I feel like it's my responsibility to insert myself in everything North Carolina Gullah/Geechee, because I'm a North Carolina Gullah/Geechee person.

But it is beautiful to see how that is evolving, how I have an opportunity to teach some babies down in Sunset Beach about Gullah culture and teach them language. I'm like, thank you, God. It's just so cool.

I teach Gullah to my kids. I make them respond to me in Gullah if they want snacks.

It is just like an intentional effort of not only preserving the culture, but also identifying as Gullah Geechee and embracing the language.

We have all the customs. We just ain't have no name. We didn't know that's what it was called. You know what I'm saying?

We've been saying “bateau”, but we didn't know that was Gullah.

We say a lot of the same things, but we just didn't have an identifier until recently.

So it's good to see people being like, yes, I am Gullah/Geechee, I am proud. It's just great. I love it.