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What's your full name?

Johnny McBride. Johnny McBride. That's a nice name.

Thank you.

Where do you work?

Harlem Hospital.

How long have you been there?

Eight years.

Eight years.

That's a long time. Oh, yeah. You're in one place.

Yeah, it is.

It must be an incredible place in terms of...

energies other energies coming at you how does that affect your life and your

response to people well it's not like a job that although basically

i work about nine to five it's not like a job where you go to and you uh

finish and you don't you bring it home uh you feel it it's always exciting in

some kind of way sometimes it's painful because it doesn't you find you have

situations

that actually change your life or change your way of thinking?

Oh, yeah. The people do that sometimes.

I mean, what you see coming through that door sometimes, the pain that they're

in. You know,

some things are humorous. I laugh a lot, though.

Do you come across a lot of prophets there?

I think so, sometimes.

And you never know. And I talk to everybody, see.

Give me an example, someone you talk to. Well, I talked to a boy last night.

who I think was a young prophet, he was in pain.

But he was talking about not this particular thing, but he just knew how

survive. The way he knew how to survive, to me, means that he's in pain all the

time, whether it's physical or not. He was telling me that if you come in with

bullet wound, how you got to just put your hand and hold that bullet

there or bullets.

And just keep your head up and keep walking, walk on in the hospital, and

positive attitude.

Put his finger in the hole. That's right. Yeah.

So I looked at this young boy's face. I mean, he's about my daughter's age.

And the fact that he knew this and he was what he, him and his friends, I

they just know how to survive if they are to survive.

It affected me. Plus, he was from my home in South Carolina. South Carolina.

Yeah.

I felt that too.

How has it affected your personal life?

Well, when I leave work and go home, I need to

not just relax physically, but of course everybody's got their own personal

problems. So you go home, you've got the problems at home, and what has

been happening at the hospital affects me so that...

Right now, in my own personal situation, I have a lot of problems, so I'm

tense for a long time.

What kind of work did your mother do?

My mother did domestic work.

Your father?

My father did construction work.

Before that, we were farming in Carolina, and we came up north, and

they did.

What effect did the fact that your mother, having come from the farm,

and gone into domestic work. What did you feel about that?

Well, I didn't like her being away from me.

I wanted to have a mommy at home. You know, I got all caught up in, we got up

here in those ads at Camel Soup and they say when a kid come home from school

and you have a soup and everything.

Well, I had a key around my neck. So when I came home from school, I let

in, had my lunch, watched the clock, don't dare be late.

all the neighbors on the block would tell that you were late going back to

school and i missed my mommy i wanted my mommy home with me because that's what

america was supposed to be right i wanted that and um i didn't i didn't

very much i didn't like the fact too that we had to clean our house after i

from school and after she came from work cleaning somebody else's house and also

all i heard is like you asked me about do i bring my work how my work affects

All I heard was my mother complaining. She was tired.

She cleaned house all day, and then she fucked with me. You didn't do so -and

-so -and -so, and I got to clean. I'm sick of cleaning house. So cleaning

really affects me to this day. I hate to clean house.

Tell me something. Did your mother have other children to take care of, white

children to take care of? Yeah, a little girl named Melinda. I couldn't stand

her. What did that do to you to see her?

Well, I didn't like it. I was jealous.

And I, of course, then I didn't know, besides jealousy, I didn't know what it

was. I kind of resented her taking my mama.

And I felt that, I guess you could say in that sense, my mother was

a mammy, a northern mammy. And she didn't have time to mother

me at home.

I think black children are just put on to just take care of themselves, and

a shame. I mean, she's warm and sweet and all that, but I just didn't like her

being a mother someplace else.

How do you feel about poetry?

Why would you ask me that?

Because I heard you read poetry, but no one's looking.

I do. I write it and I read it.

I like poetry.

You know, I come from Carolina. We like to talk a lot.

And I like words. And so sometimes on the job, and that's rare when there's

much to do, I'll write it. But I'm always thinking poetry.

And in my spare time, I write some poetry.

What are the nicest or the worst things or the most potent things that you

remember about the fall?

Picking cotton.

Picking cotton. Oh, I hated that.

