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My name is Clareece "Precious" Jones.
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I wish I had a light-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 I'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 like 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 tell myself
something's gonna happen.
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I'm... I'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 normal
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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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I like Mr. Wicher.
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I pretend he my husband
and we live some place like Westchester.
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Look at him. He like me, too, I know it.
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I can tell by his eyes.
He always looking at me and smiling at me.
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Boys! Boys! Boys!
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I'm not your fucking boy!
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You're disrupting the class.
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Yeah, well, I'm talking now,
so you listen.
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Shut the fuck up! I'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.
I'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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I have... Come here for a second.
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Now this shit.
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Is 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 16 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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In 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 16. You're still
in junior high school,
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and you're pregnant with your second child.
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Is that correct, Clareece?
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Are you pregnant again?
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What happened, Clareece?
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I 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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If I were you, I wouldn't.
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I... I'm going to have to suspend you.
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That ain't fair! I didn't do nothing!
I do my work!
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My grades is good!
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Is something going on at home?
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If something's going on at home,
I 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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I played the number, though.
I 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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I thought it was fabulous.
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- What's next for you?
- What?
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- How are you feeling?
- I feel great!
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Just one more, just one more, quick!
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I love you, too!
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You know I love you!
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Hey, boo!
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I ain't gonna say it no more.
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The door was open, so I let myself in.
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Well, there goes my chance
to tell you I'm not home.
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Now, Mary, this is important.
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Now, come on, Mary,
she'll have a great time.
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I'd enroll myself, but I became ineligible
for teen pageants a few days ago.
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Yeah, I see your acne's cleared 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 field. A brilliant promoter.
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How long 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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I hate crackheads.
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No one ever ring this bell
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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It'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 welfare.
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And that's just what this visit
gonna result 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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If your fat ass don't get
that bitch away from here...
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...like a, like a potential for math.
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So I called Mrs. McKnight
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from Higher Education Alternative
Each One Teach One.
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It'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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It's located at the 11th floor,
Hotel Theresa, 125th 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 late.
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Eleventh floor.
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I heard you the first time.
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Okay.
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I don't know what an alternative school is,
but I feel I wanna know.
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My heart is all warm inside.
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Mr. Wicher think I'm a good student.
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I 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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I didn't bring her here.
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Well, why the fuck did she ring my buzzer?
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I 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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I 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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I 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, I'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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I 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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I 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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I'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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I should've aborted your motherfucking ass.
'Cause you ain't shit.
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I 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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I'm gonna kill you, bitch!
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Get off me, bitch!
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And "blank" 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.
- Ice 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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- Filet mignon.
- Right!
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- And an English... Thomas' English...
- 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 planned.
Things that are planned. Ready? Go!
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Precious, you know I love you.
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I'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 like 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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I 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, I'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.
I 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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I'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.
It'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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I 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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I could start today?
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Yeah. Are you currently receiving AFDC?
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My mother get AFDC
for me and my daughter.
249
00:18:40,544 --> 00:18:43,755
So your mother has custody of you and
your daughter, and you're on her budget?
250
00:18:43,839 --> 00:18:46,800
Okay, well, I'm gonna need a copy
of your mother's budget,
251
00:18:46,884 --> 00:18:49,886
and a copy of your phone bill
and your utility bill.
252
00:18:49,971 --> 00:18:53,264
We gotta give you a few tests,
test your reading and your math level,
253
00:18:53,349 --> 00:18:55,016
see where to place you.
254
00:18:55,643 --> 00:18:58,520
Hold on, baby. Each One Teach One, hold.
255
00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:03,984
To enter into the GED classes,
you gotta get an 8.0 or better on the TABE.
256
00:19:35,433 --> 00:19:38,601
There's always something wrong
with these tests.
257
00:19:40,688 --> 00:19:42,814
These tests paint a picture of me
with no brain.
258
00:19:44,108 --> 00:19:46,192
These tests paint a picture
of me and my mother,
259
00:19:46,277 --> 00:19:48,737
my whole family, as less than dumb.
260
00:19:48,821 --> 00:19:52,907
Just ugly, black grease to be wiped away,
find another job for.
261
00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:56,911
Sometimes I wish I was dead.
262
00:19:58,581 --> 00:20:02,292
I'll be okay, I guess,
'cause I'm looking up.
263
00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:07,047
I'm looking up for a piano to fall.
264
00:20:07,131 --> 00:20:11,092
Or a desk, couch, TV... Momma, maybe.
265
00:20:12,094 --> 00:20:14,304
Always something in my way.
266
00:20:15,639 --> 00:20:16,639
Yeah, man.
267
00:20:16,724 --> 00:20:18,975
Yo, make sure you get that
for me, too, man.
268
00:20:19,060 --> 00:20:20,560
Alternative.
269
00:20:20,644 --> 00:20:22,645
Man, you gotta stop smoking
them shits, man.
270
00:20:22,730 --> 00:20:25,023
That ain't the only thing
that's gonna fucking kill you.
271
00:20:25,107 --> 00:20:26,983
Hustling in these streets gonna kill you.
272
00:20:27,777 --> 00:20:29,027
It is what it is.
273
00:20:29,111 --> 00:20:31,196
Then my mind come back down to Earth.
274
00:20:32,031 --> 00:20:34,824
Let me get some of that sweet ass, orca!
275
00:20:35,326 --> 00:20:36,326
What up, mama?
276
00:20:36,410 --> 00:20:38,453
Why boys always grabbing on themselves?
277
00:20:38,537 --> 00:20:42,373
You heard what the fuck I said?
I said give me some fucking ass.
278
00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:45,251
I'm serious!
When you gonna let me hit that?
279
00:20:45,336 --> 00:20:46,377
That bitch is laughing...
280
00:20:46,462 --> 00:20:47,837
I wish they'd leave me alone.
281
00:20:47,922 --> 00:20:49,923
- She's stupid.
- Yeah.
282
00:20:52,593 --> 00:20:54,469
Yo, that's not even funny.
283
00:20:55,012 --> 00:20:57,347
That's what she'd get anyway, no.
284
00:21:00,059 --> 00:21:01,351
Precious!
285
00:23:01,138 --> 00:23:04,098
Ma, I need some money!
286
00:23:08,395 --> 00:23:10,021
Ma, I'm hungry!
287
00:23:12,107 --> 00:23:14,651
Come take care of Mommy, Precious.
288
00:23:19,698 --> 00:23:21,950
I wish she'd stop this shit.
289
00:23:28,958 --> 00:23:30,959
The other day I cried.
290
00:23:32,002 --> 00:23:35,713
I felt stupid. But you know what?
291
00:23:36,257 --> 00:23:37,924
Fuck that day.
292
00:23:39,218 --> 00:23:43,054
That's why God, or whoever,
makes new days.
293
00:23:43,806 --> 00:23:45,515
Still hungry, though.
294
00:23:51,313 --> 00:23:53,690
Nigger wants me to leave my kids.
295
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:56,401
They're my kids.
296
00:23:59,613 --> 00:24:02,448
- What do you want, baby?
- Give me a basket, please.
297
00:24:02,533 --> 00:24:04,367
- Sides?
- I don't know yet.
298
00:24:04,451 --> 00:24:08,079
Still thinking about it.
Trying to watch my figure.
299
00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:14,919
Butchie, you got a 10-piece ready?
300
00:24:36,692 --> 00:24:38,234
Potato salad.
301
00:24:38,736 --> 00:24:39,902
Thank you.
302
00:24:45,909 --> 00:24:47,744
Hell, no, she didn't!
303
00:24:48,329 --> 00:24:50,788
Get her ass! Get that big bitch!
304
00:25:24,281 --> 00:25:26,908
No, I am not the one.
305
00:26:33,725 --> 00:26:35,184
You in ABE?
306
00:26:37,229 --> 00:26:38,354
Yeah.
307
00:26:40,023 --> 00:26:41,732
Time's a-wasting.
308
00:27:05,048 --> 00:27:06,757
What's your name?
309
00:27:07,593 --> 00:27:09,051
Clareece.
310
00:27:10,262 --> 00:27:12,013
Are you coming in?
311
00:27:18,437 --> 00:27:20,897
That door closes in 20 seconds.
312
00:27:26,278 --> 00:27:28,571
How are you guys doing today?
313
00:27:30,073 --> 00:27:32,658
Would you like to join us, Consuelo?
314
00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:36,329
Consuelo, class is beginning.
315
00:27:39,458 --> 00:27:42,627
You guys know
that you are in the ABE class.
316
00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:46,631
This is not GED.
This is to get you ready for your GED.
317
00:28:07,778 --> 00:28:11,239
These journals are very important
to this class, so do not forget them.
318
00:28:11,323 --> 00:28:13,699
You will need to use them every day
that you are here.
319
00:28:13,784 --> 00:28:15,243
They are the key to this class.
320
00:28:15,327 --> 00:28:16,661
It's 9:07, Joann. You're late.
321
00:28:16,745 --> 00:28:19,432
You're the one who said breakfast is
the most important meal of the day.
322
00:28:19,456 --> 00:28:22,416
Tomorrow, that door will be locked at 9:00.
323
00:28:25,587 --> 00:28:29,382
I want you to state your name,
where you were born,
324
00:28:29,466 --> 00:28:34,136
your favorite color, something you do well
and why you're here.
325
00:28:35,347 --> 00:28:37,014
I'll go first.
326
00:28:37,099 --> 00:28:38,641
When you due?
327
00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:41,686
- My name...
- What you mean, you don't know?
328
00:28:41,770 --> 00:28:43,437
...is Blu Rain.
329
00:28:43,522 --> 00:28:45,773
- That's your real name?
- Yes, it is.
330
00:28:45,857 --> 00:28:48,317
Your first name's Blu?
331
00:28:51,530 --> 00:28:55,825
My favorite color is purple. I sing well.
332
00:28:57,077 --> 00:28:58,744
And I'm here
333
00:29:01,582 --> 00:29:03,666
because I love to teach.
334
00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:05,209
She like to sing.
335
00:29:05,294 --> 00:29:06,752
Rhonda?
336
00:29:06,837 --> 00:29:10,840
I wish I could sing.
Go to church and sing in the choir.
337
00:29:11,717 --> 00:29:13,092
Show them how it's done.
338
00:29:13,176 --> 00:29:17,888
All right.
My name is Rhonda Patrice Johnson.
339
00:29:19,766 --> 00:29:21,100
Problem?
340
00:29:22,477 --> 00:29:24,395
- I should smack her.
- What?
341
00:29:24,479 --> 00:29:30,026
I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,
and my favorite color is blue.
342
00:29:30,527 --> 00:29:32,111
And I cook good.
343
00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:34,822
My mother, she used to have a restaurant
over on 7th Avenue.
344
00:29:34,906 --> 00:29:37,491
Before she get sick,
she teach me everything.
345
00:29:37,576 --> 00:29:41,412
So I'm here to get my reading up,
so I can get my GED.
346
00:29:46,627 --> 00:29:50,212
My name is Rita Romero.
I was born here in Harlem.
347
00:29:51,632 --> 00:29:55,551
I'm here 'cause I was an addict
and I dropped out of school.
348
00:29:56,386 --> 00:29:59,513
So I never got
my reading and writing together.
349
00:30:00,057 --> 00:30:01,849
My favorite color's black.
350
00:30:01,933 --> 00:30:03,309
What do you do good?
351
00:30:03,393 --> 00:30:06,145
"Well," Joann. "What do you do well?"
352
00:30:06,229 --> 00:30:09,148
- What do I do well?
- No. Rita?
353
00:30:09,775 --> 00:30:12,485
I'm a good mother. Very good mother.
354
00:30:15,906 --> 00:30:18,949
My name's Jermaine.
My favorite color is red.
355
00:30:19,034 --> 00:30:21,160
Tell us where you were born first.
356
00:30:21,244 --> 00:30:24,413
I was born in the Bronx. Still live there.
357
00:30:24,498 --> 00:30:28,417
My favorite color is red. Used to be blue.
358
00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:32,004
I can dance real good.
359
00:30:32,089 --> 00:30:34,298
Homie of mine told me
about Each One Teach One,
360
00:30:34,383 --> 00:30:37,134
so I came here to stay out of trouble.
361
00:30:37,219 --> 00:30:40,012
So you came here to Harlem
to stay out of trouble? Is that right?
