1 00:00:48,783 --> 00:00:52,754 - You are immersed now in the modern myth, 2 00:00:55,088 --> 00:00:57,190 but you are alone. 3 00:00:59,661 --> 00:01:04,429 It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, 4 00:01:04,431 --> 00:01:07,432 this sense of always looking at yourself 5 00:01:07,434 --> 00:01:09,537 through the eyes of others. 6 00:01:11,438 --> 00:01:13,841 You ever feel your twoness 7 00:01:14,809 --> 00:01:18,445 an American, a Black man? 8 00:01:19,681 --> 00:01:24,886 Two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, 9 00:01:27,354 --> 00:01:32,794 two warring ideals in one dark body. 10 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:39,399 You're lost, Clay, but we can find you. 11 00:01:41,869 --> 00:01:43,037 Don't you see? 12 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:47,174 Don't you see? 13 00:01:49,443 --> 00:01:50,876 Don't you see? 14 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:24,411 So, Clay? 15 00:02:29,751 --> 00:02:31,019 - I feel like I, 16 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:35,723 I feel like you think I'm not really, 17 00:02:39,927 --> 00:02:43,097 like you probably assume about me. 18 00:02:43,631 --> 00:02:45,430 A lot of people do. 19 00:02:45,432 --> 00:02:48,100 About a lot of Black people, Black men in particular. 20 00:02:48,102 --> 00:02:50,036 It is just not what I'm going through, okay? 21 00:02:50,038 --> 00:02:53,574 I, I, I don't mind there. Some of us don't really mind it. 22 00:02:54,241 --> 00:02:55,409 I mean, I'm here. 23 00:02:57,444 --> 00:02:58,546 I just, 24 00:03:09,356 --> 00:03:10,790 anyway, nevermind. 25 00:03:10,792 --> 00:03:12,223 Said everything I needed to say. 26 00:03:12,225 --> 00:03:15,997 I had everything I feel, prepared to say. 27 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,234 - Clay's been under a lot of stress because of work. 28 00:03:23,236 --> 00:03:26,138 And this fundraiser that we're hosting for his friend, 29 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:27,942 Warren's reelection. 30 00:03:29,077 --> 00:03:31,844 - You know, Clay, everything you've just said, 31 00:03:31,846 --> 00:03:34,212 which are all valid things, 32 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:37,149 but they all had to do with what other people think. 33 00:03:37,151 --> 00:03:40,853 What I think you should say. Did you notice that? 34 00:03:40,855 --> 00:03:46,293 - Shit, sorry, my, sorry. I thought I switched it off. 35 00:03:46,961 --> 00:03:48,661 - Do you see what I mean? 36 00:03:48,663 --> 00:03:50,596 That's why this all happened in the first place. 37 00:03:50,598 --> 00:03:53,233 He's always on his cell phone instead of talking to me. 38 00:03:55,636 --> 00:03:57,937 - Look what you were just saying 39 00:03:57,939 --> 00:04:01,175 it's just, I just, no, it's just not it, so. 40 00:04:04,344 --> 00:04:06,180 - How does that make you feel? 41 00:04:07,615 --> 00:04:09,782 - Well, it is nice for somebody to be asking me how I feel. 42 00:04:09,784 --> 00:04:11,183 - You see that? You see that right there? 43 00:04:11,185 --> 00:04:13,185 - No, don't do that. - Wow, okay. 44 00:04:13,187 --> 00:04:17,823 - Can you not do that? - Fine, go, go. 45 00:04:17,825 --> 00:04:19,892 - I feel like if he talked more, then we- 46 00:04:19,894 --> 00:04:22,130 - Talk to him. 47 00:04:25,499 --> 00:04:27,365 - If you talked more 48 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:29,971 and if he told me about what he was feeling, 49 00:04:31,304 --> 00:04:35,508 what you were feeling, we could have avoided all of this 50 00:04:35,510 --> 00:04:38,911 because we would've talked about it and I would've realized- 51 00:04:38,913 --> 00:04:40,548 - So it's my fault, Kaya? 52 00:04:42,083 --> 00:04:45,184 I mean, all, all I have to do is just talk more 53 00:04:45,186 --> 00:04:48,055 for you to not sleep with another man? 54 00:04:49,489 --> 00:04:51,389 You already know what I'm going through with people at work 55 00:04:51,391 --> 00:04:54,226 and in our community being not Black enough for one group 56 00:04:54,228 --> 00:04:56,095 and two Black for the other. 57 00:04:56,097 --> 00:04:58,764 I'm already struggling trying to find balance. And now this. 58 00:04:58,766 --> 00:05:00,400 - Clay is so manipulative. 59 00:05:01,602 --> 00:05:04,337 - Would it make you feel better if you did it too? 60 00:05:05,673 --> 00:05:07,506 - Who are you, even? 61 00:05:07,508 --> 00:05:09,708 - Kaya went out and explored, yet she remains with you. 62 00:05:09,710 --> 00:05:11,378 She came back to you, 63 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,116 but you're struggling deeply with this and her choices. 64 00:05:16,017 --> 00:05:18,451 What if he were to do the same? 65 00:05:20,922 --> 00:05:23,122 - You gonna be like this tonight? 66 00:05:23,124 --> 00:05:24,592 - What? Happy. 67 00:05:27,061 --> 00:05:28,563 - Okay. Really 68 00:05:30,097 --> 00:05:31,764 - Depends. 69 00:05:31,766 --> 00:05:33,267 Are you bringing him? 70 00:05:34,969 --> 00:05:38,739 - What? No. 71 00:05:39,472 --> 00:05:42,274 Why are you bringing someone? 72 00:05:42,276 --> 00:05:45,412 - No, Kaya, who would I bring? I have no one. 73 00:05:52,220 --> 00:05:54,620 - Well, here's your tie. 74 00:05:54,622 --> 00:05:55,756 - Thanks. 75 00:05:56,791 --> 00:05:59,594 - I'm gonna change, so I'll see you up too? 76 00:06:00,928 --> 00:06:01,996 - Okay. 77 00:06:02,897 --> 00:06:04,065 Hey. 78 00:06:08,803 --> 00:06:12,605 - Let's see. Don't come, if you're gonna be like this. 79 00:06:21,849 --> 00:06:23,582 - Waiting for me, hey, Doc? 80 00:06:23,584 --> 00:06:25,953 - Clay, I'd like to give you something. 81 00:06:27,588 --> 00:06:29,955 - Respectfully, Doc, I'm gonna have to pass. 82 00:06:29,957 --> 00:06:31,757 I don't take medication. 83 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:34,793 - It's not the medication you're thinking of. 84 00:06:34,795 --> 00:06:37,997 Earlier you mentioned trying to find balance. 85 00:06:37,999 --> 00:06:39,464 I know exactly what you mean. 86 00:06:39,466 --> 00:06:41,200 - Do you? 87 00:06:41,202 --> 00:06:43,535 It seems like you've been on her side this whole time. 88 00:06:43,537 --> 00:06:45,539 - Do you feel divided, Clay? 89 00:06:47,208 --> 00:06:48,641 - I guess so, yeah. 90 00:06:48,643 --> 00:06:50,778 - What do you struggle with the most? 91 00:06:52,046 --> 00:06:55,681 Conformity and expectation? Identity and assimilation? 92 00:06:55,683 --> 00:07:00,619 Anger or restraint? Vulnerability and violence? 93 00:07:00,621 --> 00:07:03,454 - All of the above, I guess. Why do you ask? 94 00:07:05,726 --> 00:07:11,132 - Because understanding these struggles can lead to freedom. 95 00:07:12,733 --> 00:07:15,703 Have you ever heard of the play "Dutchman?" 96 00:07:16,237 --> 00:07:18,070 This play came to me 97 00:07:18,072 --> 00:07:21,042 during one of the darkest times in my life, 98 00:07:22,343 --> 00:07:25,678 but sometimes we find pieces of ourselves in literature 99 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,381 that help us heal. 100 00:07:28,382 --> 00:07:30,918 Do you see yourself on that train, Clay? 101 00:07:32,219 --> 00:07:35,688 Trapped between who you really are and who you must be? 102 00:07:39,260 --> 00:07:40,460 Don't you see? 103 00:08:29,110 --> 00:08:30,809 - Hey, Warren, what's good? 104 00:08:30,811 --> 00:08:34,079 - Oh, everything is good. Crew's just setting up. 105 00:08:34,081 --> 00:08:35,748 You know, you outside? 106 00:08:35,750 --> 00:08:38,717 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just leaving the doctor's office. 107 00:08:38,719 --> 00:08:40,786 - You okay? 108 00:08:40,788 --> 00:08:42,388 - I don't know, man, I really feel 109 00:08:42,390 --> 00:08:44,123 like I'm struggling with this Kaya thing. 110 00:08:44,125 --> 00:08:46,592 - Hey, hold, hold on one sec. It, it's Dr. Bowers. 111 00:08:46,594 --> 00:08:48,494 Hey, hey. - Hey. 112 00:08:48,496 --> 00:08:51,399 - How are you, sweetheart? Oh, all right. 113 00:08:52,933 --> 00:08:55,669 Say what you just said again. 114 00:08:56,303 --> 00:08:58,070 - It's nothing, man. 115 00:08:58,072 --> 00:08:59,271 Don't worry. 116 00:08:59,273 --> 00:09:00,472 - Come on, man, I heard, Kaya. 117 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:10,317 I feel like she did her thing. Now you go do yours. 118 00:09:10,918 --> 00:09:12,584 Turnabout's fair play. 119 00:09:12,586 --> 00:09:14,820 - Fair? Did she say that? 120 00:09:14,822 --> 00:09:17,091 - No, but I'm sure she thought it. 121 00:09:20,494 --> 00:09:21,860 What'd the doctor say? 122 00:09:21,862 --> 00:09:24,263 - Man was trying to gimme something. 123 00:09:24,265 --> 00:09:25,197 You think I'm really losing it? 124 00:09:25,199 --> 00:09:26,865 Shit, maybe I am. 125 00:09:26,867 --> 00:09:28,801 - No, no, whoa, whoa. You didn't take it, did you? 126 00:09:28,803 --> 00:09:30,371 - Are you kidding me? 127 00:09:31,672 --> 00:09:33,506 - Good, 'cause it's game time, man. 128 00:09:33,508 --> 00:09:36,108 I need you to get here and do your thing. 