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(scraping)
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(sighs)
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(tapping, scraping)
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-(rhythmic thumping)
-(scraping gets louder)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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(blowing)
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♪ ♪
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(paintbrush scraping)
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Light's leaving.
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So, there's so much more
I could do at this stage,
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and I wanna do, but...
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The light's leaving.
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It's like the spirit of...
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like, redemption.
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I've been through a lot,
but I'm still here.
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-(rain pattering)
-(street noise)
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(hard rain falling)
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-(dial tone)
-Hello. I'm here to...
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try to bond someone out of
Olathe County Jail.
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Guard (on speaker):
Okay, you'll have to go
to the municipal court.
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So, you're gonna
have to turn around
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and go back by
the fire department.
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George Morton:
Hello. I'm here to bond
my mother out of jail.
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Yeah. What's up?
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Tela (on phone):
What's goin' on?
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I'm sittin' in the lobby.
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Tela:
I don't understand, wasthe Olathe warrant for what?
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-Anthony...
-For not going to court.
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Tela:
George Anthony,I went to court.
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Listen, I don't--
hey, I'm not the judge.
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All I need to know--
All I need to know
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is what to say to these people
for you to get out.
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♪ ♪
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They want you, they...
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Listen, I don't know.
They're comin' to get you,
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and I'm out of
200-and-something dollars
for nothing.
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Tela:
I bullshit you not,I did not know.
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(siren chirps)
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♪ ♪
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(knocking)
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(knocking)
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(leash rattling)
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(phone dial tone)
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-Tela (on phone): Hello?
-George: Hey, what's goin' on?
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Tela:
Nothing much,what's goin' on?
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I just was calling to,
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well, you know why
I was calling, but...
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-not that I need a special--
-Tela: Yeah, I heard your,I heard your message.
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Well, I'd like to, um,
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be able to spend
some time together
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and try to do some healing.
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And talking, um.
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Nuri asks about
her grandmother.
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She asks me--
She actually just said,
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she's in the car listening
right now, but she said, um,
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"Daddy, do you have a mother?"
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(Tela laughs)
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Yeah, I don't know
how to answer that.
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♪ ♪
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(leaves rustling)
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Well, I don't know
how this goes, so...
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Well,
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you know, one of my
patent questions
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when I'm first meeting
someone is...
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is who are you?
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Well, I kind of always
escape through art.
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First memories would be
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catching my grandmother
smokin' dope.
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I would find
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my grandmother's
purple Crown Royal bag
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with, with a pipe in it.
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Kinda... We kinda just...
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always lived in...
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There was a neighborhood
drug house.
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It was our--
That was where we lived.
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It was like we were that...
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that family, that, that house.
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But I would always have these
teachers in elementary school,
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I remember Ms. Williams,
that would just pull me aside
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and say,
"You got something here."
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-You know,
try to give me the talk.
-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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This potential...
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that was kind of...
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recognized and encouraged
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from place to place.
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(wind blowing)
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(hip-hop music on radio)
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-(siren wails)
-So much of who I am today
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is because of my family
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and that whole experienceof growing up
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in my hometown of Kansas City.
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(siren fades)
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Just imagine howit looked to me
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coming back forthe second time in 20 years.
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It's just a tripriding through here though.
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This is where-- It's boarded up,
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but that was one of the last
spots I had right here.
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I used to sit right
out here on the steps.
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Should look at this shit.
It's crazy.
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-When was the last time
you seen me?
-Michael: On Kensington...
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I don't remember
exactly what happened.
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I just know you came runnin'
into the house,
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and all you hear
is the helicopters
and shit outside.
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That's all you heard
was the helicopters outside.
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We knew that it was for you.
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Bro, you came running
into the house.
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And you had told me
you had just robbed a nigga
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in Parker Square,
for 13 8-balls.
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'Cause I had asked you for one,
I said, "Bro, go on ahead,
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let me get one, nigga,"
and you like "nah." (laughs)
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George:
It's crazy.
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Motherfuckers in my life today
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-would never think...
-That that's what it was?
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...that that's what it was.
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Man, I'm so glad I got
pulled up out of that shit.
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But you left me in it, though.
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(dog barking, children playing)
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(crinkling)
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Okay. Bro, right there.
Then we gonna take them off...
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George: Okay, I will.
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(crinkling continues)
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(humidifier hissing)
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It's not every day...
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go back and kinda relive...
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some of those memories
and those moments, so.
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Dr. Kynes:
It's interesting you
point that out, that...
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your story, your experiences,
your being seen...
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it's no accident.
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No mistake.
No wrong path.
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George:
I'm always left with this...
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-sense of, um,
survivor's guilt, in a way.
-Mm-hmm.
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I feel like I have
a problem with...
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anger.
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(sighs)
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You believe
that you can help me?
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I got a pretty unique type
of trauma going on, man.
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-(laughs)
-Well, George,
let me put it this way.
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Because you do the work...
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I just sit and be with you,
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and, and that's the help
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because you're not here
to be fixed.
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-Mm-hmm.
-It's an impossibility.
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We just continue to experience
more transformation.
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-(engine rumbling)
-(turn signal clicks, stops)
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Kind of weird.
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I don't know this person.
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He expects me to just open up
and tell him...
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about my life.
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He might be just as fucked up
as I am,
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for all I know.
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♪ ♪
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Tela:
I was around,but I wasn't around.
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I was there,but I wasn't there.
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At 19, I had five kids.
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All I knew what to dowas work and sell drugs.
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I gave them everything,but I didn't give them me.
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He grew up in a penitentiary.
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When he got out,
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the first time I saw him,I just broke down.
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We've been apart for 13 years.
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I said, "You don't know me,
and I don't know you."
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We didn't have it.That mother-and-sonrelationship,
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we didn't have it.
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♪ ♪
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(TV chatter)
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Check this out.
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Reporter (on TV):
...Kansas City nativeGeorge Morton.
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Now, if his talentdoesn't grab your attention,
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his story will.
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After nearlya decade behind bars,
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in the middle ofthe Nelson-AtkinsMuseum of Art this week,
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you'll find 35-year-oldGeorge Morton hard at work,
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copying this Rembrandt,a way to study
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and learn the techniquesof the artist he most admires.
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It was Morton's love ofpainting that helped him
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rewrite his future.Even behind bars,
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he was studying and paintingevery chance he got.
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In a lot of ways, people thatend up in places like that,
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it's easy to write them offas worthless.
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And I was just determinedto prove that wrong.
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Reporter (on TV):
He recently graduated froma prestigious art academy...
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-George: Hey, Mama.
-Tela (on phone): What's up?Something wrong?
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I was on the news today.
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-Tela: Were you?
-Yeah, uh...
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Yeah, maybe when you get--
get home, check out...
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channel nine. It's probably
gonna come back on again,
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but if not, you can get online.
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Tela:
What was it about?
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Uh, I'ma, uh...
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I should probably
let you see it,
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but just the work
I've been doin'.
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They came to interview me
at the museum.
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Tela:
Okay, well just call me later.
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-George: Okay, Mama. Bye.
-Tela: Alright.
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-Babe? You want to do it now?
-George: Yeah? Okay.
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(child chattering)
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Alright, Nuri, I'm gonna
need you to focus.
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Ashley:
It's unfortunate she's
never gonna change.
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George:
I think if my mother
could get real help,
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her life would look different.
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Ashley:
She's had many people
come to her rescue to help her.
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She can't get out
of her own situation.
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That's on her, after...
At 50? Come on.
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-George: Can you just try
to hold the pose for me? Um...
-Yes, I'm holding my pose.
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You, you have no concept.
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You're so far removed
from that world.
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Man, the way you were raised
versus the way I was raised
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couldn't be more opposite.
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Ashley:
But has your mom
ever asked for help?
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-Sure.
-Ashley: She has?
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-Yeah.
-Ashley: And what
was the result?
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It just doesn't last
because she returns
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to the same old conditions
that created--
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She returns to the same
hopeless conditions,
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the same
depressing circumstances.
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Ashley:
But then why try to bring you
down and destroy you?
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I don't have any kids.
I'm not a mother.
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The things that she has done
and said to you, George,
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I can't even fathom.
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She wants to be
self-destructive, fine,
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but then don't try
to inflict pain on you.
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And tear you down.
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(distant horn blaring)
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George:
Yeah, you saw some stuff,
heard some stuff.
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And you wonder why
I got trust issues.
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(distant horn)
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I still wanna paint her, though.
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(quiet museum chatter)
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♪ ♪
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Tela:
That is so awesome.
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(laughs) So, what'd you say
when you saw the news?
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-Tela: Huh?
-What'd you say
when you saw the news?
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I was shocked. I was amazed.
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George:
That was crazy.
I still can't even believe it.
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I done been on that news for...
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Yeah, for the exact opposite.
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-Tela: I love you so much.
-George: Me, too.
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Host:
So, without further ado,
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-George, come on up.
-George: Alright.
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(applause, cheering)
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(applause dies down)
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It's been very intense,
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studying the incomparable
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and unapproachable Rembrandt.
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There was,
there was a, a lot of chaos
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surrounding his life,
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and the lives of many artists
throughout history.
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My journey with Rembrandt
started as a boy.
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00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:39,725
And it deposited something in me
that would later grow.
251
00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:45,105
And so, fast forward,
252
00:17:45,189 --> 00:17:50,194
I ended up getting incarcerated
at 20 years old.
253
00:17:50,277 --> 00:17:54,448
I walk into the, um,
to the prison cell,
and there's my mom.
254
00:17:54,531 --> 00:17:55,908
She's there.
They had gotten her, too.
255
00:17:55,991 --> 00:17:58,368
They actually used her
to get to me.
256
00:17:58,452 --> 00:18:01,580
Um... unbeknownst to her,
of course.
257
00:18:01,663 --> 00:18:04,291
-(whispering)
-Um, and...
258
00:18:05,459 --> 00:18:07,294
she was apologizing,
259
00:18:07,377 --> 00:18:10,005
um, and we sat
in that cell together.
260
00:18:10,088 --> 00:18:13,383
She was released,
and I'm off to federal prison.
261
00:18:15,552 --> 00:18:19,014
And when I, when I began
to learn about some
of the systemic...
262
00:18:19,097 --> 00:18:22,142
um, traps for people like me,
263
00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:24,812
instead of it
264
00:18:25,979 --> 00:18:28,482
creating a bitterness,
265
00:18:28,565 --> 00:18:32,361
it created this strive
for redemption.
266
00:18:35,739 --> 00:18:39,368
I would just go to sleepand wake up every day with...
267
00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:42,913
the question on my mind,
268
00:18:42,996 --> 00:18:44,832
"What is my purpose?"
269
00:18:44,915 --> 00:18:47,334
♪ ♪
270
00:18:47,417 --> 00:18:50,337
Like, what is my reasonfor being?
271
00:18:56,468 --> 00:18:58,595
Two ounces of crack cocaine.
272
00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:01,765
For that small amount,
273
00:19:02,975 --> 00:19:05,853
probably the equivalentof a couple walnuts,
274
00:19:07,312 --> 00:19:10,148
I was sentenced to 135 months.
