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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We did. We had to make it through some tough times. And it was so, you know, my sister had eight children. My mom had seven, but five at home. I remember my daddy getting what they call pennies. And that was unemployment, and it was $35. Now, think about a family with seven people living in a two-bedroom house and getting $35 a week. It was some really tough times, but it was so much fun.
We just had so much fun, and we had so many kids around. And when you fought one, you had to fight everybody. We played in that tree. We had all these games, and we really didn't realize how poor we were until somebody told us, you know?
Oh, yeah.
You know? And you had to stay outside, because your mama put you outside. Right, right. So go outside until it get ready to get dark, and then come back in, because there's no space. And this girl, Bedina, I used to fight. Uh-huh. See there? She used to fight me. She used to beat the crap out of me. And my brother, I remember I broke my thumb, and I had a cast on. And he said, you got superpowers.
There's superpowers in that cast. And I went and hit Medina. I started a fight with her and just hit her. Because sometimes you've got to do that.
Dee Dee? Yeah. So what did Dee Dee want? Just didn't like you for no reason.
And see, you have the same story, because you didn't even have a reason that day. You waiting for her to bully you. She gave me reasons many of the days. That's what I'm saying. So that day, you just catch them off guard. But I hit Medina, knocked Medina down. And then I said, oh, what did I do? I ran home. No, I ran home. I was like, Medina is going to beat the crap out of me.
But Medina respected me after that. So I tell my grandchildren that story.
And their parents are like, don't be telling my kids to go fight. Like, you got to protect yourself.
See, that's that double Capricorn energy.
It comes from my mother, just mothering everybody. You know, they call my mama Teeny Mama. Teeny Mama, I love that. And my mom just adopted the whole neighborhood.
Teeny Mama.
So, you know, she mothered people and she took people in, and so that's all I've known my whole life. And I know in my heart that we are born to families, but that other people, I mean, it might not be your blood, Mama, but... But, you know, sometimes, but you can have a mama. And I just love mothering. It's my gift. I think God gave to me, so I love it.
And it's brought me so much joy. And I say all the time that, again, I just want to reiterate that some of us are not blessed enough to have our blood family, but you can still have a family. There is always somebody out there that needs some love, too. And you just exchange that love.
Yeah, well, some of the... You know, I want to talk about that, too, because my mother was a wonderful woman, and she was a great mom, but she had a lot of fear, and she put that fear... Tried to put it on me, but I was just too wild and stubborn to listen. But she also was so... When I say she's overprotective, I felt like she didn't trust me. I went through some teenage years where my mom was...
you know, she just, I felt like, you know, I just felt like she was, she didn't trust me. She thought I was fast or I was going to go get pregnant and my friends got pregnant. And so then she was like, oh, you know, she just harped on that so much. And sometimes created a little shame about things that I shouldn't even felt shame about. So I'm very honest about that because my mom was flawed.
She wasn't perfect. She was darn near perfect in other ways, but in that way, we had a rough teenage year time. Because I felt like, and when you guys read the book, you'll see that there were times when I felt like she didn't trust me, and I have an older sister who's here tonight. Flo, I don't know where you are.
Oh, okay. Okay.
Are we going to get to Flo? Yeah, OK. Well, I won't spoil it. But anyway, I would call Flo, and I would say, you know, I can't stand her because she just said this. So she did that, and Flo would smooth things out. So thank God I had this older sister. But yeah, my mom, we went through some rough times. And I think, if anything,
You know, she told me later when we made up that I called her and I said, why didn't you trust me? And she said, you know, Tini, I trusted you. I just didn't trust the world. And I understood that. And I realized my mom was a great mom, you know, at that point. Thank God I learned that. I mean, I saw some other moms and I was like, damn, I better go call my mom. I didn't know what I had, you know?
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