129 00:09:36,110 --> 00:09:38,477 - Yeah. - All right? 130 00:09:42,650 --> 00:09:45,484 - Oh, Warren, hello? - Yo, Clay? 131 00:10:08,342 --> 00:10:09,808 - Excuse me, sir, 132 00:10:09,810 --> 00:10:11,312 do you mind stepping over here, please? 133 00:10:12,246 --> 00:10:15,182 Now over here, sir, bag on the table. 134 00:10:17,651 --> 00:10:21,021 - Opening scene underground. 135 00:10:22,256 --> 00:10:24,024 - Are you in a hurry? 136 00:10:24,925 --> 00:10:26,393 What's so funny? 137 00:10:32,833 --> 00:10:35,535 - In the flying underbelly of the city, 138 00:10:41,876 --> 00:10:45,913 the subway heat and modern vein roads there. 139 00:11:29,624 --> 00:11:32,659 - Weren't you staring at me through the window? 140 00:11:32,661 --> 00:11:36,461 At the last stop? I saw you through the window. 141 00:11:41,603 --> 00:11:43,168 Lula enters. 142 00:12:02,289 --> 00:12:05,791 - This is a Bronx bound one train. 143 00:12:05,793 --> 00:12:08,495 The next stop is Franklin Street. 144 00:12:09,930 --> 00:12:12,764 - Stand clear of the closing doors, please. 145 00:13:00,381 --> 00:13:03,685 - Hello? I'm gonna sit down, okay? 146 00:13:06,186 --> 00:13:07,254 - Yeah. 147 00:13:33,113 --> 00:13:38,118 - Nothing out there except a black wall. Darkness. 148 00:13:39,186 --> 00:13:40,421 - Uh-huh. 149 00:13:42,724 --> 00:13:45,625 - Better when you were staring at me through the window? 150 00:13:45,627 --> 00:13:46,728 - What? 151 00:13:47,861 --> 00:13:50,195 - Weren't you staring at me through the window? 152 00:13:50,197 --> 00:13:51,298 The last stop? 153 00:13:52,099 --> 00:13:54,399 - Staring at you? 154 00:13:54,401 --> 00:13:57,704 - You do know what staring means, right? 155 00:13:57,706 --> 00:14:01,473 - I, I saw you through the window 156 00:14:01,475 --> 00:14:04,409 seems that you were the one staring at me. 157 00:14:04,411 --> 00:14:05,712 - I was. 158 00:14:12,821 --> 00:14:14,119 - Okay. 159 00:14:19,493 --> 00:14:23,763 - I guess you were just taking those idle potshots. 160 00:14:23,765 --> 00:14:28,737 Nothing else to do. Run your mind over people's flesh. 161 00:14:29,403 --> 00:14:30,770 - Chill out, okay? 162 00:14:34,743 --> 00:14:37,476 - That's why I came looking through the window. 163 00:14:37,478 --> 00:14:38,811 I even smiled at you. 164 00:14:38,813 --> 00:14:40,180 - Yeah, I saw. 165 00:14:41,616 --> 00:14:44,853 - I even got onto this train, going some other way than mine 166 00:14:45,854 --> 00:14:48,788 walked down the aisle searching you out. 167 00:14:48,790 --> 00:14:51,925 - Ha, oh, yeah, I doubt that. 168 00:14:52,827 --> 00:14:54,763 - Why is that so hard to believe? 169 00:14:55,530 --> 00:14:57,364 - Everything's hard to believe. 170 00:14:58,298 --> 00:15:00,635 But if that is true, it's hilarious. 171 00:15:01,435 --> 00:15:03,270 - I know what you were thinking. 172 00:15:04,004 --> 00:15:05,505 You think I wanna pick you up, 173 00:15:05,507 --> 00:15:07,542 get you to take me somewhere and fuck. 174 00:15:09,476 --> 00:15:11,644 - You know, you, you asked me a lot of questions 175 00:15:11,646 --> 00:15:17,050 and got just one for you, do I look like a sucker to you? 176 00:15:19,821 --> 00:15:20,988 Hmm? 177 00:15:22,222 --> 00:15:25,223 - You look like you've been trying to grow a beard. 178 00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:27,361 That's exactly what you look like. 179 00:15:28,663 --> 00:15:31,196 You look like you live in New Jersey with your parents 180 00:15:31,198 --> 00:15:33,965 and you're trying to grow a beard, that's what. 181 00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:36,368 - Okay, all right, you know, I know what this is. 182 00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:37,804 - Yeah? - Yeah, yeah, 183 00:15:37,806 --> 00:15:40,038 you, you are one of those- - Those? 184 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,712 - Ah, those people on the train, you know, struggling. 185 00:15:47,181 --> 00:15:52,486 - No, that's not me. I lie a lot. 186 00:15:53,220 --> 00:15:54,319 It helps me control the world. 187 00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:55,523 - Yeah, I bet. 188 00:15:57,257 --> 00:16:00,358 - Tell me first, it's true, most of it's true, right? 189 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,362 Jersey, your bumpy neck? 190 00:16:04,532 --> 00:16:06,398 - All right, who the hell are you? 191 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,400 How do you know all of this about the beard, New Jersey? 192 00:16:08,402 --> 00:16:11,036 Do I know you? Have I met you before? 193 00:16:11,038 --> 00:16:12,738 You know Warren Enright? 194 00:16:12,740 --> 00:16:15,073 - I told you I lie a lot. I don't know Warren Enright. 195 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:16,511 - Well, you're not just, 196 00:16:17,612 --> 00:16:19,779 you're not just pulling this out of thin air. 197 00:16:19,781 --> 00:16:21,747 - Is Warren Enright a tall, skinny, Black guy 198 00:16:21,749 --> 00:16:23,516 with an off and on southern accent? 199 00:16:23,518 --> 00:16:24,717 - So you do know him. 200 00:16:24,719 --> 00:16:26,184 - But I don't, I just figured 201 00:16:26,186 --> 00:16:29,856 you would know somebody like that. 202 00:16:29,858 --> 00:16:31,122 - Yeah, yeah, of course. 203 00:16:36,865 --> 00:16:39,532 - I'm exciting. You think I'm exciting, right? 204 00:16:39,534 --> 00:16:44,204 - It's New York City, you, ah. 205 00:16:45,573 --> 00:16:48,975 - Am I exciting you now, hmm? 206 00:16:48,977 --> 00:16:51,411 - Hey, don't, don't, don't do that. 207 00:16:52,412 --> 00:16:53,779 - You really want me to stop? 208 00:17:03,257 --> 00:17:05,627 You want this? - No. 209 00:17:07,662 --> 00:17:09,396 - Can you get involved, hmm? Get us involved. 210 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,569 Would you like to be down with me, Mr. Man? 211 00:17:20,107 --> 00:17:21,743 - I don't, I don't know. 212 00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:26,646 Down with you? 213 00:17:26,648 --> 00:17:28,146 - That's what I said. 214 00:17:28,148 --> 00:17:30,317 - Oh, a woman like you? 215 00:18:08,056 --> 00:18:11,960 - Oh boy. What a face. 216 00:18:12,894 --> 00:18:14,392 You know, you could be a handsome man. 217 00:18:14,394 --> 00:18:16,328 - Thank you, and I've been waiting 218 00:18:16,330 --> 00:18:18,229 for somebody to come along and confirm that, so thank you. 219 00:18:18,231 --> 00:18:20,131 Thank you. 220 00:18:20,133 --> 00:18:23,201 - Look at me, I'm going gray, little gray hair for each year 221 00:18:23,203 --> 00:18:25,303 and type I've come through. 222 00:18:25,305 --> 00:18:26,806 - First you're talking about my face 223 00:18:26,808 --> 00:18:29,374 and how you talking like you're old. 224 00:18:29,376 --> 00:18:31,844 - Hey, why don't you take me 225 00:18:31,846 --> 00:18:34,916 to that party you're going to, hmm? 226 00:18:35,717 --> 00:18:37,049 - Okay, okay, this is too much. 227 00:18:37,051 --> 00:18:39,150 How do you know about the party? 228 00:18:39,152 --> 00:18:42,557 - Don't you wanna take me? Come on, I never get to go. 229 00:18:43,925 --> 00:18:46,193 - I can't take you to that party. 230 00:18:46,894 --> 00:18:48,663 I don't even know your name. 231 00:18:50,330 --> 00:18:52,100 - I'm Lena the Hyena. 232 00:18:53,101 --> 00:18:54,934 - Wow, the famous woman, poet. 233 00:18:54,936 --> 00:18:57,237 - Poetess, same. 234 00:18:59,439 --> 00:19:01,576 - You know so much. What's my name? 235 00:19:03,011 --> 00:19:04,612 - Morris the Hyena. 236 00:19:08,215 --> 00:19:13,186 I bet it's something like Adam, oh, Porter, Lathe? 237 00:19:16,791 --> 00:19:17,959 - Nah. 238 00:19:19,727 --> 00:19:20,760 - Hey. 239 00:19:25,566 --> 00:19:26,632 - You okay? 240 00:19:26,634 --> 00:19:27,566 - Bless you, young man. 241 00:19:27,568 --> 00:19:28,768 - Yeah. Yeah. 242 00:19:28,770 --> 00:19:30,203 - I don't know what happened. 243 00:19:31,706 --> 00:19:33,204 - Here, I got it. 244 00:19:33,206 --> 00:19:34,372 - No, no, I, I really, I don't, I don't, 245 00:19:34,374 --> 00:19:35,741 I don't wanna impose. 246 00:19:35,743 --> 00:19:38,276 - No, no, it's okay. Let me help you. 247 00:19:38,278 --> 00:19:40,081 - You're so nice. 248 00:19:42,315 --> 00:19:47,088 You are a bright young man, but I can see your strife. 249 00:19:48,122 --> 00:19:51,657 You're searching for something, salvation. 250 00:19:51,659 --> 00:19:54,660 Heed the warning of those before you. 251 00:19:54,662 --> 00:19:57,330 Your fate can be different, it will be. 252 00:20:00,601 --> 00:20:03,137 Trust me, you'll see. 253 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,931 - What was that about? - Ah, I don't know. 254 00:20:42,944 --> 00:20:44,643 Hmm. 255 00:20:50,952 --> 00:20:53,284 - Just tell me your name. Come on. 256 00:20:53,286 --> 00:20:58,626 I bet it's something like Gerald or Walter, Lloyd, Norman? 257 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,026 - Something like Warren. 258 00:21:01,028 --> 00:21:02,828 - Well, for sure it's not Willie, 259 00:21:02,830 --> 00:21:04,830 one of those hopeless names creeping out of New Jersey. 