275
00:19:13,110 --> 00:19:16,238
That's 11 years, three monthsin federal prison.
276
00:19:22,452 --> 00:19:24,955
All of my 20s
277
00:19:25,038 --> 00:19:28,292
were spent incarcerated.
278
00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:31,503
♪ ♪
279
00:19:36,925 --> 00:19:38,468
(drawing)
280
00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:51,064
Photo day with the homies.
281
00:19:54,192 --> 00:19:57,112
These are brothers
in prison together.
282
00:19:57,195 --> 00:19:59,531
Like, whole generations
destroyed.
283
00:19:59,615 --> 00:20:02,242
Fathers in prison cells
with their sons.
284
00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:04,202
Brothers in there
together, like...
285
00:20:05,579 --> 00:20:07,748
Like this shit
was a setup to begin with.
286
00:20:07,831 --> 00:20:09,249
Like all my neighborhood heroes.
287
00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:10,667
I'm seeing 'em
all in here, like,
288
00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:11,960
"Hey, where the fuck you been?"
289
00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:13,587
"Nigga, I been in here
this whole time."
290
00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:14,755
"Really? God damn.
291
00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:15,964
I was wondering
what happened to you."
292
00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:18,967
Just like over and over
and over and over.
293
00:20:19,051 --> 00:20:20,886
I mean, it didn't take no time.
294
00:20:20,969 --> 00:20:23,055
When you're getting sentenced,
you go to this place
295
00:20:23,138 --> 00:20:25,265
that's a transit center
in Oklahoma.
296
00:20:25,349 --> 00:20:27,643
And I swear,
it's like auction blocks.
297
00:20:27,726 --> 00:20:30,604
You know, they got us
all sittin' on these...
298
00:20:30,687 --> 00:20:33,982
on this long block, shackled up,
299
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,695
waiting to be sent
to different prisons
300
00:20:38,779 --> 00:20:40,447
throughout the country.
301
00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:45,494
First picture I painted
when I got there was this one.
302
00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:49,623
And I set it right there
in the recreation department.
303
00:20:49,706 --> 00:20:53,251
and let people line up
and place their orders.
304
00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:05,347
So, I started painting pictures
at the institutions
305
00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:06,890
for the institutions
306
00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:09,434
to finesse transfers.
307
00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:12,521
Like, "Hey, I want to go
to a lower security.
308
00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:13,981
"I don't want to be here.
309
00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:16,108
I'm worried about
my life every day."
310
00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:22,155
And when I got out of prison,
I just implemented
the same tactics.
311
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,577
The halfway house was literallyin the hood,
312
00:21:27,661 --> 00:21:30,789
like, the worst partof the city,
313
00:21:30,872 --> 00:21:32,874
and I didn't know anybody here.
314
00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:36,753
(street noise)
315
00:21:36,837 --> 00:21:38,380
Wherever I would goto look for a job,
316
00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:40,424
it wasn't goingto be in that area.
317
00:21:44,261 --> 00:21:46,430
I knew that I needed to goto a location
318
00:21:46,513 --> 00:21:48,724
that would getmy talent recognized,
319
00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:51,560
and I just operatedoff pure faith.
320
00:21:53,603 --> 00:21:56,565
First place I ran intowas this gym,
321
00:21:56,648 --> 00:22:00,027
and I saw this
African-American gym owner,
322
00:22:00,110 --> 00:22:03,697
and first placeI go apply for a job,
323
00:22:03,780 --> 00:22:07,034
I get hired because I knewall I needed to do
324
00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:10,203
was paint one pictureand put it on that wall
325
00:22:10,287 --> 00:22:13,123
like I had doneat every prison I went to,
326
00:22:13,206 --> 00:22:15,500
and then sit backand watch what happens.
327
00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:18,712
♪ ♪
328
00:22:20,547 --> 00:22:24,468
Within not even a month,maybe a couple of weeks,
329
00:22:25,927 --> 00:22:28,722
a board member forthe Florence Academy saw it.
330
00:22:32,142 --> 00:22:34,102
And within a year of arrivingin the city,
331
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:35,604
I was in New York, studying at
332
00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:38,815
the most prestigiousart academy in the world.
333
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:44,321
I just, just felt that ifI just took the next step,
334
00:22:45,405 --> 00:22:47,240
it would open up before me.
335
00:22:51,745 --> 00:22:53,538
You were planning.
336
00:22:55,832 --> 00:22:57,959
One of the best things
I've ever had to witness,
337
00:22:58,043 --> 00:23:00,253
that's for sure,
somebody comin' up like this,
338
00:23:00,337 --> 00:23:05,133
and it was...
And just to watch
how it all opened up.
339
00:23:05,217 --> 00:23:07,177
And just watching somebody
being on a path,
340
00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:11,181
and you set your goals and
you're working towards them,
341
00:23:11,264 --> 00:23:12,974
how those things,
when they're falling into place,
342
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:15,185
-you know
you're on the right track.
-George: Speaking of that,
343
00:23:15,268 --> 00:23:17,020
you were probably
my biggest supporter
344
00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:21,942
in the whole 11-year sentence
that I had consistent.
345
00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:25,112
I'm like, "Auntie, listen,
these are Ivy League teaching me
346
00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:27,948
-how to trade, teaching me--
-Learn it, learn it,
learn it all.
347
00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:29,574
Yeah, she's like,
"What books y'all want?
348
00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:31,284
Here, here! Take it! How much--"
349
00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,537
-I'm like, "Can I come,
so I can learn?"
-Right.
350
00:23:33,620 --> 00:23:35,413
I would never
cross paths with these guys
351
00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:39,000
-in a million years
in Kansas City.
-Right.
352
00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:41,670
But you were perfecting that...
353
00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:44,172
-With the art. Yeah.
-...as well as the art.
So, to me,
354
00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:46,758
that was like your side hustle,
going on while you're doing--
355
00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:49,094
I had to 'cause, like, what
would I do with art money
356
00:23:49,177 --> 00:23:51,805
if I were to make it?
It can't just be about art.
357
00:23:51,888 --> 00:23:53,515
When I get out,
where am I going to stay?
358
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:55,350
Location is important.
359
00:23:55,433 --> 00:23:57,769
Sheila:
You weren't playing.
360
00:23:57,853 --> 00:23:59,729
But, like, what,
what are people like that
361
00:23:59,813 --> 00:24:03,442
without those who see it in them
and hoist them up?
362
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:05,902
Right? And, like, lift them up?
363
00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:08,989
There's no denying you
at the top of that list.
364
00:24:09,072 --> 00:24:12,159
♪ ♪
365
00:24:16,246 --> 00:24:19,374
(cars driving by)
366
00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:29,009
Alright, Mama. I-I-I--
That's-- That's--
367
00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:31,511
Okay, I don't want to keep
having this discussion.
368
00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:34,222
I don't want to keep having it.
369
00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:36,808
The issue is you want
some fuckin' money and now
370
00:24:36,892 --> 00:24:38,727
you want to put shit
under the goddamn bridge
371
00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:40,395
because you need something.
372
00:24:40,478 --> 00:24:42,564
(indistinct response)
373
00:24:44,024 --> 00:24:45,984
Yeah, I'll, I'll talk to you
about it later.
374
00:24:46,067 --> 00:24:47,861
I can't deal
with that right now.
375
00:24:47,944 --> 00:24:50,488
I'm busy! I'm busy!
I'm busy! I'm busy!
376
00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:53,074
Don't "yes or no" me.
I don't owe you shit!
377
00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:55,952
-(indistinct)
-So what the fuck
are you calling me for?
378
00:24:56,036 --> 00:24:57,579
Don't call me
if you don't like me!
379
00:24:57,662 --> 00:25:00,207
Don't call me-- Don't call me
asking me for shit--
380
00:25:00,290 --> 00:25:01,708
If you don't wanna talk to me,
381
00:25:01,791 --> 00:25:04,878
-if you ain't trying
to be a mother...
-(indistinct)
382
00:25:04,961 --> 00:25:07,214
Mama, I got to go, aight?
I got to go.
383
00:25:08,089 --> 00:25:10,425
(distant horn)
384
00:25:16,765 --> 00:25:18,266
(distant horn)
385
00:25:20,727 --> 00:25:22,062
(sighs)
386
00:26:03,728 --> 00:26:07,107
(drawing)
387
00:26:13,446 --> 00:26:15,282
It's pretty dark stuff.
388
00:26:16,574 --> 00:26:18,493
I feel-- I feel as if...
389
00:26:22,038 --> 00:26:24,165
darkness is my friend.
390
00:26:27,168 --> 00:26:29,838
Dr. Kynes:
Each time you turn back
391
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:31,506
and you remember a little more
392
00:26:31,589 --> 00:26:35,051
and you see a little more,
and you feel a little more,
393
00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:38,138
you smell a little more,
394
00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:39,889
and it brings up...
395
00:26:40,807 --> 00:26:42,392
your story,
396
00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,937
you heal a little more.
397
00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:52,152
(tapping, bowl ringing)
398
00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:59,826
-(helicopter whirring)
-(bowl rings)
399
00:26:59,909 --> 00:27:03,163
(bowl fades out)
400
00:27:03,246 --> 00:27:06,374
(dog barking)
401
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,046
Damn, I gotta get this right.
402
00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:14,215
(birds chirping)
403
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:20,972
Tanisha:
It's not like I didn't
see no wrong in you.
404
00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:24,517
Yeah, I know my older brother
got problems.
405
00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:27,937
One bad decision dictated
406
00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:30,940
what you had set
for your future
407
00:27:31,024 --> 00:27:33,902
-at that moment.
-George: I bullshit you not,
Nisha.
408
00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:35,987
Like part of my justification
in my mind
409
00:27:36,071 --> 00:27:37,447
when I was committing
all those crimes,
410
00:27:37,530 --> 00:27:39,532
I'm thinkin' I'd be able
to tell the judge,
411
00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:42,535
"My mama said it was okay
for me to do this shit.
412
00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:45,705
My grandma showed me!" Like...
413
00:27:45,789 --> 00:27:48,458
Fuck the po-- Like, why would
I care about the police
414
00:27:48,541 --> 00:27:52,629
-if my grandma
and my mama said it's okay?
-Tanisha: Said it's okay.
415
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:56,174
-We learned from the best.
-(laughs)
416
00:27:57,467 --> 00:27:59,135
And you think that's normal?
417
00:27:59,219 --> 00:28:01,930
-Tanisha:
Why, y'all don't do this?
-(George scoffs)
418
00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:03,556
She showed me
how to cook that shit.
419
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,350
You know what I'm sayin'?
She showed me how to cook it.
420
00:28:05,433 --> 00:28:07,936
Tanisha:
"It wasn't no goddamn
mashed potatoes, man!"
421
00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:15,402
(drawing)
422
00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:18,613
(birds chirping)
423
00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:23,660
(echoing squawk)
424
00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:39,968
Damn.
425
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:43,304
This is just something that
426
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:46,349
was never encouragedin the academic world
427
00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:48,017
where I was trained.