362
00:30:40,097 --> 00:30:41,472
Yeah.
363
00:30:41,556 --> 00:30:44,225
- Consuelo?
- This is bullshit.
364
00:30:44,309 --> 00:30:45,851
You think so?
365
00:30:50,607 --> 00:30:51,982
Clareece?
366
00:30:54,611 --> 00:30:56,278
Can I skip, too?
367
00:30:58,281 --> 00:30:59,740
Joann?
368
00:30:59,825 --> 00:31:03,285
Okay. I'm Joann. Hey.
369
00:31:05,914 --> 00:31:08,124
My favorite color is fluorescent beige
370
00:31:08,208 --> 00:31:11,085
and my ambition is to have
my own record layer.
371
00:31:11,169 --> 00:31:12,211
What's a record layer?
372
00:31:12,295 --> 00:31:15,214
Tell us where you come from
and why you come to this school.
373
00:31:15,298 --> 00:31:17,258
I was born in Kings County Hospital,
374
00:31:17,342 --> 00:31:19,760
but my mother moved us to Harlem
when I was nine.
375
00:31:19,845 --> 00:31:24,890
I'm here to get my GED, and then...
Well, I'm already into the music industry.
376
00:31:24,975 --> 00:31:28,561
I'm just trying to take care of this
little education thing so I can move up.
377
00:31:28,645 --> 00:31:33,691
Let's begin. This is ABE.
378
00:31:33,775 --> 00:31:35,109
Can I go?
379
00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:43,993
I wish I could sit
in the back of the class again.
380
00:31:52,502 --> 00:31:56,547
My name Clareece "Precious" Jones.
381
00:31:57,674 --> 00:31:59,425
I go by Precious.
382
00:32:01,178 --> 00:32:04,555
I live in Harlem. I like yellow.
383
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:11,687
And I had problems at my other school,
so I come here.
384
00:32:14,024 --> 00:32:15,941
Something you do well?
385
00:32:18,445 --> 00:32:19,820
Nothing.
386
00:32:20,530 --> 00:32:22,865
Everybody's good at something.
387
00:32:25,911 --> 00:32:27,328
Come on.
388
00:32:30,916 --> 00:32:34,668
Well, I can cook. And...
389
00:32:37,130 --> 00:32:39,924
I never really talked in class before.
390
00:32:43,804 --> 00:32:46,055
How does that make you feel?
391
00:32:53,438 --> 00:32:54,605
Here.
392
00:32:58,401 --> 00:33:00,402
It makes me feel here.
393
00:33:02,823 --> 00:33:04,865
Everybody open theirjournal.
394
00:33:04,950 --> 00:33:08,994
Write the date at the top of the page,
and write.
395
00:33:10,539 --> 00:33:12,790
I don't care if you spell everything wrong.
396
00:33:12,874 --> 00:33:15,061
I don't care if it's grammatically
incorrect. But just write.
397
00:33:15,085 --> 00:33:16,794
Write anything that you're feeling.
398
00:33:16,878 --> 00:33:19,213
This class will be a revolving door.
399
00:33:19,297 --> 00:33:22,466
Some of you will make it
and some of you won't.
400
00:33:24,177 --> 00:33:25,928
Fifteen minutes. Go.
401
00:33:28,723 --> 00:33:33,936
Before, I got a A-minus at English,
and I didn't have to say nothing.
402
00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:39,358
Ms. Rain said we gonna read
and write in our notebooks every day.
403
00:33:39,442 --> 00:33:41,610
How we supposed to do that?
404
00:33:44,281 --> 00:33:47,199
But then she see the worry on my face
and she say,
405
00:33:47,284 --> 00:33:50,452
"The longest journey
begin with a single step."
406
00:33:52,831 --> 00:33:55,749
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
407
00:33:56,877 --> 00:33:58,377
Come on, come on, do the work.
408
00:33:58,461 --> 00:34:01,881
You love it, love it, learn it.
409
00:34:02,924 --> 00:34:04,341
Consuelo?
410
00:34:05,051 --> 00:34:06,969
"C" for Consuelo.
411
00:34:07,429 --> 00:34:09,179
"C" for kick your ass.
412
00:34:09,264 --> 00:34:11,599
It's "K" for kick your ass, stupid.
413
00:34:11,683 --> 00:34:13,684
I got the "D," Ms. Rain.
414
00:34:18,023 --> 00:34:19,523
"D" for dick.
415
00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:22,545
Ms. Rain, tell this little-ass bitch
that she don't know me.
416
00:34:22,569 --> 00:34:24,528
Which you wish you had.
417
00:34:32,621 --> 00:34:33,954
- Help her.
- "E."
418
00:34:34,039 --> 00:34:38,667
"E."
419
00:35:05,195 --> 00:35:06,737
"F" for fat.
420
00:35:08,198 --> 00:35:09,406
What?
421
00:35:09,866 --> 00:35:11,033
Good.
422
00:35:14,621 --> 00:35:17,706
Hey! Hey! Hey! Quit it! Hey!
423
00:35:18,833 --> 00:35:20,709
- What?
- Hey, you stop it right now!
424
00:35:20,794 --> 00:35:22,336
- You fucking...
- Quit it!
425
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:23,545
- She just hit me!
- Drop it!
426
00:35:23,630 --> 00:35:24,755
Shut the fuck up!
427
00:35:26,007 --> 00:35:27,091
She just slapped me!
428
00:35:27,175 --> 00:35:28,509
Get out.
429
00:35:29,219 --> 00:35:31,845
We don't fight in my class. Sit down.
430
00:35:36,726 --> 00:35:38,560
"C" for cold.
431
00:35:48,113 --> 00:35:50,114
Do you live with anybody?
432
00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:52,866
My mother.
433
00:35:53,576 --> 00:35:55,244
What does she do?
434
00:35:57,414 --> 00:35:59,289
She don't do nothing.
435
00:36:02,877 --> 00:36:05,754
I want you to read a page from this book.
436
00:36:14,014 --> 00:36:15,180
Try.
437
00:36:16,933 --> 00:36:20,769
All I need you to do is sound out
these words for me.
438
00:36:20,854 --> 00:36:22,396
You don't have to know every word.
439
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,191
You just have to... It doesn't matter
if you stumble or... Try for me...
440
00:36:26,276 --> 00:36:30,404
...or trip up on it.
You just need to say what you know.
441
00:36:30,488 --> 00:36:34,116
Come on. You can do this.
Try. Take it word by word.
442
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,785
- Are you listening to me?
- Precious!
443
00:36:36,870 --> 00:36:39,872
I just wanna know where you are
in your reading skills.
444
00:36:39,956 --> 00:36:41,308
'Cause I'm looking at your test scores...
445
00:36:41,332 --> 00:36:43,834
Some higher fucking learning.
You're a dumb bitch!
446
00:36:43,918 --> 00:36:45,544
Try to read, okay?
447
00:36:45,628 --> 00:36:47,963
Just help me and then I can help you.
448
00:36:48,548 --> 00:36:50,466
We'll start from scratch. Word for word.
449
00:36:50,550 --> 00:36:53,093
I want you better than your mother.
450
00:36:54,137 --> 00:36:56,555
- I'm gonna call the nurse.
- No.
451
00:37:01,603 --> 00:37:03,979
It all look the same to me.
452
00:37:07,650 --> 00:37:09,234
What's this?
453
00:37:11,613 --> 00:37:13,989
I can't do that, Ms. Rain.
454
00:37:15,033 --> 00:37:16,700
Push yourself.
455
00:37:19,287 --> 00:37:20,496
A.
456
00:37:22,332 --> 00:37:23,749
What's this word?
457
00:37:28,963 --> 00:37:31,799
Do you know the letters? Come on.
458
00:37:33,384 --> 00:37:34,510
"D."
459
00:37:37,764 --> 00:37:39,139
"A."
460
00:37:40,725 --> 00:37:42,101
"Y."
461
00:37:42,852 --> 00:37:44,853
Do you know that word?
462
00:37:47,357 --> 00:37:48,565
"Day."
463
00:37:50,693 --> 00:37:52,486
What word is that?
464
00:37:54,531 --> 00:37:56,365
Ate. Ate.
465
00:37:56,449 --> 00:37:58,867
Good. Almost. The word is "At."
466
00:38:00,703 --> 00:38:01,912
"At."
467
00:38:04,541 --> 00:38:05,791
"The."
468
00:38:08,503 --> 00:38:09,586
Sound it out.
469
00:38:09,671 --> 00:38:11,171
"Beach."
470
00:38:11,256 --> 00:38:14,383
The word is "Shore."
It's almost like "Beach."
471
00:38:15,093 --> 00:38:16,552
Very good.
472
00:38:17,178 --> 00:38:19,721
Now, read the whole thing for me.
473
00:38:21,724 --> 00:38:22,891
"A
474
00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:25,853
"Day.
475
00:38:28,439 --> 00:38:30,607
"At The.
476
00:38:31,651 --> 00:38:33,068
"Shore."
477
00:38:40,827 --> 00:38:42,911
Get your big ass in here.
478
00:38:55,592 --> 00:38:57,885
Where was you at this morning?
479
00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:07,060
You hear me talking to you?
Where was you at this morning?
480
00:39:07,145 --> 00:39:09,521
School. I was at school.
481
00:39:09,606 --> 00:39:11,023
You a lying whore.
482
00:39:11,107 --> 00:39:13,108
- I'm not lying.
- You is.
483
00:39:13,693 --> 00:39:16,255
The welfare done called here saying
they gonna remove you from my budget
484
00:39:16,279 --> 00:39:18,199
'cause you ain't been
attending school regularly.
485
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,948
I told you I got kicked out.
486
00:39:20,033 --> 00:39:22,075
I been home nearly every day
for two weeks now.
487
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,537
You ain't told me nothing
about no damn school today.
488
00:39:25,622 --> 00:39:28,624
I told you I was going
to school this morning.
489
00:39:30,293 --> 00:39:33,503
You plan on putting some food
in that frying pan?
490
00:39:39,010 --> 00:39:41,345
Precious, you got something
you wanna say?
491
00:39:41,429 --> 00:39:43,555
- No.
- Then don't be slamming shit down in here.
492
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,224
You understand?
493
00:39:46,142 --> 00:39:47,601
Yes, ma'am.
494
00:39:49,312 --> 00:39:52,731
You need to forget about that school shit
and take your ass down to the welfare.
495
00:39:52,815 --> 00:39:54,650
I'm getting a stipend from school.
496
00:39:54,734 --> 00:39:56,944
Fool, what the fuck is a stipend?
What is that?
497
00:39:57,028 --> 00:40:00,614
Fuck a stipend.
I said take your ass down to the welfare.
498
00:40:00,698 --> 00:40:01,823
Right now?
499
00:40:01,908 --> 00:40:05,577
Why in the fuck would you go right now?
It's at nighttime. Shit is closed.
500
00:40:05,662 --> 00:40:06,912
You gotta be there by 7:00 a.m.
501
00:40:06,996 --> 00:40:09,581
in the morning
if you wanna talk to somebody.
502
00:40:09,666 --> 00:40:11,291
Fucking stupid.
503
00:40:14,963 --> 00:40:18,632
You think you're too good now?
Is that what it is?
504
00:40:19,425 --> 00:40:22,344
You think you is too good for the welfare?
505
00:40:25,598 --> 00:40:29,977
There's more white folk getting assistance
than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis.
506
00:40:31,813 --> 00:40:33,397
I think I said therapy...
507
00:40:33,481 --> 00:40:37,234
Hurry your ass up.
I am in here fucking starving.
508
00:40:37,986 --> 00:40:39,672
Now what you gonna do
if I die of starvation?
509
00:40:39,696 --> 00:40:41,863
Where you gonna go after that?
510
00:40:43,032 --> 00:40:44,992
I forgot. School.
511
00:40:46,452 --> 00:40:49,288
Each... What that bitch say?
Each one do what?
512
00:40:49,372 --> 00:40:51,456
Each one teach one?
513
00:40:51,541 --> 00:40:53,060
Well, they don't know
who the fuck they teaching,
514
00:40:53,084 --> 00:40:55,252
'cause you can't learn shit.
515
00:40:55,795 --> 00:40:58,672
Keep on listening to them white people.
516
00:40:58,756 --> 00:41:01,425
That's what's gonna get you fucked up.
