Want some
inspiration and motivation?
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Well, stay tuned to meet a
man who's gonna take you there.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today
is Arthur L Andrews,
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inspirational and
motivational speaker.
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Arthur Andrews is an
award-winning speaker,
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author, trainer,
and success coach.
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Born and reared in
Brooklyn, New York,
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Arthur is a
product of urban life
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and has experienced first-hand
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the awesome
challenges of the streets.
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In 1990,
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Arthur began
realizing goals of his own
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and began his professional
speaking and training career.
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Since then, he's
given over 1300 speeches,
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many of them
repeat performances.
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Arthur has
dedicated his expertise
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to helping corporations
shake off mediocrity
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and maximize their
unlimited potential.
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But Arthur's primary
focus is in evangelism.
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Welcome to Urban Report, Arthur.
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Thank you,
Yvonne. This is exciting.
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I know, I can't
believe I have you with me.
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I'm so happy.
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Words cannot
accomplish the symbol
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is what I'm feeling.
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You are so funny,
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as our audience is going to know
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within the next few minutes.
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But underneath all of that,
Arthur, I mean, you're funny,
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and you make people laugh,
and you are very insightful.
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God has given you so many gifts.
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But underneath all of that
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is a man who has been
through a lot in life.
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Tell us about your upbringing.
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Tell us about, you know,
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where you grew up
and how you grew up?
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Yes, I came out of a
little town called Brooklyn,
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Bedford-Stuyvesant to be exact.
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And could any good thing
come out of Bedford-Stuyvesant?
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Well, I think
about Jesus of Nazareth.
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Could any good thing
come out of Nazareth?
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I had a lady that
raised me as her very own,
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her name was aunt Thelma
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My parents
couldn't take care of me
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because of
extenuating circumstances.
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But aunt Thelma
raised me as her very own,
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I didn't know the difference.
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And she beat me too,
just like I was her very own.
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She told me, she
told me one day, she said,
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"Look, you run your
mouth like a bell clapper.
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All you do is talk.
I got to go to school.
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And this is the
time of work, continue.
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What is wrong with you?"
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I said, "Nothing's
wrong with me, aunt Thelma."
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She said,
"Look, come over here,"
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she said, "if you wanna talk,
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you might as
well get paid for it,"
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and aunt Thelma said,
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"You're going to be
a great elocutionist."
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And she would
challenged me, "Go, look it up."
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And I was
having great difficulty
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pronouncing the
word 'elocution.'
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So people asked
what I want to be,
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I said, "I want to
be an executioner."
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That may help a lot.
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Okay.
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And I did that at programs,
and they're embarrassing me.
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But then Thelma took
me all around Brooklyn.
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To say the speech
called, Take Your Place,
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and the rest is
really history, you know,
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you treat a child
the way that he is,
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it only becomes worse.
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But she didn't necessarily feel
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what would it could be the child
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because of what it should be.
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Mmm, oh, I like that.
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And I'm excited about that.
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And I possess that she reared me
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in the spirit of
anger, who said that.
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And, Yvonne,
it's been incredible.
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You know, coming out
of Brooklyn, New York,
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I was raised in a, not
a very diverse community.
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So it was very
challenging for me
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to get out here
and start speaking,
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they're just to
offer you speaker for each
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'cause I always just knew,
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you know, I might
just yell at the screen.
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But the people, the
people used to say to me,
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"You got to calm down.
What are you angry about?"
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And I was angry.
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But this field is so awesome,
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and you just meet so
many different people.
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And you really get
to share your faith.
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Yes. Yes.
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Let's go back for a second,
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because we kind of missed
the whole lot of area here,
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so how did you
avoid, the drugs, the gangs,
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all of that
growing up in Bed-Stuy?
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How did you avoid
getting involved in all that?
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Structure.
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And I had an uncle
Jacky, I had my brother
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and I knew they will kill me,
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so, I really, really was...
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I should say it wasn't
a challenged childhood,
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I had a great childhood.
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But I had mentors, I had people
that I looked up too, you know.
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And...
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You know, that is
so important, Arthur,
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because you just named some men
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who played a pivotal role
in, in you and your outlook
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and that's one of the
things that's missing so much
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in our communities now. Yes.
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It's the absence
of the male mentor,
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the one that can take
somebody and train them.
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Well, I had it
truly. I had it truly.
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I had uncle Conwy,
then I had, you know,
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well, I have my
parents, my maternal parents,
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then I had uncle Conwy,
and then I had uncle Jacky,
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who was with me
till my teenage years.
