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My name is Clareece "Precious" Jones.
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I wish I had a Iight-skinned boyfriend
with real nice hair.
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And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine.
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But first, I wanna be
in one of them BET videos.
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Momma said I can't dance.
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Plus, she said, who wants
to see my big ass dancing, anyhow?
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Well, if there's no volunteers,
then l'm going to have to call people.
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Okay, Leticia, you got number one. Leticia!
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Jess Wesley, number two.
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I Iike math. I don't say nothing.
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I don't open my book, even. I just sit there.
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-You down?
-Number six.
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Every day I teII myseIf
something's gonna happen.
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l'm... l'm dead serious.
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Like, I'm gonna break through.
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Or somebody's gonna break through to me.
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I'm gonna be normaI
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and pay attention,
and sit in the front of the class.
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Distributive principles...
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Someday.
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...are principles that
you can do in your head.
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l like Mr. Wicher.
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I pretend he my husband
and we Iive somepIace Iike Westchester.
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Look at him. He Iike me, too, I know it.
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I can teII by his eyes.
He aIways Iooking at me and smiIing at me.
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Boys! Boys! Boys!
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l'm not your fucking boy!
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You're disrupting the class.
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Yeah, well, l'm talking now,
so you listen.
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Shut the fuck up! l'm trying to listen!
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Mr. Wicher know I got his back.
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One twenty-two.
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Why are we barking, Jess?
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Monday's assignment.
l'm assuming everybody did it.
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-No.
-No.
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Please... Quiet. Precious, get your things.
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l have... Come here for a second.
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Now this shit.
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ls there anybody
who didn't do their homework?
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Why? These aren't requests.
These are requirements. Okay?
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You have to go to the principal's office.
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Go to the principal's office!
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All right, that's enough. That's enough.
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No, he's not allowed on campus.
Where was he seen?
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Could you get Mr. Tork from Room 25,
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tell him to go to Room 1 6 right away?
Thank you.
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No. He was seen on the second floor.
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Yes. Thank you.
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Send Clareece in here!
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She's ready for you now.
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Mr. Taylor? Ms. Lichenstein.
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Come in.
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Matthew Williams, second floor.
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ln front of his locker.
Yes. Suspended last week.
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Yeah.
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Yes, absolutely. Thank you.
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Hello, Clareece.
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Are you pregnant?
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You're 1 6. You're still in junior high school,
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and you're pregnant with your second child.
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ls that correct, Clareece?
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Are you pregnant again?
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What happened, Clareece?
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l had sex, Ms. Lichenstein.
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Do you have any other thoughts
about your situation, Clareece?
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Clareece?
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Am I in trouble?
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Thank you. I gotta get back to math.
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Sit down, Clareece. Sit down right now.
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We should have a parent-teacher's
conference with you, me and your mother.
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My mother's busy.
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All right. Well then,
how about if I come to your house?
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lf I were you, I wouldn't.
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l... l'm going to have to suspend you.
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That ain't fair! I didn't do nothing!
l do my work!
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My grades is good!
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ls something going on at home?
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lf something's going on at home,
l want you to tell me right now.
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You get my cigarettes?
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No, they didn't have it.
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l played the number, though.
l couldn't box it.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Right there. Yeah. Daddy loves you.
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Precious, what did you think of the film?
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l thought it was fabulous.
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-What's next for you?
-What?
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-How are you feeling?
-l feel great!
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Just one more, just one more, quick!
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l love you, too!
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You know I love you!
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Hey, boo!
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l ain't gonna say it no more.
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The door was open, so I Iet myseIf in.
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WeII, there goes my chance
to teII you I'm not home.
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Now, Mary, this is important.
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Now, come on, Mary,
she'II have a great time.
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I'd enroII myseIf, but I became ineIigibIe
for teen pageants a few days ago.
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Yeah, I see your acne's cIeared up.
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You know, this pageant can do Brenda
a world of good, Mary.
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And the man in charge, he's tops
in his fieId. A briIIiant promoter.
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How Iong have you two been dating?
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A dance teacher.
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Tell them assholes to stop ringing my bell.
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l hate crackheads.
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No one ever ring this beII
except for crackheads.
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Why they fucking with us?
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Stop ringing the goddamn buzzers,
motherfuckers!
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Give the ghetto a bad name.
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Stop ringing the goddamn buzzer!
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Stop it!
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Press "listen," stupid.
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lt's Sandra Lichenstein
for Clareece and Ms. Mary Johnston.
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Who is that, Precious?
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White bitch from school.
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What do you want?
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Clareece, I want to talk to you
about your education.
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Eighty-six that bitch.
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My mother don't wanna get cut off weIfare.
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And that's just what this visit
gonna resuIt in.
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Ms. Lichenstein, get out of here
before I kick your ass.
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All right, Clareece, I spoke to Mr. Wicher,
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and he told me
that you're one of his best math students.
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lf your fat ass don't get
that bitch away from here...
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...Iike a, Iike a potentiaI for math.
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So I called Mrs. McKnight
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from Higher Education AIternative
Each One Teach One.
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lt's an alternative school.
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Clareece, are you listening to me?
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Yeah.
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Okay. Mrs. McKnight. Each One Teach One.
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lt's located at the 1 1th floor,
Hotel Theresa, 1 25th Street.
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-Get rid of that bitch.
-The semester started a few days ago,
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so you're not too Iate.
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Eleventh floor.
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l heard you the first time.
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Okay.
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I don't know what an aIternative schooI is,
but I feel I wanna know.
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My heart is aII warm inside.
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Mr. Wicher think I'm a good student.
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l knew that he liked me.
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School ain't gonna help none!
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Take your ass down to the welfare.
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Who the fuck she think she is?
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So I guess you think you cute now, right?
Uppity bitch.
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You should have kept
your fucking mouth shut.
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Just 'cause he gonna give you
more children than he give me,
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you think you something fucking special?
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Fuck you and fuck him!
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Precious!
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Precious! Precious!
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Get down here, bitch!
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You brought that white bitch up
in my house!
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You...
Why would you bring that bitch up in here?
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l didn't bring her here.
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Well, why the fuck did she ring my buzzer?
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l can't hear you, Precious.
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Since you got
so much motherfucking mouth,
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and you gonna bring a bitch up
in my house,
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why would that bitch ring
my goddamn buzzer?
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l didn't tell her to come here.
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See, I think right now, you feeling
like you're becoming a grown woman.
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'Cause of that shit you pulled
in the kitchen.
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l should've fucked you up,
but I let you walk away,
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and I let you come get yourself together.
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But, bitch, l'm gonna let you know
if you ever pull that shit on me again,
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that will be your last
motherfucking day standing,
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l promise you that.
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You gonna send a white bitch
to my motherfucking buzzer?
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Talking about some higher education?
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You're a dummy, bitch,
you will never know shit.
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Don't nobody want you.
Don't nobody need you.
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You done fucked around
and fucked my motherfucking man
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and had two motherfucking children,
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and one of them is a goddamn animal,
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running around,
looking crazy as a motherfucker.
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Bitch, you know what?
See, I think you... I think you're trying me.
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l think you're really trying to fuck with me.
You're fucking with my money.
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And you're gonna stand up there
and look down at me
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like you're a motherfucking woman.
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l'm gonna show you
what real women do, bitch.
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See, you don't know
what real motherfucking women do.
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Real motherfucking women sacrifice.
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l should've aborted your motherfucking ass.
'Cause you ain't shit.
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l knew it the day the doctors put you
in my goddamn hand
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you wasn't a goddamn thing,
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and you have that smirk
on your face, bitch?
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Get it off your fucking face!
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Now smile about that!
Smile about that, you fat bitch.
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l'm gonna kill you, bitch!
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Get off me, bitch!
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And "bIank" and eggs?
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-Bacon?
-Right.
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-And "What's up, Doc?" He eats these.
-Carrots.
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-Right. And ice, it comes in a tray.
-lce cubes.
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Right. And the best part of the steak. The...
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-The T-bone. The...
-No.
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-FiIet mignon.
-Right!
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-And an EngIish... Thomas' EngIish...
-Muffin!
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-Right.
-That's it!
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You really need to get some rest.
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You have such a big day
ahead of you tomorrow.
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And remember, Mommy loves you.
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Describe these things that are pIanned.
Things that are planned. Ready? Go!
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Precious, you know I love you.
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l'm gonna kick that white lady
out of my house,
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move you in with me.
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Wanna live in Westchester?
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-Commit a...
-Crime.
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And this is you get back together again.
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-A class...
-Reunion.
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And this is when you're Iike this,
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-you're expecting...
-Pregnant.
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-Yeah. And this is you make a fast...
-Escape.
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-Right.
-That's it!
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Where you going?
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Make sure you play my 852
and tell them to box it.
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And get some kitty litter.
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Ethel, where you at?
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Precious, what are we gonna play?
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Girl, get the fuck out of here.
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Ain't you supposed to be
at school or something?
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You said we was gonna play.
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That's exactly why
we ain't gonna be playing.
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l never said nothing like that.
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You would say some shit like that to me,
and you don't even mean it?
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No, l'm not playing with you.
No, and she call... Hold on.
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Each One Teach One, hold, please.
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Yes. She called my house.
l know it wasn't your sister, Trey.
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Because it wasn't her.
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What this is here?
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Each One Teach One.
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l'm looking for an alternative school.
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This is an alternative.
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What alternative is?
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What exactly are you asking me?
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Lady at my other school
told me to come here.
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Hotel Theresa.
Said it's an alternative school.
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An alternative school, it's like a choice.
lt's a different way of doing things.
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So, I need your discharge papers
saying that they discharged you.
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l got kicked out of school
'cause I was pregnant.
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Well, I still need your discharge papers,
otherwise we can't let you in.
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Ms. Lichenstein didn't say all that.
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You the one she called about.
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Clareece P. Jones?
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They already sent over
your discharge papers and stuff.
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00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:17,053
l could start today?
247
00:18:17,137 --> 00:18:20,473
Yeah. Are you currently receiving AFDC?
248
00:18:20,557 --> 00:18:23,601
My mother get AFDC
for me and my daughter.
249
00:18:23,685 --> 00:18:26,896
So your mother has custody of you and
your daughter, and you're on her budget?
250
00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:29,941
Okay, well, l'm gonna need a copy
of your mother's budget,
251
00:18:30,025 --> 00:18:33,027
and a copy of your phone bill
and your utility bill.
252
00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,405
We gotta give you a few tests,
test your reading and your math level,
253
00:18:36,490 --> 00:18:38,157
see where to place you.
254
00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:41,661
Hold on, baby. Each One Teach One, hold.
255
00:18:42,579 --> 00:18:47,125
To enter into the GED classes,
you gotta get an 8.0 or better on the TABE.
256
00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:21,742
There's aIways something wrong
with these tests.
257
00:19:23,829 --> 00:19:25,955
These tests paint a picture of me
with no brain.
258
00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:29,333
These tests paint a picture
of me and my mother,
259
00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:31,878
my whoIe famiIy, as Iess than dumb.
260
00:19:31,962 --> 00:19:36,048
Just ugIy, bIack grease to be wiped away,
find anotherjob for.
261
00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:40,052
Sometimes I wish I was dead.
262
00:19:41,722 --> 00:19:45,433
I'II be okay, I guess, 'cause I'm Iooking up.
263
00:19:47,644 --> 00:19:50,188
I'm Iooking up for a piano to faII.
264
00:19:50,272 --> 00:19:54,233
Or a desk, couch, TV... Momma, maybe.
265
00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:57,445
AIways something in my way.
266
00:19:58,780 --> 00:19:59,780
Yeah, man.
267
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:02,116
Yo, make sure you get that
for me, too, man.
268
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,701
Alternative.
269
00:20:03,785 --> 00:20:05,786
Man, you gotta stop smoking
them shits, man.
270
00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:08,164
That ain't the only thing
that's gonna fucking kill you.
271
00:20:08,248 --> 00:20:10,124
Hustling in these streets gonna kill you.
272
00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:12,168
lt is what it is.
273
00:20:12,252 --> 00:20:14,337
Then my mind come back down to Earth.
274
00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,965
Let me get some of that sweet ass, orca!
275
00:20:18,467 --> 00:20:19,467
What up, mama?
276
00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:21,594
Why boys aIways grabbing on themseIves?
277
00:20:21,678 --> 00:20:25,514
You heard what the fuck I said?
l said give me some fucking ass.