517
00:41:03,970 --> 00:41:06,263
Precious, I'm hungry.
518
00:41:32,248 --> 00:41:36,084
You ain't cooked no collard greens
with the fucking pigs' feet?
519
00:41:36,586 --> 00:41:39,588
Like, how am I supposed to eat pigs' feet
with no collard greens?
520
00:41:39,672 --> 00:41:43,508
And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet
have so much hair in it?
521
00:41:43,593 --> 00:41:46,887
You eat it. You come eat this shit.
522
00:41:46,971 --> 00:41:49,264
- I'm not hungry, though.
- Yes, you is.
523
00:41:49,349 --> 00:41:52,517
Precious, if you don't get
this goddamn plate...
524
00:41:57,940 --> 00:42:02,444
You just fix mine when you get done. Since
you fucked it up, you gonna eat it up.
525
00:42:02,945 --> 00:42:05,864
Hurry up and eat, Precious.
I'm fucking hungry, too.
526
00:42:07,950 --> 00:42:12,329
And don't let it get cold, 'cause
cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit.
527
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,211
So, tell me about...
Tell me about your home life.
528
00:44:27,256 --> 00:44:29,758
Ain't nothing to really talk about.
529
00:44:30,259 --> 00:44:32,761
You're in a safe place. Just talk.
530
00:44:33,095 --> 00:44:34,095
What's going on?
531
00:44:34,180 --> 00:44:35,574
What's the first thing
that comes to your mind
532
00:44:35,598 --> 00:44:37,724
when you think about home?
533
00:44:37,808 --> 00:44:41,520
I just wish I had my own TV,
so I could watch it in my room.
534
00:44:42,271 --> 00:44:45,815
If I had my own TV,
I wouldn't have to watch it with my mother.
535
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:48,693
And what's it like,
watching TV with your mother?
536
00:44:48,778 --> 00:44:51,530
You enjoy watching TV with your mother?
537
00:44:51,614 --> 00:44:56,618
I need to know about your home life. I
need to know what it's like where you live.
538
00:44:57,620 --> 00:44:59,746
My mother's like a whale on the couch.
539
00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:03,833
She say I eat all the time,
but she always making me eat.
540
00:45:03,918 --> 00:45:06,127
Then she call me a fat mess.
541
00:45:06,212 --> 00:45:09,339
She say the apartment
is little 'cause of me.
542
00:45:09,423 --> 00:45:12,217
Only time she ever leaves
is to play her numbers.
543
00:45:12,301 --> 00:45:15,220
I feel like I could just sit in the house
with her every day,
544
00:45:15,304 --> 00:45:16,721
the shades drawn,
545
00:45:16,806 --> 00:45:21,017
watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again.
546
00:45:21,894 --> 00:45:24,145
Can you help out with that?
547
00:45:25,356 --> 00:45:28,024
Can we talk about something else now?
548
00:45:34,323 --> 00:45:36,241
How about your firstborn?
549
00:45:36,325 --> 00:45:37,659
Mongo?
550
00:45:39,495 --> 00:45:41,580
Mongo is her... Is that...
551
00:45:42,248 --> 00:45:44,916
Mongo. That's short for "mongoloid."
552
00:45:45,793 --> 00:45:50,130
Is that what you call her? Or that's...
What is that? A nickname?
553
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,757
She got Down's syndrome.
554
00:46:00,975 --> 00:46:01,975
How you doing, Precious?
555
00:46:02,018 --> 00:46:04,603
My grandmother Toosie
bring little Mongo over to our house
556
00:46:04,687 --> 00:46:09,024
on days when the social worker come,
so it look like she live with us.
557
00:46:10,526 --> 00:46:12,569
Answer the fucking door.
558
00:46:14,238 --> 00:46:16,489
Do you see what you did? God damn it.
559
00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:19,868
Then my mother gets money
and the food stamps for me and Mongo.
560
00:46:19,952 --> 00:46:21,369
Who is it?
561
00:46:21,954 --> 00:46:23,580
It's Ms. Turner.
562
00:46:24,624 --> 00:46:25,665
Social worker's here.
563
00:46:25,750 --> 00:46:29,461
Why didn't you tell me that bitch
was coming so fucking early?
564
00:46:29,545 --> 00:46:32,213
My fucking wig. Come get my wig!
565
00:46:32,298 --> 00:46:33,632
Come up!
566
00:46:38,387 --> 00:46:40,221
Where's my lipstick?
567
00:46:43,976 --> 00:46:46,603
Thank you, thank you.
568
00:46:56,530 --> 00:46:59,783
- Get off of me.
- Leave that child alone, please.
569
00:46:59,867 --> 00:47:02,077
Mind your goddamn business.
570
00:47:03,954 --> 00:47:05,955
- Hi, Precious.
- Hey.
571
00:47:06,374 --> 00:47:09,167
- Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?
- Hi, Mary. How are you?
572
00:47:09,251 --> 00:47:12,504
Please excuse that.
My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over.
573
00:47:12,588 --> 00:47:14,881
Please, have a seat. Excuse the mess.
574
00:47:14,965 --> 00:47:16,508
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
575
00:47:16,592 --> 00:47:17,842
How are you, Mary?
576
00:47:17,927 --> 00:47:20,929
I'm doing really good, Ms. Turner.
Thank you.
577
00:47:21,764 --> 00:47:24,307
When was the last time
you've taken her to the doctor?
578
00:47:25,434 --> 00:47:27,769
Precious, when...
When did we take her? The baby?
579
00:47:27,853 --> 00:47:28,895
Last month.
580
00:47:28,979 --> 00:47:32,399
Yeah... On the 16th.
On the 16th. Yes, yes, ma'am.
581
00:47:32,983 --> 00:47:35,568
Okay, and what did the doctor say?
582
00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:41,116
They said
that she's progressing really good.
583
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,992
She's doing really good.
584
00:47:43,077 --> 00:47:45,245
- That's good.
- Yes, ma'am.
585
00:47:45,329 --> 00:47:47,080
And have you been looking for a job?
586
00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:51,459
I have, Ms. Turner. I am.
But they've all been saying the same thing.
587
00:47:51,544 --> 00:47:55,046
You know, they'll call me back.
They'll get back to me.
588
00:47:57,425 --> 00:47:59,551
When did you go looking for the job?
589
00:47:59,635 --> 00:48:03,805
I went last week
and I filled out several applications.
590
00:48:03,889 --> 00:48:07,600
And they all said the same thing,
that they would call me.
591
00:48:09,687 --> 00:48:10,979
Mommy!
592
00:48:11,355 --> 00:48:13,857
No! No!
593
00:48:15,151 --> 00:48:17,402
Is that a new microwave oven?
594
00:48:17,820 --> 00:48:19,779
A... A microwave?
595
00:48:20,823 --> 00:48:24,492
No, ma'am.
We warm our things up in the oven.
596
00:48:25,828 --> 00:48:28,288
- I see. It's a toaster oven.
- Yes. Yes, ma'am.
597
00:48:28,372 --> 00:48:32,667
Okay.
I will be seeing and speaking with you
598
00:48:33,961 --> 00:48:34,961
in a week or so.
599
00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:36,087
- In a week or so?
- Yes.
600
00:48:36,172 --> 00:48:39,674
Okay, do you know what time you'll be...
You'll be coming?
601
00:48:39,759 --> 00:48:41,009
- I'll let you know.
- Okay.
602
00:48:41,093 --> 00:48:42,529
- I'll let you know.
- Thank you so much.
603
00:48:42,553 --> 00:48:45,346
Precious, any questions for me?
604
00:48:47,725 --> 00:48:49,517
How are you, Precious?
605
00:48:49,602 --> 00:48:52,687
I'm doing good. How you doing?
606
00:48:53,439 --> 00:48:55,440
I'm good, thank you.
607
00:48:56,567 --> 00:48:58,610
Ladies, thank you for your time.
608
00:48:58,694 --> 00:49:00,612
Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.
Have a great day.
609
00:49:00,696 --> 00:49:02,864
- And you. Bye, Sheila.
- Bye.
610
00:49:07,953 --> 00:49:10,413
Come get this motherfucking... Get her.
611
00:49:10,498 --> 00:49:13,374
Moving all around and shit
while I'm trying to talk to this bitch.
612
00:49:13,459 --> 00:49:15,376
Makes me fucking itch.
613
00:49:16,629 --> 00:49:19,422
She done threw her fucking candy
on the floor.
614
00:49:19,507 --> 00:49:21,049
Goddamn animal.
615
00:49:22,676 --> 00:49:25,804
And now you gonna give it to her?
Put the fucking candy back on the floor!
616
00:49:25,888 --> 00:49:27,491
Then you go and pick it up
and let her have it.
617
00:49:27,515 --> 00:49:30,725
You're so fucking stupid.
Just like her dumb ass.
618
00:49:30,810 --> 00:49:34,521
That bitch gonna come up in here
and I gotta fucking make pretend?
619
00:49:34,605 --> 00:49:35,939
I'm so sick of it.
620
00:49:36,023 --> 00:49:38,483
I don't know what the fuck
you shaking your head for.
621
00:49:38,567 --> 00:49:40,026
You didn't do no goddamn better.
622
00:49:40,110 --> 00:49:42,195
You know what?
Let's talk about your father.
623
00:49:42,279 --> 00:49:44,739
Tell me about your relationship with him.
624
00:49:44,824 --> 00:49:47,283
I don't know much more
than you do, Ms. White.
625
00:49:47,368 --> 00:49:49,035
It's Ms. Weiss.
626
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:51,788
Talk to me about
the little you do know about your father,
627
00:49:51,872 --> 00:49:55,124
'cause it is important,
whether you know it or not.
628
00:49:55,918 --> 00:49:58,503
He give me this baby
and my one before it, but I...
629
00:49:58,587 --> 00:50:01,172
What did you say he gave you?
630
00:50:01,257 --> 00:50:02,734
- Nothing.
- No, Clareece, you just said
631
00:50:02,758 --> 00:50:03,985
your father gave you something.
632
00:50:04,009 --> 00:50:06,010
- I heard you just say...
- You didn't hear shit.
633
00:50:06,095 --> 00:50:08,949
- I heard you say your father...
- I ain't say nothing. I ain't say shit like it.
634
00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:10,867
- I don't care, honey.
- I didn't say nothing like that.
635
00:50:10,891 --> 00:50:12,475
- I need to know this.
- Let's move on.
636
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:13,935
I need to know this to help you.
637
00:50:14,019 --> 00:50:17,021
- Bitch, can we change the subject?
- Okay.
638
00:50:17,106 --> 00:50:20,275
Well, I'll see you next time, then.
Or maybe you'll see someone else.
639
00:50:20,359 --> 00:50:24,946
But you're gonna have to talk to somebody
if you want your check, sweetie.
640
00:50:35,165 --> 00:50:37,208
I see vampires, too.
641
00:50:40,045 --> 00:50:43,381
They come at night.
They tell me I'm one of them.
642
00:50:44,758 --> 00:50:47,886
They say, "Precious, you belong with us."
643
00:50:50,306 --> 00:50:52,807
And then they go downstairs
through the floor.
644
00:50:52,892 --> 00:50:55,727
The people that live under us,
they is vampires,
645
00:50:55,811 --> 00:50:58,146
so that's where they should go.
646
00:50:58,689 --> 00:51:00,857
They be so nasty, though,
647
00:51:00,941 --> 00:51:03,318
leaving their dirty tampons and shit
in the garbage.
648
00:51:03,402 --> 00:51:05,820
Don't even offer to take it out.
649
00:51:05,905 --> 00:51:08,448
They got no fucking home training.
650
00:51:11,493 --> 00:51:15,246
I been going to the doctor, too. It's nice.
651
00:51:16,665 --> 00:51:21,002
Ms. Rain fall out when she found out
I ain't never been to no doctor before.
652
00:51:24,173 --> 00:51:26,549
Don't know how I had my first baby
on the kitchen floor
653
00:51:26,634 --> 00:51:29,552
with my momma kicking me
upside my head.
654
00:51:32,222 --> 00:51:33,658
Them the kind of things
you're talking about
655
00:51:33,682 --> 00:51:36,517
when you say,
say whatever come to my mind?
656
00:51:41,065 --> 00:51:43,816
That's the end of them welfare checks.
657
00:51:43,901 --> 00:51:47,946
I just couldn't lie no more.