But let me tell you what happened to me one time. It's a little funny story.

lazy so i used to hear him talk about being sunstroke so we

would have to oh i think i'm an only child that's kind of unusual because

black families and all people in my family have more than one children my

parents only had me so i grew up with my cousins who were like my brothers and

sisters and we have to go every day to the field and i hated it i kept hearing

about this sunstroke so one day i decided and mid -dated, I would get

And I didn't know what it was. I'd never seen it.

So when we came home at noon, we called it dinner. We ate at 12 o 'clock.

I went in the back, and I got some Watkins liniment, and I put it on my

and then I got some oxygen soap, and I put it in my mouth.

And so then we were sitting on the porch waiting to go back to the field.

I walked out, and I got under this chinaberry tree.

So I started riding on the ground and the phone, the oxygen soap was coming

my mouth.

So everybody said, what's wrong with her? So I said, sunstroke, sunstroke.

But my cousin, I have one tongue -tied cousin, and she was trying to tell me.

She saw me, you see.

She was trying to tell me I wasn't sunstroke.

There was nothing wrong with me. My grandmama, Sula, said, I'll bring her in

house. And she brought me in and she took care of me. And so she told me that

wouldn't have to go to the field no more because I wasn't strong enough, see.

So from that day, I never went out in the field again.

And I used to stay home and help my grandmama do a little cook.

And I liked that. I didn't mind. We would go fishing and catch fish. And I'd

to the garden, help her, you know, cut okra and cook. I didn't mind that. But I

couldn't stand that picking cotton. I mean, I swear, if you ever look down,

cotton field row, they talk about a hard, hard row. That's it.

A lonesome row. I hated it.

Tell me something.

You didn't have a half -brother named Bubba, don't you?

Yes, he's my... The people say half -brother. To me, he's my brother. His

Bubba. Well, his name's not Bubba, but we call him Bubba. Yeah, that's right.

Rescribe a little, a few lines of some of your poetry, please.

Well, I don't know.

I'm working on a new poem now. I mean, not for publication or anything like

that. I'm just writing it out.

They say if you are a true believer, that is, if the faith runs river deep

in your heart, it's possible in the instant before the yucca -colored night

gives way to dawn to witness the cosmic freeze frame.

For a magic moment, the Milky Way is a crazy quilt, a blazing field of colors

running amok, dancing.

Did I say dancing?

They say that ebony rumbus, sepia sambus, the dance of the colors is so

that even the lemon -colored sun is dazzled, laid back, waits her turn.

And baby blue and apple green have no shame jitterbugging on the clouds. And

when quiet gray shakes her magenta, even the wind won't behave. I

haven't finished it yet.

The lemon -colored sun is dazzled, laid back, waiting her turn.

So, if you are a true believer, that is, if the faith runs river

deep in your heart, it's possible in the eyelids of one of these mornings that

you too will witness this exotic vision, and the wind, heady with the perfume of

the colors, will tickle you.

Do not laugh.

Weep. Fall from dawn to dusk.

Anything can happen.

Thank you, Mrs. Brown.

You're welcome.

Well, I know she can't keep nothing from us. I know. I know.

But listen, you talk like a thing that you brought this morning.

Girl.

Yes, you're talking about your lead suit. Oh, yeah.

You got to catch the sales, honey, because you can't just be, wait, I got

wrapped up so I'm not going to get on.

But I want to know, before I leave New York, what is it that you're going to

tell him?

She thinks we're going to forget, but she knows I'm not forgetting nothing.

Because I've got to know. Because I've got to have something to go home with. I

mean, like, really, I can't understand how you got to.

Charlie, you know I got to have something to be asking about you.

And I got to be, you know you're dressing up and all, but I got to have

something to tell these people. Young men.

Yeah, well, all right.

Young men.

Young men. I didn't say one young man. I said young men.

Well, you know, I want to, do you know the club, this thing on the east side?

I mean

I

thought by now they come out with some new You know, you say, well, what do you

do? Oh, well, I work on Wall Street, and I'm in investment.

What do you do? They ask you where you live. That's the most important thing.

Where do you live? Not only where you live, but what kind of, what is the size

of your bedroom? Like, do you have a queen? Oh, get out of here. Or a double

or a twin bed? Why don't you tell me you sleep Japanese?