278
00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:28,392
l'm serious!
When you gonna let me hit that?
279
00:20:28,477 --> 00:20:29,518
That bitch is laughing...
280
00:20:29,603 --> 00:20:30,978
I wish they'd Ieave me aIone.
281
00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,064
-She's stupid.
-Yeah.
282
00:20:35,734 --> 00:20:37,610
Yo, that's not even funny.
283
00:20:38,153 --> 00:20:40,488
That's what she'd get anyway, no.
284
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,492
Precious!
285
00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:47,239
Ma, I need some money!
286
00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:53,162
Ma, l'm hungry!
287
00:22:55,248 --> 00:22:57,792
Come take care of Mommy, Precious.
288
00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:05,091
I wish she'd stop this shit.
289
00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:14,100
The other day I cried.
290
00:23:15,143 --> 00:23:18,854
I feIt stupid. But you know what?
291
00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:21,065
Fuck that day.
292
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,195
That's why God, or whoever,
makes new days.
293
00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:28,656
Still hungry, though.
294
00:23:34,454 --> 00:23:36,831
Nigger wants me to leave my kids.
295
00:23:38,041 --> 00:23:39,542
They're my kids.
296
00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:45,589
-What d'you want, baby?
-Give me a basket, please.
297
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:47,508
-Sides?
-l don't know yet.
298
00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:51,220
Still thinking about it.
Trying to watch my figure.
299
00:23:55,058 --> 00:23:58,060
Butchie, you got a 1 0-piece ready?
300
00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:21,375
Potato salad.
301
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:23,043
Thank you.
302
00:24:29,050 --> 00:24:30,885
Hell, no, she didn't!
303
00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:33,929
Get her ass! Get that big bitch!
304
00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:10,049
No, I am not the one.
305
00:26:16,866 --> 00:26:18,325
You in ABE?
306
00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:21,495
Yeah.
307
00:26:23,164 --> 00:26:24,873
Time's a-wasting.
308
00:26:48,189 --> 00:26:49,898
What's your name?
309
00:26:50,734 --> 00:26:52,192
Clareece.
310
00:26:53,403 --> 00:26:55,154
Are you coming in?
311
00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:04,038
That door closes in 20 seconds.
312
00:27:09,419 --> 00:27:11,712
How are you guys doing today?
313
00:27:13,214 --> 00:27:15,799
Would you like to join us, Consuelo?
314
00:27:16,926 --> 00:27:19,470
Consuelo, class is beginning.
315
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:25,768
You guys know
that you are in the ABE class.
316
00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:29,772
This is not GED.
This is to get you ready for your GED.
317
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:54,380
These journals are very important
to this class, so do not forget them.
318
00:27:54,464 --> 00:27:56,840
You will need to use them every day
that you are here.
319
00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,384
They are the key to this class.
320
00:27:58,468 --> 00:27:59,802
lt's 9:07, Joann. You're late.
321
00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:02,513
You're the one who said breakfast is
the most important meal of the day.
322
00:28:02,597 --> 00:28:05,557
Tomorrow, that door will be locked at 9:00.
323
00:28:08,728 --> 00:28:12,523
l want you to state your name,
where you were born,
324
00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:17,277
your favorite color, something you do well
and why you're here.
325
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:20,155
l'll go first.
326
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,782
When you due?
327
00:28:22,659 --> 00:28:24,827
-My name...
-What you mean, you don't know?
328
00:28:24,911 --> 00:28:26,578
...is Blu Rain.
329
00:28:26,663 --> 00:28:28,914
-That's your real name?
-Yes, it is.
330
00:28:28,998 --> 00:28:31,458
Your first name's Blu?
331
00:28:34,671 --> 00:28:38,966
My favorite color is purple. I sing well.
332
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:41,885
And l'm here
333
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,807
because I love to teach.
334
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:48,350
She like to sing.
335
00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:49,893
Rhonda?
336
00:28:49,978 --> 00:28:53,981
I wish I couId sing.
Go to church and sing in the choir.
337
00:28:54,858 --> 00:28:56,233
Show them how it's done.
338
00:28:56,317 --> 00:29:01,029
All right.
My name is Rhonda Patrice Johnson.
339
00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:04,241
Problem?
340
00:29:05,618 --> 00:29:07,536
-l should smack her.
-What?
341
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:13,167
l was born in Kingston, Jamaica,
and my favorite color is blue.
342
00:29:13,668 --> 00:29:15,252
And I cook good.
343
00:29:15,336 --> 00:29:17,963
My mother, she used to have a restaurant
over on 7th Avenue.
344
00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:20,632
Before she get sick,
she teach me everything.
345
00:29:20,717 --> 00:29:24,553
So l'm here to get my reading up,
so I can get my GED.
346
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:33,353
My name is Rita Romero.
l was born here in Harlem.
347
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:38,692
l'm here 'cause I was an addict
and I dropped out of school.
348
00:29:39,527 --> 00:29:42,654
So I never got
my reading and writing together.
349
00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:44,990
My favorite color's black.
350
00:29:45,074 --> 00:29:46,450
What do you do good?
351
00:29:46,534 --> 00:29:49,286
"Well," Joann. "What do you do well?"
352
00:29:49,370 --> 00:29:52,289
-What do I do well?
-No. Rita?
353
00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:55,626
l'm a good mother. Very good mother.
354
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:02,090
My name's Jermaine.
My favorite color is red.
355
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:04,301
Tell us where you were born first.
356
00:30:04,385 --> 00:30:07,554
l was born in the Bronx. Still live there.
357
00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:11,558
My favorite color is red. Used to be blue.
358
00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:15,145
l can dance real good.
359
00:30:15,230 --> 00:30:17,439
Homie of mine told me
about Each One Teach One,
360
00:30:17,524 --> 00:30:20,275
so I came here to stay out of trouble.
361
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,153
So you came here to Harlem
to stay out of trouble? ls that right?
362
00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:24,613
Yeah.
363
00:30:24,697 --> 00:30:27,366
-Consuelo?
-This is bullshit.
364
00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:28,992
You think so?
365
00:30:33,748 --> 00:30:35,123
Clareece?
366
00:30:37,752 --> 00:30:39,419
Can I skip, too?
367
00:30:41,422 --> 00:30:42,881
Joann?
368
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:46,426
Okay. l'm Joann. Hey.
369
00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:51,265
My favorite color is fluorescent beige
370
00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:54,226
and my ambition is to have
my own record layer.
371
00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:55,352
What's a record layer?
372
00:30:55,436 --> 00:30:58,355
Tell us where you come from
and why you come to this school.
373
00:30:58,439 --> 00:31:00,399
l was born in Kings County Hospital,
374
00:31:00,483 --> 00:31:02,901
but my mother moved us to Harlem
when I was nine.
375
00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:08,031
l'm here to get my GED, and then...
Well, l'm already into the music industry.
376
00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:11,702
l'm just trying to take care of
this little education thing so I can move up.
377
00:31:11,786 --> 00:31:16,832
Let's begin. This is ABE.
378
00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:18,250
Can I go?
379
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,134
l wish I could sit
in the back of the cIass again.
380
00:31:35,643 --> 00:31:39,688
My name Clareece "Precious" Jones.
381
00:31:40,815 --> 00:31:42,566
l go by Precious.
382
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:47,696
l live in Harlem. I like yellow.
383
00:31:48,781 --> 00:31:54,828
And I had problems at my other school,
so I come here.
384
00:31:57,165 --> 00:31:59,082
Something you do well?
385
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:02,961
Nothing.
386
00:32:03,671 --> 00:32:06,006
Everybody's good at something.
387
00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:10,469
Come on.
388
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:17,809
Well, I can cook. And...
389
00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:23,065
l never really talked in class before.
390
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,196
How does that make you feel?
391
00:32:36,579 --> 00:32:37,746
Here.
392
00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:43,543
lt makes me feel here.
393
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:48,006
Everybody open theirjournal.
394
00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:52,135
Write the date at the top of the page,
and write.
395
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,931
l don't care if you spell everything wrong.
396
00:32:56,015 --> 00:32:58,141
l don't care if it's grammatically incorrect.
But just write.
397
00:32:58,226 --> 00:32:59,935
Write anything that you're feeling.
398
00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:02,354
This class will be a revolving door.
399
00:33:02,438 --> 00:33:05,607
Some of you will make it
and some of you won't.
400
00:33:07,318 --> 00:33:09,069
Fifteen minutes. Go.
401
00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:17,077
Before, I got a A-minus at EngIish,
and I didn't have to say nothing.
402
00:33:18,371 --> 00:33:22,499
Ms. Rain said we gonna read
and write in our notebooks every day.
403
00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:24,751
How we supposed to do that?
404
00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:30,340
But then she see the worry on my face
and she say,
405
00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:33,593
"The Iongest journey
begin with a singIe step."
406
00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:38,890
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
407
00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:41,518
Come on, come on, do the work.
408
00:33:41,602 --> 00:33:45,022
You love it, love it, learn it.
409
00:33:46,065 --> 00:33:47,482
Consuelo?
410
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:50,110
"C" for Consuelo.
411
00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:52,320
"C" for kick your ass.
412
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:54,740
lt's "K" for kick your ass, stupid.
413
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:56,825
l got the "D," Ms. Rain.
414
00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:02,664
"D" for dick.
415
00:34:03,499 --> 00:34:05,625
Ms. Rain, tell this little-ass bitch
that she don't know me.
416
00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:07,669
Which you wish you had.
417
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:17,095
-Help her.
-"E."
418
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:21,808
"E."
419
00:34:48,336 --> 00:34:49,878
"F" for fat.
420
00:34:51,339 --> 00:34:52,547
What?
421
00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:54,174
Good.
422
00:34:57,762 --> 00:35:00,847
Hey! Hey! Hey! Quit it! Hey!
423
00:35:01,974 --> 00:35:03,850
-What?
-Hey, you stop it right now!
424
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:05,477
-You fucking...
-Quit it!
425
00:35:05,561 --> 00:35:06,686
-She just hit me!
-Drop it!
426
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:07,896
Shut the fuck up!
427
00:35:09,148 --> 00:35:10,232
She just slapped me!
428
00:35:10,316 --> 00:35:11,650
Get out.
429
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,986
We don't fight in my class. Sit down.
430
00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:21,701
"C" for cold.
431
00:35:31,254 --> 00:35:33,255
Do you live with anybody?
432
00:35:34,590 --> 00:35:36,007
My mother.
433
00:35:36,717 --> 00:35:38,385
What does she do?
434
00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:42,430
She don't do nothing.
435
00:35:46,018 --> 00:35:48,895
l want you to read a page from this book.
436
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:58,321
Try.
437
00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:03,910
All I need you to do is sound out
these words for me.
438
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:05,537
You don't have to know every word.
439
00:36:05,621 --> 00:36:09,332
You just have to... lt doesn't matter
if you stumble or... Try for me...
440
00:36:09,417 --> 00:36:13,545
...or trip up on it.
You just need to say what you know.
441
00:36:13,629 --> 00:36:17,257
Come on. You can do this.
Try. Take it word by word.
442
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:19,926
-Are you listening to me?
-Precious!
443
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:23,013
l just wanna know where you are
in your reading skills.
444
00:36:23,097 --> 00:36:24,389
'Cause l'm looking at your test scores...
445
00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:26,975
Some higher fucking learning.
You're a dumb bitch!
446
00:36:27,059 --> 00:36:28,685
Try to read, okay?
447
00:36:28,769 --> 00:36:31,104
Just heIp me and then I can heIp you.
448
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,607
We'll start from scratch. Word for word.
449
00:36:33,691 --> 00:36:36,234
l want you better than your mother.
450
00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:39,696
-l'm gonna call the nurse.
-No.
451
00:36:44,744 --> 00:36:47,120
lt all look the same to me.
452
00:36:50,791 --> 00:36:52,375
What's this?
453
00:36:54,754 --> 00:36:57,130
l can't do that, Ms. Rain.
454
00:36:58,174 --> 00:36:59,841
Push yourself.
455
00:37:02,428 --> 00:37:03,637
A.
456
00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:06,890
What's this word?
457
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:14,940
Do you know the letters? Come on.
458
00:37:16,525 --> 00:37:17,651
"D."
459
00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:22,280
"A."
460
00:37:23,866 --> 00:37:25,242
"Y."
461
00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:27,994
Do you know that word?