I shouldn't have said none of that.
658
00:51:51,492 --> 00:51:53,284
Momma gonna kill me.
659
00:52:02,127 --> 00:52:03,711
Motherfuckers!
660
00:52:07,341 --> 00:52:08,967
Are we done?
661
00:52:09,051 --> 00:52:10,802
I'm not doing this with you today.
662
00:52:10,886 --> 00:52:13,554
At night, we went out on a field trip.
663
00:52:18,727 --> 00:52:20,645
These girls is crazy.
664
00:52:21,063 --> 00:52:24,399
Ain't nobody ever grabbed my hand
like that before.
665
00:52:41,125 --> 00:52:43,584
...as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
666
00:52:43,669 --> 00:52:46,671
for the presidency
of the United States of America.
667
00:52:47,339 --> 00:52:51,092
...and by having destroyed it,
now we don't know...
668
00:52:53,470 --> 00:52:58,433
...and the testimony you're about to give
will be the truth, the whole truth...
669
00:52:58,517 --> 00:53:00,393
I still have a dream.
670
00:53:02,229 --> 00:53:05,857
It is a dream deeply rooted
in the American dream.
671
00:53:07,109 --> 00:53:10,862
I have a dream that one day
672
00:53:12,364 --> 00:53:17,535
this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of...
673
00:53:17,619 --> 00:53:19,746
I'm gonna teach my baby all of this.
674
00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:22,874
"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
675
00:53:22,958 --> 00:53:25,043
"that all men are created equal."
676
00:53:25,127 --> 00:53:27,378
No fear. That's bullshit. That's bullshit.
677
00:53:27,463 --> 00:53:28,606
You mean, write a whole new one?
678
00:53:28,630 --> 00:53:31,507
No, girl, if I need to
explain myself to you...
679
00:53:31,592 --> 00:53:33,403
- You'll figure it out.
- You think that I'm stupid?
680
00:53:33,427 --> 00:53:36,471
Oh, my God. That I believe in you?
681
00:53:38,474 --> 00:53:40,016
That I think you're incredible?
682
00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:41,809
Yes, but I don't know what to do.
683
00:53:41,894 --> 00:53:44,937
All right, pull it together. Okay.
Who's next?
684
00:53:45,898 --> 00:53:47,231
I'm happy to be writing.
685
00:53:47,316 --> 00:53:50,318
- Go ahead, Rhonda.
- I'm happy to be in school, too.
686
00:53:50,402 --> 00:53:53,738
Ms. Rain say we gonna write
every day in our notebook.
687
00:53:53,822 --> 00:53:55,782
She gonna write back to us every day, too.
688
00:53:55,866 --> 00:53:59,660
"Yesterday I went to church for the
first time since I come to this country.
689
00:53:59,745 --> 00:54:01,037
"I got all the way to Brooklyn.
690
00:54:01,121 --> 00:54:03,915
"The church was up the block and around
the corner upon the 3 train.
691
00:54:03,999 --> 00:54:05,679
"The preacher preached
two and a half hours
692
00:54:05,751 --> 00:54:08,252
- "about Jehovah.
- Rhonda! Rhonda!
693
00:54:08,337 --> 00:54:11,756
"And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,
Jehovah delivers."
694
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:13,841
Is that a fairytale?
695
00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:16,719
Sit down.
696
00:54:16,804 --> 00:54:18,096
Did anybody do this assignment?
697
00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:20,681
Momma say this school ain't shit.
698
00:54:20,766 --> 00:54:23,226
She say you can't learn nothing
writing in no book.
699
00:54:23,310 --> 00:54:28,523
- This is a fairytale called "Enchanted."
- She wrong about that. I is learning.
700
00:54:31,276 --> 00:54:34,737
"Once upon a time, in a faraway land,
701
00:54:35,155 --> 00:54:39,283
"there lived a beautiful princess
named Joann-a.
702
00:54:39,868 --> 00:54:44,163
"She was very, very
fly and extra, extra tall,
703
00:54:44,748 --> 00:54:48,251
"and every single boy loved her,
big and small.
704
00:54:49,044 --> 00:54:53,131
"Except for one idiot boy
who was so stupid and dumb.
705
00:54:53,215 --> 00:54:57,426
"And out of all the cute boys who
loved her, he was the cutest one."
706
00:54:58,554 --> 00:55:01,848
- That's all I got so far.
- That's a good beginning.
707
00:55:01,932 --> 00:55:05,476
Thinking about little
Mongo, too. I miss her.
708
00:55:05,853 --> 00:55:07,311
That's how you start a fairytale.
709
00:55:07,396 --> 00:55:09,689
I'm happy my baby coming up.
710
00:55:10,816 --> 00:55:14,652
I'm gonna read to this baby, too,
and hang colors on its wall.
711
00:55:15,571 --> 00:55:18,489
Listen, baby. Mother not dumb.
712
00:55:18,574 --> 00:55:20,867
Mother love you. Listen.
713
00:55:21,368 --> 00:55:25,037
"Once upon a time,
there was a magical princess
714
00:55:25,122 --> 00:55:28,291
"who lived in a magical bubble
under the sea.
715
00:55:28,834 --> 00:55:30,918
"And she was from land."
716
00:55:46,143 --> 00:55:47,810
Stop screaming.
717
00:56:08,790 --> 00:56:12,627
His name's Abdul Jamal Lewis Jones.
718
00:56:13,629 --> 00:56:16,464
He healthy. His mother love him.
719
00:56:32,606 --> 00:56:34,815
The food in this hospital's nasty.
720
00:56:35,484 --> 00:56:36,609
It's not from here.
721
00:56:36,693 --> 00:56:38,277
Where it from?
722
00:56:38,362 --> 00:56:40,905
A little shop by my house where
723
00:56:40,989 --> 00:56:43,407
I get my organic food,
so I don't have to eat that
724
00:56:43,492 --> 00:56:46,077
nasty mystery-meat stuff
they got downstairs.
725
00:56:46,161 --> 00:56:49,163
Can you bring me something?
I don't like fruit. I like McDonald's.
726
00:56:49,248 --> 00:56:51,457
First of all, I don't eat McDonald's.
727
00:56:51,541 --> 00:56:54,210
Second of all, you don't need
to be eating McDonald's, either.
728
00:56:54,294 --> 00:56:55,336
It's not healthy.
729
00:56:55,420 --> 00:56:57,630
But I like McDonald's.
We all like McDonald's, right?
730
00:56:57,714 --> 00:57:00,341
We like McDonald's, too, over here.
731
00:57:00,425 --> 00:57:01,926
I don't like no damn McDonald's.
732
00:57:02,010 --> 00:57:05,096
I want some of that organic shit
like you got.
733
00:57:05,514 --> 00:57:06,973
Well, I tell you what,
734
00:57:07,057 --> 00:57:09,617
when you get up out of here,
you go with all your little friends,
735
00:57:09,685 --> 00:57:10,685
and you go to McDonald's,
736
00:57:10,727 --> 00:57:12,603
and you get as much
McDonald's as you want.
737
00:57:12,688 --> 00:57:15,147
But right now,
you're gonna take care of your health.
738
00:57:15,232 --> 00:57:16,941
Are you a doctor?
739
00:57:18,026 --> 00:57:19,986
- Are you her doctor?
- Am I a doctor?
740
00:57:20,070 --> 00:57:22,738
- Yeah.
- I am a nurse's aide.
741
00:57:22,823 --> 00:57:24,615
Nurse John-John.
742
00:57:24,700 --> 00:57:26,367
Oh, that's funny?
743
00:57:26,868 --> 00:57:28,619
Well, you're a man.
744
00:57:29,371 --> 00:57:32,039
- You've never seen a male nurse?
- No.
745
00:57:32,207 --> 00:57:34,292
Not looking like you do.
746
00:57:35,085 --> 00:57:39,213
I am a male nurse.
I am Nurse John McFadden.
747
00:57:39,298 --> 00:57:41,882
So was you up in the room
when she popped the baby out?
748
00:57:41,967 --> 00:57:43,069
You was like, all up in between her...
749
00:57:43,093 --> 00:57:45,136
Joann, don't be nasty!
750
00:57:45,220 --> 00:57:46,804
How was it? Was he screaming?
751
00:57:46,888 --> 00:57:47,972
It hurt.
752
00:57:48,056 --> 00:57:49,640
Tough gal like you had to scream?
753
00:57:49,725 --> 00:57:53,978
Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.
It hurt. And it burned.
754
00:57:54,062 --> 00:57:55,313
- Are you married?
- Shut up!
755
00:57:55,397 --> 00:57:57,064
You got a girlfriend?
756
00:57:57,149 --> 00:57:59,567
- Why you asking? He don't want you.
- How would you know?
757
00:57:59,651 --> 00:58:01,379
Why don't you stop being a ho
for 10 minutes?
758
00:58:01,403 --> 00:58:02,630
What's wrong with these people?
759
00:58:02,654 --> 00:58:04,030
You don't want her, right?
760
00:58:04,114 --> 00:58:06,907
I wish I was a cantaloupe in that cup.
761
00:58:06,992 --> 00:58:08,492
So he could eat you?
762
00:58:08,577 --> 00:58:12,204
Okay, no. I gotta go. I gotta go.
763
00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:15,416
No, that's all right. That's all right.
764
00:58:18,670 --> 00:58:20,629
Can I get a kiss, too, Nurse John?
765
00:58:20,714 --> 00:58:23,466
- Good afternoon, ladies.
- Bye, Nurse John.
766
00:58:23,550 --> 00:58:26,427
- Bye!
- Good night, Nurse John-John!
767
00:58:27,846 --> 00:58:30,139
Precious and John-John.
768
00:58:30,223 --> 00:58:32,183
Sitting in a tree.
769
00:58:32,267 --> 00:58:36,062
- F-U-C-K-I-N-G.
- Shut up! Y'all are nasty.
770
00:58:39,775 --> 00:58:42,443
You think he's spending the night
up in here?
771
00:58:44,613 --> 00:58:47,823
Now she gonna write
about Nurse John in her book!
772
00:58:49,117 --> 00:58:50,785
"Dear Ms. Rain,
773
00:58:51,286 --> 00:58:54,455
"All the years I sit in
class, I never learned.
774
00:58:54,748 --> 00:58:57,625
"Now I got a baby again by my father.
775
00:58:58,377 --> 00:59:01,003
"I wish I had a boyfriend like other girls.
776
00:59:01,088 --> 00:59:04,256
"Then I'll feel right
that I have to quit school.
777
00:59:04,341 --> 00:59:07,843
"I love my baby, but I want school, too.
778
00:59:07,928 --> 00:59:10,304
"Social worker ask me
if I wanna give little Mongo
779
00:59:10,389 --> 00:59:13,933
"and Abdul up for adoption.
I could kill her.
780
00:59:14,351 --> 00:59:18,104
"She never helped before.
Now she wanna take my kids away?
781
00:59:18,814 --> 00:59:22,066
"If she takes Abdul,
I won't have nothing no more."
782
00:59:22,150 --> 00:59:24,110
"Dear Precious,
783
00:59:24,194 --> 00:59:27,488
"I think your first responsibility
has to be to yourself.
784
00:59:27,697 --> 00:59:30,241
"If you keep Abdul, you might have nothing.
785
00:59:30,325 --> 00:59:32,785
"You're learning to read and write.
That's everything.
786
00:59:32,869 --> 00:59:35,538
"You come back to school
when you get out of the hospital.
787
00:59:35,622 --> 00:59:36,747
"You're only 17."
788
00:59:36,832 --> 00:59:39,250
This looks like a big-ass condom.
789
00:59:41,128 --> 00:59:43,212
Use that for Nurse John.
790
00:59:43,713 --> 00:59:45,881
Not looking like that.
Your hair looks a mess.
791
00:59:45,966 --> 00:59:48,676
- I'm giving you banjee.
- Shut up!
792
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,261
I got yourjournal.
793
00:59:50,345 --> 00:59:51,846
Thank you.
794
00:59:57,102 --> 00:59:58,644
What's wrong?
795
00:59:58,728 --> 01:00:00,062
Nothing.
796
01:00:00,147 --> 01:00:01,730
Are you sure?
797
01:00:01,815 --> 01:00:02,857
Yeah, I'm sure.
798
01:00:02,941 --> 01:00:07,361
All right. I'm bored.