260 00:21:04,832 --> 00:21:07,166 Leonard, Gag, come on, please. 261 00:21:11,471 --> 00:21:15,743 - It's Clay. My name is Clay, all right? 262 00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:21,916 - Clay, huh? Clay, what? 263 00:21:23,518 --> 00:21:27,922 - Take your pick, Jackson, Johnson, Williams. 264 00:21:29,389 --> 00:21:31,023 Does it even matter? 265 00:21:31,025 --> 00:21:34,059 - I guess not, but it's gotta be Williams. 266 00:21:34,061 --> 00:21:37,497 You're too pretentious to be a Jackson or a Johnson 267 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,365 but Clay's okay. 268 00:21:40,367 --> 00:21:41,936 - Yeah, thanks. 269 00:21:44,337 --> 00:21:45,673 Lena's fine. 270 00:21:46,607 --> 00:21:47,942 - It's Lula. 271 00:21:48,709 --> 00:21:49,775 - You said it was Lena. 272 00:21:49,777 --> 00:21:51,245 - Lula the hyena. 273 00:21:52,412 --> 00:21:54,682 - Do you say anything that's true? 274 00:21:55,783 --> 00:21:59,384 - I have an idea, oh, why don't you say to me, 275 00:21:59,386 --> 00:22:04,792 "Lula, Lula, will you go to the party with me tonight?" 276 00:22:05,193 --> 00:22:06,194 - Hey, hey. 277 00:22:11,199 --> 00:22:15,400 I know these tactics. I've been around. 278 00:22:15,402 --> 00:22:18,737 I've seen things. I know these tactics. 279 00:22:18,739 --> 00:22:20,139 - People who've been around, 280 00:22:20,141 --> 00:22:21,776 don't need to say they've been around. 281 00:22:23,244 --> 00:22:25,544 Don't you want me to keep reeling you in? 282 00:22:25,546 --> 00:22:26,712 - No. 283 00:22:26,714 --> 00:22:28,381 - Little, itty bitty thread? 284 00:22:30,151 --> 00:22:31,953 Here's my door 285 00:22:34,421 --> 00:22:38,159 through there, down four flights. 286 00:22:39,093 --> 00:22:41,428 I shall open the door with this hand 287 00:22:42,462 --> 00:22:45,800 the same hand I use to pull off my dress. 288 00:22:47,268 --> 00:22:49,136 The same hand lover. 289 00:22:50,437 --> 00:22:54,439 I'll push open the door and lead you my big eyed prey 290 00:22:54,441 --> 00:22:56,976 into my, what can I call it? 291 00:22:56,978 --> 00:22:58,611 Into my hovel. 292 00:23:06,153 --> 00:23:09,257 - Where'd you go? Where do you keep going, huh? 293 00:23:10,191 --> 00:23:13,694 Hey, what are you into, huh? 294 00:23:15,196 --> 00:23:18,266 What are you playing at, Mr. Clay? Clay Williams? 295 00:24:09,216 --> 00:24:10,516 - What the hell am I doing? 296 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,421 - Excuse me? 297 00:24:15,488 --> 00:24:16,657 - Um, 298 00:24:18,659 --> 00:24:21,195 nothing, it's just, it's been a while. 299 00:24:23,197 --> 00:24:27,168 - Hmm, thought you were cool, Clay. 300 00:24:29,537 --> 00:24:31,005 Cool Clay. 301 00:24:35,743 --> 00:24:38,510 Are you scared about meeting a woman? 302 00:24:38,512 --> 00:24:42,514 - Um, 303 00:24:42,516 --> 00:24:45,720 it's, it's just that I have to, 304 00:24:46,787 --> 00:24:48,721 I'm gonna be late to the party. 305 00:24:48,723 --> 00:24:49,857 - Mm, sit, let's talk. 306 00:24:55,396 --> 00:24:57,198 - We've been talking all night. 307 00:24:57,965 --> 00:24:59,298 - Endlessly. 308 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:01,469 - And yet you want to keep going? 309 00:25:06,874 --> 00:25:10,275 Look, the thing is, I'm not just going to this party 310 00:25:10,277 --> 00:25:12,613 I've actually gotta make a speech, so. 311 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:22,921 - You still haven't asked me to go. 312 00:25:34,135 --> 00:25:35,236 Ask me. 313 00:25:39,407 --> 00:25:43,978 - Lula, would you like to go to the party with me? 314 00:25:52,453 --> 00:25:55,122 - What do you wanna do, hmm? 315 00:25:56,023 --> 00:25:57,589 Your manhood. Let's talk about that. 316 00:25:57,591 --> 00:25:59,425 - No. 317 00:25:59,427 --> 00:26:01,829 - What do you think we've been talking about all this time? 318 00:26:04,165 --> 00:26:06,434 - What time is it? This thing broke. 319 00:26:14,842 --> 00:26:17,278 - There is no time when you're in here. 320 00:26:20,181 --> 00:26:21,447 When you're with me. 321 00:26:31,325 --> 00:26:33,160 - Go on then. 322 00:26:35,629 --> 00:26:38,531 We were talking about my manhood. 323 00:26:38,533 --> 00:26:42,569 - You still are. All the time. 324 00:26:47,308 --> 00:26:51,810 I felt it, enough to make you a map of it. 325 00:26:53,848 --> 00:26:57,850 You wanna keep talking or you wanna? 326 00:27:20,741 --> 00:27:22,007 - Finally 327 00:27:22,009 --> 00:27:23,543 No, no, wait, no, no. 328 00:27:23,545 --> 00:27:25,277 I want you to, I want you to throw me hard. 329 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:27,681 I want you to hurl me onto my fateful crib. Okay? 330 00:27:28,182 --> 00:27:29,518 Do it now. Go. 331 00:27:33,254 --> 00:27:34,119 Yeah. 332 00:27:39,293 --> 00:27:41,729 Yeah, come here, come on. 333 00:27:58,379 --> 00:27:59,546 Is this what you want? 334 00:28:05,587 --> 00:28:06,987 Your manhood. 335 00:28:07,988 --> 00:28:09,154 - Oh yeah. 336 00:29:50,157 --> 00:29:51,823 You like what you see, Clay? 337 00:29:59,266 --> 00:30:03,569 I want you to say to me, many many times, say, 338 00:30:03,571 --> 00:30:07,609 you can even whisper, that you love me. 339 00:30:08,677 --> 00:30:10,108 It's okay if you don't mean it, it's fine. 340 00:30:10,110 --> 00:30:11,711 I just wanna hear you say it. 341 00:30:11,713 --> 00:30:13,912 - Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't lie on love. 342 00:30:13,914 --> 00:30:16,948 - Yeah, I said you don't have to mean it. 343 00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:18,618 I just wanna hear you say it. 344 00:30:21,556 --> 00:30:24,958 - I wouldn't lie about something like that. 345 00:30:28,962 --> 00:30:31,463 - It's the only kind of thing you will lie about. 346 00:30:31,465 --> 00:30:34,268 Especially if you think it'll keep you alive. 347 00:30:36,771 --> 00:30:39,273 - What's that supposed to mean? 348 00:30:41,743 --> 00:30:44,945 You know what? Nevermind, I'm gonna go. 349 00:30:47,414 --> 00:30:49,247 - You said I'm going to the party with you. 350 00:30:49,249 --> 00:30:52,219 - Yeah, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go home. 351 00:30:53,755 --> 00:30:55,889 - You just gonna fuck me and leave? 352 00:30:57,424 --> 00:30:58,825 That's what y'all do, right? 353 00:30:58,827 --> 00:31:00,225 - Y'all, what do you mean y'all? 354 00:31:00,227 --> 00:31:02,060 - You know what I mean, men. 355 00:31:02,062 --> 00:31:04,062 Your species, especially men like you. 356 00:31:04,064 --> 00:31:05,330 - Like me? 357 00:31:05,332 --> 00:31:07,234 - Mm-hmm, yeah, professional type. 358 00:31:08,268 --> 00:31:10,068 - And can you just chill with all of that? 359 00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:11,738 Lula, you just keep saying things that's not true. 360 00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:13,941 - That's what? True? 361 00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:20,178 - Ah, it's been real. I'll see you around. 362 00:31:47,474 --> 00:31:52,647 - Isn't that something? I scream, the world stops. 363 00:31:56,785 --> 00:31:59,519 Oh, oh no, look, 364 00:31:59,521 --> 00:32:01,353 I've got bruises from when you threw me down. 365 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:02,855 - Threw you? I didn't throw you, you told me you wanted- 366 00:32:02,857 --> 00:32:06,291 - I can call anyone and say anything 367 00:32:06,293 --> 00:32:08,495 and it's my word against yours. 368 00:32:11,633 --> 00:32:13,566 Oh, wait. 369 00:32:22,142 --> 00:32:27,515 - I also have evidence. What do you have, your word? 370 00:32:29,049 --> 00:32:32,885 One drop of this anywhere on my body, 371 00:32:32,887 --> 00:32:35,055 and that's you down for rape. 372 00:32:36,658 --> 00:32:40,425 - This is, it's not funny. 373 00:32:40,427 --> 00:32:42,496 - No, it's not funny. 374 00:32:43,731 --> 00:32:45,932 It wouldn't be funny at all if I called the police. 375 00:32:45,934 --> 00:32:47,600 - Hell, what's wrong with you? 376 00:32:47,602 --> 00:32:51,537 - We're gonna go to that party like you promised me. 377 00:32:51,539 --> 00:32:54,774 Like you promised before you fucked me and tried to leave. 378 00:32:54,776 --> 00:32:57,879 - Gimme that. 379 00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:05,687 - I know where you're going anyway. 380 00:33:06,621 --> 00:33:09,389 You wouldn't wanna be rude, would you? 381 00:33:13,728 --> 00:33:15,460 - I thought you were cool. 382 00:33:15,462 --> 00:33:19,567 - What do you know about cool? You're not cool at all. 383 00:33:20,702 --> 00:33:23,738 - I didn't claim to be. Don't want to be. 384 00:33:24,739 --> 00:33:26,574 - Who doesn't want to be cool? 385 00:33:27,575 --> 00:33:29,876 - You said you just wanted to have fun. 386 00:33:29,878 --> 00:33:31,144 - I'm having fun. 387 00:33:32,145 --> 00:33:34,147 - This is fun? 388 00:33:36,618 --> 00:33:40,254 You look angry. I don't know why you are angry. 389 00:33:41,656 --> 00:33:43,421 I'm the one who should be angry. I didn't do anything wrong. 390 00:33:43,423 --> 00:33:45,323 - Everything you say is wrong. 