Audio Transcription
Section 1
Everybody’s Mommy
Olivia Rorie’s daughters, Debra Kelly and Luanna Rorie
Voices of children playing.
Luanna: My mother had a large lap. Everybody, my older brother and sisters had a bunch of friends, everybody called her Mommy cause she was everybody’s Mommy. OK. She would nurture you. OK. She gave all she can for ya. She also will protect you, you know. So that was my Mama.
Debra: She was “Mommy of the whole neighborhood”.
Luanna: She always felt that, um, if she had some, she had to share it. Because that’s how you get-when somebody get added something to that pot, that pot get bigger and bigger and bigger. So that’s, I think that’s the, um, the theme of how she did everything cause whatever she got, she shared it with other people.
No matter what….
Debra: Because…cause Mommy didn’t believe in some people having it all, having a lot, and other people having none. She thought it should be equal across’d ta board. And she tried to make it equal across’d ta board.
Luanna: Yep.
Debra: For all, for everyone. Not just her, not just her kids, but for everybody. And that’s why she fought the fight that she fought, to for everyone to be equal, to everyone to have ….
Luanna: Have enough.
Debra: have…Yeah.
Luanna: Just to have enough. OK. Because you, I mean, being rich don’t make you happy. Being content and giving it to others, I think that is the best gift you can possibly, possibly have for yourself. I don’t know I never been rich, but not with money. I was rich with love, friendship, and family. I think that’s, that’s it, that’s why we’re here, to share. And that’s what she taught me, to give back. Whatever I got, I’m not to hoard onto it. Cause it ain’t gonna do me no good by holding onto it. I posed to give it out, and that next person’s posed to give that out. And the next and the next and the next. So we all can be just as happy as, I mean like each other. You know. I mean life‘s got it own knocks and stuff. But we don’t have to live in an ugly world as long as we doing what we’re actually sent here to be, is to look out for each other. OK. That makes God smile.
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