I'm about to leave. Bye.
799
01:00:09,030 --> 01:00:10,698
Bye, Ms. Toosie.
800
01:00:11,199 --> 01:00:12,783
You got a nasty-ass mouth.
801
01:00:12,868 --> 01:00:14,952
You got a nasty-ass hat.
802
01:00:17,372 --> 01:00:20,166
That's what's wrong,
you hanging out with bitches like that.
803
01:00:20,250 --> 01:00:21,834
Here's your baby.
804
01:00:21,918 --> 01:00:24,295
It's probably the last time
you're gonna ever see him.
805
01:00:24,379 --> 01:00:25,796
Grandmother come and visit and say,
806
01:00:25,881 --> 01:00:28,466
"Only a dog would drop a baby
and walk off."
807
01:00:28,550 --> 01:00:29,842
Not even a dog.
808
01:00:30,135 --> 01:00:32,553
Say later, "Not even a dog."
809
01:00:32,637 --> 01:00:35,723
I'm proud of you.
Ain't nothing like your mother.
810
01:00:35,807 --> 01:00:39,143
"Where was your grandmother
when your father was abusing you?
811
01:00:39,227 --> 01:00:41,312
"Where is little Mongo now?
812
01:00:42,063 --> 01:00:44,815
"What is going to be the best thing for you
in this situation?"
813
01:00:44,900 --> 01:00:47,193
"Ms. Rain, you ask too many questions.
814
01:00:47,277 --> 01:00:49,820
"Sometimes I wish I could stop breathing.
815
01:00:49,905 --> 01:00:52,281
"I just wanna be a good mother."
816
01:00:53,325 --> 01:00:55,493
"Being a good mother might mean
letting Abdul be raised
817
01:00:55,577 --> 01:00:59,246
"by someone who's better able than you
to meet his needs."
818
01:00:59,956 --> 01:01:03,459
"Ms. Rain, I is the best
to meet my child's needs."
819
01:01:12,844 --> 01:01:14,678
"Who's gonna help you?
820
01:01:15,222 --> 01:01:17,515
"How will you support yourself?
821
01:01:18,725 --> 01:01:21,769
"How will you keep learning
to read and write?"
822
01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:24,897
"The welfare helped Momma."
823
01:01:25,690 --> 01:01:29,276
"You look and see
how much welfare has helped your mom.
824
01:01:31,571 --> 01:01:33,197
"You could get your GED,
825
01:01:33,281 --> 01:01:35,950
"and go to college.
You can do anything, Precious."
826
01:02:58,074 --> 01:02:59,491
You back?
827
01:03:00,076 --> 01:03:01,452
What's his name?
828
01:03:01,953 --> 01:03:03,537
Can I hold it?
829
01:04:07,352 --> 01:04:08,936
Hey, Precious.
830
01:04:12,691 --> 01:04:13,941
Hey.
831
01:04:17,404 --> 01:04:19,113
You had the baby?
832
01:04:19,698 --> 01:04:20,989
A boy.
833
01:04:22,242 --> 01:04:24,493
Where you been all this time?
834
01:04:31,126 --> 01:04:32,793
Let me see him.
835
01:04:40,009 --> 01:04:41,760
Can I hold him?
836
01:05:01,281 --> 01:05:03,282
He look like his daddy.
837
01:05:08,830 --> 01:05:10,330
He named Abdul.
838
01:05:11,624 --> 01:05:15,210
Put all this shit down
and go get me something to drink.
839
01:05:33,688 --> 01:05:35,147
You bitch!
840
01:05:35,732 --> 01:05:37,941
- You fucking bitch!
- You crazy, Momma?
841
01:05:38,026 --> 01:05:40,527
Am I crazy? Bitch, if I was to...
842
01:05:41,529 --> 01:05:43,238
You ruined my fucking life!
843
01:05:43,323 --> 01:05:45,991
You done took my man,
you had those fucking babies,
844
01:05:46,075 --> 01:05:47,386
and you got me put off the welfare
845
01:05:47,410 --> 01:05:49,703
for running your goddamned
stupid-ass mouth!
846
01:05:49,829 --> 01:05:53,665
I ain't stupid and I didn't take your man.
Your husband raped me!
847
01:05:53,750 --> 01:05:55,250
Didn't no-fucking-body rape you!
848
01:05:55,335 --> 01:05:57,669
Bitch, don't you put
your fucking hands on me!
849
01:06:18,274 --> 01:06:20,567
Mary, leave that girl alone!
850
01:06:59,148 --> 01:07:01,108
Can I see the baby now?
851
01:09:12,699 --> 01:09:15,826
B... C... D...
852
01:09:16,744 --> 01:09:21,164
E... F... G... H...
853
01:09:21,833 --> 01:09:24,543
I... J... K...
854
01:09:31,592 --> 01:09:33,176
I'm tired of shopping.
855
01:09:33,261 --> 01:09:35,220
Yes, because they all trying
to take your money.
856
01:09:35,304 --> 01:09:37,180
They don't...
857
01:09:47,817 --> 01:09:49,735
I'm calling the cops.
858
01:09:54,949 --> 01:09:57,451
Tell me what you see back there.
859
01:10:09,839 --> 01:10:14,342
I could tell by Ms. Rain's face
I ain't gonna be homeless no more.
860
01:10:14,427 --> 01:10:16,470
I just don't know
where I'm gonna end up, though.
861
01:10:16,554 --> 01:10:18,138
I'll hold.
862
01:10:20,058 --> 01:10:21,808
I feel bad for her.
863
01:10:21,893 --> 01:10:25,645
She just an ABC teacher.
She ain't no social worker.
864
01:10:27,273 --> 01:10:28,523
What's going on?
865
01:10:28,608 --> 01:10:29,775
But she all I could think of.
866
01:10:29,859 --> 01:10:32,319
Look, when the others get here,
tell them to start writing.
867
01:10:32,403 --> 01:10:34,571
And whichever one of you is older
is in charge, okay?
868
01:10:34,655 --> 01:10:36,335
Consuelo, I know that's not you.
Come here.
869
01:10:36,407 --> 01:10:38,594
Ms. Rain, I can't stay. I'm serious.
I've tried to talk...
870
01:10:38,618 --> 01:10:41,263
Consuelo, you're not leaving class
and I'm not dealing with this right now.
871
01:10:41,287 --> 01:10:43,622
Take this money.
Go get something for Precious to wear.
872
01:10:43,706 --> 01:10:46,166
Quick. And bring back my change.
873
01:10:46,250 --> 01:10:49,961
Sixteen years old. A three-day-old infant.
874
01:10:50,588 --> 01:10:52,748
The baby not bleeding.
I think this is Precious' blood.
875
01:10:52,799 --> 01:10:55,675
Well, why didn't you tell me that before?
876
01:10:57,011 --> 01:10:59,471
We'll find you a place to live.
877
01:11:02,683 --> 01:11:04,392
Joann, you're late.
878
01:11:04,477 --> 01:11:06,686
Rhonda, you ain't the teacher.
879
01:11:06,813 --> 01:11:09,147
Joann, Ms. Rain is busy
with Precious today,
880
01:11:09,232 --> 01:11:11,358
so I am the teacher today.
881
01:11:11,442 --> 01:11:13,318
Okay. Why?
882
01:11:13,778 --> 01:11:15,589
- Where's Precious?
- Just sit. Pull out your notebook.
883
01:11:15,613 --> 01:11:18,031
Joann, you wanna say one of your raps
to the baby?
884
01:11:18,116 --> 01:11:19,533
What's the baby doing here?
885
01:11:19,617 --> 01:11:21,326
- Joann's gonna rap for you.
- Let me see.
886
01:11:21,536 --> 01:11:23,829
She all right. She's doing good.
887
01:11:24,539 --> 01:11:27,499
Why is the baby wrapped up
in a blood-covered blanket?
888
01:11:27,583 --> 01:11:30,335
- Joann, what's so funny?
- For real. What happened?
889
01:11:30,419 --> 01:11:31,897
You don't wanna know is
how it got on the blanket.
890
01:11:31,921 --> 01:11:33,065
You know what your problem is, Joann?
891
01:11:33,089 --> 01:11:34,881
That you can't take anything
serious enough.
892
01:11:34,966 --> 01:11:37,384
- Jermaine, me expect better from you.
- Okay, Rhonda.
893
01:11:37,468 --> 01:11:40,011
Joann, stop laughing at this baby.
894
01:11:41,681 --> 01:11:42,973
Queens.
895
01:11:45,309 --> 01:11:47,060
Let me call you back.
896
01:11:47,145 --> 01:11:48,436
Just tell me what happened!
897
01:11:48,521 --> 01:11:49,855
No, it's not funny.
898
01:11:49,939 --> 01:11:52,774
But Joann, there's nothing funny
about a baby with blood on it.
899
01:11:52,859 --> 01:11:54,711
I got a West Indian friend
who's a Council member.
900
01:11:54,735 --> 01:11:56,862
Let me see what she can do.
Hold on a second.
901
01:11:56,946 --> 01:12:00,240
I found a lesson plan in our notebooks.
We're gonna...
902
01:12:01,784 --> 01:12:03,493
Clareece Jones.
903
01:12:03,578 --> 01:12:05,871
Hey, Ms. Lisa. How you been?
904
01:12:06,706 --> 01:12:07,914
I don't know.
905
01:12:07,999 --> 01:12:11,918
I went to see that movie,
Barfly, last night. Piece of shit.
906
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,047
- I'm sorry.
- It's on my desk. Can you hold?
907
01:12:16,132 --> 01:12:18,425
Something's wrong with you, Precious.
908
01:12:18,509 --> 01:12:20,051
This baby stink.
909
01:12:20,136 --> 01:12:22,456
Well, we don't have a Pamper,
so have a seat with the baby.
910
01:12:22,513 --> 01:12:25,182
- I am sitting.
- In your seat, please.
911
01:12:25,266 --> 01:12:27,350
The first thing
912
01:12:27,435 --> 01:12:33,106
is shut the bumba-ros-clot...
913
01:12:33,983 --> 01:12:36,484
Ms. Rain, why did you let Rhonda
teach the class?
914
01:12:36,569 --> 01:12:38,209
She don't even know how to speak English.
915
01:12:38,279 --> 01:12:39,321
Let Rhonda take over.
916
01:12:39,405 --> 01:12:43,033
- Shut the bumba-ros-clot up.
- What the fuck is a "ros clot"?
917
01:12:43,117 --> 01:12:45,035
Yeah, Brenda, you there?
918
01:12:45,119 --> 01:12:47,704
The last four of the Social are...
919
01:12:47,788 --> 01:12:50,373
2-4-2-1.
920
01:12:50,458 --> 01:12:52,584
- Rita?
- I just wanna know how to spell "Aquarius."
921
01:12:52,668 --> 01:12:55,545
- Anybody know how to spell "Aquarius"?
- It's A-Q-U-A-R-I-U-S.
922
01:12:55,630 --> 01:12:56,838
Can you spell "boy" then?
923
01:12:56,923 --> 01:12:58,173
Can you spell "slut" then?
924
01:12:58,257 --> 01:12:59,883
Let's explore that.
925
01:12:59,967 --> 01:13:03,303
You wanna spell "slut," Consuelo,
I'll give you the first letter.
926
01:13:03,387 --> 01:13:05,513
Can you spell "illegal immigrant," then?
927
01:13:05,598 --> 01:13:07,641
Great, thank you.
928
01:13:09,227 --> 01:13:11,728
Can you please use "slut" in a sentence?
929
01:13:11,812 --> 01:13:13,188
Consuelo is a slut...
930
01:13:13,272 --> 01:13:16,066
- You the one who's the ho up in here...
- Joann is not a slut.
931
01:13:16,150 --> 01:13:18,526
Perfect. You get a gold star.
932
01:13:20,363 --> 01:13:22,072
But you know she likes that.
933
01:13:22,156 --> 01:13:24,449
Well, she's just insecure.
934
01:13:24,533 --> 01:13:26,159
- You think?
- Yeah.
935
01:13:26,661 --> 01:13:30,247
- That chicken was good.
- Really good. Did you have enough?
936
01:13:30,331 --> 01:13:32,249
There ain't more, is there?
937
01:13:32,333 --> 01:13:34,000
- Is there more?
- Yeah.
938
01:13:34,335 --> 01:13:36,628
Maybe later. Not now.