428
00:28:49,602 --> 00:28:51,938
As if it didn't exist.
429
00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:59,112
But, I find this moreinteresting than all of those
430
00:28:59,195 --> 00:29:02,282
European headsthat they would make--
431
00:29:02,365 --> 00:29:05,743
make me draw and paintover and over and over.
432
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:09,747
And these are Eurocentric
features, Eurocentric...
433
00:29:11,458 --> 00:29:13,585
skulls, and it's just like
434
00:29:13,668 --> 00:29:15,837
this worship of
all things white.
435
00:29:22,343 --> 00:29:26,222
I was seeking to learn moreabout depicting skin tones
436
00:29:26,306 --> 00:29:29,559
that look like the peopleI grew up seeing,
437
00:29:29,642 --> 00:29:33,688
like my aunts, my uncles,my siblings, my mother.
438
00:29:33,771 --> 00:29:37,609
And I wasn't gettin' a lotof that in the academic text
439
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:39,527
and in my training.
440
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:44,115
Why don't we have any...
441
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:48,620
any plaster casts of this
442
00:29:48,703 --> 00:29:52,165
incredibly subtle
and naturalistic sculpture.
443
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:56,252
Oh, is it because...
444
00:29:57,003 --> 00:29:58,296
it's depicting Africans
445
00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:00,715
in an elevated
and dignified state?
446
00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:05,261
♪ ♪
447
00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:14,270
(dark music playing)
448
00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:29,452
♪ ♪
449
00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:51,432
Ashley:
Why do you feel pressure?
450
00:30:54,936 --> 00:30:56,563
George:
I don't feel no pressure.
451
00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,022
I'm only sitting
in Rembrandt's chair.
452
00:30:58,106 --> 00:31:00,233
I mean, it's just another day.
453
00:31:01,859 --> 00:31:05,822
Ashley:
He's looking over you
in the afterlife. You're good.
454
00:31:05,905 --> 00:31:07,782
George:
You say that, but that's funny.
455
00:31:07,865 --> 00:31:09,909
That's really how I feel.
456
00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:12,412
Ashley:
Well, you're here,
right? (laughs)
457
00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:17,041
Um...
458
00:31:22,463 --> 00:31:25,675
-(street noise)
-(birds chirping)
459
00:31:27,093 --> 00:31:30,513
(street chatter)
460
00:31:30,597 --> 00:31:33,391
(inhales, exhales)
461
00:31:33,474 --> 00:31:35,518
I always stand in frontof those Rembrandt paintings
462
00:31:35,602 --> 00:31:36,811
and wonder,
463
00:31:36,894 --> 00:31:39,105
where's that lightcoming from?
464
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:43,276
Why does it make me feelthat way?
465
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:46,446
Like, so alive and present.
466
00:31:48,698 --> 00:31:50,450
(elevator whirring)
467
00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:53,286
♪ ♪
468
00:31:53,369 --> 00:31:57,290
I don't know ifthey were moral peopleor compassionate people.
469
00:31:57,373 --> 00:31:58,541
I don't know.
470
00:31:59,542 --> 00:32:02,754
But when I look at the work,
471
00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:05,715
there's somethingmore underlying the surface.
472
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:09,385
There seems to bean inner world.
473
00:32:18,353 --> 00:32:21,356
I'm carrying a traditioninto the future
474
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:24,192
that, um, people like me
475
00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:26,277
have never been a part of.
476
00:32:28,404 --> 00:32:30,198
It's a beautiful tradition.
477
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:35,662
It's just that people ofAfrican descent haven't had...
478
00:32:37,121 --> 00:32:40,333
a dignified role in it,a dignified place in it.
479
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:46,005
♪ ♪
480
00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:54,180
(phone dial tone)
481
00:32:58,059 --> 00:33:00,645
-Ceriyah (on phone): Hello?
-Ceriyah.
482
00:33:00,728 --> 00:33:02,939
-Ceriyah: Yes?
-What's going on?
483
00:33:04,273 --> 00:33:07,193
Ceriyah:
Uh, they took Mommy.
484
00:33:07,276 --> 00:33:10,947
The bounty hunters,they came and took Mama.
485
00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:14,992
And they say she had a warrantand bail and some--
486
00:33:15,076 --> 00:33:18,705
And the thingshe said the warrantwas from a year ago.
487
00:33:20,623 --> 00:33:22,375
When did they come and take her?
488
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:25,044
Ceriyah:
Last night.
489
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,635
-Barista: (indistinct) George?
-Yeah.
490
00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:37,557
Thank you.
491
00:33:40,476 --> 00:33:42,186
What she... What did she...
492
00:33:42,270 --> 00:33:44,230
There was a warrant
out for her arrest...
493
00:33:44,313 --> 00:33:46,149
George:
Yeah, nobody knows what for.
494
00:33:46,232 --> 00:33:48,109
It can be anything
495
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:51,404
that people do when
their life is hopeless,
496
00:33:51,487 --> 00:33:53,656
and they can't pay
to get out of jail.
497
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:56,826
They can't pay fines,
they can't pay...
498
00:33:56,909 --> 00:33:58,369
Ashley:
Or they can't
show up to court?
499
00:33:58,453 --> 00:34:00,413
They can't show up to court
because they don't have a car,
500
00:34:00,496 --> 00:34:02,415
because they don't have a mommy
who takes care of them or...
501
00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:04,167
They don't have to have
a mommy or a trust fund.
502
00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:06,252
-You don't know.
You don't know that.
-But you can show up--
503
00:34:06,335 --> 00:34:09,964
You have no clue
about what they can do!
504
00:34:10,047 --> 00:34:12,884
You have zero clue
what they can do.
505
00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:14,469
Once you're in your 30s--
506
00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:16,804
George:
This is something
we've been seein' all our life.
507
00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:20,057
It's no coincidence
that she's repeating it
in front of her daughter.
508
00:34:20,141 --> 00:34:21,559
You know how many times
we had to watch
509
00:34:21,642 --> 00:34:24,061
our mother get hauled off
by bounty hunters?
510
00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:26,856
This is a way of life
511
00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:30,026
that is perpetuated
generationally,
512
00:34:30,109 --> 00:34:32,612
and if you don't understand
that multi-generational...
element.
513
00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:34,363
I do, but when
a bounty hunter
514
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:37,658
comes and knocks on your door,
I mean, you're aware.
515
00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:38,951
George:
How do you know
what that means?
516
00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:40,828
Has a bounty hunter
ever knocked on your door?
517
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:43,581
-No--
-I've seen them all my life.
I know what it means,
518
00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:45,917
and this is my conclusion.
519
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,586
I can't judge it.
I'm not in it.
520
00:34:48,669 --> 00:34:51,839
I don't have to wake up with
that reality every single day
521
00:34:51,923 --> 00:34:53,090
and have to figure a life out
522
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:56,803
from a place of negative,
negative zero.
523
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:04,685
(indistinct phone chatter)
524
00:35:09,315 --> 00:35:12,401
(scraping)
525
00:35:14,111 --> 00:35:15,363
(ice breaking)
526
00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:19,075
(sleeting)
527
00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,337
George:
Thank you!
528
00:35:31,420 --> 00:35:34,507
(TV chatter)
529
00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:38,135
(door creaking)
530
00:35:39,011 --> 00:35:41,222
Fuckers broke my door.
531
00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:45,017
-George: Oh, the bounty hunters?
-Tanisha: Mm-hmm.
532
00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:48,062
-What the fuck?!
-Bro, when I tell you, like,
533
00:35:48,145 --> 00:35:50,523
the bond that
they revoked me on,
534
00:35:50,606 --> 00:35:53,484
I had a court date for
the next week.
535
00:35:53,568 --> 00:35:55,611
Talked to my lawyer
and everything.
536
00:35:55,695 --> 00:35:57,530
They didn't go through
the proper channel.
537
00:35:57,613 --> 00:36:00,199
-But, Ceriyah had
to see this shit though.
-All of it!
538
00:36:00,283 --> 00:36:02,285
All of it because
the whole thing about it is
539
00:36:02,368 --> 00:36:03,870
I was standing right here,
540
00:36:03,953 --> 00:36:06,455
talking to a bounty hunter
that get to breakin' this shit,
541
00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:08,499
trying to screwdriver
my door and everything.
542
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:10,251
I'm like, "Alright,
I'm openin' the door.
543
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:12,962
I told you I did.
No need to do all of that."
544
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:16,591
Soon as I open the door,
just like this,
545
00:36:16,674 --> 00:36:18,593
they yanked me out of the house.
546
00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:21,053
I mean, literally yanked me
out of the house,
547
00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:23,014
and Ceriyah's
standing right here.
548
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:38,988
(street noise)
549
00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:44,285
(birds chirping)
550
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:50,374
Tre, I heard you wrote a rap.
551
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:53,836
Uh, you can call it
a rap, I guess.
552
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:57,590
George:
Can you spit it for me?
553
00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:02,178
Treshon:
I titled it "Rap for
My Mom and Dad."
554
00:37:02,261 --> 00:37:04,347
-Alright--
-Spit that shit!
555
00:37:04,430 --> 00:37:06,724
I turn my pain into art,
too. I get it.
556
00:37:07,934 --> 00:37:09,226
"Mom, you know
I love you, right?
557
00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:10,811
"I see the things
that you goin' through.
558
00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:13,064
"Keep pushing forward,
don't let this pain
get ahold of you.
559
00:37:13,147 --> 00:37:14,649
"I got some hope for you.
560
00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:17,443
"I said I got hope for you,
but really I be praying for you.
561
00:37:17,526 --> 00:37:18,986
"All that smoking
you be doing..."
562
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:21,280
George:
I could say that abouteverything that I paint.
563
00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:23,282
It's really a portraitof myself.
564
00:37:23,366 --> 00:37:26,994
Treshon:
"Be the best father
that I can ever be.
565
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:29,121
-I don't want..."
-George: My nephew, Treshon,
566
00:37:29,205 --> 00:37:32,375
-I see so much of myself.
-..."making money.
567
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:35,878
-Trying to make money moves,
but it don't work..."
-George: I feel like...
568
00:37:36,837 --> 00:37:40,508
I've always managed to...
569
00:37:40,591 --> 00:37:44,053
transcend the madnessof my surroundings.
570
00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:49,600
And in his own way,
I think he does the same.
571
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,480
I mean, I've always felt
a tremendous responsibility,
572
00:37:54,563 --> 00:37:58,818
being some sort
of a pillar to them.
573
00:37:58,901 --> 00:38:01,487
And I was there and I was
recalling something you told me
574
00:38:01,570 --> 00:38:04,782
about how the body remembers.
575
00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:06,951
And I'll be damned
if things just weren't,
576
00:38:07,034 --> 00:38:09,036
like, coming to the surface.
577
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:14,917
(quiet bowl ringing fading in)
578
00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:18,754
-(ringing continues)
-(street noise)
579
00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:21,632
(ringing fades out)
580
00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:24,051
Treshon:
I didn't notice itat first until now,
581
00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:25,636
but is this supposed to be
582
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,597
the person who gives
them everything,
583
00:38:28,681 --> 00:38:31,392
or, like, to be the slave
or something like that?