No, I told one guy that I was so poor that right now I had just spread a sheet

on the floor, and I was waiting for my furniture to arrive.

Oh, my God.

I think he wasn't offering you nothing. He couldn't do a thing for you. That's

what the main problem is, have them can't do nothing for you. And they'll

we operate, we liberate. You know what your mother used to say? What, y 'all?

Your aunt, your mama, your grandmama, you know what they all say? Hey, if I

can't do no better than that. Hello, with you. Hello.

I can do bad by myself.

Okay, well, you got a boyfriend.

How about that? Egyptian, Egyptian cotton. Get yourself a boat.

Honey, get yourself a piece of cloth and wrap it around you some kind of way.

Maybe it's not like I made this dress. You remember the material I had? I

like this.

It's not bad. The colors are so beautiful in this. I really like this.

went over a couple years ago. You remember the revolution?

Yes. During the time when we was wearing gailies and stuff. Yeah, when we was

real black.

But that's really nice. I really love the colors.

No, the braids are very becoming.

Yeah, girl, I got to go down there, honey. They done built a new hospital.

They want me to come down there and be a supervisor.

Oh, yeah, they need me.

Well, honey, you need to... Uh -huh, uh -huh.

Well, what exactly do you do?

Was she a receptionist?

No, no, no, no. See, what happened is she... Well... Okay, here, she a

receptionist.

She have a title or a title.

So the lady thought you were cute, right? So she said, I'm doing office

now. Well, guess what?

She meant he was now cleaning offices.

He was cleaning an office building.

That's all right, Laffy, if you want. I'm still going down there. I'm going to

supervise them children because they need guidance.

And they need me down there because y 'all, the hospital is nothing but a

place.

I used to say, oh, no, no, no.

They better not. They better not.

No, because down there, I used to say, when I used to live down there, that if

had to go to the hospital, I didn't want to go. I got my ticket, girl. I'm ready

to go. I can't believe it myself, but you know I'm going to be up here.

We're going to miss you so much.

We're going to really miss you. No, not that. I mean, the ticket, but you're

going to take, what do you call that, on the Amtrak?

Oh,

the sleeper car.

You know, usually I like to fly and things, but this year I want to take it

little bit at a time because I don't want to suffer from no jet lag because,

know, going from here to there is going to be a little bit too much as it is. I

know. Well, honey, because they're so tight and backwards and in the country,

but that's all right. I'm going to straighten it all out. That's what I'm

telling you, honey.

That's what I'm telling you. When I get the piece with the non -drug, I'm going

to, you know.

Well, just tell them to look at me up when they got the hospital on the

so everybody from all the counties can get there on their own.

Y 'all have to come down there and visit me. You know.

Y 'all going to be too much for the children.

They're not going to be able to deal with it. I want to go to one of them all

-day church meetings. Oh, good.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I look back and I hope I made that on you.

That's right.

Me on the guy? Now, y 'all know, I try hard. I try hard. But, honey, I'm

down eating as one of my hobbies.

You won't be running around as much down there.

No, that was cool. You know why? Because that's what men don't really like.

place to the east side right and i was standing getting a drink and this man

his hand down my arm no he didn't you got hair on your arm are you hairy like

this all over yes he did this was supposed to be sexy and then you know

used to put that no no but what did you what what what what did you say well i

told

Well, I want to know, what did you tell this new man since you got all these

braids and things?

Is he from Africa or something?

Or what?

No, he wouldn't be.

Oh, he wouldn't be?

How do you know that? You never can tell if you see this thing got these braids

in her hand, this rag around her hand, and this dress.

I ain't going to talk about them sandals she got on her people. I mean, we'll

just go along.

She's not telling us. I can't believe this. I know. I can't believe it. I

can't.

I'm not talking about me being hanging. I mean, I need something because I know

down there I'm not going to get nothing. I'm not going to get none of the things

that I need. We saw you in the negligee when we were shopping this morning.

We saw you looking at her and trying to make believe you wasn't looking.

You know, I mean, you have a little bit.

I'm fine. I don't need no more wine. The only thing I need to know.

That's all right.

That's all right. That's okay.

I just want to know about this new man.

I might take y 'all somewhere.

And I'm not saying it's dope, but y 'all might meet some of my new friends.

New friends?

New friends.

What do they look like?