391 00:33:45,325 --> 00:33:50,632 That's what makes you so attractive. That funny book jacket. 392 00:33:52,065 --> 00:33:54,099 What you got a jacket and tie on and all this heat for, huh? 393 00:33:54,101 --> 00:33:56,301 This hot-ass New York night. 394 00:33:56,303 --> 00:33:58,571 Did your people ever, ever burn witches 395 00:33:58,573 --> 00:34:02,008 or start revolutions over the price of tea? 396 00:34:02,010 --> 00:34:04,142 Don't you know these narrow shouldered clothes 397 00:34:04,144 --> 00:34:06,948 come from a time you ought to feel oppressed by 398 00:34:07,849 --> 00:34:10,983 fancy suit, striped tie. 399 00:34:10,985 --> 00:34:12,518 What right do you have 400 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,352 to be wearing a fancy suit and striped tie? 401 00:34:14,354 --> 00:34:18,958 - You know what? I got you now, I got you, all right. 402 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,626 You're not gonna get me again. 403 00:34:20,628 --> 00:34:21,961 We're gonna go to this party 404 00:34:21,963 --> 00:34:23,596 in and out just as fast as we came. 405 00:34:23,598 --> 00:34:24,697 But my life, you don't know shit about my life. 406 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:26,364 - Oh, do you know? 407 00:34:26,366 --> 00:34:28,601 Do you know if your great-grandfather was a slave? 408 00:34:28,603 --> 00:34:31,537 Because definitely didn't go to Harvard. 409 00:34:35,342 --> 00:34:37,375 - How, I dare you to say one more thing about my- 410 00:34:37,377 --> 00:34:39,614 - Is everything okay here? 411 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,221 - Everything okay, Clay? 412 00:34:50,692 --> 00:34:55,160 - Yeah, everything's fine. 413 00:34:55,162 --> 00:34:57,162 - Bet you went to one of those all Black colleges 414 00:34:57,164 --> 00:34:59,832 where everyone thought they were Al Sharpton. 415 00:34:59,834 --> 00:35:01,299 - Everybody except me. 416 00:35:01,301 --> 00:35:03,636 - Oh yeah, what did you think you were? 417 00:35:03,638 --> 00:35:06,906 - Don't worry about it. - I'm not worried about it, 418 00:35:06,908 --> 00:35:07,907 I'm curious. 419 00:35:10,344 --> 00:35:12,177 - In college, I thought I was Jacques Prevert, 420 00:35:12,179 --> 00:35:15,016 but I've slowed down since. 421 00:35:16,718 --> 00:35:18,216 - Bet you never once thought 422 00:35:18,218 --> 00:35:20,054 you were just another one of the Blacks. 423 00:35:21,556 --> 00:35:25,558 Oh, don't act so surprised. Black is the shit right now. 424 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,059 I wish I was Black. 425 00:35:27,061 --> 00:35:29,831 What is it Beyonce says? "Black is King." 426 00:35:31,331 --> 00:35:32,832 - Yeah, the whole world benefits off our culture. 427 00:35:32,834 --> 00:35:34,902 And what do we get for it? Nothing. 428 00:35:35,536 --> 00:35:37,005 You wish you were Black? 429 00:35:38,072 --> 00:35:40,205 Please, of all your lies, that's the worst. 430 00:35:40,207 --> 00:35:42,541 - Ugh. Let's go. 431 00:35:45,546 --> 00:35:49,349 - I could murder you now. Such a tiny, ugly throat. 432 00:35:50,752 --> 00:35:53,085 I could squeeze it flat and watch you turn blue on a humble 433 00:35:53,087 --> 00:35:54,954 for dull kicks 434 00:35:54,956 --> 00:35:57,123 And all these weak-faced white people squatting around here- 435 00:35:57,125 --> 00:35:58,024 - Hey! 436 00:36:02,897 --> 00:36:03,896 Come on. 437 00:36:20,648 --> 00:36:22,148 I take back what I said before. 438 00:36:22,150 --> 00:36:26,284 Everything you do is not wrong. It is perfect. 439 00:36:26,286 --> 00:36:27,485 - Hmm. 440 00:36:27,487 --> 00:36:29,287 - You should be on television. 441 00:36:29,289 --> 00:36:30,790 - Well, you've got enough theatrics for the both of us. 442 00:36:30,792 --> 00:36:32,894 - Oh, that's because I'm an actress. 443 00:36:33,427 --> 00:36:34,727 - Of course you are. 444 00:36:34,729 --> 00:36:36,494 - You're wrong. I'm no actress. 445 00:36:36,496 --> 00:36:39,965 I told you I always lie. I'm nothing, don't you forget it. 446 00:36:45,173 --> 00:36:46,808 Tell me about your family. 447 00:36:47,742 --> 00:36:49,177 What's your mother like? 448 00:36:50,678 --> 00:36:54,345 I bet she was part of the movement marching behind- 449 00:36:54,347 --> 00:36:56,084 - My mother is a Republican. 450 00:36:58,152 --> 00:37:02,755 - Oh, oh yes, of course. That's perfect. 451 00:37:02,757 --> 00:37:04,255 And I bet your father, 452 00:37:04,257 --> 00:37:05,825 he votes for the man rather than the party. 453 00:37:05,827 --> 00:37:09,161 - Yeah, that's right. - Yay for him. 454 00:37:09,163 --> 00:37:11,697 - Oh, whatever. - Oh, bullshit. 455 00:37:11,699 --> 00:37:15,000 - Oh wow, you got some nerve calling my words bullshit 456 00:37:15,002 --> 00:37:17,603 after the nonsense that's been spewing out of your mouth 457 00:37:17,605 --> 00:37:18,771 all night long. 458 00:37:24,478 --> 00:37:27,947 - May the people accept you as a ghost of the future 459 00:37:27,949 --> 00:37:30,616 and love you that you may not kill them when you can. 460 00:37:30,618 --> 00:37:31,686 - What? 461 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,653 - You're a murderer, Clay. And you know it. 462 00:37:36,691 --> 00:37:41,160 - Do what you gotta do, okay? Seriously. 463 00:37:41,162 --> 00:37:42,661 Sir, can you just, 464 00:37:42,663 --> 00:37:43,796 can you just pull over for a minute please? 465 00:37:43,798 --> 00:37:45,497 I gotta go. - No. 466 00:37:45,499 --> 00:37:47,499 - Look, I can't take you to this thing, I cannot. 467 00:37:53,473 --> 00:37:55,975 You know what? Do what you gotta do. 468 00:38:10,658 --> 00:38:11,590 Fuck! 469 00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:34,246 - Hi. - Hi. 470 00:38:34,248 --> 00:38:37,716 - Oh, you made it. - Hey, it's about time. 471 00:38:37,718 --> 00:38:39,787 Since when are you 40 minutes late? 472 00:38:40,453 --> 00:38:42,690 Well, I, this is Lula. 473 00:38:47,128 --> 00:38:48,296 - What's good? 474 00:38:48,930 --> 00:38:50,097 Hi. 475 00:38:51,699 --> 00:38:53,868 - Hey, you know- - Yeah, I know. 476 00:38:56,204 --> 00:39:00,639 - All right, cool, cool. 477 00:39:00,641 --> 00:39:04,375 Sweetie, we sh, yeah, all right. 478 00:39:04,377 --> 00:39:06,314 - You know what, mm? 479 00:39:17,992 --> 00:39:19,959 - Now, stop, no, thank you. 480 00:39:33,574 --> 00:39:36,441 - Clay, Clay, hi, you baby. 481 00:39:36,443 --> 00:39:37,943 - Hi. - How are you? 482 00:39:37,945 --> 00:39:39,578 - Well, I'm okay, thank you. - Good. 483 00:39:46,587 --> 00:39:48,120 - Hey, Clay. - Hey. 484 00:39:48,122 --> 00:39:49,521 - My man. - Hey. 485 00:39:49,523 --> 00:39:50,923 - How you doing? You all right? 486 00:39:50,925 --> 00:39:53,928 - Yeah, yeah, just a train drum. 487 00:39:55,162 --> 00:39:57,129 - People think that this is the first real depiction 488 00:39:57,131 --> 00:40:01,166 of a Black family, I mean, just with imagery and with color. 489 00:40:01,168 --> 00:40:03,838 Tanner is able to change- 490 00:40:05,306 --> 00:40:09,110 - Oh, don't mind me. - Yeah, sure, hang out. 491 00:40:10,477 --> 00:40:11,846 - Oh, you don't mind? 492 00:40:12,713 --> 00:40:14,980 - He said it's cool. We don't mind. 493 00:40:14,982 --> 00:40:20,354 - Oh, the mind is a complex muscle. Am I right? 494 00:40:21,454 --> 00:40:23,522 I mean, I'm always toying with my mind. 495 00:40:23,524 --> 00:40:26,058 I feel like we all are. Don't you agree? 496 00:40:26,060 --> 00:40:29,028 Well, actually, my mind is always toying with me. 497 00:40:29,030 --> 00:40:31,363 If you could see what was going on in there, just- 498 00:40:31,365 --> 00:40:33,634 - Ah, it's not a muscle. 499 00:40:34,635 --> 00:40:37,503 - See, I knew somebody would understand. 500 00:40:37,505 --> 00:40:40,739 - The, the mind deals with consciousness, thought. 501 00:40:40,741 --> 00:40:42,875 That's not a muscle. You're thinking of the brain. 502 00:40:42,877 --> 00:40:46,145 Not a muscle either, but controls all of it. 503 00:40:46,147 --> 00:40:47,546 - What are you a doctor or something? 504 00:40:47,548 --> 00:40:49,383 - Yeah, he's a neurosurgeon. 505 00:40:51,152 --> 00:40:53,686 - You? - Him. 506 00:40:53,688 --> 00:40:54,887 - Hmm. 507 00:40:54,889 --> 00:40:56,724 - Is that so hard to believe? 508 00:40:59,193 --> 00:41:01,393 - No, just like when I think of a doctor, 509 00:41:01,395 --> 00:41:04,563 I, I mean, what do you picture? 510 00:41:04,565 --> 00:41:07,068 What do you think of when you think of a doctor? 511 00:41:08,069 --> 00:41:09,835 - What the hell kind of question is that? 512 00:41:09,837 --> 00:41:12,171 - Ooh, no, I'm, it's no offense to you at all. 513 00:41:12,173 --> 00:41:14,573 It's just like, it's what I see, you know? 514 00:41:14,575 --> 00:41:15,607 Like, it's what we all see. 515 00:41:15,609 --> 00:41:16,709 - It's not what I see. 516 00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:25,353 - Was it something I said? 517 00:41:26,721 --> 00:41:29,955 - I'm sorry, what? What's your name again? 