462
00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:31,706
"Day."
463
00:37:33,834 --> 00:37:35,627
What word is that?
464
00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:39,506
Ate. Ate.
465
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,008
Good. Almost. The word is "At."
466
00:37:43,844 --> 00:37:45,053
"At."
467
00:37:47,682 --> 00:37:48,932
"The."
468
00:37:51,644 --> 00:37:52,727
Sound it out.
469
00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:54,312
"Beach."
470
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:57,524
The word is "Shore."
lt's almost like "Beach."
471
00:37:58,234 --> 00:37:59,693
Very good.
472
00:38:00,319 --> 00:38:02,862
Now, read the whole thing for me.
473
00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:06,032
"A
474
00:38:07,576 --> 00:38:08,994
"Day
475
00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:13,748
"At The
476
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:16,209
"Shore."
477
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:26,052
Get your big ass in here.
478
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,026
Where was you at this morning?
479
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,201
You hear me talking to you?
Where was you at this morning?
480
00:38:50,286 --> 00:38:52,662
School. I was at school.
481
00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:54,164
You a lying whore.
482
00:38:54,248 --> 00:38:56,249
-l'm not lying.
-You is.
483
00:38:56,834 --> 00:38:59,336
The welfare done called here saying
they gonna remove you from my budget
484
00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:01,296
'cause you ain't been
attending school regularly.
485
00:39:01,380 --> 00:39:03,089
l told you I got kicked out.
486
00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:05,216
l been home nearly every day
for two weeks now.
487
00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:08,678
You ain't told me nothing
about no damn school today.
488
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:11,765
l told you I was going
to school this morning.
489
00:39:13,434 --> 00:39:16,644
You plan on putting some food
in that frying pan?
490
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:24,486
Precious, you got something
you wanna say?
491
00:39:24,570 --> 00:39:26,696
-No.
-Then don't be slamming shit down in here.
492
00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:28,365
You understand?
493
00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:30,742
Yes, ma'am.
494
00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:35,872
You need to forget about that school shit
and take your ass down to the welfare.
495
00:39:35,956 --> 00:39:37,791
l'm getting a stipend from school.
496
00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,085
Fool, what the fuck is a stipend?
What is that?
497
00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:43,755
Fuck a stipend.
l said take your ass down to the welfare.
498
00:39:43,839 --> 00:39:44,964
Right now?
499
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:48,718
Why in the fuck would you go right now?
lt's at nighttime. Shit is closed.
500
00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:50,053
You gotta be there by 7:00 a.m.
501
00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:52,722
in the morning
if you wanna talk to somebody.
502
00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,432
Fucking stupid.
503
00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:01,773
You think you're too good now?
ls that what it is?
504
00:40:02,566 --> 00:40:05,485
You think you is too good for the welfare?
505
00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:13,118
There's more white folk getting assistance
than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis.
506
00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:16,538
I think I said therapy...
507
00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:20,375
Hurry your ass up.
l am in here fucking starving.
508
00:40:21,127 --> 00:40:22,752
Now what you gonna do
if I die of starvation?
509
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:25,004
Where you gonna go after that?
510
00:40:26,173 --> 00:40:28,133
l forgot. School.
511
00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:32,429
Each... What that bitch say?
Each one do what?
512
00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:34,597
Each one teach one?
513
00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:36,141
Well, they don't know
who the fuck they teaching,
514
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,393
'cause you can't learn shit.
515
00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:41,813
Keep on listening to them white people.
516
00:40:41,897 --> 00:40:44,566
That's what's gonna get you fucked up.
517
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:49,404
Precious, l'm hungry.
518
00:41:15,389 --> 00:41:19,225
You ain't cooked no collard greens
with the fucking pigs' feet?
519
00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:22,729
Like, how am I supposed to eat pigs' feet
with no collard greens?
520
00:41:22,813 --> 00:41:26,649
And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet
have so much hair in it?
521
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:30,028
You eat it. You come eat this shit.
522
00:41:30,112 --> 00:41:32,405
-l'm not hungry, though.
-Yes, you is.
523
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,658
Precious, if you don't get
this goddamn plate...
524
00:41:41,081 --> 00:41:45,585
You just fix mine when you get done.
Since you fucked it up, you gonna eat it up.
525
00:41:46,086 --> 00:41:49,005
Hurry up and eat, Precious.
l'm fucking hungry, too.
526
00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:55,470
And don't let it get cold,
'cause cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit.
527
00:44:04,141 --> 00:44:07,352
So, tell me about...
Tell me about your home life.
528
00:44:10,397 --> 00:44:12,899
Ain't nothing to really talk about.
529
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,902
You're in a safe place. Just talk.
530
00:44:16,236 --> 00:44:17,236
What's going on?
531
00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:18,655
What's the first thing
that comes to your mind
532
00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:20,865
when you think about home?
533
00:44:20,949 --> 00:44:24,661
l just wish I had my own TV,
so I could watch it in my room.
534
00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:28,956
lf I had my own TV,
l wouldn't have to watch it with my mother.
535
00:44:29,041 --> 00:44:31,834
And what's it like,
watching TV with your mother?
536
00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:34,671
You enjoy watching TV with your mother?
537
00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:39,759
l need to know about your home life.
l need to know what it's like where you live.
538
00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:42,887
My mother's like a whale on the couch.
539
00:44:42,971 --> 00:44:46,974
She say I eat all the time,
but she always making me eat.
540
00:44:47,059 --> 00:44:49,268
Then she call me a fat mess.
541
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:52,480
She say the apartment
is little 'cause of me.
542
00:44:52,564 --> 00:44:55,358
Only time she ever leaves
is to play her numbers.
543
00:44:55,442 --> 00:44:58,361
l feel like I could just sit in the house
with her every day,
544
00:44:58,445 --> 00:44:59,862
the shades drawn,
545
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:04,158
watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again.
546
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:07,286
Can you help out with that?
547
00:45:08,497 --> 00:45:11,165
Can we talk about something else now?
548
00:45:17,464 --> 00:45:19,382
How about your firstborn?
549
00:45:19,466 --> 00:45:20,800
Mongo?
550
00:45:22,636 --> 00:45:24,721
Mongo is her... ls that...
551
00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:28,057
Mongo. That's short for "mongoloid."
552
00:45:28,934 --> 00:45:33,271
ls that what you call her? Or that's...
What is that? A nickname?
553
00:45:33,981 --> 00:45:35,898
She got Down's syndrome.
554
00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:45,074
How you doing, Precious?
555
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:47,744
My grandmother Toosie
bring IittIe Mongo over to our house
556
00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:52,165
on days when the sociaI worker come,
so it look like she live with us.
557
00:45:53,667 --> 00:45:55,710
Answer the fucking door.
558
00:45:57,379 --> 00:45:59,630
Do you see what you did? God damn it.
559
00:45:59,715 --> 00:46:03,009
Then my mother gets money
and the food stamps for me and Mongo.
560
00:46:03,093 --> 00:46:04,510
Who is it?
561
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:06,721
lt's Ms. Turner.
562
00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:08,806
Social worker's here.
563
00:46:08,891 --> 00:46:12,602
Why didn't you tell me that bitch
was coming so fucking early?
564
00:46:12,686 --> 00:46:15,354
My fucking wig. Come get my wig!
565
00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:16,773
Come up!
566
00:46:21,528 --> 00:46:23,362
Where's my lipstick?
567
00:46:27,117 --> 00:46:29,744
Thank you, thank you.
568
00:46:39,671 --> 00:46:42,924
-Get off of me.
-Leave that child alone, please.
569
00:46:43,008 --> 00:46:45,218
Mind your goddamn business.
570
00:46:47,095 --> 00:46:49,096
-Hi, Precious.
-Hey.
571
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:52,308
-Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?
-Hi, Mary. How are you?
572
00:46:52,392 --> 00:46:55,645
Please excuse that.
My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over.
573
00:46:55,729 --> 00:46:58,022
Please, have a seat. Excuse the mess.
574
00:46:58,106 --> 00:46:59,649
-Thank you.
-Thanks.
575
00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:00,983
How are you, Mary?
576
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:04,070
l'm doing really good, Ms. Turner.
Thank you.
577
00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:07,448
When was the last time
you've taken her to the doctor?
578
00:47:08,575 --> 00:47:10,910
Precious, when...
When did we take her? The baby?
579
00:47:10,994 --> 00:47:12,036
Last month.
580
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,540
Yeah... On the 1 6th.
On the 1 6th. Yes, yes, ma'am.
581
00:47:16,124 --> 00:47:18,709
Okay, and what did the doctor say?
582
00:47:21,296 --> 00:47:24,257
They said
that she's progressing really good.
583
00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:26,133
She's doing really good.
584
00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:28,386
-That's good.
-Yes, ma'am.
585
00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:30,221
And have you been looking for a job?
586
00:47:30,305 --> 00:47:34,600
l have, Ms. Turner. I am.
But they've all been saying the same thing.
587
00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:38,187
You know, they'll call me back.
They'll get back to me.
588
00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:42,692
When did you go looking for the job?
589
00:47:42,776 --> 00:47:46,946
l went last week
and I filled out several applications.
590
00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:50,741
And they all said the same thing,
that they would call me.
591
00:47:52,828 --> 00:47:54,120
Mommy!
592
00:47:54,496 --> 00:47:56,998
No! No!
593
00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:00,543
ls that a new microwave oven?
594
00:48:00,961 --> 00:48:02,920
A... A microwave?
595
00:48:03,964 --> 00:48:07,633
No, ma'am.
We warm our things up in the oven.
596
00:48:08,969 --> 00:48:11,429
-l see. lt's a toaster oven.
-Yes. Yes, ma'am.
597
00:48:11,513 --> 00:48:15,808
Okay.
l will be seeing and speaking with you
598
00:48:17,102 --> 00:48:18,102
in a week or so.
599
00:48:18,186 --> 00:48:19,228
-ln a week or so?
-Yes.
600
00:48:19,313 --> 00:48:22,815
Okay, do you know what time you'll be...
You'll be coming?
601
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,150
-l'll let you know.
-Okay.
602
00:48:24,234 --> 00:48:25,610
-l'll let you know.
-Thank you so much.
603
00:48:25,694 --> 00:48:28,487
Precious, any questions for me?
604
00:48:30,866 --> 00:48:32,658
How are you, Precious?
605
00:48:32,743 --> 00:48:35,828
l'm doing good. How you doing?
606
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,581
l'm good, thank you.
607
00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:41,751
Ladies, thank you for your time.
608
00:48:41,835 --> 00:48:43,753
Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.
Have a great day.
609
00:48:43,837 --> 00:48:46,005
-And you. Bye, Sheila.
-Bye.
610
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:53,554
Come get this motherfucking... Get her.
611
00:48:53,639 --> 00:48:56,515
Moving all around and shit
while l'm trying to talk to this bitch.
612
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,517
Makes me fucking itch.
613
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,563
She done threw her fucking candy
on the floor.
614
00:49:02,648 --> 00:49:04,190
Goddamn animal.
615
00:49:05,817 --> 00:49:08,945
And now you gonna give it to her?
Put the fucking candy back on the floor!
616
00:49:09,029 --> 00:49:10,571
Then you go and pick it up
and let her have it.
617
00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:13,866
You're so fucking stupid.
Just like her dumb ass.
618
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:17,662
That bitch gonna come up in here
and I gotta fucking make pretend?
619
00:49:17,746 --> 00:49:19,080
l'm so sick of it.
620
00:49:19,164 --> 00:49:21,624
l don't know what the fuck
you shaking your head for.
621
00:49:21,708 --> 00:49:23,167
You didn't do no goddamn better.
622
00:49:23,251 --> 00:49:25,336
You know what?
Let's talk about your father.
623
00:49:25,420 --> 00:49:27,880
Tell me about your relationship with him.
624
00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:30,424
l don't know much more
than you do, Ms. White.
625
00:49:30,509 --> 00:49:32,176
lt's Ms. Weiss.
626
00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:34,929
Talk to me about
the little you do know about your father,
627
00:49:35,013 --> 00:49:38,265
'cause it is important,
whether you know it or not.
628
00:49:39,059 --> 00:49:41,644
He give me this baby
and my one before it, but l...
629
00:49:41,728 --> 00:49:44,313
What did you say he gave you?
630
00:49:44,398 --> 00:49:45,815
-Nothing.