That's the first thing you always ask.

Well, I got to know because, you know, if you look wrong, I'll tell you.

put this makeup on our faces before. Man.

Please.

What's her name?

What's her name?

What's her name?

What's her name? Now watch. Tell her. When you go home.

What you gonna do with all these stuff?

Honey, they got the bus and the train and the airport. We got airport for

And go to the little airport. And if they want to see me, all they got to do

drop a dime or whatever it costs and just let me know because I don't want to

get the schedules crossed up and I'm like that there.

And just let me know what's happening. That's all. Hello.

I heard that.

Well,

he might be called.

He might be. Well, I hope he ain't shorter than you.

I can't take it.

Oh, mercy.

Well, go ahead. He might be dark.

He might be. And? And? And? He might be. And?

He got a job?

He might have one.

He going to need one with your family?

He might.

You know, he might have a two.

Is he any good? He might have a one. He might sing a tune.

Is he any good?

goodbye I hope you always say

hello I hope this day

lonely if you leave me my world come crashing

down down

I hope you never say goodbye.

Baby I hope you always say hello.

I hope this day will never end.

My sweet baby, never go away.

Cause if you leave me in my world,

come crashing down on me.

I might be free.

Crescendo.

Come with me and I'll buy you some dinner.

That's the kind of game you like to play sometimes.

No, I don't like to play games. That's all I know.

I'm not a game player. I never win. I've never won.

I've never won a lottery.

Not even a dollar.

Not even a two dollar. I've never won. I've never hit a number.

Bingo. Nothing.

You've been losers all your life in that space.

I feel like a loser, but I just don't game.

Same with me. You know, I've never won a thing.

But I'm close to something.

What are you close to?

I'm close to... I played a lot over the other day.

Yeah, I don't know about...

I bought five tickets. It's the first time I ever bought five tickets. I

five tickets, and I got a feeling.

I got a feeling. I got a feeling.

I just might win.

We got a drawing next week. Of course, if things go right, if I go to that

concert, I won't be able to stay home.

Oh, get out of here.

Get out of here. They'll let you know. They'll let you know.

They don't mean a thing. They don't mean a thing. But you know what happened to

my cousin in Philadelphia?

Well, Ashley.

It happened to my cousin's neighbor's granddaughter.

Your cousin's neighbor's granddaughter.

You know, Pennsylvania has a state lottery.

So she sells tickets. They call it the daily number.

Not like our number. I mean, it's legal numbers. So she sells tickets. And she's

a number seller ticket seller.

Anyway.

A man came and he wanted to buy $20 worth of tickets. They're a dollar,

So she suggested that he buy 20 different tickets. Because she said, if

sir, you will pay all this in taxes, right?

Well, don't you know what happened?

What happened?

He won.

And he came back, and so it was 20 different, you know, tickets.

And so he was so appreciative, he gave her $500.

You know what I'm saying?

Mm -hmm.

I mean, so what difference would it make?

Whether you come to the conference? I mean, what difference?

It would make a difference, but I don't mean it that way.

But I mean, how much, when is it going to take place?

It's next Saturday, Friday.

Next Friday?

Yeah.

At what time?

Five to nine.

That's a bad time for me, because I don't know. Why? You don't have to be in

club till 11.

I don't like cocktail sips.

It's a cocktail party. You like cocktail parties? You like parties?

Yeah, I like parties.

Well.

But how much time do we have to spend together, baby?

Well, we'll have that time.

If you come to the party.

Come on, let me help you down here.

Yeah, but that, I don't know. That doesn't sound right to me because I

want to.

Della's going to be there. And why do you have to be there with all that

responsibility? It's for Della. It's for Della?

Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Okay.

There you go.

I don't want you to fall or hurt yourself or anything. No. But that's

be something that I don't think I appreciate.

Well, I would appreciate you coming.

But you won't be able to do something for me.

Why? You know what I want you to do for me? No.

In two weeks. You got two weeks coming.

Don't you have two weeks of vacation time? Yes, next, in the summer.

Why can't you spend two weeks in two weeks?

I can't.

I have to work.

What do you mean you have to work? I mean, I have to go. I'm going to take

two weeks, and I'm going to see my family in Carolina now.

You know, it's impossible.

Where's it going to be held?

