt like I had to protect everybody and not talk about things.
And there have been so many narratives about me and my family, so many misconceptions, so many lies, that I decided one day, you know, do I want people to tell my story after I'm gone and create their own narrative? Or should I tell it? So that was very, very important to me that I got the story out myself.
Well, just research. I was amazed by their resilience and their... ability to still take care of their kids and make sure that they weren't sold or separated from them.
And then... Well, they just didn't dig for people. They said there was no way that they could survive. And his brothers were like, we'll do it. You guys don't have to do it. But they put them out. And so they snuck back in after they closed. They blew the whistle at three and they dug my daddy and the other man out. So they saved them.
And instead of being applauded for it, which you would think that they would have been, they were actually arrested and fired and...
Yeah. Because of all the camaraderie, because my sister had eight kids and my brother had four, and they all came to our house. So for me, even though we had this really poor little raggedy house, everybody was at our house. And so I just felt like... How could you feel bad about that? Because we just created our own playground, our own world.
And I just never really thought about being poor until, you know, I went to Catholic school and I was pointed out to me every day how poor we were and how unworthy we were.
Well, you don't belong here, you know, if you only knew. And I was like, what does that mean? I had no idea what that meant. And you were how old? I was five.
It is. Yeah. It is. And it was the source of my insecurity my whole life is not belonging. are people making up their mind about you before they even know you. And it's still, I'm 71 and it's still making me emotional right now because it was such a, it's just such a horrible, evil thing to say to a kid. Because you're already insecure about everything.
It did the opposite to me because also my parents were 44 when they had me. And I realized that after seven kids and all the struggles, they were just tired. So I just had this mouth on me from day one. And, you know, I remember my aunt used to come over and she would be like, that teeny got the... You just need to discipline her because she has no respect. But it wasn't respect.
If she said something, I said, why? I questioned her. And my parents allowed me just because they were tired. And I had a smart mouth. And I also realized in this book that because my mother was... Yeah. To everyone. I used to get so angry at her for being so passive. And, you know, I could tell her that. And my mom would just say, oh, be quiet, teeny.
And I remember us going to like a young white woman's house and her calling my mom Agnes. They always called her Agnes. And she said, Miss Smith. miss. And I was just a little kid, but I would be like, she's younger than you. You shouldn't tell her to call you miss. And my mom would say, teeny, shut up.
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