-No, Clareece, you just said
631
00:49:45,899 --> 00:49:47,066
your father gave you something.
632
00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:49,151
-l heard you just say...
-You didn't hear shit.
633
00:49:49,236 --> 00:49:52,029
-l heard you say your father...
-l ain't say nothing. I ain't say shit like it.
634
00:49:52,114 --> 00:49:53,948
-l don't care, honey.
-l didn't say nothing like that.
635
00:49:54,032 --> 00:49:55,616
-l need to know this.
-Let's move on.
636
00:49:55,701 --> 00:49:57,076
l need to know this to help you.
637
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,162
-Bitch, can we change the subject?
-Okay.
638
00:50:00,247 --> 00:50:03,416
Well, l'll see you next time, then.
Or maybe you'll see someone else.
639
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:08,087
But you're gonna have to talk to somebody
if you want your check, sweetie.
640
00:50:18,306 --> 00:50:20,349
l see vampires, too.
641
00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:26,522
They come at night.
They tell me l'm one of them.
642
00:50:27,899 --> 00:50:31,027
They say, "Precious, you belong with us."
643
00:50:33,447 --> 00:50:35,948
And then they go downstairs
through the floor.
644
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,868
The people that live under us,
they is vampires,
645
00:50:38,952 --> 00:50:41,287
so that's where they should go.
646
00:50:41,830 --> 00:50:43,998
They be so nasty, though,
647
00:50:44,082 --> 00:50:46,459
leaving their dirty tampons and shit
in the garbage.
648
00:50:46,543 --> 00:50:48,961
Don't even offer to take it out.
649
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:51,589
They got no fucking home training.
650
00:50:54,634 --> 00:50:58,387
l been going to the doctor, too. lt's nice.
651
00:50:59,806 --> 00:51:04,143
Ms. Rain fall out when she found out
l ain't never been to no doctor before.
652
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:09,690
Don't know how I had my first baby
on the kitchen floor
653
00:51:09,775 --> 00:51:12,693
with my momma kicking me
upside my head.
654
00:51:15,363 --> 00:51:16,739
Them the kind of things
you're talking about
655
00:51:16,823 --> 00:51:19,658
when you say,
say whatever come to my mind?
656
00:51:24,206 --> 00:51:26,957
That's the end of them welfare checks.
657
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:31,087
I just couIdn't Iie no more.
l shouldn't have said none of that.
658
00:51:34,633 --> 00:51:36,425
Momma gonna kiII me.
659
00:51:45,268 --> 00:51:46,852
Motherfuckers!
660
00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:52,108
Are we done?
661
00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:53,943
l'm not doing this with you today.
662
00:51:54,027 --> 00:51:56,695
At night, we went out on a fieId trip.
663
00:52:01,868 --> 00:52:03,786
These girls is crazy.
664
00:52:04,204 --> 00:52:07,540
Ain't nobody ever grabbed my hand
like that before.
665
00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:26,725
...as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
666
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:29,812
for the presidency
of the United States of America.
667
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,233
...and by having destroyed it,
now we don't know...
668
00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:41,574
...and the testimony you're about to give
wiII be the truth, the whoIe truth...
669
00:52:41,658 --> 00:52:43,534
l still have a dream.
670
00:52:45,370 --> 00:52:48,998
It is a dream deepIy rooted
in the American dream.
671
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:54,003
I have a dream that one day
672
00:52:55,505 --> 00:53:00,676
this nation wiII rise up
and Iive out the true meaning of...
673
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,887
I'm gonna teach my baby aII of this.
674
00:53:02,971 --> 00:53:06,015
"We hoId these truths to be seIf-evident,
675
00:53:06,099 --> 00:53:08,184
"that aII men are created equaI."
676
00:53:08,268 --> 00:53:10,519
No fear. That's bullshit. That's bullshit.
677
00:53:10,604 --> 00:53:11,687
You mean, write a whole new one?
678
00:53:11,771 --> 00:53:14,648
No, girl, if I need to explain myself to you...
679
00:53:14,733 --> 00:53:16,483
-You'll figure it out.
-You think that l'm stupid?
680
00:53:16,568 --> 00:53:19,612
Oh, my God. That I believe in you?
681
00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:23,157
That I think you're incredible?
682
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:24,950
Yes, but I don't know what to do.
683
00:53:25,035 --> 00:53:28,078
All right, pull it together. Okay.
Who's next?
684
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:30,372
I'm happy to be writing.
685
00:53:30,457 --> 00:53:33,459
-Go ahead, Rhonda.
-I'm happy to be in schooI, too.
686
00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:36,879
Ms. Rain say we gonna write
every day in our notebook.
687
00:53:36,963 --> 00:53:38,923
She gonna write back to us every day, too.
688
00:53:39,007 --> 00:53:42,801
"Yesterday I went to church for
the first time since I come to this country.
689
00:53:42,886 --> 00:53:44,178
"l got all the way to Brooklyn.
690
00:53:44,262 --> 00:53:47,056
"The church was up the block and around
the corner upon the 3 train.
691
00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:48,807
"The preacher preached
two and a half hours
692
00:53:48,892 --> 00:53:51,393
-"about Jehovah.
-Rhonda! Rhonda!
693
00:53:51,478 --> 00:53:54,897
"And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,
Jehovah delivers."
694
00:53:54,981 --> 00:53:56,982
ls that a fairytale?
695
00:53:58,526 --> 00:53:59,860
Sit down.
696
00:53:59,945 --> 00:54:01,237
Did anybody do this assignment?
697
00:54:01,321 --> 00:54:03,822
Momma say this schooI ain't shit.
698
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:06,367
She say you can't learn nothing
writing in no book.
699
00:54:06,451 --> 00:54:11,664
-This is a fairytale called "Enchanted."
-She wrong about that. I is learning.
700
00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:17,878
"Once upon a time, in a faraway land,
701
00:54:18,296 --> 00:54:22,424
"there lived a beautiful princess
named Joann-a.
702
00:54:23,009 --> 00:54:27,304
"She was very, very fly and extra, extra tall,
703
00:54:27,889 --> 00:54:31,392
"and every single boy loved her,
big and small.
704
00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:36,272
"Except for one idiot boy
who was so stupid and dumb.
705
00:54:36,356 --> 00:54:40,567
"And out of all the cute boys who loved her,
he was the cutest one."
706
00:54:41,695 --> 00:54:44,989
-That's all I got so far.
-That's a good beginning.
707
00:54:45,073 --> 00:54:48,617
Thinking about IittIe Mongo, too. I miss her.
708
00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:50,452
That's how you start a fairytale.
709
00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:52,830
I'm happy my baby coming up.
710
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:57,793
I'm gonna read to this baby, too,
and hang coIors on its waII.
711
00:54:58,712 --> 00:55:01,630
Listen, baby. Mother not dumb.
712
00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:04,008
Mother Iove you. Listen.
713
00:55:04,509 --> 00:55:08,178
"Once upon a time,
there was a magical princess
714
00:55:08,263 --> 00:55:11,432
"who lived in a magical bubble
under the sea.
715
00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:14,059
"And she was from land."
716
00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:30,951
Stop screaming.
717
00:55:51,931 --> 00:55:55,768
His name's Abdul Jamal Lewis Jones.
718
00:55:56,770 --> 00:55:59,605
He heaIthy. His mother Iove him.
719
00:56:15,747 --> 00:56:17,956
The food in this hospital's nasty.
720
00:56:18,625 --> 00:56:19,750
lt's not from here.
721
00:56:19,834 --> 00:56:21,418
Where it from?
722
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:24,046
A little shop by my house where
723
00:56:24,130 --> 00:56:26,548
l get my organic food,
so I don't have to eat that
724
00:56:26,633 --> 00:56:29,218
nasty mystery-meat stuff
they got downstairs.
725
00:56:29,302 --> 00:56:32,304
Can you bring me something?
l don't like fruit. I like McDonald's.
726
00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:34,598
First of all, I don't eat McDonald's.
727
00:56:34,682 --> 00:56:37,351
Second of all, you don't need
to be eating McDonald's, either.
728
00:56:37,435 --> 00:56:38,477
lt's not healthy.
729
00:56:38,561 --> 00:56:40,771
But I like McDonald's.
We all like McDonald's, right?
730
00:56:40,855 --> 00:56:43,482
We like McDonald's, too, over here.
731
00:56:43,566 --> 00:56:45,067
l don't like no damn McDonald's.
732
00:56:45,151 --> 00:56:48,237
l want some of that organic shit
like you got.
733
00:56:48,655 --> 00:56:50,114
Well, I tell you what,
734
00:56:50,198 --> 00:56:52,741
when you get up out of here,
you go with all your little friends,
735
00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:53,784
and you go to McDonald's,
736
00:56:53,868 --> 00:56:55,744
and you get as much
McDonald's as you want.
737
00:56:55,829 --> 00:56:58,288
But right now,
you're gonna take care of your health.
738
00:56:58,373 --> 00:57:00,082
Are you a doctor?
739
00:57:01,167 --> 00:57:03,127
-Are you her doctor?
-Am I a doctor?
740
00:57:03,211 --> 00:57:05,879
-Yeah.
-l am a nurse's aide.
741
00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:07,756
Nurse John-John.
742
00:57:07,841 --> 00:57:09,508
Oh, that's funny?
743
00:57:10,009 --> 00:57:11,760
Well, you're a man.
744
00:57:12,512 --> 00:57:15,180
-You've never seen a male nurse?
-No.
745
00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:17,433
Not looking like you do.
746
00:57:18,226 --> 00:57:22,354
l am a male nurse.
l am Nurse John McFadden.
747
00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:25,023
So was you up in the room
when she popped the baby out?
748
00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:26,150
You was like, all up in between her...
749
00:57:26,234 --> 00:57:28,277
Joann, don't be nasty!
750
00:57:28,361 --> 00:57:29,945
How was it? Was he screaming?
751
00:57:30,029 --> 00:57:31,113
lt hurt.
752
00:57:31,197 --> 00:57:32,781
Tough gal like you had to scream?
753
00:57:32,866 --> 00:57:37,119
Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.
lt hurt. And it burned.
754
00:57:37,203 --> 00:57:38,454
-Are you married?
-Shut up!
755
00:57:38,538 --> 00:57:40,205
You got a girlfriend?
756
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:42,708
-Why you asking? He don't want you.
-How would you know?
757
00:57:42,792 --> 00:57:44,460
Why don't you stop being a ho
for 1 0 minutes?
758
00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:45,711
What's wrong with these people?
759
00:57:45,795 --> 00:57:47,171
You don't want her, right?
760
00:57:47,255 --> 00:57:50,048
l wish I was a cantaloupe in that cup.
761
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:51,633
So he could eat you?
762
00:57:51,718 --> 00:57:55,345
Okay, no. I gotta go. I gotta go.
763
00:57:55,763 --> 00:57:58,557
No, that's all right. That's all right.
764
00:58:01,811 --> 00:58:03,770
Can I get a kiss, too, Nurse John?
765
00:58:03,855 --> 00:58:06,607
-Good afternoon, ladies.
-Bye, Nurse John.
766
00:58:06,691 --> 00:58:09,568
-Bye!
-Good night, Nurse John-John!
767
00:58:10,987 --> 00:58:13,280
Precious and John-John
768
00:58:13,364 --> 00:58:15,324
Sitting in a tree
769
00:58:15,408 --> 00:58:19,203
-F-U-C-K-l-N-G
-Shut up! Y'all are nasty.
770
00:58:22,916 --> 00:58:25,584
You think he's spending the night
up in here?
771
00:58:27,754 --> 00:58:30,964
Now she gonna write
about Nurse John in her book!
772
00:58:32,258 --> 00:58:33,926
"Dear Ms. Rain,
773
00:58:34,427 --> 00:58:37,596
"AII the years I sit in cIass, I never Iearned.
774
00:58:37,889 --> 00:58:40,766
"Now I got a baby again by my father.
775
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:44,144
"I wish I had a boyfriend Iike other girls.
776
00:58:44,229 --> 00:58:47,397
"Then I'II feeI right
that I have to quit schooI.
777
00:58:47,482 --> 00:58:50,984
"I Iove my baby, but I want schooI, too.
778
00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:53,445
"Social worker ask me
if I wanna give IittIe Mongo
779
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:57,074
"and AbduI up for adoption.
l could kill her.
780
00:58:57,492 --> 00:59:01,245
"She never helped before.