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So I was very gifted
and blessed, you know,
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not to be affected.
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And she told me, I felt
like the first principal,
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"You're going down to
stay with uncle Jacky."
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I said, "Well,
they don't eat meat.
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They don't eat white bread,
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and they don't watch television.
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I'm not going."
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And I had a protest
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but I ended up there,
and it was the best thing
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that ever happened to me really.
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So when did you go
and live with uncle Jacky.
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1973.
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Wow.
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It changed my life
and it saved my life.
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So, were you in high school?
Were you in high school then?
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High school.
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Had dyed my hair auburn,
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and a base guitar on my back,
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and army fatigue jacket
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when he picked me up, he
said, "Lord, have mercy."
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But he was patiently kind.
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And sometimes, you
know, your parents,
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your family
won't take care of you.
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God will send strangers...
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To pick up the slack,
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and I was fortunate,
Yvonne, I really was.
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And then I was blessed to meet
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such a
wonderful person like you.
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Oh! Praise the
Lord, Arthur. Thank you.
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Well, you've been
a part of my life.
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I guess, in
full disclosure here,
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you know, you're
a family to me so...
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You're my cousin,
and I'm just so thankful
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for what God has
done in your life
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because I know it's been
difficult and challenging
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but yet, the Lord
is allowed you to rise
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to every challenge and so...
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Absolutely.
That's a major blessing.
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So you went, you stayed
with uncle Jacky and aunt Joe.
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Tell us the importance
of that kind of a structure?
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You're saying that
they ate differently,
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they didn't have TV.
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Tell us the importance
in your life of structure.
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It's just the
dynamics of a family life.
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It's the dynamics of a man,
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absolutely a young man
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witnessing and
seeing him love his wife.
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Oh! Come on now.
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I had the benefits, Yvonne.
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Well, I've been
married now, of 38 years.
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I had the benefit of
being under his tutelage
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and watching him
interact with my aunt Joe,
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which is absolutely awesome.
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What were some
other things that you saw?
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What's different about,
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'cause I love their relationship
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and anybody who knows
them, Claude and Joselyn Thomas,
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anybody who knows them,
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knows that their
relationship is just special.
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What were some of the things
that you saw, that you felt
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you should transfer
into your relationship?
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Well, temperament,
you know, temperament,
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the way that you speak,
you know, 55 % of what you say,
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you say with your body,
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38% is tonality and 7% words,
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the least important form
of communication is words.
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I watched out, he interacted,
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and even with the
stress of feeding,
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preparing for eight
people eat dinner every night,
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I never missed a meal.
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Never was hungry,
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but I knew that
it was a struggle.
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But he loved me.
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Never put his hands on me.
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But the way he
spoke and in order...
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Discipline and consistency.
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It wasn't we had worship once
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and then we didn't
have worship one night,
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it was consistent.
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He always read,
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If thou turn away thy
foot from the sabbath,
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from doing thy pleasure on my...
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I mean, I grew up with that.
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So it was a blessing.
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I was finding it,
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but once I got down
into that community,
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there were other
people, even checks the village,
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he really does.
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And in the dynamics
of being around uncle Tim
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and Mervick Warren, and
those people were friends.
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They would come
by, so, you know,
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I never saw anything
like that in Brooklyn.
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I never, I never,
I never experienced
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someone actually
sitting down and talking to you
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and I think it's the
way that it should be
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'cause I suggest, she
used to get on my nerves,
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she put things on
balloons that she loved me,
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Jesus still loves
you, all kind of things.
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Seriously, I
called her down to read,
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nookie cookie's lady,
you know, all that stuff,
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that was really
important to a person
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who's growing up in
urban New York, you know that.
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A major shift in my life
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and then I had the benefits
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of hearing some
powerful speakers
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on the planet,
like Henry Wright.
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Heard him when I was
16, revolutionized my life.
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So being in that environment
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really changed the
course of your life, didn't it?
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Absolutely.
Environment plays a big role.
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Because getting away
from that urban environment
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and not just the
fact that it's urban,
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but you needed the structure
and the family life that...
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That's what I needed.
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Uncle Jack and
Aunt Joe offered you.
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Absolutely, and the patience,
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and listening to
them praying for me,
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it was incredible.
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They wouldn't
give up on me. Yeah.
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They would
continue to pray for me.
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And till this day we still pray.