584
00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:36,981
George:
(sighs) Um, yeah.
585
00:38:37,064 --> 00:38:40,109
Yeah, they made it look like
he was, he was, um, stealing...
586
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,696
stealing from them.
587
00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:46,115
Treshon:
I can't wait till you start
trying to finish
588
00:38:46,198 --> 00:38:47,950
that sketch of me.
589
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:52,913
♪ ♪
590
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,128
Did you go to Egypt
a couple months ago?
591
00:38:59,211 --> 00:39:01,630
George:
I did.
592
00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:04,091
They're sculpting with
the hardest material
593
00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,927
just to show how
advanced they are,
594
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:09,597
using, like,
high-level mathematics
and measurements.
595
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,100
Doesn't Africa have,
like, the strongest metal?
596
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:15,770
George:
Africa has
the strongest everything.
597
00:39:15,853 --> 00:39:19,065
People, everything. Everything.
598
00:39:19,148 --> 00:39:21,692
They are showing people
599
00:39:21,776 --> 00:39:26,197
performing a ritual
to this so-called deity
600
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,408
that exists
only within yourself,
601
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:32,620
but they, they, they develop
an elaborate system to awaken it
602
00:39:32,703 --> 00:39:34,205
within yourself
through pictures,
603
00:39:34,288 --> 00:39:36,248
through colors, through ritual.
604
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:39,752
So, it's not about nothing
outside of Treshon.
605
00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:41,796
It all comes back to you.
606
00:39:41,879 --> 00:39:45,007
♪ ♪
607
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:48,177
We're all having children now.
608
00:39:49,428 --> 00:39:52,014
Some of us are passingour trauma on...
609
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:56,894
to this newer generationof children.
610
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:05,986
But no matter what he sees,
611
00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:09,740
no matter whathe's going through,
612
00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:12,660
he just had this light,this inner light.
613
00:40:20,543 --> 00:40:22,670
♪ ♪
614
00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:34,765
-(music fades out)
-(car rumbling)
615
00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:46,735
(TV chatter)
616
00:40:51,073 --> 00:40:52,616
(door creaks)
617
00:40:58,581 --> 00:41:01,500
(indistinct chatter)
618
00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:04,837
(kids laughing, playing outside)
619
00:41:08,465 --> 00:41:12,469
-(drawing)
-(indistinct chatter)
620
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:15,764
-Child: Why you gotta be so--
-(laughter)
621
00:41:17,224 --> 00:41:19,185
Daddy, I feel better now.
622
00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:21,562
That's really good.
623
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:23,981
It must be the medication.
Let me see your tooth.
624
00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:26,817
Hm...
625
00:41:26,901 --> 00:41:29,445
My tooth is not hurting anymore.
626
00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:31,655
That makes me so happy.
Can I have a kiss?
627
00:41:32,948 --> 00:41:34,617
(kiss) Thank you.
628
00:41:40,456 --> 00:41:41,790
To them...
629
00:41:43,125 --> 00:41:46,503
it seems like I somehowmade it out.
630
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:51,091
But it's a fight.
631
00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:53,260
♪ ♪
632
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:57,139
I've barely gottenone foot out,
633
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:01,185
living between two worlds.
634
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,273
(rain pattering)
635
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:12,821
This concept of duality,
636
00:42:12,905 --> 00:42:15,824
this, thisdark and light thing,
637
00:42:15,908 --> 00:42:19,203
is applicable tomy artistic process
638
00:42:19,286 --> 00:42:22,248
and the struggles.
639
00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:24,250
And you seethe oneness of it all.
640
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:28,545
♪ ♪
641
00:42:48,816 --> 00:42:50,442
Alright, you can take a break.
642
00:42:52,194 --> 00:42:54,446
(door opens)
643
00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:56,073
(door creaks)
644
00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:06,750
(quiet street chatter)
645
00:43:10,462 --> 00:43:13,590
(skateboard rattling)
646
00:43:21,348 --> 00:43:23,475
(phone dial tone)
647
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,980
(dial tone)
648
00:43:31,233 --> 00:43:33,652
(dial tone)
649
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:35,946
This shit ridiculous, bro.
You would have to call around
650
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:38,657
-and check the jails and see...
-(dial tone)
651
00:43:38,741 --> 00:43:42,161
-Every time yo mama go missing.
-Every time yo mama go missing,
for real.
652
00:43:42,244 --> 00:43:46,165
-She been doing this shit
since we was kids, bro.
-(dial tone)
653
00:43:46,248 --> 00:43:49,376
What's the jail number?
Is this the jail number?
654
00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,211
Speaker (on phone):
No, this is south patrol.
655
00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:54,840
Okay, can you run my mama's name
and see if she got arrested?
656
00:43:54,923 --> 00:43:58,302
(clattering over phone)
657
00:43:58,385 --> 00:44:01,597
-(leaves rustling)
-(distant dog barking)
658
00:44:02,973 --> 00:44:05,392
(quiet siren, getting louder)
659
00:44:05,476 --> 00:44:07,227
(siren wailing)
660
00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:09,355
George:
This never-endingfuckin' cycle.
661
00:44:09,438 --> 00:44:11,648
How the hell doyou shake that shit?
662
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:21,367
GPS:
Turn right ontoNorth Cherry Street.
663
00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,869
Then, the destinationis on your right.
664
00:44:23,952 --> 00:44:25,913
World is just set up for...
665
00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:27,915
(turn signal clicking)
666
00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:30,751
certain people to lose.
667
00:44:30,834 --> 00:44:32,753
She can't help herself.
668
00:44:32,836 --> 00:44:34,505
(clicking stops)
669
00:44:42,179 --> 00:44:45,307
(birds chirping)
670
00:44:48,685 --> 00:44:51,772
-(giggling)
-George: Come on,
let's go this way.
671
00:44:51,855 --> 00:44:53,774
When my mother walked out...
672
00:44:57,236 --> 00:44:59,405
she hugged me so tight
673
00:44:59,488 --> 00:45:03,283
and just said"thank you" over and over.
674
00:45:05,369 --> 00:45:08,080
She thought she'd haveto spend Christmas in there.
675
00:45:10,499 --> 00:45:13,752
My daughter was with me.She didn't know
676
00:45:13,836 --> 00:45:15,712
what was going on.
677
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:23,846
(rattling)
678
00:45:23,929 --> 00:45:25,389
Mama, don't feel bad.
679
00:45:25,472 --> 00:45:27,683
You weren't planning to go
to jail for a week or two.
680
00:45:27,766 --> 00:45:30,269
No, I wasn't planning--
No, that was not in my plan.
681
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:32,521
If I had known,
I would've packed for the trip.
682
00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:37,317
-Do you remember me, Nuri?
-George:
Let me find the picture.
683
00:45:37,401 --> 00:45:39,528
-No.
-Tela: You don't?
684
00:45:41,613 --> 00:45:43,157
George:
Hm, let me see.
685
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,951
-Bet you don't
remember that, do you?
-Tela: You don't remember that?
686
00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:47,661
This was at church.
687
00:45:51,039 --> 00:45:52,916
You was with
your grandma in church.
688
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,880
-I missed you.
-Nuri: I missed you, too.
689
00:45:57,963 --> 00:46:01,008
-I love you.
-I love you, too.
690
00:46:01,091 --> 00:46:05,012
Can I have a hug? Thank you.
691
00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:08,432
(kiss)
692
00:46:10,768 --> 00:46:13,437
-Now, you remember?
-Yeah.
693
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,481
-Probably still don't remember.
-(Tela laughs)
694
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:17,774
Tela:
That time, you was
just a baby then.
695
00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,237
Yep, that was her.
696
00:46:24,156 --> 00:46:28,160
(rattling)
697
00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:31,663
Tela:
What have I done that...
698
00:46:31,747 --> 00:46:35,751
you can't-- that's so bad
that you can't forgive?
699
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:40,047
I want a relationship
with all my kids. All of them.
700
00:46:41,381 --> 00:46:43,717
And I can understand the things
that I did in the past.
701
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,053
I mean, I'm not downgrading,
702
00:46:46,136 --> 00:46:49,139
I'm not saying that
I didn't do it,
703
00:46:49,223 --> 00:46:50,682
but every now and again,
sometimes,
704
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:53,560
you need to forget that
and grow up.
705
00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:55,979
You can't keep living
through the past.
706
00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:58,815
That's all I'm asking.
707
00:46:58,899 --> 00:47:00,484
George:
That's what I'm here to do.
708
00:47:06,823 --> 00:47:09,034
I feel love for her,
709
00:47:09,117 --> 00:47:10,869
even at her lowest.
710
00:47:12,454 --> 00:47:16,416
And I think about the systemthat failed her.
711
00:47:17,751 --> 00:47:20,754
And at that point,I feel frustration.
712
00:47:21,588 --> 00:47:23,215
Even anger.
713
00:47:28,095 --> 00:47:30,931
My mother had me at 15.
714
00:47:31,014 --> 00:47:33,016
We just pretty muchgrew up together.
715
00:47:34,226 --> 00:47:35,936
She's like my sister.
716
00:47:39,481 --> 00:47:41,066
She was a hustler.
717
00:47:41,149 --> 00:47:44,236
♪ ♪
718
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:48,865
It's programming youfrom the womb.
719
00:47:54,496 --> 00:47:56,206
I was not gonna go to Harvard.
720
00:47:56,290 --> 00:47:58,542
Where was that at in my,in my foreseeable future?
721
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:00,210
How was I gonna be Ivy League?
722
00:48:00,294 --> 00:48:01,920
What were my chances?
723
00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:07,843
When the judge sentenced me
to 11 years,
724
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:12,306
I said, "I'll show you."
725
00:48:12,389 --> 00:48:14,433
When people reject me
to this day
726
00:48:14,516 --> 00:48:16,643
or doubt me even in the least...
727
00:48:19,521 --> 00:48:21,815
I say, "Okay, you'll see."
728
00:48:23,859 --> 00:48:25,569
I feel rejection easy.
729
00:48:27,195 --> 00:48:29,072
I don't really have
a lot of experience
730
00:48:29,156 --> 00:48:32,075
-in, in, in social settings.
-Dr. Kynes: Mm-hmm.
731
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:34,995
Um...
732
00:48:35,078 --> 00:48:38,415
You know, I left the world
as a child in a lot of ways
733
00:48:38,498 --> 00:48:40,876
and was pretty much frozen.
734
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,558
Your dad bought these?
735
00:48:57,976 --> 00:48:59,353
I can tell.
736
00:48:59,436 --> 00:49:01,855
(bag crinkling)
737
00:49:15,035 --> 00:49:17,704
George: (sighs)
That's it right there.
738
00:49:20,123 --> 00:49:23,210
You can put your chin down,
turn your head towards me,
739
00:49:23,293 --> 00:49:26,338
and then slightly tilt over,
just like that.
740
00:49:27,589 --> 00:49:29,049
That's good.