518 00:41:29,957 --> 00:41:31,726 - Oh, I didn't, I didn't say. 519 00:41:32,293 --> 00:41:34,093 - So what's your name? 520 00:41:34,095 --> 00:41:35,863 - It's Lula. What's yours? 521 00:41:38,132 --> 00:41:39,865 - Kaya. 522 00:41:39,867 --> 00:41:42,735 - Kaya, you're so pretty. God, your hands are so soft. 523 00:41:42,737 --> 00:41:43,736 They're like silk. 524 00:41:56,117 --> 00:41:58,586 But appearances can be deceiving. 525 00:41:59,387 --> 00:42:01,887 It's about what's on the inside. 526 00:42:01,889 --> 00:42:05,157 It's about, you know, the inside that has value. 527 00:42:11,999 --> 00:42:14,235 - Something is wrong with you. 528 00:42:21,075 --> 00:42:22,941 Excuse me. I'll, um. 529 00:42:44,298 --> 00:42:45,931 - Excuse me, please. 530 00:42:59,113 --> 00:43:01,849 Kaya, let me see. - I'm fine. 531 00:43:02,517 --> 00:43:04,616 - It's okay if you're not. 532 00:43:16,831 --> 00:43:20,868 Are you gonna tell me what she said to you? 533 00:43:23,204 --> 00:43:24,636 - You know, I did what I did, 534 00:43:24,638 --> 00:43:27,072 but I never put it all in your face. 535 00:43:27,074 --> 00:43:29,007 - Okay, you know, I'm struggling here 536 00:43:29,009 --> 00:43:31,145 with something that you did to me. 537 00:43:32,413 --> 00:43:34,847 All I want is to get that shit out of my head forever. 538 00:43:39,854 --> 00:43:41,687 - I came back to you, Clay. 539 00:43:41,689 --> 00:43:45,224 - But in here you are still with him. Do you understand? 540 00:43:45,226 --> 00:43:48,093 - Yeah, in here, it's in your head. 541 00:43:48,095 --> 00:43:49,761 - What do you want me to do? 542 00:43:49,763 --> 00:43:50,996 Go sit down and meditate away. Is that what you want? 543 00:43:50,998 --> 00:43:52,264 - Yeah, you can try that. 544 00:43:52,266 --> 00:43:53,398 - Okay. - That would be one thing. 545 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:54,933 You know what Gina said? 546 00:43:54,935 --> 00:43:56,603 - Oh, Gina said, what did, what did Gina say? 547 00:43:56,605 --> 00:43:59,671 Gina said, Gina said, right. Okay. 548 00:43:59,673 --> 00:44:01,039 It's funny how all your friends 549 00:44:01,041 --> 00:44:02,941 who've never actually been to therapy 550 00:44:02,943 --> 00:44:05,578 have all these wonderful ideas about what I should be doing. 551 00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:07,679 - Stop it. - You stop it. 552 00:44:11,620 --> 00:44:13,418 So you're gonna hold one night against me 553 00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:15,256 for the rest of our lives. 554 00:44:16,757 --> 00:44:18,292 Seriously? 555 00:44:20,562 --> 00:44:22,194 It was a misunderstanding. 556 00:44:22,196 --> 00:44:23,530 - Oh, it was infidelity, Kaya. 557 00:44:23,532 --> 00:44:25,264 - No, it wasn't. Clearly, it wasn't. 558 00:44:25,266 --> 00:44:26,732 I thought you were doing the same thing. 559 00:44:26,734 --> 00:44:28,535 - You thought I was? - Yes. 560 00:44:28,537 --> 00:44:29,868 - How? Why would, when would I be doing that, Kaya? 561 00:44:29,870 --> 00:44:31,737 - I don't know. - No, tell me. 562 00:44:31,739 --> 00:44:33,540 When would it be? When I was at work working my ass off? 563 00:44:33,542 --> 00:44:35,474 Or maybe when I was hosting all these fundraisers. 564 00:44:35,476 --> 00:44:37,976 Maybe when I, I was going, I trust fund so 565 00:44:37,978 --> 00:44:39,912 that our kids would have a fucking school to go to. 566 00:44:39,914 --> 00:44:42,582 Is that what I, oh wait, sorry, I forgot. 567 00:44:42,584 --> 00:44:44,082 We don't even have kids yet 568 00:44:44,084 --> 00:44:45,986 because you wanted to focus on your thing. 569 00:44:47,454 --> 00:44:48,889 Sorry, that was, 570 00:44:50,891 --> 00:44:51,790 you know what? 571 00:44:51,792 --> 00:44:52,927 It's fine. 572 00:44:53,727 --> 00:44:55,630 - I'm sorry I couldn't help you. 573 00:44:56,565 --> 00:44:57,896 But you never shared what's going on. 574 00:44:57,898 --> 00:44:59,097 - Right? - I have no idea 575 00:44:59,099 --> 00:45:00,232 what's going on in your head. 576 00:45:00,234 --> 00:45:01,601 - It was my fault. 577 00:45:01,603 --> 00:45:02,734 - No, I didn't say it was your fault. 578 00:45:02,736 --> 00:45:04,571 - You just said it. 579 00:45:04,573 --> 00:45:05,406 - I didn't say it was your fault, but you brought her here. 580 00:45:06,173 --> 00:45:08,809 Clay, that is breaking my heart. 581 00:45:11,278 --> 00:45:13,513 - What do you think is happening tomorrow? 582 00:45:23,290 --> 00:45:24,756 - Okay. What is going on? 583 00:45:28,963 --> 00:45:29,995 - I can't explain. 584 00:45:35,169 --> 00:45:40,642 - To hurt me? You're too smart for this. 585 00:45:42,876 --> 00:45:45,844 - I know. - To derail everything. 586 00:45:45,846 --> 00:45:47,181 - I know, I know. 587 00:45:48,048 --> 00:45:49,147 - Tell me. 588 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,691 - After therapy something had happened. 589 00:45:58,627 --> 00:46:02,528 Dr. Amir tried to, tried to give me something. 590 00:46:02,530 --> 00:46:05,030 Did you, were you in on that? - What? 591 00:46:09,837 --> 00:46:13,742 - You, what?. 592 00:46:14,875 --> 00:46:16,241 Maybe it would help you. 593 00:46:19,313 --> 00:46:22,914 - Something, something's wrong with me. 594 00:46:22,916 --> 00:46:24,249 - What's wrong? - I don't know 595 00:46:24,251 --> 00:46:26,385 if something's wrong. - Kaya? 596 00:46:26,387 --> 00:46:28,322 - Ah, there you are. 597 00:46:29,857 --> 00:46:31,857 Warren needs you downstairs. - Okay. 598 00:46:38,932 --> 00:46:40,265 - Hello, hit me. 599 00:46:45,674 --> 00:46:48,008 - Bitch, just wait. 600 00:46:48,942 --> 00:46:54,114 - Ah, you called me bitch?. I love it. 601 00:47:01,723 --> 00:47:03,525 You here for the fireworks? 602 00:47:05,259 --> 00:47:07,796 I've seen you, walking around 603 00:47:09,698 --> 00:47:13,700 once they're mine, they're mine, you know that is. 604 00:47:16,203 --> 00:47:19,037 - I'm not gonna let this happen again. 605 00:47:22,910 --> 00:47:24,476 This one is different. 606 00:47:26,980 --> 00:47:28,313 - Okay. 607 00:47:40,928 --> 00:47:41,993 Sorry. 608 00:47:46,668 --> 00:47:48,835 - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 609 00:47:48,837 --> 00:47:50,268 - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 610 00:47:50,270 --> 00:47:51,269 - I think it's, I think it's time to go. 611 00:47:51,271 --> 00:47:52,471 - Oh, come on. 612 00:47:52,473 --> 00:47:53,506 Don't you have some big speech? 613 00:47:53,508 --> 00:47:54,607 - I'm leaving. - Okay. 614 00:48:04,952 --> 00:48:09,421 - You need to get her up outta here. She is murder. 615 00:48:09,423 --> 00:48:11,423 She is murdering the vibe. 616 00:48:11,425 --> 00:48:12,627 - What time is it? 617 00:48:13,661 --> 00:48:15,927 Feels like things are just standing still. 618 00:48:15,929 --> 00:48:17,797 What time do we have to be on? 619 00:48:17,799 --> 00:48:19,532 - Hey, Clay? 620 00:48:19,534 --> 00:48:22,668 - What? - Look around you. 621 00:48:22,670 --> 00:48:24,169 You know who's in the room tonight 622 00:48:24,171 --> 00:48:26,806 and you know who's watching you and Kaya. 623 00:48:26,808 --> 00:48:28,541 All right, we're building empires here. 624 00:48:28,543 --> 00:48:30,645 - You know, I've never fucked up. 625 00:48:33,113 --> 00:48:34,281 Never once. 626 00:48:35,349 --> 00:48:37,115 - Oh, so now you just on some yin-yang shit? 627 00:48:37,117 --> 00:48:38,984 Now is not the time. - No. 628 00:48:38,986 --> 00:48:42,555 It's like I'm a machine man. It's like we are machines. 629 00:48:42,557 --> 00:48:44,222 Now, stick to the plan. 630 00:48:44,224 --> 00:48:47,693 The right schools, the right cities, the right job. 631 00:48:47,695 --> 00:48:50,797 It's all been written, man. Every second of it, every step. 632 00:48:50,799 --> 00:48:54,134 But what did it get us, Warren? What does it get us? 633 00:48:54,736 --> 00:48:55,837 - What? 634 00:48:57,004 --> 00:49:00,972 - It ain't working, Warren. Think about it, man. 635 00:49:00,974 --> 00:49:05,043 The, the, the, the, the speeches, the fundraisers, 636 00:49:05,045 --> 00:49:10,484 the, the meetings, the plans, what difference does it make? 637 00:49:11,251 --> 00:49:13,888 Who really owns this city, huh? 638 00:49:15,255 --> 00:49:18,190 Who is gonna own New Harlem once we get done fixing it up 639 00:49:18,192 --> 00:49:20,394 with our picture perfect Blacks, huh? 640 00:49:22,329 --> 00:49:24,396 Lula's, that's who. 641 00:49:29,571 --> 00:49:31,673 I mean, you not ready to hear this. 642 00:49:33,273 --> 00:49:38,746 - Brother? You need to get it together. 643 00:49:39,012 --> 00:49:40,245 - Hmm. 644 00:49:44,284 --> 00:49:46,051 She can say anything, Warren, 645 00:49:50,892 --> 00:49:51,958 anything. 646 00:49:55,530 --> 00:49:56,898 I fucked up. 647 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,568 Evidence at all that she's threatened. 648 00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,407 - Clay, but why? Why would she do that? 649 00:50:09,409 --> 00:50:11,777 - I don't know, I don't know. 650 00:50:11,779 --> 00:50:15,382 It's like she knows everything about me, even about you. 651 00:50:16,784 --> 00:50:18,784 A clear nightmare, man, don't you see? 652 00:50:25,727 --> 00:50:30,999 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see. 653 00:50:32,299 --> 00:50:36,002 She could say anything, but tonight 654 00:50:43,243 --> 00:50:45,110 she's not gonna say anything. 