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With the dynamics that we have,
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the interactions
that I have with him
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to this very day.
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You know, it's so, so important,
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you know, he's my hero.
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He is. They are
incredible people.
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When I was away from,
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I was out of the
church for several years
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and while I was out there,
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uncle Jack and aunt Joe
would just, they just loved me.
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They didn't... Absolutely.
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They didn't condemn me.
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I was in the music business
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and, you know, and I
wasn't wild and crazy,
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but you don't have
to be wild and crazy
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to have lost your connection
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and I lost my
connection with the Lord
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and instead of them, you know,
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beating me over the
head with doctrine and stuff,
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they just loved me,
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they told me
they're praying for me,
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they loved me, and
they, and that was it.
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I mean, I just didn't
feel condemned by them
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and that's so important.
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And so what they offered you
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was that steady,
love environment.
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Steady. That
you could thrive in.
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Absolutely.
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So was it there, that
you determine that you,
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I mean, after aunt Thelma
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wanted you to
be an elocutionist,
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was it in the home of
uncle Jack and aunt Joe
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that you decided you
wanted to be a speaker,
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or where did that happen?
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In the beginning of the '90s,
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I was sick and tired
of being sick and tired.
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I was on a job doing,
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I was just about to get
fired maybe not that quick.
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So, you know, I wasn't
happy and I called Uncle Jacky,
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I was at the age of 33.
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And I called him and
said, "I'm just not happy."
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I said, "Can I
come and live with you?"
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He let me come and stay with him
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to get myself established.
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That was I had the call
to be a motivational speaker.
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I actually went
down to be a dean,
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but things didn't work out,
we're not going to go there.
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But nevertheless,
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I became just excited
about motivational speaker.
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I really got in Les Brown.
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And I said, "Man."
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I said, "Boy, I
think I can do that."
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When I found that
what he's making an offer,
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I said, "The Lord is able."
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Tell us about, tell
us a bit about Les Brown.
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Well, Les is, is a
very unique gentleman,
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he's very gifted.
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Unrelentless.
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Has been through so much,
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but I've never met a man
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that could
bounce back like that.
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I've never heard a
person speak like that.
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And I called him actually,
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31 days,
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I got his number,
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someone was trying
to jumping onto him,
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said, "I had natural
borne communications skills."
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"Yeah, you're right."
00:12:26.71\00:12:28.04
And he said, "Well, come
on, there's so much money,
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$20 a year to speak.
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I'm not going up there
for $20 for Bible talk.
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Are you kidding?"
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And I didn't go.
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But I met him at a hotel,
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Guardia to be exact
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and we talked and then I left.
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I got his number.
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But he had a number 800, CI Can.
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So I called him, 800 CI Can.
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And first time I called,
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they said,
"Listen, don't call here."
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They didn't say,
"Don't call here."
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They said, "But you
don't just pick the phone
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to call Les Brown.
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And does he know who
you are?" I said, "No.
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I said, "I'm Arthur L
Andrew, but I'm hungry."
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Okay, that's nice."
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Day number 10.
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I called again, just
like I never called before.
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Then they said, "Listen, sir,
00:13:11.89\00:13:13.22
we're gonna report
you to the authority
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'cause you're
stalking Mr. Brown.
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For stalking Mr. Brown."
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"Mr. Brown said on his tape,
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number eight, in
the middle of the tape,
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that you got to be hungry."
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Day 28,
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they hung up.
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29th day, they
answered the phone,
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I said, I said,
"It's Arthur L Andrews.
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She said, "Didn't I tell you?"
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and said, "I
thought maybe they fired you
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because of your attitude"
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Day 31st,
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I called up and I said "Listen,
this is Arthur L Andrews.
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I'm one of Les Brown's
illegitimate children...
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He said, "Hello,
this is Les Brown,
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who is this fool?"
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And that's, the rest is history.
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And I went to Lane
Marquee, and I spoke,
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5000 people gave
me an opportunity,
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that's why you got to be
prepared for your chance,
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5000 people, and I
froze for 30 seconds.
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Wait, your first,
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your first major speaking event.
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Opportunity.
Opportunity he gave me.
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I froze.
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Was in front of 5000
people? Five thousand people.
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And you froze.
Lane Marqee and I froze.
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And his cousin was furious.
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I told you, didn't know them.
00:14:21.79\00:14:23.86
But there was a
gentleman in the audience,
00:14:23.89\00:14:27.06
and he stood up and said,
"Speak of your own brother."