741
00:49:33,095 --> 00:49:36,056
Tela:
You don't know
how tempted I am
742
00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:39,184
to even work at a fast food
743
00:49:39,267 --> 00:49:42,979
just to get some money in my
pocket to get me back and forth,
744
00:49:43,814 --> 00:49:45,190
to and from.
745
00:49:45,273 --> 00:49:47,943
Because who is not, like,
walking around broke is me.
746
00:49:48,026 --> 00:49:50,696
I've never been
walking around broke.
747
00:49:50,779 --> 00:49:53,699
Why am I gonna start now?
Bills are due.
748
00:49:53,782 --> 00:49:56,118
Yeah, and this-- these
quick fixes ain't gonna fix
749
00:49:56,201 --> 00:49:58,161
those long-term issues--
750
00:49:58,245 --> 00:50:00,372
I mean, I need money
to pay the bills.
751
00:50:00,455 --> 00:50:03,667
Is T gonna go back to selling
drugs? No, I'm not.
752
00:50:03,750 --> 00:50:05,085
So what am I gonna do?
753
00:50:05,168 --> 00:50:07,963
Am I gonna take that
temporary fix? Yes, I am.
754
00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:10,298
To get me up outta
the rut that I'm in.
755
00:50:10,382 --> 00:50:12,259
I'm going to do it.
756
00:50:12,342 --> 00:50:15,262
-And that's where I'm at.
-George: I'm tired
of you being there.
757
00:50:15,345 --> 00:50:18,223
Tela:
Oh, who ain't tired of
being there but me?
758
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:22,436
I'm livin' it. You seein' it.
I'm there.
759
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:24,479
-I'm in it.
-George: I've been
here with you.
760
00:50:24,563 --> 00:50:26,732
-I know all about it.
-I'm livin' it.
761
00:50:26,815 --> 00:50:28,984
So who ain't tired
of being here is me.
762
00:50:35,657 --> 00:50:38,243
Makes me look older
than what I am.
763
00:50:38,326 --> 00:50:40,328
George:
No, it's, um...
764
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:42,372
work in progress.
765
00:50:50,380 --> 00:50:53,508
♪ ♪
766
00:50:57,304 --> 00:51:00,265
There you go.
You about to open this up.
767
00:51:07,105 --> 00:51:10,233
(paper crinkling)
768
00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:17,657
(door creaking)
769
00:51:20,702 --> 00:51:21,828
(playful scream)
770
00:51:23,872 --> 00:51:26,333
-(laughs, screams)
-Tanisha: Shit.
771
00:51:29,628 --> 00:51:30,712
(sighs)
772
00:51:31,922 --> 00:51:33,465
George:
It's just a trip.
773
00:51:34,841 --> 00:51:37,969
-What did she say, bro?
-Michael: I told you.
774
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:40,680
Tanisha:
It's what it is.
775
00:51:44,309 --> 00:51:45,685
They was gonna lock Tela up,
776
00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:47,729
and they was gonna lock
Tela up for a while,
777
00:51:47,813 --> 00:51:49,231
and Tela didn't
wanna go to jail.
778
00:51:49,314 --> 00:51:52,150
So, Tela had to give up somebody
and she had talked about
779
00:51:52,234 --> 00:51:55,403
she didn't wanna give up you,
but she didn't know nobody else.
780
00:51:55,487 --> 00:51:56,571
(sniffles)
781
00:52:02,410 --> 00:52:05,664
George:
I didn't do my time thinking
that Mama could've set me up
782
00:52:05,747 --> 00:52:08,458
to go to prison instead of her.
783
00:52:11,169 --> 00:52:14,130
I just thought she--
somebody got her high
784
00:52:14,214 --> 00:52:16,675
and used her to get to me.
785
00:52:16,758 --> 00:52:18,760
She was apologizing.
786
00:52:18,844 --> 00:52:21,888
"Oh, I'm sorry for this.
I'm sorry for that.
787
00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:24,391
"Like, I'm sorry for...
788
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:26,768
doin' this to
George Anthony, like..."
789
00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:36,027
George:
She's never admitted
that shit to me before.
790
00:52:43,285 --> 00:52:45,996
(children playing)
791
00:53:03,138 --> 00:53:06,308
(Tela speaking
indistinctly on phone)
792
00:53:06,391 --> 00:53:09,644
Michael:
She don't hesitate.
Don't say that.
793
00:53:09,728 --> 00:53:11,438
(indistinct)
794
00:53:11,521 --> 00:53:13,398
-George: So,
she wanna see me lose.
-Ashley: Right, right.
795
00:53:13,481 --> 00:53:15,942
George:
You wanna put me back in jail?
796
00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:17,861
Tela (on phone):
Boy, I love you.
797
00:53:17,944 --> 00:53:21,406
-Michael: Mama...
-Tela: If I let youuse my truck--
798
00:53:21,489 --> 00:53:24,409
-George: I'm done, bro.
Fuck her.
-Michael: Yeah.
799
00:53:24,492 --> 00:53:26,202
George:
Get that shit off my speaker.
800
00:53:28,663 --> 00:53:31,082
And she's still on the same
bullshit trying to see me lose,
801
00:53:31,166 --> 00:53:33,835
trying to see me fail.
Fuck her and that painting.
802
00:53:33,919 --> 00:53:35,378
How about that?
803
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:37,130
When she's making it
plain and clear
804
00:53:37,213 --> 00:53:39,966
that she do not
wanna see me make it in life?
805
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:42,844
What kind of fucked-up ass-shit
is that from a mother?
806
00:53:45,180 --> 00:53:47,390
She got enough sense
to make all--
to do all this fraud
807
00:53:47,474 --> 00:53:49,643
and these fuckin' scams though.
808
00:53:49,726 --> 00:53:51,478
She don't got enough sense
to see, like, goddamn,
809
00:53:51,561 --> 00:53:53,688
this boy got
something positive going on.
810
00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:56,024
-Why would I fuck that up?
-Michael: Right.
811
00:53:56,107 --> 00:53:57,984
When the fuck do you ever see
somebody go to jail
812
00:53:58,068 --> 00:53:59,319
for 10 years,
get out and do that
813
00:53:59,402 --> 00:54:01,905
after their mama snitch on them
and put them in there?
814
00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:07,202
(highway noise)
815
00:54:15,543 --> 00:54:18,755
Dr. Kynes:
So what, what happened
this time when you were at home?
816
00:54:25,303 --> 00:54:27,138
George:
Well...
817
00:54:27,222 --> 00:54:29,599
I learned from
my other siblings...
818
00:54:32,936 --> 00:54:34,270
that...
819
00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:37,857
she may have had
820
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:41,361
a greater role
821
00:54:41,444 --> 00:54:43,989
in my getting incarcerated
822
00:54:44,072 --> 00:54:46,324
than what I once believed
823
00:54:46,408 --> 00:54:48,284
or wanted to accept.
824
00:54:56,793 --> 00:54:58,128
Um...
825
00:55:00,505 --> 00:55:02,966
On the night
that I was detained,
826
00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:06,469
she brought...
827
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:11,057
the informant that...
828
00:55:15,145 --> 00:55:17,897
ended up getting me locked up,
supposedly.
829
00:55:17,981 --> 00:55:20,734
That was the, the version
of the story
830
00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:24,612
that I had,
831
00:55:24,696 --> 00:55:27,449
and that's the version
that I, I ran with.
832
00:55:27,532 --> 00:55:30,076
But my siblings and family,
833
00:55:31,453 --> 00:55:32,620
they're all telling me, no.
834
00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:36,041
She literally is the person
who set you up
835
00:55:36,124 --> 00:55:40,754
and put you away
in exchange for her own...
836
00:55:40,837 --> 00:55:43,256
you know, some case
that maybe she didn't want
837
00:55:43,339 --> 00:55:45,884
to deal with or face.
838
00:55:47,886 --> 00:55:49,429
But,
839
00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:52,140
she denies it to me.
840
00:55:53,683 --> 00:55:56,269
And I still just want
to believe her.
841
00:55:56,352 --> 00:55:57,687
Dr. Kynes:
Mm-hmm.
842
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:05,111
♪ ♪
843
00:56:06,821 --> 00:56:09,908
(deep inhale)
844
00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:13,828
(exhale)
845
00:56:15,163 --> 00:56:17,248
(inhale)
846
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:19,417
(exhale)
847
00:56:20,543 --> 00:56:23,671
(deep breathing continues)
848
00:56:30,136 --> 00:56:32,347
I dreamedI was in the wrong cell.
849
00:56:34,057 --> 00:56:36,476
And you get in troublewhen you're in the wrong cell.
850
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:38,937
It's like, if they catch youin the wrong cell,
851
00:56:39,020 --> 00:56:40,396
it's a problem.
852
00:56:42,023 --> 00:56:44,818
And Ashley was there.
853
00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:46,945
Somehow.
854
00:56:47,028 --> 00:56:50,073
It's just alwaysconsisting of...
855
00:56:50,156 --> 00:56:52,367
elements from my new life.
856
00:56:55,286 --> 00:56:57,956
As someone who'squote-unquote, "free,"
857
00:56:59,791 --> 00:57:03,086
ending up back in prisonwith me,
858
00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:06,422
except now I haveto protect them.
859
00:57:13,763 --> 00:57:16,850
♪ ♪
860
00:57:20,937 --> 00:57:23,982
(breeze blowing)
861
00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:36,494
(TV chatter)
862
00:57:36,578 --> 00:57:39,497
Ashley:
You wanna fly or drive
to Kansas City?
863
00:57:40,248 --> 00:57:41,749
We discussed flying.
864
00:57:41,833 --> 00:57:44,627
Nuri:
Am I gonna come to Kansas City?
865
00:57:46,045 --> 00:57:48,506
That's the plan.
866
00:57:48,590 --> 00:57:51,801
-George: Long drive.
-(TV chatter continues)
867
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:56,514
When I finally did graduate,
868
00:57:56,598 --> 00:57:58,892
I didn't really haveanywhere to go,
869
00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:01,561
-(plane roaring)
-but...
870
00:58:03,062 --> 00:58:06,399
I had a strong partnerin Ashley.
871
00:58:06,482 --> 00:58:09,944
She held me down, and shesupported me and my child.
872
00:58:11,988 --> 00:58:13,865
-(door opens)
-Hey!
873
00:58:13,948 --> 00:58:15,783
-George: Hey.
-It's freezing!
874
00:58:15,867 --> 00:58:18,203
George:
Yeah. It's crazy.
It was just super warm.
875
00:58:18,286 --> 00:58:20,246
I know!
It was hot in Atlanta,
like sweating...
876
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:26,961
George:
You weren't exactly raised
877
00:58:27,045 --> 00:58:29,923
to be partners with
someone who...
878
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:36,554
-spent time... in prison.
-In prison? Yeah.
879
00:58:36,638 --> 00:58:39,057
George:
You know, that wasn't
necessarily...
880
00:58:40,850 --> 00:58:45,021
-what your parents
had in mind for you.
-Yeah.
881
00:58:46,064 --> 00:58:48,191
But they're warming up.
You got a gift.