It's at 222 West.

I know where that building is. It's upstairs.

Right? Yeah. Up on the second floor. Yeah. I know I'm not coming.

Why?

Oh, come on. I had to put a cocktail or something. It's not my style.

It's a cocktail party.

All they're going to be talking about is Mrs. A. No, they're going to be having

a party.

Oh, no.

I don't think I'm interested.

I mean, I don't want to hurt your feelings because we don't have much time

together. I know, but you're going to have fun.

Okay, I'll tell you what. What's that?

Tell me what. I'll make a deal with him. Okay, make a deal. All right. Let's

make a deal.

How about dinner?

Okay.

A blazing field of colors running them up, dancing.

Did I say dancing?

They say that ebony rumbus, sepia sambus, the dance of the

colors is so splendid that even the lemon -colored sun is dazzled, laid

waits her turn.

And baby blue and apple green have no shame, jitterbugging on the clouds.

And when quiet...

Gray shakes her magenta. Even the wind won't behave.

I haven't finished it yet.

I'll finish it later.

You amaze me. You absolutely amaze me.

How many more pieces are there?

Seven.

Seven more I need.

Hello!

Hello.

How are you?

I feel good.

What are you doing sitting all the way over there?

Thinking.

About?

Life.

I know she's not going to leave her husband.

She's already told me that.

Well, that really messes with my mind because I don't know what to do with

I mean, how can I tell her to leave someone that she had given part of her

to, no matter what the situation is, no matter how deep the wounds may be

because of her relationship?

But it hurts me because I can't keep her, and I know she's not going to leave

her, old man.

I saw blue lilies today.

I saw blue lilies today.

I feel one -to -one with you.

So come and make you feel one -to -one with me.

Oh,

now I feel one -to -one with you.

I so don't make you feel so wonderful with me.

Oh, and there are things that I never understand.

But I know.

I've got to see my way through I've got to see my way through

It's all right.

And now I feel one to one with you.

and make a certain amount of money. You don't know me, man. You want to be a

black equivalent of a house Jew, man, because you want to wear the... That's

right, because you're putting me down for wearing working people's clothes

you want to wear the clothing of the oppressing class.

The what?

The oppressing class? That's right.

Who are you?

He said, did you hear that?

You know what you remind me of?

You know that hippie... hippie...

I'm not a hippie. So cool, you want to be an artist. I got

a middle class working in some middle class house.

And he's trying to be a hippie. You don't know what class it came from.

go back a couple of steps. You know this African thing? I got this. And African

gave this to me because when I was in Africa running guns for a real

army and stuff like that, they gave this to me as a token of appreciation and

stuff like that. I put my life on the line before I came back here.

I didn't come here to get into politics.

But, however, I do know this. You got into politics. Don't you realize that

is politics? There's so many people who were down late. Now, next thing you

know, they were telling me about how you marched in Martin Luther King. I'm not

interested in those poor people. No, I know you're not interested in that

You're just interested in taking the money. and becoming just like the class

that oppressed you in the first place.

Nobody's oppressing me here, man. Get out of here. When you read that book and

your mind being occupied about whether something's a metaphor or not a metaphor

as opposed to whether it's revolutionary or not revolutionary means that it's

oppressing you.

You don't even realize it. That's the weird thing about this oppression. You

don't even realize it, that you're being oppressed.

You're telling me you don't understand that he's oppressed.

I don't know what the word is, oppression.

Look, I'll tell you what, man. Look, why don't you go around the corner?

You know what he's trying to do?

You know what he's trying to do? He's trying to give himself a rock and roll

hit. You know, they come around and hang around black people, hear what they

say. Next thing you know, you might be able to get outside.

You're a musician.

You're a musician.

He'd probably write for Chuck Berry or somebody or Jack Lewis.

No, I wouldn't waste my time with that stuff. You know, they got to go great.

back to the suburbs anytime you want.

I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you one thing. This one might write circles

around. That man, Charles Ellison, what is his name? What's his name?

Doesn't matter. Why don't you go up to the other table? Why don't you just go

to the other table, man? You know what I mean?

Why don't you just go up to the other table? Because I'm tired of listening to

you. I can see you. You're a little bit of BS, man.

Because nobody, everybody, look, I'm voting for Ronald Reagan myself.

Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?

Who? Who? Who? Who?

Who?

Are you serious? You want to borrow my time? I hope what he just said is going

to make you realize that he's not one of you also. Because he's now really

trying to be part of the family. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan.

Ronald

Reagan.

He's not just some man in some monkey suit. He's got a real monkey.

And we need a president like that.

Somebody from the movie.

I think he'd get some of these hippies off the street. You know, George

He'd let one of these hippies lie down in front of his car. He'd run over them.

That'd be the last car.

Well,

those things happen, you know.

People get very emotional about politics. They start shooting.

Security ain't what I need.

Baby, don't be shy.

What I need to get me high.

Come on, baby, get me high.

Rip your lips so I can fly.

A capitalist politician.

Everybody should get together. All oppressed people in this country should

together. Let me ask you a question.

Where were you born? Where do you come from, anyway?

Where do you come from?

I come from an urban center.

I come from a middle -class family, but I left that middle -class family to

align myself with the working class.

I thought you probably came into the border, gentlemen.

You don't care about the old folks.

I work hard. I work hard. You know, I work down there. I work hard also. I am

manager. I'm a manager.

Let me tell you something, man.

I can't even talk to this man.

I try to relate to him, see.

I come to read my book, and here he comes talking about politics or

like that. Mao Tse -tung or somebody.

Mao Tse -tung is a man from China.

He ran China, and the women decided they wanted to get their hair done.

I think he's a spy myself, you know.

Hey, I went to Africa to fight with the African. I put my life on the line, man.

I put my life on the line.

I just don't understand how you're going to wrap on the book and you haven't

even read the book.

It doesn't matter. You can tell.

You don't have to jump off a roof when you're breaking. You ever heard of Doggy

Dinah? I'm the manager of Doggy Dinah, man. I work hard.

I get up in the morning. You probably feed working people. You can make more

money. You can be just like your pressing class.

You wear that clothing. You can drive that car.

You'll get a check.

You'll get a check. You'll get a check. You'll get a check. You'll get a check.

You'll get a check. You'll get a check. You'll get a check. You'll get a check.

You'll get a check.

You'll get a check.

You can make enough money to act like the class that was oppressing you

What did you have for breakfast?

you folks haven't met long island he

probably

had filling minute what's that state

You're all open.

You're all open.

Smalls. Your first name, please? Wesley.

How do you spell that? W -E -L -F -L -E -Y.

Your middle name, please?

Smalls. Your middle name?

Jinkins. Thank you, pardon? Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton.

Have you ever been to Harlem Hospital before?

No, ma 'am.

Your address, please?

501 West 64th Street.

Your apartment number?

5B.

That's B as in boy? Yes, ma 'am.

Your city is in that house?

Yes, ma 'am.

Okay.

Do you know your zip code, sir?

130.

130? Yes, ma 'am.

Do you have a telephone?

Yes.

What is the telephone number, please? 368 -40 - Can't you see the madness?

Me, too.

What's more?

Okay. Your birthday?

5 -9 -57.

Your place of birth?

Charleston, South Carolina.

She can't write no faster than that. Are you single, divorced, separated?

No.

You all right now? Come on, Matt.

Your religion, sir?

Black. Your religion?

No.

Black.

Matt,

your mother's maiden name?

Hamilton. Her first name?

Gloria.

Just take a breath, okay?

Keep hurting, don't shake it. And your father's full name, please?

Nathaniel Hamilton.

In case of emergency, who should we notify?

Kim Dow.

And what is her relationship to you?

Friend.

Her address, please.

Frog. 480. We have to get all that stuff. I'm sorry.

St. Nicholas Avenue.

Her apartment number?

7M.

That's M like in Mary?

Yes, ma 'am. Does she have a phone?

Yes, ma 'am. And the phone number, please?

281 -4435.

Do you have blue curls, blue shields?

No, ma 'am. Do you have any kind of medical coverage?

Do you have Medicare or Medicaid?

Yes, ma 'am, Medicaid. Which one do you have? Medicaid. Medicaid?

Yes, ma 'am. Do you know your Medicaid number, sir? No, ma 'am. Okay.

Do you know yours?

No.

Your employer, sir? No.

I don't know his name.

What's the name of the company?