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And the rest, I
just started speaking.
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That's why, you know,
00:14:32.00\00:14:33.34
you got to
really prepare yourself
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because failure at a chance
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can really make
you look ridiculous.
00:14:36.47\00:14:38.54
And I was so
happy that I prepared,
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it was there, stored away.
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But then that's all I
needed was that boost,
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then I started
speaking of Les Brown and crazy
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and I'm gonna travel with him.
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Yeah.
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Now look at that,
00:14:50.52\00:14:51.85
look at how God
opened that door for you.
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Now you said something
that was very profound,
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you were talking about
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how you must be
prepared for the opportunity.
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Unpack that a little bit for us
00:15:03.93\00:15:05.60
because I want our
viewers to know, to understand
00:15:05.63\00:15:08.70
that concept of being prepared.
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Well, Abraham Lincoln said that,
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"If I had eight
hours to chop down a tree,
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I would spend six and
half sharpening my axe."
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You must be ready, because...
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And he also says, he says,
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you know, "I will
study and prepare,
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my chance will come
and then I will be ready."
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It's really a terrible
thing to be in front of someone
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or to suggest that
you're a professional
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and you don't know your craft,
00:15:33.56\00:15:34.90
sharpen your
skills, hone your skills,
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know your craft, and
speak with excellence.
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And one things
that I think I froze,
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Oakwood College and Moran Hall,
00:15:42.44\00:15:44.81
because they will
boo you off that stage.
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You know, you just said,
00:15:47.01\00:15:48.38
did not appreciate
mediocrity at Oakwood.
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There were so many
people that demanded excellence
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and one of the greatest
experiences I had in my life,
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I read some of
the greatest speakers
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that walked this planet,
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had walked
through Aster Auditorium
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back in the down, if
you know Aster Auditorium
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but you may be
little too young for that.
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Oh, you watch it. Watch it.
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Aster Auditorium,
00:16:07.56\00:16:09.16
you remember asking
me, you still have church?
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Yeah. I remember Moran Hall.
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Well, Moran Hall, but then
we went to Aster Auditorium.
00:16:13.30\00:16:16.57
That was after my time.
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Okay, and that was the place
00:16:18.47\00:16:20.38
that I heard some of
the greatest speakers.
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Walter Pearson.
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And Walter
Pearson was kind to me,
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Somebody I remember kind to me,
00:16:26.45\00:16:28.92
he wasn't stuffy, he
wasn't a high ground,
00:16:28.95\00:16:31.02
and he said, "When
you become successful,
00:16:31.05\00:16:33.52
you just let that smoke
last down and talk to me."
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That's what he told me.
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And, you know, of
course, the rest is history,
00:16:38.43\00:16:40.96
really I'm just having
a ball doing what I loved.
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My vocation is my vacation.
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Ah, I love it.
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So give us a minute or two,
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sample of what you
would say to motivate people,
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you're going to a
corporate environment
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and you want to motivate people.
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What would... Or inspire them.
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What kinds of
things do you say to them?
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Well, life makes one
demand of every living organism.
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Meaning that we must
come to term the situation
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that it confronts,
00:17:12.69\00:17:14.03
realizing there are two
ways to meet a situation.
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Sometimes you could
change the situation.
00:17:16.20\00:17:18.00
Other times, you
must change yourself.
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But we know that
change is both a process
00:17:19.87\00:17:22.60
of disruption and renewal.
00:17:22.64\00:17:24.77
You know, you will
not make some choices now,
00:17:24.81\00:17:26.57
what do you want?
00:17:26.61\00:17:27.94
You know, if you had a choice
00:17:27.98\00:17:30.85
or you had the
power to change your life,
00:17:30.88\00:17:32.21
what things would you change?
00:17:32.25\00:17:33.78
Are you sick and tired
of being sick and tired?
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There are things that I
ask them in reference to,
00:17:38.69\00:17:41.12
are they committed and dedicated
00:17:41.16\00:17:43.49
to the purpose of
something that you want to do
00:17:43.53\00:17:45.46
or something
someone told you to do?
00:17:45.49\00:17:48.16
Because you
really can't progress
00:17:48.20\00:17:49.63
and be the best you can,
00:17:49.66\00:17:51.10
doing something that you hate.
00:17:51.13\00:17:53.74
That's good.
00:17:53.77\00:17:55.10
Are you on a job?
00:17:55.14\00:17:56.60
Or are you in a vocation
00:17:56.64\00:17:58.37
that doesn't give
you any fulfilment?