882
00:58:48,274 --> 00:58:50,693
You got a gift from them
under the Christmas tree.
883
00:58:50,777 --> 00:58:52,612
-I can't believe that shit.
-(laughs)
884
00:58:52,695 --> 00:58:55,823
Like, I think what
ended up happening
885
00:58:55,907 --> 00:58:59,869
is I brought so much
of my, my issues...
886
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:03,122
into the relationship
887
00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:06,251
that I'm only just now getting
addressed through therapy.
888
00:59:09,212 --> 00:59:10,630
I was a mess!
889
00:59:11,714 --> 00:59:13,132
My anger.
890
00:59:14,133 --> 00:59:16,386
I had a really short fuse.
891
00:59:18,054 --> 00:59:20,515
To have a partner that's
super patient with that...
892
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:24,727
it's a blessing.
893
00:59:28,022 --> 00:59:31,276
-(children chattering, laughing)
-(music playing)
894
00:59:33,152 --> 00:59:35,363
My phone says 12:00!
895
00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:37,699
-(children yelling)
-Happy New Year!
896
00:59:37,782 --> 00:59:39,117
Happy New Year!
897
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,245
(shrieking, instinct yelling)
898
00:59:42,328 --> 00:59:44,789
-(pop)
-(distant fireworks crackling)
899
00:59:44,872 --> 00:59:48,251
(joyful chatter)
900
00:59:49,877 --> 00:59:51,504
Niggas is busing.
901
00:59:53,881 --> 00:59:57,010
(indistinct chatter)
902
01:00:00,138 --> 01:00:02,223
(chatter continues)
903
01:00:02,307 --> 01:00:04,350
Ow!
904
01:00:04,434 --> 01:00:07,687
Michael:
All of our siblingshave been to jail. All of us.
905
01:00:07,770 --> 01:00:11,232
-We have been to jail,
but you went to prison, bro.
-(fireworks popping)
906
01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:12,859
We've been to jail,
907
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:16,487
and we, we had more access
to this type of world
908
01:00:16,571 --> 01:00:19,741
that we live in than you do.
909
01:00:19,824 --> 01:00:22,827
Bro, our upbringing
literally deprived us
910
01:00:22,910 --> 01:00:25,330
from thinking the way
that we should be thinking
911
01:00:25,413 --> 01:00:27,457
to where that would've marinate.
912
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:29,792
(chatter)
913
01:00:29,876 --> 01:00:31,252
-(gunshot)
-Tanisha: Oh shit!
914
01:00:31,336 --> 01:00:33,087
Michael:
That was a 12-gauge right there.
915
01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:35,089
-(laughter)
-That was-- See, that was
something different.
916
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:38,676
-That wasn't no 22 right there.
-Hey, everybody,
welcome to the hood!
917
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,928
-(laughing)
-Michael: Nah, we shoot guns.
918
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:44,057
-We shoot guns in Kansas City.
-Tanisha: That was!
919
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:45,558
(laughing)
920
01:00:45,641 --> 01:00:48,186
-What's success?
-You know what I'm saying?
Like, what's success
921
01:00:48,269 --> 01:00:52,023
-other than
accomplishing your goals...
-(fire crackling)
922
01:00:52,106 --> 01:00:53,816
-...whatever the fuck they are.
-(laughs)
923
01:00:53,900 --> 01:00:55,526
Tanisha:
The only person out
of our families
924
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:57,862
that was destined
for greatness was you.
925
01:00:57,945 --> 01:01:01,199
-George: How though? How?
-Like, because...
926
01:01:01,282 --> 01:01:03,242
-the one thing--
-George: What made me so better?
927
01:01:03,326 --> 01:01:07,205
-We grew up in
the same household!
-We did. We did.
928
01:01:07,288 --> 01:01:10,208
-George: We got the same
opportunities...
-No, we didn't.
929
01:01:10,291 --> 01:01:12,668
-George: Oh, so I got
more opportunities?
-Tanisha: You did,
930
01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:14,796
-and the crazy part about it--
-Michael: I don't think he did.
931
01:01:14,879 --> 01:01:16,005
Where?
932
01:01:16,089 --> 01:01:17,799
Tela was my mama.
933
01:01:17,882 --> 01:01:21,260
Like, when Tela went to jail,
when Tela disappeared
934
01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:24,764
-and everybody's dads
would show up to remove them...
-(fireworks popping)
935
01:01:24,847 --> 01:01:27,600
...I was stuck with Barbara!
I know y'all's daddy!
936
01:01:27,683 --> 01:01:29,227
I'm like jealous!
I remember--
937
01:01:29,310 --> 01:01:31,729
-Listen, I remember us
cracking on each other.
-Tanisha: Right!
938
01:01:31,813 --> 01:01:33,481
Like,
"Nigga, nigga, your daddy...
939
01:01:33,564 --> 01:01:35,733
that's why your daddy--"
Y'all used to talk about me!
940
01:01:35,817 --> 01:01:38,111
Like, "That's why your daddy
ain't here, nigga."
941
01:01:38,194 --> 01:01:40,071
-Michael: Yeah.
-"My daddy, nigga, daddy--
942
01:01:40,154 --> 01:01:41,781
My daddy better than yours!"
943
01:01:41,864 --> 01:01:43,408
I used to wanna call
y'all daddy Daddy!
944
01:01:43,491 --> 01:01:46,619
The crazy part about it is
it took for you to go to jail
945
01:01:46,702 --> 01:01:50,248
to actually see the potential
that you had in yourself.
946
01:01:50,331 --> 01:01:52,667
-George: So you think jail
was my opportunity?
-Tanisha: No.
947
01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:56,129
-Michael: It was an opportunity.
-Melany: And if it was, it was
only 'cause he took it that way.
948
01:01:56,212 --> 01:01:59,132
-It's only because it was in me!
-Tanisha: No, I'm not sayin'
949
01:01:59,215 --> 01:02:01,300
that jail was your opportunity.
Jail was your awakening.
950
01:02:01,384 --> 01:02:03,052
George:
How many niggas
you know go to jail?
951
01:02:03,136 --> 01:02:05,513
-How many of them get awakened?
-None.
952
01:02:05,596 --> 01:02:08,307
-None.
-George: So, if jail
isn't inherently good...
953
01:02:08,391 --> 01:02:11,394
(fire crackling)
954
01:02:11,477 --> 01:02:14,522
♪ ♪
955
01:02:18,276 --> 01:02:21,279
-(fire roaring)
-That shit gotta burn, dog.
956
01:02:21,362 --> 01:02:23,239
I'm telling you,
that shit was burning
957
01:02:23,322 --> 01:02:25,450
every night
when I sit in my cell,
958
01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:27,243
and I didn't get a letter
from my mama,
959
01:02:27,326 --> 01:02:28,494
when I didn't know Ashley,
960
01:02:28,578 --> 01:02:30,955
when I didn't hear
from my brothers, my sisters,
961
01:02:31,038 --> 01:02:33,791
nobody! That shit was burning!
962
01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:36,836
I swear to God, it was burning.
963
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:38,838
I swear to God,
it was burning.
964
01:02:38,921 --> 01:02:42,216
-(fire crackling)
-Swear to God,
I ain't lying to you...
965
01:02:44,177 --> 01:02:46,679
(roaring)
966
01:02:46,762 --> 01:02:48,014
(popping)
967
01:02:49,557 --> 01:02:51,225
(distant gunshots)
968
01:03:01,068 --> 01:03:04,197
♪ ♪
969
01:03:21,672 --> 01:03:26,719
Dr. Kynes:
So, George, as we begin today,
970
01:03:26,802 --> 01:03:29,055
I want to invite you
to take in three deep breaths
971
01:03:29,138 --> 01:03:32,975
through your nose and out
through your nose fully...
972
01:03:35,144 --> 01:03:37,063
and deeply.
973
01:03:39,482 --> 01:03:41,859
We welcome the spirit
of the ancestors
974
01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:46,030
who are already with us,
but we honor their presence.
975
01:03:49,742 --> 01:03:51,494
As we fellowship now.
976
01:03:52,370 --> 01:03:55,831
It is for the ancestors.
977
01:03:57,083 --> 01:04:00,169
(acoustic bass strumming)
978
01:04:00,253 --> 01:04:03,172
♪ ♪
979
01:04:03,256 --> 01:04:06,092
(birds chirping)
980
01:04:06,175 --> 01:04:09,428
(music becomes
more intense, avant-garde)
981
01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:21,440
(helicopter whirring)
982
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:27,405
-(crowd screaming, fades in)
-(siren wailing)
983
01:04:30,825 --> 01:04:33,494
(screaming continues)
984
01:04:33,578 --> 01:04:37,915
(single protester
screaming indistinctly)
985
01:04:37,999 --> 01:04:40,960
(indistinct protests continue)
986
01:04:41,043 --> 01:04:44,589
(single protester yelling)
987
01:04:47,300 --> 01:04:48,843
Treshon:
People thinkthis world is normal
988
01:04:48,926 --> 01:04:52,471
when it's really not.Racism is still around...
989
01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:56,809
freakin' people are dying and
everybody just thinks it's okay.
990
01:04:56,892 --> 01:04:59,645
George:
You see the dude
that, um, that, um...
991
01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:01,230
Was jogging?
992
01:05:01,314 --> 01:05:02,857
George:
Him. He was--
993
01:05:02,940 --> 01:05:04,817
And then another dude
was just walking,
994
01:05:04,900 --> 01:05:06,986
and then the cops
was following him,
995
01:05:07,069 --> 01:05:08,946
so he started running.
He got shot.
996
01:05:09,030 --> 01:05:10,865
-George: He got shot.
-Um...
997
01:05:10,948 --> 01:05:12,700
Breonna Taylor, I believe
her name was,
998
01:05:12,783 --> 01:05:15,953
she was just chilling at home.
She got shot.
999
01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:18,122
Uh, let's see who else.
Trayvon Martin?
1000
01:05:18,205 --> 01:05:21,292
He was just walking home.
He got shot.
1001
01:05:23,878 --> 01:05:26,464
Martin Luther King, he got shot.
1002
01:05:26,547 --> 01:05:28,674
Malcolm X, he got shot.
1003
01:05:31,302 --> 01:05:34,096
George:
I mean, you've seen...
You've seen a lot.
1004
01:05:35,181 --> 01:05:36,515
You know,
you step out that door,
1005
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:38,809
a lot of people
don't want to see you live.
1006
01:05:40,895 --> 01:05:44,148
Hold on, that actually kind of
scares me about life now.
1007
01:05:45,232 --> 01:05:47,234
George:
I mean, I get it. I get it.
1008
01:05:47,318 --> 01:05:51,072
It seems powerless.
Like, what can you do?
1009
01:05:51,155 --> 01:05:53,866
But what you can do
is fight it with knowledge.
1010
01:05:53,949 --> 01:05:55,701
Knowledge is your weapon.
1011
01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:01,999
Look more closely
at African history,
1012
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:05,461
the African origins
of the world, the whole world.
1013
01:06:05,544 --> 01:06:08,089
Every single race
came from people
1014
01:06:08,172 --> 01:06:10,883
as dark as our family.