655 00:50:48,448 --> 00:50:50,115 And you are gonna make sure of that. 656 00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:46,639 - Hey. 657 00:51:56,584 --> 00:51:59,219 Help me understand, what is it that you want? 658 00:52:00,655 --> 00:52:03,024 - Love is everything that I want. 659 00:52:04,191 --> 00:52:05,591 All you had to do was say it. 660 00:52:05,593 --> 00:52:08,529 - Just give me the purse. - No. 661 00:52:09,931 --> 00:52:11,229 - Warren, please tell me 662 00:52:11,231 --> 00:52:12,698 you got further with him than I did. 663 00:52:15,502 --> 00:52:19,005 - She's got something on her, but don't worry about it. 664 00:52:24,779 --> 00:52:27,245 - You gotta be acting. Is that what this is? 665 00:52:27,247 --> 00:52:30,616 - I told you I wasn't an actress, 666 00:52:30,618 --> 00:52:32,785 but I also told you that I lie all the time. 667 00:52:32,787 --> 00:52:35,286 So draw your own conclusions. 668 00:52:35,288 --> 00:52:36,624 - Man, this is crazy. 669 00:52:37,391 --> 00:52:39,091 - Don't call me fucking crazy. 670 00:52:39,093 --> 00:52:40,559 - Okay. - You men 671 00:52:40,561 --> 00:52:42,094 always try and make the woman crazy. 672 00:52:42,096 --> 00:52:46,768 - Okay, shh, stop. Fine, you're not crazy. 673 00:52:50,638 --> 00:52:52,303 Jesus, in front of all these people. 674 00:52:55,308 --> 00:52:56,811 - Do they frighten you? 675 00:52:58,980 --> 00:53:00,412 - Why would they frighten me? 676 00:53:03,117 --> 00:53:05,751 - Because even with all of them, 677 00:53:05,753 --> 00:53:08,056 you're still an escaped Black. 678 00:53:08,823 --> 00:53:10,056 - How's everybody doing tonight 679 00:53:10,058 --> 00:53:11,793 at the Livet party in Harlem? 680 00:53:14,762 --> 00:53:17,630 Where's my man Clay at? Yo, Clay, Clay, come on up here man. 681 00:53:30,611 --> 00:53:32,647 - Good evening everybody. I said good evening everybody. 682 00:53:35,917 --> 00:53:37,415 - Good evening. 683 00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:40,154 - All right, all right. What a night, huh? 684 00:53:44,192 --> 00:53:45,358 What a night. 685 00:53:46,359 --> 00:53:48,259 So many people to thank I, first of all, 686 00:53:48,261 --> 00:53:50,462 thank you to Dr. Bowers for hosting us this evening 687 00:53:50,464 --> 00:53:53,298 it's been a beautiful celebration, thank you. 688 00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:56,702 Thank you to my wife, Kaya, and the whole hosting committee. 689 00:53:56,704 --> 00:53:59,339 You've done a beautiful job tonight, thank you. 690 00:54:00,842 --> 00:54:01,941 Um. 691 00:54:23,865 --> 00:54:25,131 Um. 692 00:54:29,904 --> 00:54:31,170 Right. Um. 693 00:54:36,309 --> 00:54:41,314 The night is beautiful. So are the faces of my people. 694 00:54:43,416 --> 00:54:46,721 The stars are beautiful. So are the eyes of my people. 695 00:54:48,055 --> 00:54:50,758 Beautiful, also, is the sun. 696 00:54:51,859 --> 00:54:55,694 Beautiful, also are the souls of my people. 697 00:54:55,696 --> 00:54:59,834 Why do people come to Harlem? Why do we? 698 00:55:01,068 --> 00:55:03,602 Is it to walk in the footsteps of our, of our heroes? 699 00:55:03,604 --> 00:55:09,043 To write like, like Langston, to to play like Duke, 700 00:55:14,048 --> 00:55:17,683 to build like Philip Payton, to sculpt like Augusta Savage? 701 00:55:17,685 --> 00:55:20,087 What is it that brings us to this place? 702 00:55:21,889 --> 00:55:24,723 You know, there are some people who, who talk about 703 00:55:24,725 --> 00:55:28,694 making a New Harlem and wanna refashion it, rebrand it 704 00:55:28,696 --> 00:55:30,565 into some new thing. 705 00:55:32,733 --> 00:55:34,200 The thing these people fail to realize 706 00:55:34,202 --> 00:55:35,701 is that this place holds our history 707 00:55:35,703 --> 00:55:38,739 this place is our home. 708 00:55:40,407 --> 00:55:45,044 Marcus Garvey said that a people without a sense 709 00:55:45,046 --> 00:55:47,648 of their origin is like a tree without roots. 710 00:55:49,217 --> 00:55:50,816 But there's among us tonight, 711 00:55:50,818 --> 00:55:53,654 a man whose roots run deep in this community. 712 00:55:55,422 --> 00:55:58,157 A man who has a vision for Harlem 713 00:55:58,159 --> 00:56:01,160 that doesn't just privilege the, the elites or the wealthy, 714 00:56:01,162 --> 00:56:04,429 but that is also concerned about the down trodden 715 00:56:04,431 --> 00:56:06,165 and the overlooked. 716 00:56:06,167 --> 00:56:08,567 This is a man who has reached down deep within himself 717 00:56:08,569 --> 00:56:11,937 to bring out the very best and he didn't stop there. 718 00:56:11,939 --> 00:56:15,274 He brought out also the best in me and all of us. 719 00:56:15,276 --> 00:56:17,243 Now, I want y'all to please join me 720 00:56:17,245 --> 00:56:18,944 in putting your hands together and welcome him to the stage 721 00:56:18,946 --> 00:56:23,115 my friend, no, my brother Mr. Warren Enright. 722 00:56:23,117 --> 00:56:24,415 Let's bring him to the stage, y'all. 723 00:56:25,953 --> 00:56:28,954 Enright, Enright, Enright, Enright. 724 00:56:28,956 --> 00:56:32,157 - Enright, Enright, Enright, Enright, Enright, 725 00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:35,594 Enright, Enright, Enright, Enright. 726 00:56:42,870 --> 00:56:46,107 - All right, now y'all, all right. 727 00:56:46,774 --> 00:56:49,310 Isn't this also that good? 728 00:56:50,443 --> 00:56:52,278 - I think I underestimated you. 729 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:53,879 - Just to come out here and see me. 730 00:57:00,554 --> 00:57:03,022 No, but in all seriousness, 731 00:57:03,024 --> 00:57:05,024 when I ran for city council- 732 00:57:05,026 --> 00:57:08,560 - Mm. - Wait, what are you doing? 733 00:57:08,562 --> 00:57:09,895 - I have something to say. 734 00:57:09,897 --> 00:57:11,964 - No,. - Get off me. 735 00:57:19,140 --> 00:57:20,839 Y'all got 'em so excited, 736 00:57:20,841 --> 00:57:22,808 they already running to the polls, right? 737 00:57:36,424 --> 00:57:37,690 - Hey! 738 00:57:47,735 --> 00:57:49,001 Hey! 739 00:57:50,037 --> 00:57:51,337 Help me! - Stop, stop. 740 00:58:42,490 --> 00:58:45,657 - Every minute spent denying what's in front of you 741 00:58:45,659 --> 00:58:50,464 is a minute lost, then hours, then days and years. 742 00:58:53,567 --> 00:58:55,970 - I'm sorry, you talking to me? 743 00:58:58,139 --> 00:59:01,640 - Every minute spent denying what's in front of you 744 00:59:01,642 --> 00:59:07,081 is a minute lost, then hours, then days then years,. 745 00:59:10,751 --> 00:59:13,154 - Dr. Amir. So it is you. 746 00:59:20,995 --> 00:59:25,697 - I am whoever it is you need me to be. I'm everyone. 747 00:59:25,699 --> 00:59:30,539 I'm no one. But we don't have much time. 748 00:59:35,342 --> 00:59:37,443 - What is happening to me? 749 00:59:37,445 --> 00:59:39,480 - Time is a fickle thing. 750 00:59:40,549 --> 00:59:43,715 You have until dawn to dismantle your curse. 751 00:59:43,717 --> 00:59:45,951 - Curse? Man, I don't have a curse. 752 00:59:45,953 --> 00:59:48,720 - Oh, there is. I'm sorry. 753 00:59:48,722 --> 00:59:50,689 Your pain drew her to you. 754 00:59:50,691 --> 00:59:56,130 And fate is a vicious cycle, but together we can end it. 755 00:59:57,131 --> 00:59:58,664 - Let's go. - Wait, what were you saying 756 00:59:58,666 --> 01:00:00,999 about my fate, about the, the dawn? 757 01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:03,235 I have until dawn? What am what am I supposed to do? 758 01:00:03,237 --> 01:00:04,703 - Get back to my office. - Hey, come on. 759 01:00:04,705 --> 01:00:06,506 - Read the pages, it's all been written. 760 01:00:06,508 --> 01:00:08,373 Every rest, every step. - Wait. 761 01:00:08,375 --> 01:00:11,076 - Sometimes we can find pieces of ourselves in literature 762 01:00:11,078 --> 01:00:13,580 that can help facilitate the healing process. 763 01:00:13,582 --> 01:00:17,149 Salvation, it lies within, my man of Clay. 764 01:00:24,391 --> 01:00:26,191 - Oh my God. 765 01:00:26,193 --> 01:00:29,564 - You bailed me out? - Jesus. 766 01:00:31,332 --> 01:00:33,098 - You wouldn't believe me if I told you who I just saw. 767 01:00:33,100 --> 01:00:34,867 - No, I, I, I, I'm sorry. I'm, I'm still dealing 768 01:00:34,869 --> 01:00:36,168 with what I just saw. - Dr. Amir, 769 01:00:36,170 --> 01:00:37,269 he told me things about me- 770 01:00:37,271 --> 01:00:38,505 - What? - About me being, 771 01:00:38,507 --> 01:00:39,371 being curse or something? 772 01:00:39,373 --> 01:00:41,508 - No, no, no. 773 01:00:41,510 --> 01:00:44,743 You humiliated us in front of all of our friends. 774 01:00:44,745 --> 01:00:46,345 - No, Kaya, I was there. - And for what? 775 01:00:46,347 --> 01:00:48,013 - It happened to me, I was there- 776 01:00:48,015 --> 01:00:51,618 - No, it just happened to you? It happened to us. 777 01:00:51,620 --> 01:00:56,021 - You're right. I, I think I just want to go home. 778 01:00:56,023 --> 01:00:57,189 - No. - Please. 