00:17:58.41\00:18:00.21
There are so many
people, they did the survey,
00:18:00.24\00:18:03.21
they found that
87% of the people
00:18:03.24\00:18:06.58
don't like their jobs
of what they're doing.
00:18:06.61\00:18:08.88
They're miserable.
00:18:08.92\00:18:10.29
And if you don't
have a plan for your life,
00:18:10.32\00:18:12.12
someone else does.
00:18:12.15\00:18:14.56
And that's why
it's important to,
00:18:14.59\00:18:16.22
let me just add this, you know,
00:18:16.26\00:18:18.33
I got to a point where
I got to decide myself,
00:18:18.36\00:18:20.46
and I really want
to get to this point.
00:18:20.50\00:18:22.33
And God spoke to me intuitively
00:18:22.36\00:18:25.17
and said, "I'm not gonna
share my glory with you."
00:18:25.20\00:18:28.54
And that thing just knocked me,
00:18:28.57\00:18:30.27
I mean, knocked me for a loop.
00:18:30.31\00:18:31.64
Explain that?
00:18:31.67\00:18:33.01
Because that's, we need to
know a bit more about that.
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What do you mean by that?
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Well, sometimes motivation
and inspiration speaking
00:18:38.98\00:18:41.12
hinges on the
borders of secular humanism.
00:18:41.15\00:18:45.15
And God is not gonna
share His glory with you.
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Explain that?
00:18:47.89\00:18:49.22
'Cause some people
don't even know what that is,
00:18:49.26\00:18:50.79
I know what it is, but some...
00:18:50.83\00:18:52.16
He gets all the glory.
00:18:52.19\00:18:53.53
What is secular humanism?
00:18:53.56\00:18:55.63
Well, that's where there's
dependence on you and my God.
00:18:55.66\00:18:59.20
Okay.
00:18:59.23\00:19:00.57
That you created this. Yes.
00:19:00.60\00:19:02.24
I, I created this.
00:19:02.27\00:19:05.41
You know, and then
like for instance...
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Yes, ma'am.
00:19:07.31\00:19:08.64
So was that part
of your experience?
00:19:08.68\00:19:11.21
Had you reached a
place in your experience
00:19:11.25\00:19:14.35
where you were
leaning toward that
00:19:14.38\00:19:16.48
and God had to reign you back?
00:19:16.52\00:19:17.85
Tell us, tell
us that experience.
00:19:17.89\00:19:19.75
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:19:19.79\00:19:21.76
You begin to think
that you own the room
00:19:21.79\00:19:25.59
or it was
because of your expertise
00:19:25.63\00:19:29.06
and your communication skills
that got you this opportunity.
00:19:29.10\00:19:32.57
And then you change lives.
00:19:32.60\00:19:34.14
No, no, I don't change lives.
00:19:34.17\00:19:36.17
I'm really not the motivator.
00:19:36.20\00:19:38.47
The Lord is.
00:19:38.51\00:19:41.28
That's instinction.
00:19:41.31\00:19:43.28
What did it take
to get you there?
00:19:43.31\00:19:47.08
I was standing at
the New Orleans Superdome
00:19:47.12\00:19:51.72
at Louis.
00:19:51.75\00:19:54.26
And I've just spoken
00:19:54.29\00:19:56.06
and T.D. Jakes and Serita
Jakes was in the audience.
00:19:56.09\00:19:59.79
And I'm telling you,
I thought I was dead,
00:19:59.83\00:20:02.86
walking in a high
cotton, a proud peacock,
00:20:02.90\00:20:06.67
and I was calling
everybody and as I was doing it,
00:20:06.70\00:20:09.10
he said, "What does it,
what does it profit a man
00:20:09.14\00:20:12.07
to gain the whole world
00:20:12.11\00:20:14.81
and lose your soul?"
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.18
I had remembered that
he was the chief motivator
00:20:17.21\00:20:20.15
and he gives the assignment,
00:20:20.18\00:20:22.42
not me.
00:20:22.45\00:20:24.12
And when I began to understand,
that door began to open,
00:20:24.15\00:20:27.36
but I was trying
to open the doors,
00:20:27.39\00:20:28.72
I was trying to make it happen.
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.09
I want to grow up, I
want to be a gospel all star.
00:20:30.13\00:20:32.73
I was at all the events
00:20:32.76\00:20:34.10
and trying to get on BET,
00:20:34.13\00:20:35.46
and trying to do
this, and trying to do that.
