Mildred Council

North Carolina · born or raised1929–2018

Founder and author of Mama Dip's (1929-2018)

Born in Baldwin Township
Worked at Mama Dip's

Quotations with a citation

My father was a gentle man, a very gentle man. An honorable man. He was a love man. He was stern, yet he had the love that everybody loved him [for]. He showed the love. His sternness brought back love.

I didn’t fear, but I don’t know why I didn’t, being as scared as I had been. But I didn’t fear that day and I haven’t feared since.

My children don’t feel poor like my daddy didn’t let us feel poor. I refuse to let them feel poor. I’m a motivator. I know a lot of young mothers, young parents. I like to show them—I don’t care how poor you are, you still treat a child the same.

I’m not a chef. And I don’t like people to call me a chef because a chef is more like—I call them the artists. They have so much artist in them, artistic, ever what you call it. Artist, I guess, because they can just make things so pretty, you know. And I try to make things good.