939
01:13:36,712 --> 01:13:38,672
I don't want you to think I'm greedy.
940
01:13:38,756 --> 01:13:41,151
You're not greedy.
If you're hungry, let's get you some more.
941
01:13:41,175 --> 01:13:44,344
I guess I kind of eat
too much sometimes, though.
942
01:13:44,428 --> 01:13:45,679
No, you don't.
943
01:13:45,763 --> 01:13:47,639
- Blu, is that you?
- Not always.
944
01:13:47,723 --> 01:13:49,808
What are you doing here?
945
01:13:50,268 --> 01:13:52,936
I live here. Why didn't you tell me?
946
01:13:53,020 --> 01:13:55,814
- Hey, sweetie.
- Is this... Is this...
947
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,609
This is Katherine, Precious.
948
01:13:59,694 --> 01:14:01,736
- Are you okay?
- It's so nice to meet you, finally.
949
01:14:01,821 --> 01:14:05,240
Oh, my God. These straight-up lesbians.
950
01:14:05,324 --> 01:14:08,910
- This is Abdul.
- He's gorgeous. He looks just like you.
951
01:14:09,954 --> 01:14:11,288
Precious, can I hold him?
952
01:14:11,372 --> 01:14:13,123
You know how to?
953
01:14:13,207 --> 01:14:15,208
They still nice enough
to let us stay in their home
954
01:14:15,293 --> 01:14:17,627
until I get situated, though.
955
01:14:17,712 --> 01:14:21,798
- He's heavy. Oh, my God!
- You wanna hold him?
956
01:14:21,882 --> 01:14:24,384
I guess this is how the peoples
on TV feel at Christmastime.
957
01:14:24,468 --> 01:14:27,053
- Don't drop him.
- Come on. I only work with children.
958
01:14:27,138 --> 01:14:28,240
You know how you are. I saw you...
959
01:14:28,264 --> 01:14:30,367
When we were putting up the tree,
you dropped half the top of it.
960
01:14:30,391 --> 01:14:31,975
They're so nice to me and Abdul.
961
01:14:32,059 --> 01:14:34,144
- Be careful. Hold him with both hands.
- Please.
962
01:14:34,228 --> 01:14:35,937
Oh, Abdul.
963
01:14:37,898 --> 01:14:40,066
Merry Christmas, Precious.
964
01:14:40,901 --> 01:14:42,027
Thank you.
965
01:14:42,111 --> 01:14:43,445
Why peoples that barely know me
966
01:14:43,529 --> 01:14:46,865
should be nicer to me
than my mother and my father?
967
01:14:47,491 --> 01:14:48,908
I felt warm.
968
01:14:49,243 --> 01:14:50,452
- What?
- I'm just...
969
01:14:50,536 --> 01:14:53,705
I'm just concerned about the baby
and the cats upstairs.
970
01:14:53,789 --> 01:14:54,956
They're fine.
971
01:14:55,041 --> 01:14:57,042
Grandmother's scared of Momma.
972
01:14:57,126 --> 01:14:59,544
I know that's why
she ain't letting me stay with her.
973
01:14:59,628 --> 01:15:01,546
If Ronald McDonald were running things...
974
01:15:01,630 --> 01:15:04,424
Ms. Rain say don't be afraid of nothing.
975
01:15:05,092 --> 01:15:07,552
I bet she ain't scared of Momma.
976
01:15:07,636 --> 01:15:10,263
Wouldn't you be a little bit suspicious?
977
01:15:10,348 --> 01:15:11,598
Just write the book.
978
01:15:11,682 --> 01:15:14,934
- Well, who's gonna read it?
- Nobody, if you don't write it.
979
01:15:15,019 --> 01:15:18,563
You know, Precious writes every day.
You should try it.
980
01:15:18,647 --> 01:15:21,900
Is that right?
What do you write about, Precious?
981
01:15:22,693 --> 01:15:23,943
Stuff.
982
01:15:25,029 --> 01:15:27,447
My life. Abdul.
983
01:15:29,867 --> 01:15:32,035
How come y'all don't like McDonald's?
984
01:15:32,119 --> 01:15:33,953
Katherine was just drawing a comparison
985
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,122
so that her point could be
more easily understood.
986
01:15:36,207 --> 01:15:37,207
Yes.
987
01:15:37,291 --> 01:15:39,793
They talk like TV channels I don't watch.
988
01:15:39,877 --> 01:15:41,252
My Uncle Clayton.
989
01:15:41,337 --> 01:15:44,798
I'm glad Abdul here to listen in on them,
though, 'cause I know they're smart.
990
01:15:44,882 --> 01:15:46,299
Before he got saved,
991
01:15:46,384 --> 01:15:49,052
he used to smoke like a chimney
and drink like a fish.
992
01:15:49,136 --> 01:15:51,179
I don't understand a word they're saying.
993
01:15:51,263 --> 01:15:52,847
You understand?
994
01:15:56,435 --> 01:15:57,894
Y'all be watching Oprah?
995
01:15:57,978 --> 01:16:00,897
No. I don't, actually.
You know what time I get home from work.
996
01:16:00,981 --> 01:16:04,109
- I watch it.
- Momma say homos is bad peoples.
997
01:16:04,819 --> 01:16:07,237
But Momma,
homos not ones who raped me.
998
01:16:07,321 --> 01:16:09,614
And what do that make you?
999
01:16:09,698 --> 01:16:13,827
Homos not ones who let me sit in class
all them years and never learn nothing.
1000
01:16:13,911 --> 01:16:16,788
The homos not ones who sell crack
to peoples in Harlem.
1001
01:16:16,872 --> 01:16:18,934
- ...that I have ever seen. Tell her!
- That doesn't work.
1002
01:16:18,958 --> 01:16:21,543
I wonder what Oprah got to say about that.
1003
01:16:21,627 --> 01:16:24,003
Ms. Rain is the one
who put the chalk in my hand,
1004
01:16:24,088 --> 01:16:26,548
made me queen of the ABC's.
1005
01:16:29,510 --> 01:16:31,428
After I settled at the halfway house,
1006
01:16:31,512 --> 01:16:33,930
I worked my hardest
to memorize letter sounds,
1007
01:16:34,014 --> 01:16:37,016
writing in the journal,
and reading smaller and fatter books.
1008
01:16:37,143 --> 01:16:40,353
Then I found out the Mayor's office
give me a literacy award
1009
01:16:40,438 --> 01:16:42,188
and a check for progress.
1010
01:16:44,608 --> 01:16:46,359
One, two, three.
1011
01:16:46,444 --> 01:16:48,194
The party is on.
1012
01:16:48,487 --> 01:16:49,863
Go, Joann!
1013
01:16:53,159 --> 01:16:55,243
Let me see what you got!
1014
01:16:55,327 --> 01:17:00,415
Everybody come. Nurse John, Cornrows,
all the staff was out there.
1015
01:17:00,958 --> 01:17:03,209
Even Ms. Katherine showed up.
1016
01:17:03,544 --> 01:17:04,836
Precious.
1017
01:17:08,048 --> 01:17:09,466
What's up?
1018
01:17:09,967 --> 01:17:11,468
What's that?
1019
01:17:12,052 --> 01:17:13,720
What does it look like?
1020
01:17:13,804 --> 01:17:15,722
Plastic stupid apple.
1021
01:17:18,893 --> 01:17:20,560
A little something for you.
1022
01:17:20,644 --> 01:17:23,354
- Is there more money in it?
- You're so greedy.
1023
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:26,191
Yo, who's that?
1024
01:17:29,111 --> 01:17:30,361
What?
1025
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:35,241
- What?
- Come on.
1026
01:17:35,743 --> 01:17:38,203
Precious, where are you taking me?
1027
01:17:39,622 --> 01:17:43,333
What am I supposed to do, diva? Yeah?
Wait a minute. Hold on, girl.
1028
01:17:43,417 --> 01:17:44,959
Yeah...
1029
01:17:49,131 --> 01:17:51,257
My mom called last night.
1030
01:17:53,928 --> 01:17:57,222
And we don't really have a relationship.
1031
01:17:57,681 --> 01:18:00,517
We don't talk,
because she really has a problem with...
1032
01:18:00,601 --> 01:18:04,354
Some folks got a light around them
that shine for other peoples.
1033
01:18:04,438 --> 01:18:07,524
I think maybe some of them was in tunnels,
1034
01:18:07,608 --> 01:18:10,318
and in that tunnel,
maybe the only light they had
1035
01:18:10,402 --> 01:18:11,945
was inside of them.
1036
01:18:12,029 --> 01:18:15,281
Then I thought about how strong
you've had to be.
1037
01:18:17,868 --> 01:18:21,621
And then,
even long after they escaped that tunnel...
1038
01:18:22,957 --> 01:18:25,792
- I'll help you clean up.
- Okay.
1039
01:18:26,460 --> 01:18:29,462
...they still be shining
for everybody else.
1040
01:18:33,676 --> 01:18:35,718
That's Ms. Rain to me.
1041
01:18:38,681 --> 01:18:40,223
"Award for Outstanding Achievement."
1042
01:18:40,307 --> 01:18:43,935
In a book I read,
this lady escaped to a halfway house.
1043
01:18:44,019 --> 01:18:45,228
And when she was there,
1044
01:18:45,312 --> 01:18:48,231
she asked the people there
what a halfway house was.
1045
01:18:48,315 --> 01:18:52,652
They told her it was halfway between
her old life and where she wanna be.
1046
01:18:52,736 --> 01:18:54,654
That's kind of nice.
1047
01:18:56,323 --> 01:18:59,409
That also mean I can't stay here forever.
1048
01:18:59,493 --> 01:19:01,661
There's still a way to go.
1049
01:19:02,371 --> 01:19:05,331
It'd be something to get my own apartment.
1050
01:19:06,166 --> 01:19:09,669
Abdul nine months and almost walking.
He's smart, too.
1051
01:19:10,337 --> 01:19:13,423
I've been reading to him
since the day he was born.
1052
01:19:13,507 --> 01:19:16,551
He's barely talking,
but he's already counting.
1053
01:19:17,511 --> 01:19:19,345
Momma, Daddy,
1054
01:19:20,097 --> 01:19:24,517
IS 111, 444 Lenox all seem
like some old, bad dream.
1055
01:19:26,687 --> 01:19:30,690
I wish I could've just started out here,
but still with Abdul.
1056
01:19:32,109 --> 01:19:36,279
I'm gonna get Mongo, too.
I gotta get Mongo back.
1057
01:19:38,365 --> 01:19:39,449
Hey, Miss Cassidy.
1058
01:19:39,533 --> 01:19:41,743
Hey, Precious,
somebody downstairs for you.
1059
01:19:41,827 --> 01:19:43,578
- Who is it?
- I didn't ask who it was.
1060
01:19:43,662 --> 01:19:44,871
You want me to watch the baby?
1061
01:19:44,955 --> 01:19:47,832
No, I gotta go down and get him anyway.
1062
01:20:22,242 --> 01:20:23,910
Your daddy dead.
1063
01:20:25,829 --> 01:20:27,288
That's all?
1064
01:20:32,378 --> 01:20:34,253
He had that AIDS virus.
1065
01:20:49,770 --> 01:20:51,020
There you go, dreaming again!
1066
01:20:51,105 --> 01:20:53,773
Precious, do you hear me talking to you?
1067
01:20:55,192 --> 01:20:56,317
Did you hear what I said?
1068
01:21:01,281 --> 01:21:02,699
You got it?
1069
01:21:03,951 --> 01:21:05,576
Got what?
1070
01:21:05,661 --> 01:21:07,620
- The AIDS virus.
- No.
1071
01:21:08,622 --> 01:21:10,289
How do you know?
1072
01:21:10,374 --> 01:21:13,251
We never did it up in the ass, so I know.
1073
01:21:17,631 --> 01:21:20,091
You better get to a doctor, Mom.
1074
01:21:22,803 --> 01:21:24,512
You coming home?
1075
01:21:41,488 --> 01:21:42,989
Yo, Precious!
1076
01:22:01,633 --> 01:22:04,635
Rita, what do I mean when I say the author
1077
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:09,390
describes her protagonist's circumstances
as "unrelenting"?
1078
01:22:10,392 --> 01:22:12,727
I don't know. I don't know.