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.37
But, Yvonne, you
know, that only what you do,
00:20:37.40\00:20:40.94
it may sound corny and cliches,
00:20:40.97\00:20:43.77
but only what you do
for Christ will last.
00:20:43.81\00:20:46.68
He has to be the focal
point of why you do what you do?
00:20:46.71\00:20:49.78
So now I'm not
trying to impress audiences,
00:20:49.81\00:20:52.05
I'm inspiring audiences.
00:20:52.08\00:20:54.88
I love it.
00:20:54.92\00:20:56.25
To be the best
they possibly can be.
00:20:56.28\00:20:57.62
And my mantra everyday,
when I get in the mirror,
00:20:57.65\00:21:00.19
is the mark of
greatness is truly upon you.
00:21:00.22\00:21:02.46
And you must not be limited
00:21:02.49\00:21:03.83
by the short
sight of you and other,
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.19
you can because
you think you can,
00:21:05.23\00:21:07.16
you can because
God said you can.
00:21:07.20\00:21:08.76
You're looking good,
feeling good, smelling good.
00:21:08.80\00:21:10.50
You are a
masterpiece of creation
00:21:10.53\00:21:12.13
because God does not pick junk
00:21:12.17\00:21:14.67
and I kiss myself on my hand.
00:21:14.70\00:21:18.34
This happened.
00:21:18.37\00:21:19.71
This brings some
joy to some people.
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.08
I love that.
00:21:21.11\00:21:22.44
One day I did all of
that, worked on myself,
00:21:22.48\00:21:24.38
talked to myself and,
you know, life happens,
00:21:24.41\00:21:27.02
and I walked out of the
door, and got on a plane,
00:21:27.05\00:21:29.98
and went to do a speech.
00:21:30.02\00:21:31.42
I stopped by, at the
airport, at McDonalds
00:21:31.45\00:21:34.49
and a girl looked at me
and she looked and said,
00:21:34.52\00:21:36.96
"Well, what do you want?"
00:21:36.99\00:21:39.59
I've looked at her.
00:21:39.63\00:21:41.10
What do you...
00:21:41.13\00:21:42.46
"Well, good
morning, you know..."
00:21:42.50\00:21:44.43
But she was
just having a bad day
00:21:44.47\00:21:46.94
and so after she served me,
00:21:46.97\00:21:49.14
after she slid
the orange juice at me
00:21:49.17\00:21:51.94
and told me how much it was.
00:21:51.97\00:21:53.31
I said, "You know,
you could say, thank you."
00:21:53.34\00:21:54.71
She says, "On a receipt."
00:21:54.74\00:21:57.25
Wow. What do you do with that?
00:21:57.28\00:21:59.61
Costumer service. Yeah.
00:21:59.65\00:22:01.85
But I stepped back and I said,
00:22:01.88\00:22:03.22
"You know, you're
acting lot of different,
00:22:03.25\00:22:04.59
you take your
medication," and she laughed.
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.02
She said "Sorry,
you're communist."
00:22:07.06\00:22:08.59
I said, "No, no,
00:22:08.62\00:22:09.96
I'm just seeing that
you're having a bad day,
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I just want to make your day"
00:22:11.36\00:22:12.69
She said, "Actually
you seem like a nice man."
00:22:12.73\00:22:14.86
She said, "Are you
really... Are you...
00:22:14.90\00:22:16.46
Are you an entertainer
or something, you're funny."
00:22:16.50\00:22:18.67
I said, "No, I
wasn't trying to be funny."
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.07
But she said,
"Sir, can I talk to you?"
00:22:21.10\00:22:23.94
I said, "Sure."
00:22:23.97\00:22:25.47
She said, "Listen, I
just found out I was pregnant
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and I don't know
who the father is."
00:22:27.54\00:22:28.88
I said, "I'm neither, honey."
00:22:28.91\00:22:30.65
But nevertheless, you know,
00:22:30.68\00:22:32.01
sometimes what
people are going through
00:22:32.05\00:22:34.35
is not about you,
it's not about us,
00:22:34.38\00:22:36.75
it's about what
God can do through us
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or accomplishes on purpose.
00:22:38.42\00:22:40.29
And sometimes you
step back and look
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and if we understand
00:22:42.86\00:22:44.19
people's history will
be more compassionate.
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Very true, very true.