1015
01:06:10,966 --> 01:06:13,344
They're scared of you.
Why are you scared?
1016
01:06:14,804 --> 01:06:18,099
They know that there is
a giant asleep within you.
1017
01:06:20,434 --> 01:06:23,229
And they fear today
that that giant wakes up.
1018
01:06:31,696 --> 01:06:34,824
(rain pattering)
1019
01:06:42,915 --> 01:06:45,126
I actually visited my dad.
1020
01:06:46,168 --> 01:06:49,213
Right after I got out of prison.
1021
01:06:49,296 --> 01:06:52,717
I was able to get
in contact with him.
1022
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:56,595
♪ ♪
1023
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,223
Before I got locked up,
I had just met him,
1024
01:06:59,306 --> 01:07:02,560
and I tried to start
interacting with him.
1025
01:07:02,643 --> 01:07:06,522
You know, I was already kind of
grown and didn't need...
1026
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:10,067
much from him at that point.
1027
01:07:22,496 --> 01:07:25,666
Father:
And you stayed with us
for a while. Good while.
1028
01:07:27,251 --> 01:07:28,544
I still remember that one time
1029
01:07:28,627 --> 01:07:29,879
where you had
the whole house laughing.
1030
01:07:29,962 --> 01:07:32,256
-George: The beans?
-The beans, boy.
1031
01:07:32,339 --> 01:07:36,385
-George: You tell me that story
all the time.
-I said, how the hell?
1032
01:07:36,469 --> 01:07:38,554
We was sitting up there,
you was sitting at the table,
1033
01:07:38,637 --> 01:07:40,181
ready to eat.
1034
01:07:40,264 --> 01:07:41,724
She put some beans
on your plate, you said,
1035
01:07:41,807 --> 01:07:43,434
"Ah man, beans again?"
1036
01:07:43,517 --> 01:07:45,811
(both laugh)
1037
01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:48,606
Had the whole house laughing.
1038
01:07:48,689 --> 01:07:51,817
It's funny though. My daughter's
the same way right now.
1039
01:07:51,901 --> 01:07:54,612
You put some beans in her face,
she going to be like,
1040
01:07:54,695 --> 01:07:57,573
"Man, if you don't give me
some chicken nuggets or...
1041
01:07:57,656 --> 01:07:59,241
(both laugh)
1042
01:07:59,325 --> 01:08:02,328
-...piece of chicken
or something."
-How old is she now?
1043
01:08:02,411 --> 01:08:04,955
-She 5. She 5.
-Yeah?
1044
01:08:05,039 --> 01:08:07,958
Yeah, I had a baby
as soon as I got out.
1045
01:08:09,502 --> 01:08:12,338
Um. So, yeah.
1046
01:08:12,421 --> 01:08:15,257
She's, uh, she's just like me.
1047
01:08:15,341 --> 01:08:17,134
Look like me and everything.
1048
01:08:17,218 --> 01:08:19,512
Father:
Yeah, that's good.
What's your mother up to?
1049
01:08:19,595 --> 01:08:21,514
-She just...
-(George exhales)
1050
01:08:21,597 --> 01:08:23,182
-George: Like, you know--
-I hate to hear it.
1051
01:08:23,265 --> 01:08:26,602
George:
Well, I mean, you know,
when you have...
1052
01:08:27,978 --> 01:08:29,605
She got an addiction.
You know,
1053
01:08:29,688 --> 01:08:32,107
that's what your
grandmother was on.
1054
01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:34,151
But back then,
they called it Sherm.
1055
01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,320
George:
You remember when
Barbara was on Sherm?
1056
01:08:36,403 --> 01:08:39,490
Yeah. Man, she would--
I would come over,
1057
01:08:39,573 --> 01:08:41,325
and I was talking
to your mother,
1058
01:08:41,408 --> 01:08:43,994
and, you know, one thing led
to another, and she said,
1059
01:08:44,078 --> 01:08:45,621
"Come on, let's go downstairs."
1060
01:08:45,704 --> 01:08:46,831
I said, "What about your mama?"
1061
01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:48,874
I'm doing like that.
"Your mama here."
1062
01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:51,377
She said, "She don't
even know you're here."
1063
01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:56,006
Say what?
And I noticed she hadn't moved.
1064
01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:58,634
George:
But she didn't... She was high?
1065
01:08:58,717 --> 01:09:00,135
She didn't even know
I was there.
1066
01:09:00,219 --> 01:09:02,096
-George: What was she,
just high?
-Just sitting there.
1067
01:09:02,179 --> 01:09:04,265
And I walked over there,
and I did like that.
1068
01:09:06,308 --> 01:09:07,601
George:
Get the fuck outta here.
1069
01:09:07,685 --> 01:09:09,770
And she never blinked
or anything.
1070
01:09:09,854 --> 01:09:12,189
-That happened just like that?
You did...
-Just like that.
1071
01:09:12,273 --> 01:09:15,109
And when she found out
that Tela was pregnant,
1072
01:09:15,192 --> 01:09:17,069
she was eight
and a half months pregnant.
1073
01:09:17,152 --> 01:09:20,322
- Didn't even notice.
-Didn't even-- Not never.
1074
01:09:21,532 --> 01:09:24,201
She was sticking way out.
1075
01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:26,537
I came over one day,
and she was sober.
1076
01:09:26,620 --> 01:09:29,456
Oh man, the shit hit the fan.
1077
01:09:29,540 --> 01:09:31,250
(imitating):
"That better not be
you pregnant!
1078
01:09:31,333 --> 01:09:34,545
That better be you just full!"
I said, "Yeah, full of baby."
1079
01:09:34,628 --> 01:09:36,672
(laughter)
1080
01:09:36,755 --> 01:09:39,925
-So... Damn.
I never knew that, man.
-Yeah.
1081
01:09:41,385 --> 01:09:42,887
That's the way it went.
1082
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:47,808
(insects chirping)
1083
01:09:49,685 --> 01:09:52,771
(wind blowing)
1084
01:10:04,658 --> 01:10:07,786
♪ ♪
1085
01:10:19,715 --> 01:10:22,635
Tela:
Having a baby at 15...
1086
01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:28,849
I mean, all I wanted was love.
1087
01:10:29,683 --> 01:10:31,435
-George: Right.
-I...
1088
01:10:32,394 --> 01:10:34,396
Somebody to love me.
1089
01:10:35,689 --> 01:10:39,360
And I figured that
having a baby at 15...
1090
01:10:41,820 --> 01:10:44,782
that would be somebody
that can love me.
1091
01:10:44,865 --> 01:10:46,533
That I can love.
1092
01:10:47,993 --> 01:10:49,995
But not knowing...
1093
01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:54,792
what can-- the things
that came along with that.
1094
01:10:54,875 --> 01:10:57,670
And then when I had to,
I didn't know what to do.
1095
01:10:58,587 --> 01:11:00,005
How to do.
1096
01:11:04,426 --> 01:11:06,512
George:
I mean, I'm glad
you had me, though.
1097
01:11:07,388 --> 01:11:08,514
Thank you. Thank you.
1098
01:11:08,597 --> 01:11:11,016
Tela:
I mean, you was
planned on purpose.
1099
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,435
I mean, you was really planned.
1100
01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:15,479
Really planned.
1101
01:11:16,939 --> 01:11:19,650
Seriously, you just don't know.
1102
01:11:21,902 --> 01:11:25,030
♪ ♪
1103
01:11:29,451 --> 01:11:31,078
You were planned.
1104
01:11:41,797 --> 01:11:44,466
Did your daddy tell you
where your name came from?
1105
01:11:45,884 --> 01:11:48,137
George:
No, you... I just assumed
1106
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:51,140
that it was a combination
between him and my uncle.
1107
01:11:51,223 --> 01:11:53,559
Tela:
George came from my daddy.
1108
01:11:53,642 --> 01:11:55,769
Anthony came from your daddy.
1109
01:11:55,853 --> 01:11:59,648
Dwayne came from a guy
that I was liking.
1110
01:11:59,732 --> 01:12:01,692
-George: What the fuck?
-(Tela laughs)
1111
01:12:01,775 --> 01:12:04,987
Why are you giving me
random niggas' names and shit?
1112
01:12:05,070 --> 01:12:07,031
Did he at least buy some
diapers or something?
1113
01:12:07,114 --> 01:12:08,866
(laughing)
1114
01:12:08,949 --> 01:12:10,367
Like-- (laughs)
1115
01:12:10,451 --> 01:12:13,120
I'm changing my name
to an African name, like.
1116
01:12:13,203 --> 01:12:16,540
-(laughing)
-I don't want this name no more.
1117
01:12:16,623 --> 01:12:18,834
So, who's this nigga?
What's he doing today, like?
1118
01:12:18,917 --> 01:12:21,003
(laughing)
1119
01:12:21,086 --> 01:12:24,006
Just a guy that
I was liking in school.
1120
01:12:24,089 --> 01:12:27,009
-His name was Dwayne.
-He know you named
your baby after him?
1121
01:12:27,092 --> 01:12:28,510
No!
1122
01:12:28,594 --> 01:12:31,680
♪ ♪
1123
01:12:52,618 --> 01:12:55,537
-(insects chirping)
-(fishing reel spooling)
1124
01:12:57,831 --> 01:13:00,375
-(quiet splashing)
-(rod clicking)
1125
01:13:00,459 --> 01:13:03,128
George:
You know how to do it, Michael?
1126
01:13:03,212 --> 01:13:05,380
Damn, when I was locked up,
you motherfuckers was out here
1127
01:13:05,464 --> 01:13:08,467
-learning how to fish, huh?
-(both laugh)
1128
01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:09,927
Michael:
Y'all also understand
1129
01:13:10,010 --> 01:13:12,554
-who we was in Oklahoma
for about four years.
-Right.
1130
01:13:12,638 --> 01:13:14,473
-Y'all was fishing in Oklahoma?
-Mm-hmm.
1131
01:13:17,935 --> 01:13:19,228
Your eyes are probably
better than mine.
1132
01:13:19,311 --> 01:13:20,854
Take it through this hole.
1133
01:13:23,732 --> 01:13:25,734
You can take it
through this one.
1134
01:13:27,486 --> 01:13:30,197
There you go. Connect that one.
1135
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,366
That end to this.
1136
01:13:34,034 --> 01:13:35,452
There you go.
1137
01:13:35,536 --> 01:13:38,163
(poles rattling)
1138
01:13:44,962 --> 01:13:48,882
(insects chirping)
1139
01:13:48,966 --> 01:13:50,551
George:
Want me to throw it for you?
1140
01:13:50,634 --> 01:13:54,346
-(reel spooling)
-That's good.
1141
01:13:54,429 --> 01:13:56,849
-Tela: Know how to do it?
-George: I just need
to hold that.
1142
01:13:56,932 --> 01:13:59,101
Tela:
Yep, and then when you
throw it, let it go.
1143
01:14:04,064 --> 01:14:06,442
-(splash)
-George: Goddamn!