District 65.

Just be watching.

It's okay.

I'll take care of it.

And how did you get to the hospital?

Subway.

Can't you see? Can't you take more?

What else

you got to do? More.

More, please.

Can you get somebody working here, please?

Get somebody working.

Well, where's the doctor? You take it down. You take it down.

You can't move no faster than that.

Della.

Now,

they pay you for it.

Would you sign your name here, please, sir?

Look at that, ma 'am. Just right here.

It'll be all right.

Why don't you put the cigarette out? Because when we go back there, he can't

have a cigarette.

Thank you. You're welcome.

I want to be with you, Chuck.

Yes, ma 'am.

I'll wait.

You're going to have to stay, okay?

You wait here. What relationship do you have now? I'm his uncle.

Okay, I hope you take him back. Okay, you just wait here. You sit down. Okay,

come on. You're going to be all right.

Just come on.

Is there something you can get on? Yeah.

Where is it?

Don't worry about it. It's okay.

Okay,

just take him on. Come on.

It's going to be all right.

It's going to be all right.

It's going to be all right.

It's going to be all right. Just...

He's going to be all right now. He's going to be all right.

Okay. All right.

Okay.

All right.

Don't you worry about anything.

Don't worry. Okay?

Don't worry, home.

You know, look.

What's that?

I think the kid is taking some stuff.

Well, you don't know that. The doctor will know. What, they're going to find

out? They'll find out. Everything will be all right.

We'll find out what it is. Hey, you're going to be okay. Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it.

What are you? You can't smoke in here. Okay?

You've got to put the cigarette out, okay?

Don't worry about anything.

You're going to be all right.

Okay, Charleston?

Okay. All right, all right.

Now, tell me, why do you think he's on his stuff?

You know the kids have been messing around with him. You don't know that.

I know what I'm talking about. Well, we'll see, we'll see. You trust us.

Goddamn. Okay, just trust us, please.

All right.

Okay?

How long has this been going on?

Well, he's only 17.

It ain't been that long.

How long y 'all been up here?

About two months.

That's all?

That's all?

It's too bad.

Okay. Okay, it could be anything.

We're going to find out what it is. It don't have to be just stuff.

It could be appendicitis. It could be anything.

Upstairs, change my clothes, and go home.

See you.

You too.

Bye bye.

I'm home.

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What's wrong with him?

Nothing. I was up late last night waiting for you.

I was in the Bronx.

At a party.

In the Bronx?

Yeah. A party for Della.

You know Della from South Carolina.

She went home.

It was a bon voyage.

You know, a farewell party.

All hours of the night.

Well, I had to go. She's my homegirl. What could I do?

What was you doing?

Drinking? Watching television.

What?

Watching the Guns of Navarone.

Television was off when I got home. When you was watching the Guns of Navarone

again? You know, it comes on once a year. Every time it comes on, I watch

That's all.

That's my favorite program, Guns of Navarone. You know that.

Anyway, I stayed up half the night waiting for you to get in.

Well, couldn't leave the party.

She's gone home.

Who? Della!

You met Della.

Yeah, I met Della.

You don't like Della?

Ain't got nothing to do with it.

You mad because I was out? I can't go out? I work hard, I can't go out?

Or what?

Get out of your face, or what?

Don't look at me like that. I mean, you mad about me being out?

What do you think?

I don't know. That's why I'm asking you.

You want to go for breakfast?

What do you want for breakfast? Eggs?

Grits? Yeah, I want some eggs.

How do you want them?

Sunny side up. You've got them.

Thanks for watching.

How long is it going to be before them eggs are ready?

What'd you say?

How long is it going to be before them eggs are ready?

Won't be long.

Told you.

Fixing the eggs.

What you want me to do?

Well, you know I got to go to work.

Listen, you go to work every day, right? You eat eggs every day. What you want?

What you want? I'm fixing them. I'm fixing them. Just give me a minute. How

you want? Two or three?

How many you want? Two or three? Two.

You want coffee or tea? What do you want?

Huh? Some coffee.

Okay.

Uh, did you know that Bubba called?

Yeah.

Yeah, he said be up here soon.

What'd you say? Who called?

I said Bubba called. He will be up here soon.

What are you talking about, be up here? What do you mean, be up here?