1079
01:22:15,105 --> 01:22:18,691
It's like, say, like if Rita,
she tries to do something,
1080
01:22:18,776 --> 01:22:21,235
and she's going and she's going,
and me, I try to stop her
1081
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:23,946
and she no stop, she keep on going.
1082
01:22:24,573 --> 01:22:26,365
Relentless-un.
1083
01:23:19,086 --> 01:23:21,546
I'll see you tonight. Bye.
1084
01:24:10,637 --> 01:24:12,138
Come with me.
1085
01:24:13,557 --> 01:24:14,974
Precious?
1086
01:24:16,810 --> 01:24:18,269
Excuse me?
1087
01:24:20,188 --> 01:24:22,315
Nurse say I'm HIV positive.
1088
01:24:28,947 --> 01:24:31,490
I ain't got nothing to write today.
1089
01:24:33,327 --> 01:24:34,994
Is your baby okay?
1090
01:24:36,038 --> 01:24:39,415
He all right.
I just got to stop breastfeeding him.
1091
01:24:43,128 --> 01:24:45,296
Remember, you once told me
1092
01:24:45,797 --> 01:24:48,674
you never really got to tell your story.
1093
01:24:50,135 --> 01:24:52,178
- Write.
- Fuck you!
1094
01:24:52,679 --> 01:24:55,681
You know nothing
of what I've been through.
1095
01:24:56,850 --> 01:24:59,185
I ain't never had no boyfriend.
1096
01:25:01,855 --> 01:25:04,440
My daddy said he gonna marry me.
1097
01:25:05,108 --> 01:25:08,402
How he gonna do that?
It would fucking be illegal!
1098
01:25:24,670 --> 01:25:25,878
Write.
1099
01:25:28,006 --> 01:25:30,549
I'm tired, Ms. Rain.
1100
01:25:31,426 --> 01:25:34,595
If not for yourself,
then for the people who love you.
1101
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:36,472
Nobody loves me.
1102
01:25:36,556 --> 01:25:38,808
People do love you, Precious.
1103
01:25:39,267 --> 01:25:41,727
Please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain.
1104
01:25:42,562 --> 01:25:44,939
Love ain't done nothing for me.
1105
01:25:45,983 --> 01:25:49,402
Love beat me, raped me,
1106
01:25:50,821 --> 01:25:54,824
called me an animal,
make me feel worthless.
1107
01:25:55,492 --> 01:25:57,076
Make me sick.
1108
01:25:59,413 --> 01:26:01,497
That wasn't love, Precious.
1109
01:26:03,583 --> 01:26:05,418
Your baby loves you.
1110
01:26:08,714 --> 01:26:10,172
I love you.
1111
01:26:17,472 --> 01:26:18,723
Write.
1112
01:26:27,649 --> 01:26:29,608
What are you thinking?
1113
01:26:31,778 --> 01:26:35,990
You never told me about
your relationship with your mother.
1114
01:26:38,744 --> 01:26:40,411
I didn't, did I?
1115
01:26:41,121 --> 01:26:43,706
Really, I'm here to help you.
1116
01:26:43,790 --> 01:26:46,959
You can talk to me.
This is a safe environment.
1117
01:26:48,295 --> 01:26:49,670
You're right.
1118
01:26:49,755 --> 01:26:52,298
We could talk about your daddy instead.
1119
01:26:52,382 --> 01:26:55,217
We could talk about my mother, my father,
1120
01:26:55,302 --> 01:26:59,680
my aunts or my sister or my brother,
but none of it's gonna help you.
1121
01:27:00,348 --> 01:27:01,849
You don't even like me.
1122
01:27:01,933 --> 01:27:04,977
Have we not been in this room together
1123
01:27:05,062 --> 01:27:08,314
for, like, a year, discussing your life?
1124
01:27:08,398 --> 01:27:11,400
Does that mean we like each other,
because we discuss my life?
1125
01:27:11,485 --> 01:27:12,943
I can't speak for you.
1126
01:27:13,028 --> 01:27:17,490
I can only speak for me,
and I do like you. I do.
1127
01:27:18,158 --> 01:27:19,992
So, are you Italian, or...
1128
01:27:20,077 --> 01:27:21,368
What color are you, anyway?
1129
01:27:21,453 --> 01:27:23,537
Are you some type of black or Spanish?
1130
01:27:23,622 --> 01:27:25,831
What color do you think I am?
1131
01:27:27,793 --> 01:27:31,128
No, I'd like to know.
What color do you think I am?
1132
01:27:31,963 --> 01:27:33,672
My throat is dry.
1133
01:27:34,508 --> 01:27:36,258
Your throat is dry?
1134
01:27:36,676 --> 01:27:38,385
It's really hot in here.
1135
01:27:38,470 --> 01:27:40,554
It is kind of hot in here.
1136
01:27:41,098 --> 01:27:43,974
I'm gonna go get a soda.
What do you want?
1137
01:27:44,351 --> 01:27:46,185
Soda sounds fine.
1138
01:27:46,269 --> 01:27:47,686
All right.
1139
01:28:18,218 --> 01:28:19,718
Thank you.
1140
01:28:20,303 --> 01:28:21,762
No problem.
1141
01:28:25,475 --> 01:28:28,686
So, I have to talk to
you about your mother,
1142
01:28:29,229 --> 01:28:31,564
and I don't know
how you're gonna feel about this,
1143
01:28:31,648 --> 01:28:34,400
but she says she wants to see you
1144
01:28:34,484 --> 01:28:39,113
and she wants to be reunited
with you and her grandchildren.
1145
01:28:39,698 --> 01:28:42,658
She wants to come
and have a session here with you.
1146
01:28:42,742 --> 01:28:44,326
What did you tell her?
1147
01:28:44,411 --> 01:28:47,246
I said I had to speak to you about it.
1148
01:28:49,875 --> 01:28:51,292
It's up to you.
1149
01:28:51,376 --> 01:28:54,336
I don't know.
I never thought about it before.
1150
01:28:55,881 --> 01:28:58,382
Ms. Weiss said in that file I got HIV.
1151
01:28:58,466 --> 01:29:00,885
She said I was supposed to die from it.
1152
01:29:00,969 --> 01:29:03,012
I ain't worried about dying.
1153
01:29:03,096 --> 01:29:07,057
Shit, I gotta worry about
how I'm supposed to raise these kids.
1154
01:29:08,059 --> 01:29:10,561
I was just writing, like, about...
1155
01:29:11,271 --> 01:29:13,355
I wanna open up this clinic
1156
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:16,650
about, like, mothers and their children.
1157
01:29:17,485 --> 01:29:20,529
You know, just,
if they're sick or something like that.
1158
01:29:20,614 --> 01:29:24,283
I always wanted to do that,
give back to the community.
1159
01:29:24,367 --> 01:29:27,244
Because I know my mom would be
proud of me if I did that,
1160
01:29:27,329 --> 01:29:28,996
and my children, too.
1161
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:32,791
I want my children to be proud
of their mother, you know?
1162
01:29:33,919 --> 01:29:38,464
- That's always what I wanted to do, so...
- That's good. That's really nice.
1163
01:29:42,052 --> 01:29:46,513
I don't really want to read the whole thing,
I kind of just wanna say what it's about.
1164
01:29:47,766 --> 01:29:51,393
Okay, the counselors
at Advancement House,
1165
01:29:53,230 --> 01:29:55,731
they were quizzing me
about my mother and my father, right?
1166
01:29:55,815 --> 01:29:57,566
But it's not really about them.
1167
01:29:57,651 --> 01:29:59,735
They're trying to get me to do workfare.
1168
01:29:59,819 --> 01:30:02,196
- They want me to be a home attendant.
- How do you know?
1169
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:04,573
Because I stole my file and I read it.
1170
01:30:04,658 --> 01:30:06,575
All they want me to do is work.
1171
01:30:06,660 --> 01:30:09,912
Now, I do wanna work,
but not for no welfare check.
1172
01:30:09,996 --> 01:30:11,413
What kind of sense that make,
1173
01:30:11,498 --> 01:30:14,416
for somebody like Precious to quit school
before she got her GED
1174
01:30:14,501 --> 01:30:17,127
and go work
for some old white people somewhere?
1175
01:30:17,212 --> 01:30:20,297
She ain't never gonna be nothing
if she gets stuck in some shit like that.
1176
01:30:20,382 --> 01:30:21,882
Rhonda used to home attend.
1177
01:30:21,967 --> 01:30:24,969
She used to have to go all the way out
to Brighton Beach.
1178
01:30:25,053 --> 01:30:28,389
Yeah, okay, Rhonda would be
working there all day and night.
1179
01:30:28,473 --> 01:30:30,516
She'd be on call, right?
1180
01:30:30,934 --> 01:30:35,145
She made $6.37 an hour,
but for only eight hours.
1181
01:30:35,730 --> 01:30:37,856
That equal out to $50.96.
1182
01:30:38,858 --> 01:30:40,298
But that's not a whole lot of money,
1183
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:43,487
especially 'cause,
for real, she there for 24 hours.
1184
01:30:43,571 --> 01:30:48,284
So, $50.96 divided by 24
1185
01:30:48,368 --> 01:30:52,288
is $2.12 an hour.
That's not a lot of money.
1186
01:30:52,372 --> 01:30:56,750
She said that old bitch would ring a bell,
like, a real-life, actual bell
1187
01:30:56,835 --> 01:30:58,729
when she wanted something from her
in the middle of the night.
1188
01:30:58,753 --> 01:31:01,463
- You don't want to do that shit.
- Rhonda, is that true? Rhonda!
1189
01:31:01,548 --> 01:31:04,591
Them home attendants be working for, like,
six days a week.
1190
01:31:04,676 --> 01:31:08,554
I'd only see Abdul on Sunday.
Plus, I'd have to leave class.
1191
01:31:08,888 --> 01:31:12,182
Well, that's not an option.
You're not leaving class.
1192
01:31:12,267 --> 01:31:15,394
Plus, I'm gonna start going to
insect survivor meetings.
1193
01:31:15,478 --> 01:31:16,979
It's "incest."
1194
01:31:18,732 --> 01:31:21,900
- That ain't what I said?
- No, you said "insect."
1195
01:31:22,485 --> 01:31:23,777
What's the difference?
1196
01:31:23,862 --> 01:31:25,654
Well, one's where your family molests you,
1197
01:31:25,739 --> 01:31:28,407
the other's like a roach or bugs.
1198
01:31:31,077 --> 01:31:33,704
- So, you a scientist now?
- I'm just saying.
1199
01:31:33,788 --> 01:31:36,582
No, that's cool. Thank you. Thank you.
1200
01:31:42,756 --> 01:31:46,342
It was hard telling them strangers there
what my father did.
1201
01:31:46,426 --> 01:31:48,427
Sometimes it felt good.
1202
01:31:53,683 --> 01:31:57,895
Last week, Ms. Rain asked us
to write down what we wanna be like.
1203
01:31:58,313 --> 01:32:01,857
I wrote that I be real skinny,
1204
01:32:02,609 --> 01:32:04,818
with light skin and long hair.
1205
01:32:06,279 --> 01:32:07,946
Loretha Holloway?
1206
01:32:09,157 --> 01:32:10,282
Go on back there.
1207
01:32:10,367 --> 01:32:12,201
She read it and said
I'm beautiful like I am.
1208
01:32:12,285 --> 01:32:15,788
But, there's no kids back there
for me to play with.
1209
01:32:17,957 --> 01:32:19,917
Just shut up and sit there, then.
1210
01:32:20,001 --> 01:32:23,379
Gonna talk to this lady
before my shit gets cut off.
1211
01:32:23,463 --> 01:32:24,922
But somehow,
1212
01:32:26,049 --> 01:32:29,301
right now... And I don't know why, but...
1213
01:32:31,429 --> 01:32:33,180
I think she right.
1214
01:32:39,562 --> 01:32:40,646
Here.
1215
01:32:49,322 --> 01:32:50,948
Clareece Jones?
1216
01:32:56,913 --> 01:32:58,914
I think she right.
1217
01:33:04,170 --> 01:33:06,255
Okay, Mrs. Johnston,
let's talk about the abuse.
1218
01:33:06,339 --> 01:33:08,549
There were no drugs in my house.
1219
01:33:08,633 --> 01:33:10,653
I didn't play that.
There weren't no drugs in my house.