Now she wanna take my kids away?
781
00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:05,207
"If she takes AbduI,
I won't have nothing no more."
782
00:59:05,291 --> 00:59:07,251
"Dear Precious,
783
00:59:07,335 --> 00:59:10,629
"I think your first responsibiIity
has to be to yourseIf.
784
00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:13,382
"If you keep AbduI, you might have nothing.
785
00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:15,926
"You're Iearning to read and write.
That's everything.
786
00:59:16,010 --> 00:59:18,679
"You come back to school
when you get out of the hospitaI.
787
00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:19,888
"You're onIy 17."
788
00:59:19,973 --> 00:59:22,391
This looks like a big-ass condom.
789
00:59:24,269 --> 00:59:26,353
Use that for Nurse John.
790
00:59:26,854 --> 00:59:29,022
Not looking like that.
Your hair looks a mess.
791
00:59:29,107 --> 00:59:31,817
-l'm giving you banjee.
-Shut up!
792
00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:33,402
l got yourjournal.
793
00:59:33,486 --> 00:59:34,987
Thank you.
794
00:59:40,243 --> 00:59:41,785
What's wrong?
795
00:59:41,869 --> 00:59:43,203
Nothing.
796
00:59:43,288 --> 00:59:44,871
Are you sure?
797
00:59:44,956 --> 00:59:45,998
Yeah, l'm sure.
798
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:50,502
All right. l'm bored. l'm about to leave. Bye.
799
00:59:52,171 --> 00:59:53,839
Bye, Ms. Toosie.
800
00:59:54,340 --> 00:59:55,924
You got a nasty-ass mouth.
801
00:59:56,009 --> 00:59:58,093
You got a nasty-ass hat.
802
01:00:00,513 --> 01:00:03,307
That's what's wrong,
you hanging out with bitches like that.
803
01:00:03,391 --> 01:00:04,975
Here's your baby.
804
01:00:05,059 --> 01:00:07,436
lt's probably the last time
you're gonna ever see him.
805
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:08,937
Grandmother come and visit and say,
806
01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:11,607
"Only a dog would drop a baby
and walk off."
807
01:00:11,691 --> 01:00:12,983
Not even a dog.
808
01:00:13,276 --> 01:00:15,694
Say later, "Not even a dog."
809
01:00:15,778 --> 01:00:18,864
l'm proud of you.
Ain't nothing like your mother.
810
01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:22,284
"Where was your grandmother
when your father was abusing you?
811
01:00:22,368 --> 01:00:24,453
"Where is IittIe Mongo now?
812
01:00:25,204 --> 01:00:27,956
"What is going to be the best thing for you
in this situation?"
813
01:00:28,041 --> 01:00:30,334
"Ms. Rain, you ask too many questions.
814
01:00:30,418 --> 01:00:32,961
"Sometimes I wish I could stop breathing.
815
01:00:33,046 --> 01:00:35,422
"I just wanna be a good mother."
816
01:00:36,466 --> 01:00:38,634
"Being a good mother might mean
Ietting AbduI be raised
817
01:00:38,718 --> 01:00:42,387
"by someone who's better abIe than you
to meet his needs."
818
01:00:43,097 --> 01:00:46,600
"Ms. Rain, I is the best
to meet my chiId's needs."
819
01:00:55,985 --> 01:00:57,819
"Who's gonna heIp you?
820
01:00:58,363 --> 01:01:00,656
"How wiII you support yourseIf?
821
01:01:01,866 --> 01:01:04,910
"How wiII you keep Iearning
to read and write?"
822
01:01:05,953 --> 01:01:08,038
"The weIfare heIped Momma."
823
01:01:08,831 --> 01:01:12,417
"You look and see
how much weIfare has heIped your mom.
824
01:01:14,712 --> 01:01:16,338
"You could get your GED,
825
01:01:16,422 --> 01:01:19,091
"and go to coIIege.
You can do anything, Precious."
826
01:02:41,215 --> 01:02:42,632
You back?
827
01:02:43,217 --> 01:02:44,593
What's his name?
828
01:02:45,094 --> 01:02:46,678
Can I hold it?
829
01:03:50,493 --> 01:03:52,077
Hey, Precious.
830
01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:57,082
Hey.
831
01:04:00,545 --> 01:04:02,254
You had the baby?
832
01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:04,130
A boy.
833
01:04:05,383 --> 01:04:07,634
Where you been all this time?
834
01:04:14,267 --> 01:04:15,934
Let me see him.
835
01:04:23,150 --> 01:04:24,901
Can I hold him?
836
01:04:44,422 --> 01:04:46,423
He look like his daddy.
837
01:04:51,971 --> 01:04:53,471
He named Abdul.
838
01:04:54,765 --> 01:04:58,351
Put all this shit down
and go get me something to drink.
839
01:05:16,829 --> 01:05:18,288
You bitch!
840
01:05:18,873 --> 01:05:21,082
-You fucking bitch!
-You crazy, Momma?
841
01:05:21,167 --> 01:05:23,668
Am I crazy? Bitch, if I was to...
842
01:05:24,670 --> 01:05:26,379
You ruined my fucking life!
843
01:05:26,464 --> 01:05:29,132
You done took my man,
you had those fucking babies,
844
01:05:29,216 --> 01:05:30,467
and you got me put off the welfare
845
01:05:30,551 --> 01:05:32,844
for running your goddamned
stupid-ass mouth!
846
01:05:32,970 --> 01:05:36,806
l ain't stupid and I didn't take your man.
Your husband raped me!
847
01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:38,391
Didn't no-fucking-body rape you!
848
01:05:38,476 --> 01:05:40,810
Bitch, don't you put
your fucking hands on me!
849
01:06:01,415 --> 01:06:03,708
Mary, leave that girl alone!
850
01:06:42,289 --> 01:06:44,249
Can I see the baby now?
851
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,967
B... C... D...
852
01:08:59,885 --> 01:09:04,305
E... F... G... H...
853
01:09:04,974 --> 01:09:07,684
l... J... K...
854
01:09:14,733 --> 01:09:16,317
l'm tired of shopping.
855
01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:18,361
Yes, because they all trying
to take your money.
856
01:09:18,445 --> 01:09:20,321
They don't...
857
01:09:30,958 --> 01:09:32,876
l'm calling the cops.
858
01:09:38,090 --> 01:09:40,592
Tell me what you see back there.
859
01:09:52,980 --> 01:09:57,483
I couId teII by Ms. Rain's face
I ain't gonna be homeIess no more.
860
01:09:57,568 --> 01:09:59,611
I just don't know
where I'm gonna end up, though.
861
01:09:59,695 --> 01:10:01,279
l'll hold.
862
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:04,949
l feel bad for her.
863
01:10:05,034 --> 01:10:08,786
She just an ABC teacher.
She ain't no social worker.
864
01:10:10,414 --> 01:10:11,664
What's going on?
865
01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:12,916
But she all I could think of.
866
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,460
Look, when the others get here,
tell them to start writing.
867
01:10:15,544 --> 01:10:17,712
And whichever one of you is older
is in charge, okay?
868
01:10:17,796 --> 01:10:19,464
Consuelo, I know that's not you.
Come here.
869
01:10:19,548 --> 01:10:21,674
Ms. Rain, I can't stay. l'm serious.
l've tried to talk...
870
01:10:21,759 --> 01:10:24,344
Consuelo, you're not leaving class
and l'm not dealing with this right now.
871
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:26,763
Take this money.
Go get something for Precious to wear.
872
01:10:26,847 --> 01:10:29,307
Quick. And bring back my change.
873
01:10:29,391 --> 01:10:33,102
Sixteen years old. A three-day-old infant.
874
01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:35,855
The baby not bleeding.
l think this is Precious' blood.
875
01:10:35,940 --> 01:10:38,816
Well, why didn't you tell me that before?
876
01:10:40,152 --> 01:10:42,612
We'll find you a place to live.
877
01:10:45,824 --> 01:10:47,533
Joann, you're late.
878
01:10:47,618 --> 01:10:49,827
Rhonda, you ain't the teacher.
879
01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:52,288
Joann, Ms. Rain is busy
with Precious today,
880
01:10:52,373 --> 01:10:54,499
so I am the teacher today.
881
01:10:54,583 --> 01:10:56,459
Okay. Why?
882
01:10:56,919 --> 01:10:58,670
-Where's Precious?
-Just sit. Pull out your notebook.
883
01:10:58,754 --> 01:11:01,172
Joann, you wanna say one of your raps
to the baby?
884
01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:02,674
What's the baby doing here?
885
01:11:02,758 --> 01:11:04,467
-Joann's gonna rap for you.
-Let me see.
886
01:11:04,677 --> 01:11:06,970
She all right. She's doing good.
887
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,640
Why is the baby wrapped up
in a blood-covered blanket?
888
01:11:10,724 --> 01:11:13,476
-Joann, what's so funny?
-For real. What happened?
889
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:14,978
You don't wanna know is
how it got on the blanket.
890
01:11:15,062 --> 01:11:16,145
You know what your problem is, Joann?
891
01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:18,022
That you can't take anything
serious enough.
892
01:11:18,107 --> 01:11:20,525
-Jermaine, me expect better from you.
-Okay, Rhonda.
893
01:11:20,609 --> 01:11:23,152
Joann, stop laughing at this baby.
894
01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:26,114
Queens.
895
01:11:28,450 --> 01:11:30,201
Let me call you back.
896
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:31,577
Just tell me what happened!
897
01:11:31,662 --> 01:11:32,996
No, it's not funny.
898
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,915
But Joann, there's nothing funny
about a baby with blood on it.
899
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,792
l got a West lndian friend
who's a Council member.
900
01:11:37,876 --> 01:11:40,003
Let me see what she can do.
Hold on a second.
901
01:11:40,087 --> 01:11:43,381
l found a lesson plan in our notebooks.
We're gonna...
902
01:11:44,925 --> 01:11:46,634
Clareece Jones.
903
01:11:46,719 --> 01:11:49,012
Hey, Ms. Lisa. How you been?
904
01:11:49,847 --> 01:11:51,055
l don't know.
905
01:11:51,140 --> 01:11:55,059
l went to see that movie, Barfly, last night.
Piece of shit.
906
01:11:56,061 --> 01:11:59,188
-l'm sorry.
-lt's on my desk. Can you hold?
907
01:11:59,273 --> 01:12:01,566
Something's wrong with you, Precious.
908
01:12:01,650 --> 01:12:03,192
This baby stink.
909
01:12:03,277 --> 01:12:05,570
Well, we don't have a Pamper,
so have a seat with the baby.
910
01:12:05,654 --> 01:12:08,323
-l am sitting.
-ln your seat, please.
911
01:12:08,407 --> 01:12:10,491
The first thing
912
01:12:10,576 --> 01:12:16,247
is shut the bumba-ros-clot...
913
01:12:17,124 --> 01:12:19,625
Ms. Rain, why did you let Rhonda
teach the class?
914
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:21,336
She don't even know how to speak English.
915
01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:22,462
Let Rhonda take over.
916
01:12:22,546 --> 01:12:26,174
-Shut the bumba-ros-clot up.
-What the fuck is a "ros clot"?
917
01:12:26,258 --> 01:12:28,176
Yeah, Brenda, you there?
918
01:12:28,260 --> 01:12:30,845
The last four of the Social are...
919
01:12:30,929 --> 01:12:33,514
2-4-2-1 .
920
01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:35,725
-Rita?
-l just wanna know how to spell "Aquarius."
921
01:12:35,809 --> 01:12:38,686
-Anybody know how to spell "Aquarius"?
-lt's A-Q-U-A-R-l-U-S.
922
01:12:38,771 --> 01:12:39,979
Can you spell "boy" then?
923
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:41,314
Can you spell "slut" then?
924
01:12:41,398 --> 01:12:43,024
Let's explore that.
925
01:12:43,108 --> 01:12:46,444
You wanna spell "slut," Consuelo,
l'll give you the first letter.
926
01:12:46,528 --> 01:12:48,654
Can you spell "illegal immigrant," then?
927
01:12:48,739 --> 01:12:50,782
Great, thank you.
928
01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:54,869
Can you please use "slut" in a sentence?
929
01:12:54,953 --> 01:12:56,329
Consuelo is a slut...
930
01:12:56,413 --> 01:12:59,207
-You the one who's the ho up in here...
-Joann is not a slut.
