E mo easy fa mek de camel go shru a needle eye den fa a rich poson fa come onda God rule.

Can you figure out what famous passage this is? If you can, congratulations. You can read Gullah, the language of the people known as Gullah/Geechee. Gullah is a Creole language which primarily uses an English vocabulary with an African pronunciation.

According to the Gullah/Geechee Nation pamphlet, “Gullah includes the people, history, language and culture, and Geechee is a descendant of this.”

The Gullah/Geechee are a culture that hail from a region of the United States that stretches from Jacksonville, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla. The Sea Islands are a part of the region. Many Gullah/Geechee reside there and consider the ocean a significant part of their culture.

“The water duh bring me up, the water gwine tek me back,” said Queen Quet in Gullah. The chieftess and head-of-state for the Gullah/Geechee spoke about the history of the people who elected her. The water is the sea which brought the Gullah/Geechee’s ancestors from Africa.

According to Queen Quet, the Gullah/Geechee retain an African sense of community and the style in which Africans build their homes. The Gullah/Geechee take care of one another, and, like in other American small towns, everyone knows everyone’s business.

However, Gullah/Geechee is not a culture living in the past. Queen Quet herself has a degree in computer sciences, which she put to use when she made the Gullah/Geechee Nation Facebook page.

The fact that the ancestors of the Gullah/Geechee were victims of slavery is a part of the history of this people, but it is not the entire story. Queen Quet refers to the stigma attached to this part of their history as “Post Traumatic Slave Disorder.”

To help spread their culture and history, Queen Quet founded De Gullah Cunneckshun, a traveling group of presenters. Guilford College hosted the travelers Oct. 25-28. The events offered an opportunity to learn about a culture.

“We wanted to bring (Queen Quet) here so she, a Gullah person, can impart that knowledge for us and have it be an experience,” explained Jada Drew, Africana Community coordinator. “(This was) a chance for the community to really be involved and enriched.”

“This is a way to expose students to a different culture,” said James Shields, director of community learning. “It is something outside of the comfort zone.”

The opening ceremony in Bryan Auditorium on Oct. 25 began with a student film titled “Uprooted,” which tells the general history of the Gullah/Geechee culture as well as the challenges they face.

This was followed by a question-and-answer period with Queen Quet.

Wednesday night, Oct. 26, Queen Quet shared the Gullah/Geechee history through song, dance and speech.