779 01:00:57,191 --> 01:00:58,525 I just want to go home. 780 01:00:58,527 --> 01:01:00,259 - No, okay, you're not going anywhere 781 01:01:00,261 --> 01:01:01,729 until you told me what's going on, this isn't you. 782 01:01:02,897 --> 01:01:06,231 - Kay. - Okay, this is why we're at? 783 01:01:06,233 --> 01:01:08,433 - Look, whatever it is, Kaya, it's important. 784 01:01:08,435 --> 01:01:09,638 - I'm important. 785 01:01:11,138 --> 01:01:12,473 - I know, I, 786 01:01:16,944 --> 01:01:18,645 Kaya, there's just so much more to it. 787 01:01:18,647 --> 01:01:22,584 - I'm sorry, Clay, I'm sorry that I hurt you. 788 01:01:25,052 --> 01:01:27,556 I know you don't believe me, but I am, 789 01:01:28,222 --> 01:01:30,291 I really am, I fucked up. 790 01:01:32,459 --> 01:01:36,964 I'm trying my best. What are you doing? 791 01:01:40,434 --> 01:01:42,637 I need you to, to figure this out. 792 01:01:45,607 --> 01:01:47,005 I'm gonna go home. 793 01:01:47,007 --> 01:01:48,610 - Baby, don't go. - No, don't. 794 01:01:50,077 --> 01:01:53,412 - Kaya, Kaya. 795 01:04:10,451 --> 01:04:14,286 - You are lost, Clay, but we can find you. 796 01:04:23,997 --> 01:04:25,665 Don't you see? 797 01:04:25,667 --> 01:04:28,266 Sometimes we find pieces of ourselves in literature 798 01:04:28,268 --> 01:04:29,569 that help us heal. 799 01:04:33,575 --> 01:04:34,676 Don't you see? 800 01:04:37,144 --> 01:04:38,747 Don't you see? 801 01:04:40,682 --> 01:04:41,947 Don't you see? 802 01:05:15,949 --> 01:05:20,688 The opening scene is a man sitting in a subway seat. 803 01:05:22,022 --> 01:05:25,490 - Hello. I'm gonna sit down, okay? 804 01:05:25,492 --> 01:05:28,795 - Do I know you? Have I met you before? 805 01:05:28,797 --> 01:05:30,730 - You are afraid of white people and so is your dad. 806 01:05:30,732 --> 01:05:33,231 You fool. 807 01:05:33,233 --> 01:05:35,835 - The girl brings up a small knife 808 01:05:37,705 --> 01:05:40,640 and plunges it into Clay's chest. 809 01:05:52,486 --> 01:05:54,252 - What did you do to me? 810 01:05:54,254 --> 01:05:58,358 - If all the world is a stage, we are merely players in it. 811 01:05:59,594 --> 01:06:02,895 - What does that even mean? Why did you write this? 812 01:06:02,897 --> 01:06:04,730 You put me in this play? 813 01:06:04,732 --> 01:06:09,167 - Lula's obsessions only ever end in death and destruction. 814 01:06:09,169 --> 01:06:13,106 I did what I had to do to give you a fighting chance. 815 01:06:14,241 --> 01:06:18,746 But here in the cradle of my legacy, my stage, 816 01:06:19,413 --> 01:06:23,685 words and truth fall free. 817 01:06:25,352 --> 01:06:30,023 - Then tell me the truth about her, Lula, who is she? 818 01:06:31,458 --> 01:06:34,594 - She's my darkest thoughts may manifest 819 01:06:34,596 --> 01:06:37,597 someone who sought to destroy everything about me. 820 01:06:37,599 --> 01:06:41,701 My goals, dreams, my identity. 821 01:06:41,703 --> 01:06:46,440 She's a demon who feeds on the divisions within men like us. 822 01:06:47,307 --> 01:06:50,776 I created her in one night in '64, 823 01:06:50,778 --> 01:06:52,945 conjured up both her and the first play 824 01:06:52,947 --> 01:06:55,413 in some sort of fevered dream. 825 01:06:55,415 --> 01:06:57,550 And I haven't been able to stop her 826 01:06:57,552 --> 01:07:00,786 through time, across generations. 827 01:07:00,788 --> 01:07:01,890 - Wait. 828 01:07:03,490 --> 01:07:07,127 So it's, it's true what I read? 829 01:07:08,763 --> 01:07:10,397 She kills him. 830 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,166 - Yes. 831 01:07:14,401 --> 01:07:19,306 - Wait a minute. So, so my fate is to die tonight? 832 01:07:20,407 --> 01:07:23,308 - For years, I believe that the moving finger 833 01:07:23,310 --> 01:07:26,012 writes and having written moves on. 834 01:07:26,014 --> 01:07:29,949 But that's not true. The narrative is pliable. 835 01:07:29,951 --> 01:07:32,117 It can change - By me? 836 01:07:32,119 --> 01:07:33,418 No, I don't, I don't have- 837 01:07:33,420 --> 01:07:34,854 - You have everything you need 838 01:07:34,856 --> 01:07:36,656 to break free of that fiction. 839 01:07:36,658 --> 01:07:41,159 You are not the "Dutchman" I wrote. You have love. 840 01:07:41,161 --> 01:07:45,531 You have Kaya, but you also have a fire in you. 841 01:07:45,533 --> 01:07:47,465 Rage like that used to get us killed 842 01:07:47,467 --> 01:07:50,770 but now it's only through the furnace of rage 843 01:07:50,772 --> 01:07:52,205 that we can truly live. 844 01:08:09,657 --> 01:08:12,994 - Sometimes we can find pieces of ourselves in literature 845 01:08:14,696 --> 01:08:19,699 that can help us facilitate the healing process. 846 01:08:19,701 --> 01:08:23,002 - Yes, and sometimes a man 847 01:08:23,004 --> 01:08:26,005 must go a very long distance out of the way 848 01:08:26,007 --> 01:08:28,741 to get back a short distance correctly. 849 01:08:56,537 --> 01:08:57,903 - Finish the play, Clay. 850 01:12:00,788 --> 01:12:03,956 - Relax. Let's go back into the beautiful dream. 851 01:12:03,958 --> 01:12:05,558 Hold me, hold me, Clay. 852 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:06,859 - You stop with the craziness. 853 01:12:06,861 --> 01:12:08,594 - Who are you to judge who's crazy? 854 01:12:08,596 --> 01:12:09,697 - Why me? Lula. 855 01:12:10,698 --> 01:12:14,200 - Because you crawled through the wire. 856 01:12:14,202 --> 01:12:15,768 I made tracks to my side. 857 01:12:15,770 --> 01:12:17,368 - Wire, what are you talking about? 858 01:12:17,370 --> 01:12:19,104 - Don't they have wire around plantations? 859 01:12:19,106 --> 01:12:20,206 - Plantations didn't have wire. 860 01:12:20,208 --> 01:12:22,373 - Oh, right, you're right. 861 01:12:22,375 --> 01:12:25,911 They were big, open, whitewashed places like heaven 862 01:12:25,913 --> 01:12:28,247 and everybody on 'em was grooved to be there. 863 01:12:28,249 --> 01:12:29,949 - You stop - Just like 864 01:12:29,951 --> 01:12:32,651 strumming and humming all day. - I said, stop. 865 01:12:32,653 --> 01:12:34,253 - What are you flipping out for? 866 01:12:34,255 --> 01:12:35,654 Without that you would've never had the gospel. 867 01:12:35,656 --> 01:12:37,890 You would've never had the blues. 868 01:12:37,892 --> 01:12:39,658 That's how the blues was born. 869 01:12:39,660 --> 01:12:42,460 That's how the blues was born, yeah. 870 01:12:42,462 --> 01:12:46,832 That's how the blues was born, yeah, yeah. 871 01:12:46,834 --> 01:12:50,171 That's how the blues was born yeah, yeah. 872 01:12:51,505 --> 01:12:54,807 That's how the blues was born. Get outta my fucking way. 873 01:12:54,809 --> 01:12:57,977 Can't you see I'm singing the goddamn blues? 874 01:12:57,979 --> 01:13:00,514 That's how the blues was born. 875 01:13:01,448 --> 01:13:04,116 Hey Clay, Clay, let's do the nasty. 876 01:13:04,118 --> 01:13:08,287 Come on, let me pop it on you again. Come on, Clay. 877 01:13:08,289 --> 01:13:09,622 Please do it again. 878 01:13:09,624 --> 01:13:10,455 - What did you put in those apples? 879 01:13:10,457 --> 01:13:11,726 - Come on. 880 01:13:12,827 --> 01:13:17,798 Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest one of all? 881 01:13:18,766 --> 01:13:22,370 Snow white, don't you forget it, baby. 882 01:13:23,503 --> 01:13:28,007 Hey, come on Clay. Come on, let's do it again. 883 01:13:28,009 --> 01:13:31,110 Come on, let's do the gritty grind like your old mama. 884 01:13:31,112 --> 01:13:32,978 - Say one more fucking thing about my mama. 885 01:13:32,980 --> 01:13:34,346 - Oh, come on, Clay, 886 01:13:34,348 --> 01:13:36,348 shake it, shake, shake it, shake it. 887 01:13:36,350 --> 01:13:39,885 Come on, let's do the box, body roll, bitch. 888 01:13:39,887 --> 01:13:42,187 Come on, you rich Black bastard. 889 01:13:42,189 --> 01:13:44,123 Forget your social working mother for a minute 890 01:13:44,125 --> 01:13:47,626 and let's get lit, come on, you liver-lipped white man. 891 01:13:47,628 --> 01:13:50,696 You ain't no Black man. You're just a dirty white man. 892 01:13:50,698 --> 01:13:52,731 Come on, get up, dance with me, Clay. Come on. 893 01:13:52,733 --> 01:13:55,034 - Lula, sit your ass down. I'm not playing with you. 894 01:13:55,036 --> 01:13:58,637 - I'm not playing with you. I'm not playing with you. 895 01:13:58,639 --> 01:14:00,072 Jacket buttoned up to your chin. 896 01:14:00,074 --> 01:14:05,513 So full of white man's words. Christ, God. 897 01:14:06,547 --> 01:14:08,580 Get up, get up and scream meaningless shit 898 01:14:08,582 --> 01:14:10,416 in their stupid faces. 