931
01:12:59,291 --> 01:13:01,667
Perfect. You get a gold star.
932
01:13:03,504 --> 01:13:05,213
But you know she likes that.
933
01:13:05,297 --> 01:13:07,590
Well, she's just insecure.
934
01:13:07,674 --> 01:13:09,300
-You think?
-Yeah.
935
01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:13,388
-That chicken was good.
-Really good. Did you have enough?
936
01:13:13,472 --> 01:13:15,390
There ain't more, is there?
937
01:13:15,474 --> 01:13:17,141
-ls there more?
-Yeah.
938
01:13:17,476 --> 01:13:19,769
Maybe later. Not now.
939
01:13:19,853 --> 01:13:21,813
l don't want you to think l'm greedy.
940
01:13:21,897 --> 01:13:24,232
You're not greedy.
lf you're hungry, let's get you some more.
941
01:13:24,316 --> 01:13:27,485
l guess I kind of eat
too much sometimes, though.
942
01:13:27,569 --> 01:13:28,820
No, you don't.
943
01:13:28,904 --> 01:13:30,780
-Blu, is that you?
-Not always.
944
01:13:30,864 --> 01:13:32,949
What are you doing here?
945
01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:36,077
l live here. Why didn't you tell me?
946
01:13:36,161 --> 01:13:38,955
-Hey, sweetie.
-ls this... ls this...
947
01:13:40,541 --> 01:13:42,750
This is Katherine, Precious.
948
01:13:42,835 --> 01:13:44,877
-Are you okay?
-lt's so nice to meet you, finally.
949
01:13:44,962 --> 01:13:48,381
Oh, my God. These straight-up lesbians.
950
01:13:48,465 --> 01:13:52,051
-This is Abdul.
-He's gorgeous. He looks just like you.
951
01:13:53,095 --> 01:13:54,429
Precious, can I hold him?
952
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:56,264
You know how to?
953
01:13:56,348 --> 01:13:58,349
They stiII nice enough
to Iet us stay in their home
954
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:00,768
untiI I get situated, though.
955
01:14:00,853 --> 01:14:04,939
-He's heavy. Oh, my God!
-You wanna hold him?
956
01:14:05,023 --> 01:14:07,525
I guess this is how the peopIes
on TV feel at Christmastime.
957
01:14:07,609 --> 01:14:10,194
-Don't drop him.
-Come on. I only work with children.
958
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:11,320
You know how you are. I saw you...
959
01:14:11,405 --> 01:14:13,448
When we were putting up the tree,
you dropped half the top of it.
960
01:14:13,532 --> 01:14:15,116
They're so nice to me and AbduI.
961
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,285
-Be careful. Hold him with both hands.
-Please.
962
01:14:17,369 --> 01:14:19,078
Oh, Abdul.
963
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:23,207
Merry Christmas, Precious.
964
01:14:24,042 --> 01:14:25,168
Thank you.
965
01:14:25,252 --> 01:14:26,586
Why peopIes that bareIy know me
966
01:14:26,670 --> 01:14:30,006
should be nicer to me
than my mother and my father?
967
01:14:30,632 --> 01:14:32,049
l felt warm.
968
01:14:32,384 --> 01:14:33,593
-What?
-l'm just...
969
01:14:33,677 --> 01:14:36,846
l'm just concerned about the baby
and the cats upstairs.
970
01:14:36,930 --> 01:14:38,097
They're fine.
971
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:40,183
Grandmother's scared of Momma.
972
01:14:40,267 --> 01:14:42,685
I know that's why
she ain't Ietting me stay with her.
973
01:14:42,769 --> 01:14:44,687
lf Ronald McDonald were running things...
974
01:14:44,771 --> 01:14:47,565
Ms. Rain say don't be afraid of nothing.
975
01:14:48,233 --> 01:14:50,693
l bet she ain't scared of Momma.
976
01:14:50,777 --> 01:14:53,404
Wouldn't you be a little bit suspicious?
977
01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:54,739
Just write the book.
978
01:14:54,823 --> 01:14:58,075
-Well, who's gonna read it?
-Nobody, if you don't write it.
979
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,704
You know, Precious writes every day.
You should try it.
980
01:15:01,788 --> 01:15:05,041
ls that right?
What do you write about, Precious?
981
01:15:05,834 --> 01:15:07,084
Stuff.
982
01:15:08,170 --> 01:15:10,588
My life. Abdul.
983
01:15:13,008 --> 01:15:15,176
How come y'all don't like McDonald's?
984
01:15:15,260 --> 01:15:17,094
Katherine was just drawing a comparison
985
01:15:17,221 --> 01:15:19,263
so that her point could be
more easily understood.
986
01:15:19,348 --> 01:15:20,348
Yes.
987
01:15:20,432 --> 01:15:22,934
They taIk Iike TV channeIs I don't watch.
988
01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:24,393
My Uncle Clayton.
989
01:15:24,478 --> 01:15:27,939
I'm gIad AbduI here to Iisten in on them,
though, 'cause I know they're smart.
990
01:15:28,023 --> 01:15:29,440
Before he got saved,
991
01:15:29,525 --> 01:15:32,193
he used to smoke like a chimney
and drink like a fish.
992
01:15:32,277 --> 01:15:34,320
I don't understand a word they're saying.
993
01:15:34,404 --> 01:15:35,988
You understand?
994
01:15:39,576 --> 01:15:41,035
Y'all be watching Oprah?
995
01:15:41,119 --> 01:15:44,038
No. I don't, actually.
You know what time I get home from work.
996
01:15:44,122 --> 01:15:47,250
-l watch it.
-Momma say homos is bad peopIes.
997
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:50,378
But Momma,
homos not ones who raped me.
998
01:15:50,462 --> 01:15:52,755
And what do that make you?
999
01:15:52,839 --> 01:15:56,968
Homos not ones who let me sit in class
aII them years and never Iearn nothing.
1000
01:15:57,052 --> 01:15:59,929
The homos not ones who sell crack
to peopIes in Harlem.
1001
01:16:00,013 --> 01:16:02,014
-...that I have ever seen. Tell her!
-That doesn't work.
1002
01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:04,684
l wonder what Oprah got to say about that.
1003
01:16:04,768 --> 01:16:07,144
Ms. Rain is the one
who put the chaIk in my hand,
1004
01:16:07,229 --> 01:16:09,689
made me queen of the ABC's.
1005
01:16:12,651 --> 01:16:14,569
After I settIed at the haIfway house,
1006
01:16:14,653 --> 01:16:17,071
I worked my hardest
to memorize Ietter sounds,
1007
01:16:17,155 --> 01:16:20,157
writing in the journaI,
and reading smaIIer and fatter books.
1008
01:16:20,284 --> 01:16:23,494
Then I found out the Mayor's office
give me a Iiteracy award
1009
01:16:23,579 --> 01:16:25,329
and a check for progress.
1010
01:16:27,749 --> 01:16:29,500
One, two, three.
1011
01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:31,335
The party is on.
1012
01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:33,004
Go, Joann!
1013
01:16:36,300 --> 01:16:38,384
Let me see what you got!
1014
01:16:38,468 --> 01:16:43,556
Everybody come. Nurse John, Cornrows,
all the staff was out there.
1015
01:16:44,099 --> 01:16:46,350
Even Ms. Katherine showed up.
1016
01:16:46,685 --> 01:16:47,977
Precious.
1017
01:16:51,189 --> 01:16:52,607
What's up?
1018
01:16:53,108 --> 01:16:54,609
What's that?
1019
01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:56,861
What does it look like?
1020
01:16:56,945 --> 01:16:58,863
Plastic stupid apple.
1021
01:17:02,034 --> 01:17:03,701
A little something for you.
1022
01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:06,495
-ls there more money in it?
-You're so greedy.
1023
01:17:06,580 --> 01:17:09,332
Yo, who's that?
1024
01:17:12,252 --> 01:17:13,502
What?
1025
01:17:16,381 --> 01:17:18,382
-What?
-Come on.
1026
01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:21,344
Precious, where are you taking me?
1027
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:26,474
What am I supposed to do, diva? Yeah?
Wait a minute. Hold on, girl.
1028
01:17:26,558 --> 01:17:28,100
Yeah...
1029
01:17:32,272 --> 01:17:34,398
My mom called last night.
1030
01:17:37,069 --> 01:17:40,363
And we don't really have a relationship.
1031
01:17:40,822 --> 01:17:43,658
We don't talk,
because she really has a problem with...
1032
01:17:43,742 --> 01:17:47,495
Some folks got a light around them
that shine for other peopIes.
1033
01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:50,665
I think maybe some of them was in tunneIs,
1034
01:17:50,749 --> 01:17:53,459
and in that tunneI,
maybe the onIy Iight they had
1035
01:17:53,543 --> 01:17:55,086
was inside of them.
1036
01:17:55,170 --> 01:17:58,422
Then I thought about how strong
you've had to be.
1037
01:18:01,009 --> 01:18:04,762
And then,
even Iong after they escaped that tunneI...
1038
01:18:06,098 --> 01:18:08,933
-l'll help you clean up.
-Okay.
1039
01:18:09,601 --> 01:18:12,603
...they stiII be shining for everybody eIse.
1040
01:18:16,817 --> 01:18:18,859
That's Ms. Rain to me.
1041
01:18:21,822 --> 01:18:23,364
"Award for Outstanding Achievement."
1042
01:18:23,448 --> 01:18:27,076
In a book I read,
this Iady escaped to a haIfway house.
1043
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:28,369
And when she was there,
1044
01:18:28,453 --> 01:18:31,372
she asked the peopIe there
what a haIfway house was.
1045
01:18:31,456 --> 01:18:35,793
They toId her it was haIfway between
her old life and where she wanna be.
1046
01:18:35,877 --> 01:18:37,795
That's kind of nice.
1047
01:18:39,464 --> 01:18:42,550
That aIso mean I can't stay here forever.
1048
01:18:42,634 --> 01:18:44,802
There's stiII a way to go.
1049
01:18:45,512 --> 01:18:48,472
It'd be something to get my own apartment.
1050
01:18:49,307 --> 01:18:52,810
AbduI nine months and aImost waIking.
He's smart, too.
1051
01:18:53,478 --> 01:18:56,564
I've been reading to him
since the day he was born.
1052
01:18:56,648 --> 01:18:59,692
He's bareIy taIking,
but he's aIready counting.
1053
01:19:00,652 --> 01:19:02,486
Momma, Daddy,
1054
01:19:03,238 --> 01:19:07,658
IS 1 1 1 , 444 Lenox aII seem
Iike some oId, bad dream.
1055
01:19:09,828 --> 01:19:13,831
I wish I couId've just started out here,
but still with Abdul.
1056
01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:19,420
I'm gonna get Mongo, too.
I gotta get Mongo back.
1057
01:19:21,506 --> 01:19:22,590
Hey, Miss Cassidy.
1058
01:19:22,674 --> 01:19:24,884
Hey, Precious,
somebody downstairs for you.
1059
01:19:24,968 --> 01:19:26,719
-Who is it?
-l didn't ask who it was.
1060
01:19:26,803 --> 01:19:28,012
You want me to watch the baby?
1061
01:19:28,096 --> 01:19:30,973
No, I gotta go down and get him anyway.
1062
01:20:05,383 --> 01:20:07,051
Your daddy dead.
1063
01:20:08,970 --> 01:20:10,429
That's all?
1064
01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:17,394
He had that AlDS virus.
1065
01:20:32,911 --> 01:20:34,161
There you go, dreaming again!
1066
01:20:34,246 --> 01:20:36,914
Precious, do you hear me taIking to you?
1067
01:20:38,333 --> 01:20:39,458
Did you hear what I said?
1068
01:20:44,422 --> 01:20:45,840
You got it?
1069
01:20:47,092 --> 01:20:48,717
Got what?
1070
01:20:48,802 --> 01:20:50,761
-The AlDS virus.
-No.
1071
01:20:51,763 --> 01:20:53,430
How do you know?
1072
01:20:53,515 --> 01:20:56,392
We never did it up in the ass, so I know.
1073
01:21:00,772 --> 01:21:03,232
You better get to a doctor, Mom.
1074
01:21:05,944 --> 01:21:07,653
You coming home?
1075
01:21:24,629 --> 01:21:26,130
Yo, Precious!