00:22:47.63\00:22:51.37
When you, wow, when
you were on that stage
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and, you know,
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you were there with the
women that losed situation
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and you were feeling
like, "I have finally arrived."
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Is that when the
Spirit of God spoke to you
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and kind of reigned you back in?
00:23:11.52\00:23:13.25
After I got to the
room, when I got to the suite
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and I was looking
out of the window,
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that's when it came up onto me.
00:23:18.56\00:23:19.89
You know, God
speaks intuitively,
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.30
because, you know,
if He spoke out louder,
00:23:21.33\00:23:22.66
it's freaky, I would
jump out of the window.
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Right.
00:23:24.57\00:23:26.77
"Arthur!" I
couldn't handle that.
00:23:26.80\00:23:28.70
I couldn't handle at that time.
00:23:28.74\00:23:30.11
But just intuitively.
00:23:30.14\00:23:32.07
"What does it profit a
man to gain whole world..."
00:23:32.11\00:23:35.88
And I said, "To
lose your family."
00:23:35.91\00:23:38.88
My uncle used to tell
me something all the time.
00:23:38.91\00:23:40.62
He would ask me, "So, Arthur,
00:23:40.65\00:23:41.98
is your wife
secure in your love?"
00:23:42.02\00:23:44.82
I used to get so
angry, just kept little quiet.
00:23:44.85\00:23:47.62
And I would go through
all of my millennial things.
00:23:47.66\00:23:51.06
He'd somewhat ask
you the question again?
00:23:51.09\00:23:53.60
Is your wife
secure in your love?
00:23:53.63\00:23:56.97
And I began to think about that.
00:23:57.00\00:23:58.60
What does it really profit me?
00:23:58.63\00:24:01.37
If I'd really
gained the whole world
00:24:01.40\00:24:02.94
and lose my
family in the process.
00:24:02.97\00:24:05.67
What am I? I'm just
a successful failure.
00:24:05.71\00:24:08.94
I've got trophies,
I've got all kind of things.
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.71
But I don't have my family.
00:24:11.75\00:24:14.12
So, you know, you
got to go back again
00:24:14.15\00:24:16.08
and look at the
things you got to go back
00:24:16.12\00:24:17.45
and smell the rose and
find what's really important
00:24:17.49\00:24:19.59
and now I'm a papa.
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.56
And it's just incredible,
it's a second coming,
00:24:21.59\00:24:23.43
looks just like
me, my wife said,
00:24:23.46\00:24:24.93
"This is not
your son," whatever.
00:24:24.96\00:24:27.96
But I love it.
00:24:28.00\00:24:29.46
And I love what I
do now because I have,
00:24:29.50\00:24:31.37
I really have a purpose,
not that I didn't have before.
00:24:31.40\00:24:34.47
But I was
endeavored to be a star,
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.94
a super star, a celebrity.
00:24:36.97\00:24:39.17
God is a star of the show.
00:24:39.21\00:24:41.24
Yes.
00:24:41.28\00:24:42.61
You know, and allow Him...
00:24:42.64\00:24:44.45
and He promised,
didn't He promised us, Yvonne?
00:24:44.48\00:24:46.35
He said, "I'll
supply all your needs.
00:24:46.38\00:24:49.68
You take care of my kingdom,"
00:24:49.72\00:24:51.75
and now I'm a kingdom builder.
00:24:51.79\00:24:53.12
I'm involved in my church,
00:24:53.15\00:24:55.26
I'm now working
with the Bible worker
00:24:55.29\00:24:58.49
and we're going out
00:24:58.53\00:24:59.86
and we're knocking on the doors,
00:24:59.89\00:25:01.23
can you imagine that,
00:25:01.26\00:25:02.60
we're knocking on doors.
00:25:02.63\00:25:03.97
Yeah, you look like the JW's,
00:25:04.00\00:25:07.24
we're out there,
00:25:07.27\00:25:08.60
and we're knocking on doors
00:25:08.64\00:25:10.11
and do you know we have
a Tuesday night Bible study
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.91
and it is packed.
00:25:12.94\00:25:14.84
And then, 'cause the only way
you're gonna build this church
00:25:14.88\00:25:17.08
it's not through
music, music is wonderful.
00:25:17.11\00:25:19.95
But going and
connecting with people
00:25:19.98\00:25:22.05
and then I had to ask myself
00:25:22.08\00:25:23.42
and I hope I'm not
getting too spiritual here.
00:25:23.45\00:25:25.65
No, no, no, this is great.