899 01:14:10,418 --> 01:14:11,750 Come on, get up. 900 01:14:16,090 --> 01:14:17,856 Get up, Clay. 901 01:14:17,858 --> 01:14:20,526 Don't sit there dying the way they want you to die. 902 01:14:20,528 --> 01:14:23,764 - Sit down, Lula. - Screw you, Uncle Tom. 903 01:14:24,497 --> 01:14:27,599 Uncle Tom, his Woolly-Head. 904 01:14:27,601 --> 01:14:28,767 - Yeah, tell us. 905 01:14:28,769 --> 01:14:30,836 - Uncle Thomas Woolly-Head. 906 01:14:30,838 --> 01:14:31,837 - Ha. 907 01:14:34,508 --> 01:14:36,241 - You wanna dance? - Yeah. 908 01:14:39,847 --> 01:14:44,049 Sit down. That's how the blues was born, yeah, yeah. 909 01:14:44,051 --> 01:14:45,918 That's how the blues- 910 01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:47,021 - Lula! 911 01:14:48,756 --> 01:14:52,124 - That's how the blues was born, yeah, yeah. 912 01:14:52,126 --> 01:14:54,929 That's how the blues was born. 913 01:15:13,781 --> 01:15:14,913 - Get off of me. 914 01:15:20,554 --> 01:15:22,621 - Now you sit your ass down and shut up, all right? 915 01:15:22,623 --> 01:15:23,989 Shut the hell up. You don't know what you're talking about. 916 01:15:23,991 --> 01:15:25,958 So shut your dumb ass mouth. 917 01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:27,893 - You're afraid of white people and so is your dad, 918 01:15:27,895 --> 01:15:29,094 uncle Tom. 919 01:15:43,512 --> 01:15:46,311 - Now you shut up. It's my turn. 920 01:15:49,683 --> 01:15:53,487 You don't have any sense, Lula, feelings neither. 921 01:15:55,956 --> 01:16:01,429 I can murder you now, such a tiny, ugly throat. 922 01:16:02,596 --> 01:16:04,763 I could squeeze it flat and watch you turn blue 923 01:16:04,765 --> 01:16:06,500 for dull kicks. 924 01:16:08,335 --> 01:16:11,837 And all these weak-faced white people squatting around here. 925 01:16:11,839 --> 01:16:14,106 I could murder them too, even if they expected it. 926 01:16:14,108 --> 01:16:15,443 That man right there, 927 01:16:16,977 --> 01:16:19,044 I could rip that "Times" right outta his hand. 928 01:16:19,046 --> 01:16:21,346 As skinny and uppity though I am, 929 01:16:21,348 --> 01:16:23,449 I could rip that paper out of his hands 930 01:16:23,451 --> 01:16:25,684 and just as easily rip out his throat. 931 01:16:25,686 --> 01:16:30,958 It takes no great effort. But for what? 932 01:16:32,359 --> 01:16:33,792 To kill you soft idiots? 933 01:16:33,794 --> 01:16:36,195 You don't understand anything but luxury. 934 01:16:36,197 --> 01:16:37,796 - You fool. 935 01:16:37,798 --> 01:16:40,632 - All luxury in your faces and in your fingers 936 01:16:40,634 --> 01:16:43,235 telling me what I ought to do. 937 01:16:43,237 --> 01:16:46,338 Don't, don't tell me anything. 938 01:16:46,340 --> 01:16:51,679 If I am an uppity fake white man, 939 01:16:52,813 --> 01:16:54,813 then let me be and let me be how I want to be. 940 01:16:54,815 --> 01:16:58,317 Let me be who I feel like being, 941 01:16:58,319 --> 01:17:00,719 Uncle Tom, Thomas, whatever. 942 01:17:00,721 --> 01:17:03,155 It's none of your fucking business. 943 01:17:03,157 --> 01:17:04,890 You don't know anything, 944 01:17:04,892 --> 01:17:07,394 other than what is there for you to see 945 01:17:08,229 --> 01:17:12,064 an act, lies, device, 946 01:17:12,066 --> 01:17:16,569 but not the pure heart, not the pumping Black heart. 947 01:17:16,571 --> 01:17:18,337 You don't ever know that. 948 01:17:18,339 --> 01:17:22,376 And oh, I sit here in my buttoned up suit 949 01:17:23,612 --> 01:17:25,911 trying to keep myself from cutting all your throats. 950 01:17:25,913 --> 01:17:31,352 And I mean wantonly, huge, great liberated whore. 951 01:17:36,090 --> 01:17:38,857 You, you fuck some Black man and, and, and right away 952 01:17:38,859 --> 01:17:40,593 you think you an expert on all Black people. 953 01:17:40,595 --> 01:17:42,363 What a load of shit is that? 954 01:17:43,731 --> 01:17:45,898 All you know is that you come, if he fucks you hard enough. 955 01:17:45,900 --> 01:17:47,434 And that is all. 956 01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:58,078 Oh, you say, you say you want to move something, 957 01:17:59,113 --> 01:18:01,713 you want to shake, shake something 958 01:18:05,753 --> 01:18:08,623 and you don't even know how to at all. 959 01:18:09,957 --> 01:18:14,629 Oh, moves that you do, rolling your ass like a elephant. 960 01:18:17,097 --> 01:18:22,571 Baby, that's not my dance, my dance is in dark places, 961 01:18:23,437 --> 01:18:26,974 basement parties, Black sweat. 962 01:18:29,443 --> 01:18:34,815 Oh, oh four-eyed, four-eyed white boys popping they fingers 963 01:18:35,783 --> 01:18:37,318 and, and, and, don't even know how to, 964 01:18:39,486 --> 01:18:41,288 that kind of dance hates you. 965 01:18:42,256 --> 01:18:44,122 They talking about I love Nina Simone. 966 01:18:44,124 --> 01:18:45,757 And they don't even know that Nina Simone is saying, 967 01:18:45,759 --> 01:18:50,030 kiss my Black ass, kiss my Black, unruly ass. 968 01:18:51,131 --> 01:18:54,866 Before love, before suffering, before desire 969 01:18:54,868 --> 01:19:00,107 she is saying, and very plainly, baby kiss my ass. 970 01:19:00,774 --> 01:19:02,140 And if you don't know that 971 01:19:02,142 --> 01:19:04,845 it's you that's doing the kissing. 972 01:19:07,314 --> 01:19:12,721 And I am the great would-be poet, oh, that's right, poet. 973 01:19:13,521 --> 01:19:15,320 Some kind of bastard literature. 974 01:19:19,827 --> 01:19:24,296 And all it would take is one knife thrust, 975 01:19:28,570 --> 01:19:30,369 one simple knife thrust. 976 01:19:39,013 --> 01:19:40,281 Listen to me. 977 01:19:42,316 --> 01:19:47,656 Don't preach rationalism or code logic to these Black folks. 978 01:19:48,856 --> 01:19:54,328 Let 'em alone, let 'em curse you in codes 979 01:19:55,429 --> 01:19:58,533 and see your filth as a simple lack of style. 980 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:02,769 Don't make the mistake 981 01:20:02,771 --> 01:20:05,871 through some irresponsible surge of Christian charity. 982 01:20:05,873 --> 01:20:09,007 I'm talking too much about western rationalism 983 01:20:09,009 --> 01:20:11,879 and the great intellectual legacy of the white man. 984 01:20:12,846 --> 01:20:15,449 Or they might just begin to listen 985 01:20:17,418 --> 01:20:20,352 and become stand up western men 986 01:20:20,354 --> 01:20:25,727 with an eye for clean, youthful lives, sober bias, insane. 987 01:20:26,561 --> 01:20:28,295 And one day they will murder you. 988 01:20:30,765 --> 01:20:33,899 They will murder you and have very rational explanations, 989 01:20:33,901 --> 01:20:35,400 very much like your own. 990 01:20:35,402 --> 01:20:38,203 They will cut your throats and drag you out 991 01:20:38,205 --> 01:20:40,272 to the edges of your cities for the flesh 992 01:20:40,274 --> 01:20:42,207 to fall away from the bone. 993 01:20:42,209 --> 01:20:43,477 - I've heard enough. 994 01:20:44,278 --> 01:20:45,647 - I bet you have. 995 01:20:48,115 --> 01:20:49,749 Looks like we won't be playing out 996 01:20:49,751 --> 01:20:52,754 that little pageant of yours, after all. 997 01:20:55,222 --> 01:20:56,457 Do what you want. 998 01:20:57,958 --> 01:21:00,160 I'm getting the fuck off this train. 999 01:21:15,577 --> 01:21:19,679 - Sorry, baby, I don't think we can make it. 1000 01:22:08,630 --> 01:22:10,799 I thought you loved me. 1001 01:22:12,901 --> 01:22:14,836 Everybody loves me. 1002 01:22:16,236 --> 01:22:19,306 I just wanted to hear you say it. 1003 01:22:20,007 --> 01:22:21,507 Why didn't you just say it? 1004 01:22:36,524 --> 01:22:38,356 - Get your hands up to the fucking roof. 1005 01:22:38,358 --> 01:22:40,025 On your knees. 1006 01:22:40,027 --> 01:22:42,027 - Get off the ground now, on your stomach. 1007 01:22:42,029 --> 01:22:46,099 Need a bust, you hear me? Fucking down on your belly, down. 1008 01:22:51,238 --> 01:22:53,371 Did you see what happened? 1009 01:22:53,373 --> 01:22:55,610 - I didn't, but she did. 1010 01:22:58,045 --> 01:22:59,612 - I saw it. 1011 01:22:59,614 --> 01:23:03,248 Oh, why you arresting him? She attacked him. 1012 01:23:03,250 --> 01:23:05,350 - We'll take your statement down at the station. 1013 01:23:05,352 --> 01:23:07,419 - But she- - Sit down. 1014 01:23:07,421 --> 01:23:08,921 This is an active crime scene 1015 01:23:08,923 --> 01:23:10,523 we're taking this guy down to the station. 1016 01:23:10,525 --> 01:23:15,062 - No, he is the victim here. - Sit down. 1017 01:23:15,730 --> 01:23:17,128 Up, now, come on, get up. 1018 01:23:21,703 --> 01:23:26,273 - Sorry, baby, I don't think we can make it. 1019 01:23:35,950 --> 01:23:39,919 - Your fate can be different, trust me, you'll see. 1020 01:23:39,921 --> 01:23:42,922 - What was that about? - I don't know. 1021 01:25:43,511 --> 01:25:44,577 - Hey. 1022 01:25:48,616 --> 01:25:50,084 - Can we talk? 1023 01:25:51,119 --> 01:25:53,921 - What do you wanna talk about? 1024 01:25:55,023 --> 01:25:56,088 - Everything. 1025 01:25:59,861 --> 01:26:00,860 - Okay. 1026 01:26:26,554 --> 01:26:29,655 - Have you ever heard of the play "Dutchman?" 1027 01:26:29,657 --> 01:26:31,657 - It's about the brother on the train, right? 1028 01:26:31,659 --> 01:26:33,828 The white girl. - White. 1029 01:26:36,296 --> 01:26:37,832 You are lost, Clay, but we can find you. 1030 01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:46,908 Don't you see? 1031 01:26:52,245 --> 01:26:53,748 Don't you see? 1032 01:26:56,651 --> 01:26:58,017 Don't you see? 1033 01:27:17,872 --> 01:27:19,707 The past is prologue, Clay, 1034 01:27:24,212 --> 01:27:26,013 - But it doesn't have to be.