1220
01:33:10,677 --> 01:33:12,344
Precious knew I would whup her ass
1221
01:33:12,429 --> 01:33:13,989
if she gonna bring some drugs
up in my house.
1222
01:33:14,013 --> 01:33:16,390
You know what I'm talking about.
1223
01:33:17,517 --> 01:33:22,688
I'm referring to specific
sexual and physical acts
1224
01:33:23,231 --> 01:33:25,023
involving Precious.
1225
01:33:25,692 --> 01:33:27,693
Why you ain't say that?
1226
01:33:28,403 --> 01:33:30,028
Yes, that.
1227
01:33:32,073 --> 01:33:33,991
What do you wanna know?
1228
01:33:34,075 --> 01:33:36,076
According to Precious' files,
1229
01:33:36,161 --> 01:33:40,205
she has now had two children
by your boyfriend,
1230
01:33:40,290 --> 01:33:44,543
the late Carl Kenwood Jones,
who was also her father.
1231
01:33:50,842 --> 01:33:52,843
- Yeah.
- This is accurate?
1232
01:33:55,263 --> 01:33:57,055
Yes, Ms. Weiss.
1233
01:33:57,557 --> 01:34:00,642
I need to know why you're here.
You've been calling this office
1234
01:34:00,727 --> 01:34:04,646
saying you want to be reunited
with Precious and your grandchild.
1235
01:34:04,731 --> 01:34:08,233
Now, I really need to know
what's gone on in that home.
1236
01:34:08,318 --> 01:34:10,444
Ms. Weiss,
I understand we need to discuss it,
1237
01:34:10,528 --> 01:34:11,862
but I'm just telling you.
1238
01:34:11,946 --> 01:34:14,698
You said I've been calling here
and I've been wanting to see.
1239
01:34:14,782 --> 01:34:16,241
Precious and my grandson.
1240
01:34:16,326 --> 01:34:20,829
You're goddamn right I wanna see them.
Because they belong to me. Okay?
1241
01:34:20,914 --> 01:34:23,957
Now, there was a time
Precious had everything,
1242
01:34:24,042 --> 01:34:25,834
and I done told her that.
1243
01:34:25,919 --> 01:34:29,546
And me and Carl, we loved Precious.
And you need to know that.
1244
01:34:29,631 --> 01:34:32,341
We loved Precious and we had dreams.
1245
01:34:32,425 --> 01:34:37,137
Precious was born around the same time
Ms. West's son got killed.
1246
01:34:38,640 --> 01:34:42,601
The summertime.
She was born in the summertime.
1247
01:34:42,685 --> 01:34:44,686
Remember? Remember that?
1248
01:34:44,979 --> 01:34:46,939
I was born in November.
1249
01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:48,982
November.
1250
01:34:49,859 --> 01:34:52,319
Yeah, that's right.
1251
01:34:53,613 --> 01:34:55,489
My Scorpio child.
1252
01:34:57,659 --> 01:34:59,117
You know...
1253
01:34:59,827 --> 01:35:03,872
Scorpios, they can be tricky.
1254
01:35:05,083 --> 01:35:09,628
And, I'm not saying that they lie.
I'm not saying that.
1255
01:35:10,171 --> 01:35:12,506
But you just gotta watch them.
1256
01:35:16,469 --> 01:35:20,264
Can we talk about the actual acts
1257
01:35:20,348 --> 01:35:23,058
of physical and sexual abuse
1258
01:35:23,142 --> 01:35:25,602
that occurred in your household?
1259
01:35:26,187 --> 01:35:27,729
When it first began,
1260
01:35:27,814 --> 01:35:30,816
where it happened
and how did you respond?
1261
01:35:37,198 --> 01:35:39,366
Precious was a little girl.
1262
01:35:40,827 --> 01:35:43,829
Try and remember
how old you think she was.
1263
01:35:48,126 --> 01:35:49,668
She was three.
1264
01:35:51,629 --> 01:35:55,090
And I had been giving her the bottle
1265
01:35:57,010 --> 01:35:59,469
and I was giving Carl the tittie
1266
01:35:59,846 --> 01:36:03,890
because my milk hadn't dried up
in my breasts
1267
01:36:05,018 --> 01:36:08,353
but not from her, but because Carl was...
1268
01:36:09,522 --> 01:36:11,440
Because Carl was sucking on them
1269
01:36:11,524 --> 01:36:15,360
and that's what kept my milk in my breasts.
1270
01:36:18,072 --> 01:36:20,866
And I thought that that was for hygiene.
1271
01:36:21,784 --> 01:36:24,536
I did what my mother told me
1272
01:36:25,121 --> 01:36:28,999
that I was supposed to do with my child,
so that's what I did.
1273
01:36:29,459 --> 01:36:32,127
And you're sitting up there
and you're trying to judge me...
1274
01:36:32,211 --> 01:36:35,047
I'm not judging you,
but you're asking me for money
1275
01:36:35,131 --> 01:36:37,549
and you're asking me
to be reunited with your grandson.
1276
01:36:37,634 --> 01:36:40,052
But, Ms. Weiss,
I don't like you looking at me like that.
1277
01:36:40,219 --> 01:36:43,680
You got this bitch looking at me
like I'm some kind of fucking monster.
1278
01:36:43,765 --> 01:36:45,682
We don't talk like this in my office, okay?
1279
01:36:45,767 --> 01:36:49,311
I didn't want her sucking behind him,
because that was nasty.
1280
01:36:49,395 --> 01:36:53,106
And things that he was...
It was just nasty, Ms. Weiss.
1281
01:36:58,738 --> 01:37:02,366
I had a man, and I have a child
1282
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:07,996
and I had to take care of both of them.
Okay?
1283
01:37:09,666 --> 01:37:14,670
Did I want Carl to touch my baby?
1284
01:37:16,756 --> 01:37:19,091
Because I would lay my baby.
1285
01:37:19,175 --> 01:37:23,804
I would lay her on the side of me,
on this pillow
1286
01:37:25,556 --> 01:37:27,724
and it was pink
1287
01:37:28,434 --> 01:37:31,478
and it had this little white writing on it
1288
01:37:31,562 --> 01:37:35,691
and it had her name,
because she was precious.
1289
01:37:36,609 --> 01:37:38,944
And I would lay my baby on that pillow
1290
01:37:39,028 --> 01:37:42,406
and Carl would be laying on the other side
1291
01:37:43,825 --> 01:37:47,703
and then we would...
We would start doing it
1292
01:37:47,787 --> 01:37:49,913
and he reached over
1293
01:37:52,208 --> 01:37:54,209
and he touched my baby.
1294
01:37:54,293 --> 01:37:55,836
And I asked him,
1295
01:37:56,629 --> 01:37:59,214
I said, "Carl, what are you doing?"
1296
01:37:59,298 --> 01:38:01,717
And he told me to shut...
1297
01:38:01,801 --> 01:38:04,803
To shut my fat ass up,
and it was good for her.
1298
01:38:04,887 --> 01:38:08,140
- And what did you do then?
- I shut my fat ass up.
1299
01:38:08,641 --> 01:38:11,977
And I don't want you to sit there
and judge me, Ms. Weiss.
1300
01:38:12,061 --> 01:38:13,872
You shut up
and you let him abuse your daughter?
1301
01:38:13,896 --> 01:38:15,856
I did not want him to abuse my daughter.
1302
01:38:15,982 --> 01:38:17,501
- I did not want him to hurt her.
- But you allowed him
1303
01:38:17,525 --> 01:38:19,461
- to hurt her.
- I did not want him to do nothing to her.
1304
01:38:19,485 --> 01:38:21,403
I wanted him to make love to me.
1305
01:38:21,487 --> 01:38:24,489
That was my man.
That was my fucking man.
1306
01:38:24,657 --> 01:38:27,492
That was my man
and he wanted my daughter.
1307
01:38:28,786 --> 01:38:31,079
And that's why I hated her.
1308
01:38:31,164 --> 01:38:34,166
Because my man,
who was supposed to be loving me,
1309
01:38:34,250 --> 01:38:37,085
who was supposed
to be making love to me,
1310
01:38:38,171 --> 01:38:40,422
was fucking my baby.
1311
01:38:40,506 --> 01:38:44,134
She made him leave.
She made him go away.
1312
01:38:44,677 --> 01:38:45,837
So, whose fault was it, then?
1313
01:38:45,887 --> 01:38:49,055
It's this bitch's fault
because she let my man have her
1314
01:38:49,140 --> 01:38:50,724
and she didn't say nothing.
1315
01:38:50,808 --> 01:38:52,809
She didn't scream. She didn't do nothing.
1316
01:38:52,894 --> 01:38:56,438
So, those things she told you I did to her,
1317
01:38:56,522 --> 01:38:59,691
who else was gonna love me?
1318
01:39:02,695 --> 01:39:06,323
Since you got your degree
and you know every-fucking-thing,
1319
01:39:06,407 --> 01:39:10,452
who was gonna love me,
who was gonna make me feel good?
1320
01:39:10,536 --> 01:39:14,206
Who was gonna touch me
and make me feel good late at night?
1321
01:39:14,290 --> 01:39:16,833
And she made him go away, so...
1322
01:39:17,585 --> 01:39:21,087
When you sit there and you write
them fucking notes on your pad
1323
01:39:21,172 --> 01:39:25,217
about who you think I am,
and why I did it, all of that.
1324
01:39:26,552 --> 01:39:28,762
Because I didn't have nobody.
1325
01:39:37,563 --> 01:39:40,732
The people from.
1326
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:44,402
Each One Teach One,
1327
01:39:45,112 --> 01:39:48,073
they had... They called me
1328
01:39:51,035 --> 01:39:54,120
and they told me that my baby
was writing poems.
1329
01:39:54,205 --> 01:39:55,705
In fact, you know what, I got...
1330
01:39:55,790 --> 01:39:57,374
Wait a minute.
1331
01:40:23,359 --> 01:40:24,818
I'm sorry.
1332
01:40:25,820 --> 01:40:29,197
I'm sorry.
And, Ms. Weiss, I don't want no checks.
1333
01:40:29,282 --> 01:40:33,493
I don't need no more money. Please.
I'm so sorry.
1334
01:40:34,412 --> 01:40:36,580
I took that TABE test again.
1335
01:40:37,790 --> 01:40:38,915
And what happened?
1336
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:40,667
I scored a 7.8.
1337
01:40:42,378 --> 01:40:44,296
Last time it was 2.8.
1338
01:40:46,674 --> 01:40:48,049
According to that test,
1339
01:40:48,134 --> 01:40:50,844
I'm reading at
a seventh- and eighth-grade level.
1340
01:40:52,138 --> 01:40:55,307
Next year, high school.
After that, college.
1341
01:41:01,856 --> 01:41:03,648
Well, I like you, too.
1342
01:41:05,985 --> 01:41:08,028
But you can't handle me.
1343
01:41:09,822 --> 01:41:12,157
You can't handle none of this.
1344
01:41:20,082 --> 01:41:23,501
You know, I never knew what you was
until this day.
1345
01:41:23,586 --> 01:41:26,338
Not even after all them things you did.
1346
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:31,343
Maybe I was too stupid, or
maybe I just didn't want to.
1347
01:41:33,804 --> 01:41:36,139
You ain't gonna see me no more.
1348
01:41:39,727 --> 01:41:41,019
Bye!
1349
01:41:44,732 --> 01:41:46,608
I didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1350
01:41:46,692 --> 01:41:49,110
Please, God,
I didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1351
01:41:49,195 --> 01:41:52,072
Ms. Weiss,
I didn't want him to hurt my baby.
1352
01:41:52,156 --> 01:41:53,949
I would say to him, I would say...
1353
01:41:54,033 --> 01:41:57,285
"Carl, what are you doing?
What are you doing? What are you doing?"
1354
01:42:06,379 --> 01:42:07,963
Can you go get her back?
1355
01:42:08,047 --> 01:42:10,632
You can do that,
because that's what you do.
1356
01:42:10,716 --> 01:42:12,550
That's what you do.
1357
01:42:12,969 --> 01:42:16,680
I need you to go
and I need you to get my baby back.
1358
01:42:16,764 --> 01:42:20,392
You told me that I could come in here
and you could get...
1359
01:42:20,851 --> 01:42:22,310
You could get Precious to say...
1360
01:42:22,395 --> 01:42:24,896
Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss?
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