1144
01:14:06,525 --> 01:14:09,820
Tela: (laughs)
He like Devon, Michael.
1145
01:14:09,903 --> 01:14:12,531
-He's like Devon.
-Michael: Oh shit!
1146
01:14:12,614 --> 01:14:14,491
George:
Why didn't that work though?
1147
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:15,909
-That ain't my fault.
-(Tela laughs)
1148
01:14:15,993 --> 01:14:18,412
I let it go!
Like, it didn't, it didn't go.
1149
01:14:18,495 --> 01:14:20,831
Tela:
I'ma show you.
Let me show you how to do it.
1150
01:14:20,914 --> 01:14:23,542
As soon as you toss it,
you let it go.
1151
01:14:23,625 --> 01:14:26,170
-(reel spooling)
-George: I thought I did.
1152
01:14:26,253 --> 01:14:29,339
♪ ♪
1153
01:14:35,637 --> 01:14:37,222
-Is it working?
-Tela: Mm-hmm.
1154
01:14:37,306 --> 01:14:40,726
-(insects chirping)
-(gentle splashing)
1155
01:14:40,809 --> 01:14:44,396
-(doorbell ring tone)
-Hey, Dr. Kynes. Hold on.
Here, say hi, Mama.
1156
01:14:45,314 --> 01:14:47,274
Hello. How are you?
1157
01:14:47,357 --> 01:14:50,485
Dr. Kynes (on laptop):
Hello, how are you?I'm well, thank you.
1158
01:14:50,569 --> 01:14:54,907
-Good to see you and meet you.
-Nice seeing you as well.
1159
01:14:54,990 --> 01:14:58,535
-Dr. Kynes: Thank you much.
-Alright, she's stepping out.
1160
01:14:58,619 --> 01:15:01,496
Dr. Kynes:
So, what's going on, my friend?What's on your heart
1161
01:15:02,206 --> 01:15:03,373
and your mind?
1162
01:15:05,834 --> 01:15:08,712
George:
I just really wannabe more light,
1163
01:15:08,795 --> 01:15:10,380
less serious,
1164
01:15:10,464 --> 01:15:15,010
more happyand, and, um, joyful.
1165
01:15:15,093 --> 01:15:17,804
And I just wonderif life has hardened me
1166
01:15:19,264 --> 01:15:21,016
and made me incapable.
1167
01:15:22,142 --> 01:15:25,354
Dr. Kynes:
Not incapable. Healable.
1168
01:15:28,148 --> 01:15:30,901
Not lost.
1169
01:15:30,984 --> 01:15:35,364
You know what a relationship
is really about, George?
1170
01:15:35,447 --> 01:15:38,700
It's really about
George the adult,
1171
01:15:38,784 --> 01:15:40,827
person, man.
1172
01:15:42,287 --> 01:15:44,081
And George,
1173
01:15:44,164 --> 01:15:45,707
having a relationship
1174
01:15:45,791 --> 01:15:48,210
with his inner little boy.
1175
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:52,089
Because you're the only one
1176
01:15:52,172 --> 01:15:55,801
who can release him
from the inner prison
1177
01:15:56,718 --> 01:15:58,887
that he experienced early on.
1178
01:16:03,558 --> 01:16:06,603
(wind blowing, leaves rustling)
1179
01:16:06,687 --> 01:16:09,731
♪ ♪
1180
01:16:34,589 --> 01:16:38,468
An affirmation affirms...
1181
01:16:38,552 --> 01:16:42,306
something to yourself.
Like, you tell yourself,
1182
01:16:42,389 --> 01:16:43,932
"I am this."
1183
01:16:44,016 --> 01:16:46,935
Not "I will be"
or "I need to do."
1184
01:16:48,061 --> 01:16:50,731
You'll be trying forever,
you know,
1185
01:16:50,814 --> 01:16:52,983
but the minute you say "I am,"
1186
01:16:54,443 --> 01:16:57,195
it's done already.
1187
01:16:57,279 --> 01:17:00,907
-So, write this one down.
Write down...
-(pen clicks)
1188
01:17:03,702 --> 01:17:04,786
(pen clicks)
1189
01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:08,915
"I am not what
has happened to me.
1190
01:17:12,794 --> 01:17:15,547
I am what I choose to become."
1191
01:17:19,676 --> 01:17:21,720
Your mind is a garden
1192
01:17:22,721 --> 01:17:25,682
of fertile soil,
1193
01:17:25,766 --> 01:17:29,227
and you can plant any seeds
you want in there.
1194
01:17:29,311 --> 01:17:34,024
And so what if you began
telling yourself, "I am great"?
1195
01:17:34,107 --> 01:17:36,318
I am not what happened to me.
1196
01:17:36,401 --> 01:17:38,445
I am what I choose to become.
1197
01:17:40,113 --> 01:17:44,368
Tupac wrote a poem about a rose
that grew from concrete.
1198
01:17:44,451 --> 01:17:46,495
That's definitely
not a fertile...
1199
01:17:48,163 --> 01:17:49,623
gardening place.
1200
01:17:49,706 --> 01:17:53,585
But yet, even a rose
can grow from concrete
1201
01:17:53,668 --> 01:17:57,255
if you know how to plant that
seed and nourish it, and so...
1202
01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:59,383
(quietly)
...positivity.
1203
01:18:00,342 --> 01:18:01,676
So...
1204
01:18:04,513 --> 01:18:07,724
Write those down. We'll put them
on a wall or something.
1205
01:18:08,934 --> 01:18:11,770
I mean, the same thing
I told you about...
1206
01:18:11,853 --> 01:18:15,649
eagles versus pigeons.
Which one would you rather be?
1207
01:18:16,650 --> 01:18:18,485
(quietly)
I remember that.
1208
01:18:21,238 --> 01:18:23,407
I always said I wanted
to be an eagle.
1209
01:18:23,490 --> 01:18:26,952
-George: Why?
-Because they fly higher
than pigeons.
1210
01:18:27,035 --> 01:18:29,704
George:
They fly higher, and what does
that allow them to do?
1211
01:18:29,788 --> 01:18:32,707
-See more.
-Exactly.
1212
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:39,548
-Don't be no pigeon, Tre.
-I'm not.
1213
01:18:46,346 --> 01:18:47,431
(click)
1214
01:18:57,357 --> 01:19:00,819
Do you even know where
this place is that I'm painting?
1215
01:19:00,902 --> 01:19:02,320
Nuri:
Egypt?
1216
01:19:02,404 --> 01:19:05,282
George:
Do you know your name
comes from a place in Egypt?
1217
01:19:05,365 --> 01:19:08,285
-Nuri: No.
-Nuri is in Africa.
1218
01:19:08,368 --> 01:19:12,456
It's, um, it's the place where
the Black pharaohs come from.
1219
01:19:12,539 --> 01:19:13,999
Nuri:
I knew it!
1220
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,422
-See where they're from?
-Yeah.
1221
01:19:20,505 --> 01:19:22,466
-What does it say?
-Nuri.
1222
01:19:22,549 --> 01:19:25,635
But, I was actually...
(stammering)
1223
01:19:25,719 --> 01:19:28,680
I actually asked Nissa
about our ancestors.
1224
01:19:28,763 --> 01:19:30,265
-George: Oh, really?
-Mm-hmm.
1225
01:19:30,348 --> 01:19:32,934
But I don't really remember
what she said.
1226
01:19:42,819 --> 01:19:46,531
Tela (on phone):
Well, I'm thankful thatthe axle didn't break.
1227
01:19:46,615 --> 01:19:48,492
'Cause that's whatI thought broke,
1228
01:19:48,575 --> 01:19:50,410
but the axle did not break.
1229
01:19:50,494 --> 01:19:53,830
I'm about to start painting,
but go ahead.
1230
01:19:53,914 --> 01:19:56,500
Tela:
I paid... George Anthony,
1231
01:19:56,583 --> 01:19:59,544
I need to pay for the tow.
1232
01:19:59,628 --> 01:20:01,796
Okay. Just send me
the Cash App information, Mama.
1233
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,341
I'll get it done.
I need to get to work.
1234
01:20:04,424 --> 01:20:06,384
Tela:
Okay. Thank you.
1235
01:20:06,468 --> 01:20:09,137
-Alright, Mama. You're welcome.
-Tela: Alright.
1236
01:20:10,138 --> 01:20:11,223
(hangs up)
1237
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,327
(distant horn)
1238
01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:34,871
(water dripping)
1239
01:20:34,955 --> 01:20:36,331
(distant horn)
1240
01:20:42,462 --> 01:20:45,590
♪ ♪
1241
01:20:55,892 --> 01:20:58,353
George:
I went to Egypt and sawwith my own two eyes
1242
01:20:58,436 --> 01:21:01,439
naturalismthousands of years before
1243
01:21:01,523 --> 01:21:04,109
Rembrandt would everwalk the Earth.
1244
01:21:06,319 --> 01:21:10,198
I look at it as a traditionthat preexisted Rembrandt
1245
01:21:10,282 --> 01:21:11,825
and my favorite old masters,
1246
01:21:11,908 --> 01:21:14,619
and that they keptthe torch burning
1247
01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:17,706
for people like me
1248
01:21:17,789 --> 01:21:20,834
to step up and takemy rightful place in it.
1249
01:21:27,549 --> 01:21:29,718
I see the spirit of just...
1250
01:21:30,969 --> 01:21:34,139
like an unwillingnessto just give up.
1251
01:21:34,222 --> 01:21:36,266
An unwillingness to fail.
1252
01:21:36,349 --> 01:21:39,603
(indistinct)
1253
01:21:39,686 --> 01:21:42,314
♪ ♪
1254
01:21:42,397 --> 01:21:45,609
Is it not evident thatthere was some beauty
1255
01:21:45,692 --> 01:21:47,485
in the ugliness of all this?
1256
01:21:49,404 --> 01:21:51,948
That there was some goodthat can come out
1257
01:21:52,032 --> 01:21:54,242
of a seemingly bad situation?
1258
01:22:08,423 --> 01:22:10,634
I think I'ma finish it.
1259
01:22:10,717 --> 01:22:13,345
I got-- I made
a few attempts already.
1260
01:22:15,555 --> 01:22:17,515
Tela:
I thought that one
was already done.
1261
01:22:17,599 --> 01:22:19,643
Hell no. This thing need to look
1262
01:22:19,726 --> 01:22:21,853
like you're ready
to start talking.
1263
01:22:23,104 --> 01:22:24,689
We're not finished yet.
1264
01:22:26,024 --> 01:22:29,069
It'll be a trip if
I can get it in that, um...
1265
01:22:29,152 --> 01:22:30,987
museum down there.
1266
01:22:34,366 --> 01:22:35,867
Take people to the museum
and be like,
1267
01:22:35,951 --> 01:22:37,786
"Yeah, I'm on
the walls in here."
1268
01:22:39,496 --> 01:22:41,456
It don't look like
much yet, but...
1269
01:22:41,539 --> 01:22:44,167
No, it's gorgeous. I love it.
1270
01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:51,883
♪ ♪
1271
01:23:04,729 --> 01:23:07,774
♪ ♪
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