1076
01:21:44,774 --> 01:21:47,776
Rita, what do I mean when I say the author
1077
01:21:47,861 --> 01:21:52,531
describes her protagonist's circumstances
as "unrelenting"?
1078
01:21:53,533 --> 01:21:55,868
l don't know. I don't know.
1079
01:21:58,246 --> 01:22:01,832
lt's like, say, like if Rita,
she tries to do something,
1080
01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:04,376
and she's going and she's going,
and me, I try to stop her
1081
01:22:04,461 --> 01:22:07,087
and she no stop, she keep on going.
1082
01:22:07,714 --> 01:22:09,506
Relentless-un.
1083
01:23:02,227 --> 01:23:04,687
l'll see you tonight. Bye.
1084
01:23:53,778 --> 01:23:55,279
Come with me.
1085
01:23:56,698 --> 01:23:58,115
Precious?
1086
01:23:59,951 --> 01:24:01,410
Excuse me?
1087
01:24:03,329 --> 01:24:05,456
Nurse say l'm HlV positive.
1088
01:24:12,088 --> 01:24:14,631
l ain't got nothing to write today.
1089
01:24:16,468 --> 01:24:18,135
ls your baby okay?
1090
01:24:19,179 --> 01:24:22,556
He all right.
l just got to stop breastfeeding him.
1091
01:24:26,269 --> 01:24:28,437
Remember, you once told me
1092
01:24:28,938 --> 01:24:31,815
you never really got to tell your story.
1093
01:24:33,276 --> 01:24:35,319
-Write.
-Fuck you!
1094
01:24:35,820 --> 01:24:38,822
You know nothing
of what l've been through.
1095
01:24:39,991 --> 01:24:42,326
l ain't never had no boyfriend.
1096
01:24:44,996 --> 01:24:47,581
My daddy said he gonna marry me.
1097
01:24:48,249 --> 01:24:51,543
How he gonna do that?
lt would fucking be illegal!
1098
01:25:07,811 --> 01:25:09,019
Write.
1099
01:25:11,147 --> 01:25:13,690
l'm tired, Ms. Rain.
1100
01:25:14,567 --> 01:25:17,736
lf not for yourself,
then for the people who love you.
1101
01:25:17,821 --> 01:25:19,613
Nobody loves me.
1102
01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:21,949
People do love you, Precious.
1103
01:25:22,408 --> 01:25:24,868
Please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain.
1104
01:25:25,703 --> 01:25:28,080
Love ain't done nothing for me.
1105
01:25:29,124 --> 01:25:32,543
Love beat me, raped me,
1106
01:25:33,962 --> 01:25:37,965
called me an animal,
make me feel worthless.
1107
01:25:38,633 --> 01:25:40,217
Make me sick.
1108
01:25:42,554 --> 01:25:44,638
That wasn't love, Precious.
1109
01:25:46,724 --> 01:25:48,559
Your baby loves you.
1110
01:25:51,855 --> 01:25:53,313
l love you.
1111
01:26:00,613 --> 01:26:01,864
Write.
1112
01:26:10,790 --> 01:26:12,749
What are you thinking?
1113
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:19,131
You never told me about
your relationship with your mother.
1114
01:26:21,885 --> 01:26:23,552
l didn't, did l?
1115
01:26:24,262 --> 01:26:26,847
Really, l'm here to help you.
1116
01:26:26,931 --> 01:26:30,100
You can talk to me.
This is a safe environment.
1117
01:26:31,436 --> 01:26:32,811
You're right.
1118
01:26:32,896 --> 01:26:35,439
We could talk about your daddy instead.
1119
01:26:35,523 --> 01:26:38,358
We could talk about my mother, my father,
1120
01:26:38,443 --> 01:26:42,821
my aunts or my sister or my brother,
but none of it's gonna help you.
1121
01:26:43,489 --> 01:26:44,990
You don't even like me.
1122
01:26:45,074 --> 01:26:48,118
Have we not been in this room together
1123
01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:51,455
for, like, a year, discussing your life?
1124
01:26:51,539 --> 01:26:54,541
Does that mean we like each other,
because we discuss my life?
1125
01:26:54,626 --> 01:26:56,084
l can't speak for you.
1126
01:26:56,169 --> 01:27:00,631
l can only speak for me,
and I do like you. I do.
1127
01:27:01,299 --> 01:27:03,133
So, are you ltalian, or...
1128
01:27:03,218 --> 01:27:04,509
What color are you, anyway?
1129
01:27:04,594 --> 01:27:06,678
Are you some type of black or Spanish?
1130
01:27:06,763 --> 01:27:08,972
What color do you think I am?
1131
01:27:10,934 --> 01:27:14,269
No, l'd like to know.
What color do you think I am?
1132
01:27:15,104 --> 01:27:16,813
My throat is dry.
1133
01:27:17,649 --> 01:27:19,399
Your throat is dry?
1134
01:27:19,817 --> 01:27:21,526
lt's really hot in here.
1135
01:27:21,611 --> 01:27:23,695
lt is kind of hot in here.
1136
01:27:24,239 --> 01:27:27,115
l'm gonna go get a soda.
What do you want?
1137
01:27:27,492 --> 01:27:29,326
Soda sounds fine.
1138
01:27:29,410 --> 01:27:30,827
All right.
1139
01:28:01,359 --> 01:28:02,859
Thank you.
1140
01:28:03,444 --> 01:28:04,903
No problem.
1141
01:28:08,616 --> 01:28:11,827
So, I have to talk to you about your mother,
1142
01:28:12,370 --> 01:28:14,705
and I don't know
how you're gonna feel about this,
1143
01:28:14,789 --> 01:28:17,541
but she says she wants to see you
1144
01:28:17,625 --> 01:28:22,254
and she wants to be reunited
with you and her grandchildren.
1145
01:28:22,839 --> 01:28:25,799
She wants to come
and have a session here with you.
1146
01:28:25,883 --> 01:28:27,467
What did you tell her?
1147
01:28:27,552 --> 01:28:30,387
l said I had to speak to you about it.
1148
01:28:33,016 --> 01:28:34,433
lt's up to you.
1149
01:28:34,517 --> 01:28:37,477
l don't know.
l never thought about it before.
1150
01:28:39,022 --> 01:28:41,523
Ms. Weiss said in that fiIe I got HIV.
1151
01:28:41,607 --> 01:28:44,026
She said I was supposed to die from it.
1152
01:28:44,110 --> 01:28:46,153
I ain't worried about dying.
1153
01:28:46,237 --> 01:28:50,198
Shit, I gotta worry about
how I'm supposed to raise these kids.
1154
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,702
l was just writing, like, about...
1155
01:28:54,412 --> 01:28:56,496
l wanna open up this clinic
1156
01:28:56,581 --> 01:28:59,791
about, like, mothers and their children.
1157
01:29:00,626 --> 01:29:03,670
You know, just,
if they're sick or something like that.
1158
01:29:03,755 --> 01:29:07,424
l always wanted to do that,
give back to the community.
1159
01:29:07,508 --> 01:29:10,385
Because I know my mom would be
proud of me if I did that,
1160
01:29:10,470 --> 01:29:12,137
and my children, too.
1161
01:29:12,221 --> 01:29:15,932
l want my children to be proud
of their mother, you know?
1162
01:29:17,060 --> 01:29:21,605
-That's always what I wanted to do, so...
-That's good. That's really nice.
1163
01:29:25,193 --> 01:29:29,654
l don't really want to read the whole thing,
l kind ofjust wanna say what it's about.
1164
01:29:30,907 --> 01:29:34,534
Okay, the counselors
at Advancement House,
1165
01:29:36,371 --> 01:29:38,872
they were quizzing me
about my mother and my father, right?
1166
01:29:38,956 --> 01:29:40,707
But it's not really about them.
1167
01:29:40,792 --> 01:29:42,876
They're trying to get me to do workfare.
1168
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:45,337
-They want me to be a home attendant.
-How do you know?
1169
01:29:45,421 --> 01:29:47,714
Because I stole my file and I read it.
1170
01:29:47,799 --> 01:29:49,716
All they want me to do is work.
1171
01:29:49,801 --> 01:29:53,053
Now, I do wanna work,
but not for no welfare check.
1172
01:29:53,137 --> 01:29:54,554
What kind of sense that make,
1173
01:29:54,639 --> 01:29:57,557
for somebody like Precious to quit school
before she got her GED
1174
01:29:57,642 --> 01:30:00,268
and go work
for some old white people somewhere?
1175
01:30:00,353 --> 01:30:03,438
She ain't never gonna be nothing
if she gets stuck in some shit like that.
1176
01:30:03,523 --> 01:30:05,023
Rhonda used to home attend.
1177
01:30:05,108 --> 01:30:08,110
She used to have to go all the way out
to Brighton Beach.
1178
01:30:08,194 --> 01:30:11,530
Yeah, okay, Rhonda would be
working there all day and night.
1179
01:30:11,614 --> 01:30:13,657
She'd be on call, right?
1180
01:30:14,075 --> 01:30:18,286
She made $6.37 an hour,
but for only eight hours.
1181
01:30:18,871 --> 01:30:20,997
That equal out to $50.96.
1182
01:30:21,999 --> 01:30:23,417
But that's not a whole lot of money,
1183
01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:26,628
especially 'cause,
for real, she there for 24 hours.
1184
01:30:26,712 --> 01:30:31,425
So, $50.96 divided by 24
1185
01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:35,429
is $2.1 2 an hour. That's not a lot of money.
1186
01:30:35,513 --> 01:30:39,891
She said that old bitch would ring a bell,
like, a real-life, actual bell
1187
01:30:39,976 --> 01:30:41,810
when she wanted something from her
in the middle of the night.
1188
01:30:41,894 --> 01:30:44,604
-You don't want to do that shit.
-Rhonda, is that true? Rhonda!
1189
01:30:44,689 --> 01:30:47,732
Them home attendants be working for, like,
six days a week.
1190
01:30:47,817 --> 01:30:51,695
l'd only see Abdul on Sunday.
Plus, l'd have to leave class.
1191
01:30:52,029 --> 01:30:55,323
Well, that's not an option.
You're not leaving class.
1192
01:30:55,408 --> 01:30:58,535
Plus, l'm gonna start going to
insect survivor meetings.
1193
01:30:58,619 --> 01:31:00,120
lt's "incest."
1194
01:31:01,873 --> 01:31:05,041
-That ain't what I said?
-No, you said "insect."
1195
01:31:05,626 --> 01:31:06,918
What's the difference?
1196
01:31:07,003 --> 01:31:08,795
Well, one's where your family molests you,
1197
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:11,548
the other's like a roach or bugs.
1198
01:31:14,218 --> 01:31:16,845
-So, you a scientist now?
-l'm just saying.
1199
01:31:16,929 --> 01:31:19,723
No, that's cool. Thank you. Thank you.
1200
01:31:25,897 --> 01:31:29,483
It was hard teIIing them strangers there
what my father did.
1201
01:31:29,567 --> 01:31:31,568
Sometimes it felt good.
1202
01:31:36,824 --> 01:31:41,036
Last week, Ms. Rain asked us
to write down what we wanna be like.
1203
01:31:41,454 --> 01:31:44,998
I wrote that I be reaI skinny,
1204
01:31:45,750 --> 01:31:47,959
with Iight skin and Iong hair.
1205
01:31:49,420 --> 01:31:51,087
Loretha Holloway?
1206
01:31:52,298 --> 01:31:53,423
Go on back there.
1207
01:31:53,508 --> 01:31:55,342
She read it and said l'm beautiful like I am.
1208
01:31:55,426 --> 01:31:58,929
But, there's no kids back there
for me to play with.
1209
01:32:01,098 --> 01:32:03,058
Just shut up and sit there, then.
1210
01:32:03,142 --> 01:32:06,520
Gonna talk to this lady
before my shit gets cut off.
1211
01:32:06,604 --> 01:32:08,063
But somehow,
1212
01:32:09,190 --> 01:32:12,442
right now... And I don't know why, but...
1213
01:32:14,570 --> 01:32:16,321
I think she right.
1214
01:32:22,703 --> 01:32:23,787
Here.
1215
01:32:32,463 --> 01:32:34,089
Clareece Jones?
1216
01:32:40,054 --> 01:32:42,055
I think she right.
1217
01:32:47,311 --> 01:32:49,396
Okay, Mrs. Johnston,
let's talk about the abuse.
1218
01:32:49,480 --> 01:32:51,690
There were no drugs in my house.