00:25:25.69\00:25:28.02
But I'm just telling you,
I'm telling you right now that,
00:25:28.06\00:25:30.43
that... The
Spirit spoke to me again.
00:25:30.46\00:25:33.33
And so my wife
sometimes, she thinks it's gas,
00:25:33.36\00:25:35.40
but I say, "It's not
gas, it's the Spirit."
00:25:35.43\00:25:38.00
Stop.
00:25:38.03\00:25:39.37
So the Spirit spoke to me again.
00:25:39.40\00:25:41.37
Guess what He told me? What?
00:25:41.40\00:25:44.54
In the last three years,
00:25:44.57\00:25:46.14
how many people have
grown under the water,
00:25:46.17\00:25:49.01
come to know Jesus Christ
00:25:49.04\00:25:50.38
because of your
personal ministry?
00:25:50.41\00:25:52.41
Yvonne, I hung my head.
00:25:52.45\00:25:55.55
So He was asking you basically,
00:25:55.58\00:25:58.25
what have you done
to bring souls to me?
00:25:58.29\00:26:02.46
'Cause there're
people with those crowns.
00:26:02.49\00:26:04.53
Right. You're not
going by yourself.
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.03
Right.
00:26:06.06\00:26:07.40
And I had to think about that.
00:26:07.43\00:26:09.10
And do you know what that
promoted really within me?
00:26:09.13\00:26:12.17
What? To study.
00:26:12.20\00:26:14.54
To be able to explain what
I believe in the Word of God.
00:26:14.57\00:26:20.01
And then make it
very interesting.
00:26:20.04\00:26:22.61
So that it would be receptive
00:26:22.64\00:26:23.98
and you know, we
were out evangelizing
00:26:24.01\00:26:28.25
and I actually
say canvassing really.
00:26:28.28\00:26:33.36
And some of the guys who
were basically dealing drugs,
00:26:33.39\00:26:39.13
basically setup a Bible study.
00:26:39.16\00:26:42.23
So, you know,
going for the Bible...
00:26:42.26\00:26:44.27
We went to one home
and the lady had a...
00:26:44.30\00:26:47.27
She was pregnant, she
had a hole in her mattress,
00:26:47.30\00:26:50.07
a big hole.
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.57
When we got a mattress
00:26:51.61\00:26:52.94
and got the box
string, everything.
00:26:52.97\00:26:56.04
See people, you know,
00:26:56.08\00:26:58.38
it's easier minister people,
00:26:58.41\00:27:00.28
when you're
meeting temporal needs.
00:27:00.32\00:27:02.38
A man can't hear if he's hungry
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.82
and his stomach is growling,
00:27:04.85\00:27:06.19
it's hard to
really hear your message.
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.86
That's right.
00:27:07.89\00:27:09.22
But they're more
inclined to come to your church.
00:27:09.26\00:27:11.79
You know, just
not giving handouts
00:27:11.83\00:27:14.20
but providing temporal needs,
the things that they need.
00:27:14.23\00:27:16.87
So a lot of what
I did has changed
00:27:16.90\00:27:20.34
in the last two or three years.
00:27:20.37\00:27:23.10
And my church
has been incredible
00:27:23.14\00:27:25.47
in helping me
restructure what I do.
00:27:25.51\00:27:27.98
And I'm having more
impact. Oh, that's right.
00:27:28.01\00:27:30.18
People say
something different about you,
00:27:30.21\00:27:32.28
I can't put my finger,
00:27:32.31\00:27:33.75
but you're just so nice
and you're so calm and...
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.29
Well, I'm not
trying to prove anything.
00:27:37.32\00:27:40.22
I know who I am.
00:27:40.26\00:27:41.59
There's all I can promise that
00:27:41.62\00:27:42.96
if you don't know who you
are, then anyone can name you,
00:27:42.99\00:27:45.46
and everybody can name you,
00:27:45.49\00:27:46.83
you may answer to just anything.
00:27:46.86\00:27:48.80
And you know what on
that? I belong to Jesus.
00:27:48.83\00:27:51.60
That is great.
00:27:51.63\00:27:53.40
And on that we have to end,
I can't believe our time is up.
00:27:53.44\00:27:56.20
Thank you so
much for being with us
00:27:56.24\00:27:58.64
and thank you, for joining us.
00:27:58.67\00:28:00.71
Join us next time
00:28:00.74\00:28:02.08
'cause it just wouldn't
be the same without you.
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