1219
01:32:51,774 --> 01:32:53,733
l didn't play that.
There weren't no drugs in my house.
1220
01:32:53,818 --> 01:32:55,485
Precious knew I would whup her ass
1221
01:32:55,570 --> 01:32:57,070
if she gonna bring some drugs
up in my house.
1222
01:32:57,154 --> 01:32:59,531
You know what l'm talking about.
1223
01:33:00,658 --> 01:33:05,829
l'm referring to specific
sexual and physical acts
1224
01:33:06,372 --> 01:33:08,164
involving Precious.
1225
01:33:08,833 --> 01:33:10,834
Why you ain't say that?
1226
01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:13,169
Yes, that.
1227
01:33:15,214 --> 01:33:17,132
What do you wanna know?
1228
01:33:17,216 --> 01:33:19,217
According to Precious' files,
1229
01:33:19,302 --> 01:33:23,346
she has now had two children
by your boyfriend,
1230
01:33:23,431 --> 01:33:27,684
the late Carl Kenwood Jones,
who was also her father.
1231
01:33:33,983 --> 01:33:35,984
-Yeah.
-This is accurate?
1232
01:33:38,404 --> 01:33:40,196
Yes, Ms. Weiss.
1233
01:33:40,698 --> 01:33:43,783
l need to know why you're here.
You've been calling this office
1234
01:33:43,868 --> 01:33:47,787
saying you want to be reunited
with Precious and your grandchild.
1235
01:33:47,872 --> 01:33:51,374
Now, I really need to know
what's gone on in that home.
1236
01:33:51,459 --> 01:33:53,585
Ms. Weiss,
l understand we need to discuss it,
1237
01:33:53,669 --> 01:33:55,003
but l'm just telling you.
1238
01:33:55,087 --> 01:33:57,839
You said l've been calling here
and l've been wanting to see
1239
01:33:57,923 --> 01:33:59,382
Precious and my grandson.
1240
01:33:59,467 --> 01:34:03,970
You're goddamn right I wanna see them.
Because they belong to me. Okay?
1241
01:34:04,055 --> 01:34:07,098
Now, there was a time
Precious had everything,
1242
01:34:07,183 --> 01:34:08,975
and I done told her that.
1243
01:34:09,060 --> 01:34:12,687
And me and Carl, we loved Precious.
And you need to know that.
1244
01:34:12,772 --> 01:34:15,482
We loved Precious and we had dreams.
1245
01:34:15,566 --> 01:34:20,278
Precious was born around the same time
Ms. West's son got killed.
1246
01:34:21,781 --> 01:34:25,742
The summertime.
She was born in the summertime.
1247
01:34:25,826 --> 01:34:27,827
Remember? Remember that?
1248
01:34:28,120 --> 01:34:30,080
l was born in November.
1249
01:34:30,581 --> 01:34:32,123
November.
1250
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:35,460
Yeah, that's right.
1251
01:34:36,754 --> 01:34:38,630
My Scorpio child.
1252
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:42,258
You know...
1253
01:34:42,968 --> 01:34:47,013
Scorpios, they can be tricky.
1254
01:34:48,224 --> 01:34:52,769
And, l'm not saying that they lie.
l'm not saying that.
1255
01:34:53,312 --> 01:34:55,647
But you just gotta watch them.
1256
01:34:59,610 --> 01:35:03,405
Can we talk about the actual acts
1257
01:35:03,489 --> 01:35:06,199
of physical and sexual abuse
1258
01:35:06,283 --> 01:35:08,743
that occurred in your household?
1259
01:35:09,328 --> 01:35:10,870
When it first began,
1260
01:35:10,955 --> 01:35:13,957
where it happened
and how did you respond?
1261
01:35:20,339 --> 01:35:22,507
Precious was a little girl.
1262
01:35:23,968 --> 01:35:26,970
Try and remember
how old you think she was.
1263
01:35:31,267 --> 01:35:32,809
She was three.
1264
01:35:34,770 --> 01:35:38,231
And I had been giving her the bottle
1265
01:35:40,151 --> 01:35:42,610
and I was giving Carl the tittie
1266
01:35:42,987 --> 01:35:47,031
because my milk hadn't dried up
in my breasts
1267
01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:51,494
but not from her, but because Carl was...
1268
01:35:52,663 --> 01:35:54,581
Because Carl was sucking on them
1269
01:35:54,665 --> 01:35:58,501
and that's what kept my milk in my breasts.
1270
01:36:01,213 --> 01:36:04,007
And I thought that that was for hygiene.
1271
01:36:04,925 --> 01:36:07,677
l did what my mother told me
1272
01:36:08,262 --> 01:36:12,140
that I was supposed to do with my child,
so that's what I did.
1273
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:15,268
And you're sitting up there
and you're trying to judge me...
1274
01:36:15,352 --> 01:36:18,188
l'm not judging you,
but you're asking me for money
1275
01:36:18,272 --> 01:36:20,690
and you're asking me
to be reunited with your grandson.
1276
01:36:20,775 --> 01:36:23,193
But, Ms. Weiss,
l don't like you looking at me like that.
1277
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:26,821
You got this bitch looking at me
like l'm some kind of fucking monster.
1278
01:36:26,906 --> 01:36:28,823
We don't talk like this in my office, okay?
1279
01:36:28,908 --> 01:36:32,452
l didn't want her sucking behind him,
because that was nasty.
1280
01:36:32,536 --> 01:36:36,247
And things that he was...
lt was just nasty, Ms. Weiss.
1281
01:36:41,879 --> 01:36:45,507
l had a man, and I have a child
1282
01:36:47,301 --> 01:36:51,137
and I had to take care of both of them.
Okay?
1283
01:36:52,807 --> 01:36:57,811
Did I want Carl to touch my baby?
1284
01:36:59,897 --> 01:37:02,232
Because I would lay my baby.
1285
01:37:02,316 --> 01:37:06,945
l would lay her on the side of me,
on this pillow
1286
01:37:08,697 --> 01:37:10,865
and it was pink
1287
01:37:11,575 --> 01:37:14,619
and it had this little white writing on it
1288
01:37:14,703 --> 01:37:18,832
and it had her name,
because she was precious.
1289
01:37:19,750 --> 01:37:22,085
And I would lay my baby on that pillow
1290
01:37:22,169 --> 01:37:25,547
and Carl would be laying on the other side
1291
01:37:26,966 --> 01:37:30,844
and then we would...
We would start doing it
1292
01:37:30,928 --> 01:37:33,054
and he reached over
1293
01:37:35,349 --> 01:37:37,350
and he touched my baby.
1294
01:37:37,434 --> 01:37:38,977
And I asked him,
1295
01:37:39,770 --> 01:37:42,355
l said, "Carl, what are you doing?"
1296
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:44,858
And he told me to shut...
1297
01:37:44,942 --> 01:37:47,944
To shut my fat ass up,
and it was good for her.
1298
01:37:48,028 --> 01:37:51,281
-And what did you do then?
-l shut my fat ass up.
1299
01:37:51,782 --> 01:37:55,118
And I don't want you to sit there
and judge me, Ms. Weiss.
1300
01:37:55,202 --> 01:37:56,953
You shut up
and you let him abuse your daughter?
1301
01:37:57,037 --> 01:37:58,997
l did not want him to abuse my daughter.
1302
01:37:59,123 --> 01:38:00,582
-l did not want him to hurt her.
-But you allowed him
1303
01:38:00,666 --> 01:38:02,542
-to hurt her.
-l did not want him to do nothing to her.
1304
01:38:02,626 --> 01:38:04,544
l wanted him to make love to me.
1305
01:38:04,628 --> 01:38:07,630
That was my man.
That was my fucking man.
1306
01:38:07,798 --> 01:38:10,633
That was my man
and he wanted my daughter.
1307
01:38:11,927 --> 01:38:14,220
And that's why I hated her.
1308
01:38:14,305 --> 01:38:17,307
Because my man,
who was supposed to be loving me,
1309
01:38:17,391 --> 01:38:20,226
who was supposed
to be making love to me,
1310
01:38:21,312 --> 01:38:23,563
was fucking my baby.
1311
01:38:23,647 --> 01:38:27,275
She made him leave.
She made him go away.
1312
01:38:27,818 --> 01:38:28,943
So, whose fault was it, then?
1313
01:38:29,028 --> 01:38:32,196
lt's this bitch's fault
because she let my man have her
1314
01:38:32,281 --> 01:38:33,865
and she didn't say nothing.
1315
01:38:33,949 --> 01:38:35,950
She didn't scream. She didn't do nothing.
1316
01:38:36,035 --> 01:38:39,579
So, those things she told you I did to her,
1317
01:38:39,663 --> 01:38:42,832
who else was gonna love me?
1318
01:38:45,836 --> 01:38:49,464
Since you got your degree
and you know every-fucking-thing,
1319
01:38:49,548 --> 01:38:53,593
who was gonna love me,
who was gonna make me feel good?
1320
01:38:53,677 --> 01:38:57,347
Who was gonna touch me
and make me feel good late at night?
1321
01:38:57,431 --> 01:38:59,974
And she made him go away, so...
1322
01:39:00,726 --> 01:39:04,228
When you sit there and you write
them fucking notes on your pad
1323
01:39:04,313 --> 01:39:08,358
about who you think I am,
and why I did it, all of that.
1324
01:39:09,693 --> 01:39:11,903
Because I didn't have nobody.
1325
01:39:20,704 --> 01:39:23,873
The people from
1326
01:39:25,501 --> 01:39:27,543
Each One Teach One,
1327
01:39:28,253 --> 01:39:31,214
they had... They called me
1328
01:39:34,176 --> 01:39:37,261
and they told me that my baby
was writing poems.
1329
01:39:37,346 --> 01:39:38,846
ln fact, you know what, I got...
1330
01:39:38,931 --> 01:39:40,515
Wait a minute.
1331
01:40:06,500 --> 01:40:07,959
l'm sorry.
1332
01:40:08,961 --> 01:40:12,338
l'm sorry.
And, Ms. Weiss, I don't want no checks.
1333
01:40:12,423 --> 01:40:16,634
l don't need no more money. Please.
l'm so sorry.
1334
01:40:17,553 --> 01:40:19,721
l took that TABE test again.
1335
01:40:20,931 --> 01:40:22,056
And what happened?
1336
01:40:22,141 --> 01:40:23,808
l scored a 7.8.
1337
01:40:25,519 --> 01:40:27,437
Last time it was 2.8.
1338
01:40:29,815 --> 01:40:31,190
According to that test,
1339
01:40:31,275 --> 01:40:33,985
l'm reading at
a seventh- and eighth-grade level.
1340
01:40:35,279 --> 01:40:38,448
Next year, high school. After that, college.
1341
01:40:44,997 --> 01:40:46,789
Well, I like you, too.
1342
01:40:49,126 --> 01:40:51,169
But you can't handle me.
1343
01:40:52,963 --> 01:40:55,298
You can't handle none of this.
1344
01:41:03,223 --> 01:41:06,642
You know, I never knew what you was
until this day.
1345
01:41:06,727 --> 01:41:09,479
Not even after all them things you did.
1346
01:41:10,981 --> 01:41:14,484
Maybe I was too stupid, or
maybe I just didn't want to.
1347
01:41:16,945 --> 01:41:19,280
You ain't gonna see me no more.
1348
01:41:22,868 --> 01:41:24,160
Bye!
1349
01:41:27,873 --> 01:41:29,749
l didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1350
01:41:29,833 --> 01:41:32,251
Please, God,
l didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1351
01:41:32,336 --> 01:41:35,213
Ms. Weiss,
l didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1352
01:41:35,297 --> 01:41:37,090
l would say to him, I would say...
1353
01:41:37,174 --> 01:41:40,426
"Carl, what are you doing?
What are you doing? What are you doing?"
1354
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:51,104
Can you go get her back?
1355
01:41:51,188 --> 01:41:53,773
You can do that,
because that's what you do.
1356
01:41:53,857 --> 01:41:55,691
That's what you do.
1357
01:41:56,110 --> 01:41:59,821
l need you to go
and I need you to get my baby back.
1358
01:41:59,905 --> 01:42:03,533
You told me that I could come in here
and you could get...
1359
01:42:03,992 --> 01:42:05,451
You could get Precious to say...
1360
01:42:05,536 --> 01:42:08,037
Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss?
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