Be up here.

Because, you see it.

Were you going to be here in New York?

Yes, Bubba and Mary Alice.

The baby's still in the home, but... Wait a minute, what are you talking

I thought Mary Alice left Bubba.

Mary Alice left Bubba. You know, she ran off to Florida with James from the

disco. Yeah, that old slut nigga. Yeah, yeah, the DJ in the disco. Well, anyhow,

what happened was she went to California with James, and then James...

California? Yeah, they wrote some bad checks and then, I don't know, she had

go to jail and then she got in touch with Bubba and the babies in the home

Bubba went to California to get her and he called me and said, he's going to

come here. The baby's in the home?

Yeah, they got to get some money and go back to California and get the baby. So

they got the Greyhound bus and they're on their way, you know.

Yeah.

You mean they're coming here to live with us?

No, I didn't say nothing about live with us.

Well, what are you talking about then?

They're coming here to stay with us. Well, that's the same thing.

It's not the same thing.

And the baby's in California?

Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know about this.

I don't know about this.

Well, what can I do? It's my brother. He's got to stay with us. I can't do

nothing about that.

We ain't got no room for all that.

Well, I know. I didn't say that when your father came.

That's different.

Why is that different?

What's the difference between my brother and your brother?

I think he thought he was funny.

I haven't played a Brooklyn number since the Dodgers left, so you know how I

feel about that.

But anyway, we're straight, Junior. And I got two more days with you, brother.

And on the third, we'll see you again, Doc.

Take it easy now.

Right on.

What are we supposed to do? I mean, how are we going to fit all those people in

this place? We can't live like that.

Well, we have to make them do the best we can. I can't say no to them. It's my

brother. It's your stepbrother.

Well, it's like my brother. What can I say?

Say no?

You can't come here? My husband won't allow it?

James is still in jail out in California.

Yeah, James is in jail. See, Bubba went out there and he hit James. He almost

had to go to jail. It was a mess. It's a mess.

Anyway, they probably...

In Ohio by now, they'll be here soon.

When did they call you? They called yesterday, day before yesterday,

like that.

Well, why didn't you tell me?

Because I didn't see you. I mean, I forgot to tell you. I'm telling you now.

Yeah, you didn't tell me because you know what I was going to say. That's why

you didn't tell me.

I'm telling you now. I don't know what else you can say, but yeah.

I'm going to say no.

You wouldn't say no, would you?

To my brother?

Well, it ain't just up to me. It's up to you, too.

I'm saying yes, and then you'll say yeah.

All right?

How are we going to, I mean, that's going to make things awful hard here

It's not forever. It's just for a little while. You're going to have some too.

All right?

If you want to talk about it, we can talk about it. As long as we talk about

when we get here. I don't want us talking like this in front of him and

feel like he's not welcome.

You know I ain't going to do that.

Okay.

But I got to think about it.

What's there to think about?

There's nothing to think about.

I got to go. I'll go to work.

I'll call you from work.

When are you going to call? Because I've got some things to do. What time are

you going to call? I don't know now. We've got to work something out here. I

don't want to talk to you about it.

Well, we've got to work. I don't want to talk to you about it. Well, I don't

know about this now. I don't know about all these people coming in here.

It's not all these people. It's two people. I mean, you just come and throw

on me in the morning. I'm eating my breakfast. You come in here and tell me

something. Why don't you fix your own breakfast?

What the hell is that?

What the hell is that? You come and tell me somebody's moving in here.

I'm sitting here getting ready to go to work and you tell me some people are

coming to move in the house.

What the hell are you telling me about you're going to telephone me?

You're sitting in front of me. Now you're telling me you're going to phone

Because I got to meet Rabbit. I got a little business deal I got to talk

Oh, with Rabbit?

Yes, with Rabbit. A business deal with Rabbit?

Oh, that's ridiculous.

No, he knows the fellow wants to invest some money, see.

Invest some money with Rabbit?

Well, we're going to try and work something out. This guy got some cash to

invest. We figure we can work a deal out. You know what this reminds me of?

You know that movie that color lady wrote? What movie? It was a color lady.

me see. Diana Sands was in it. I've seen everything Diana Sands made. Okay. You

know what I'm talking about, about the money, the investment, and the father

died. Let me see. The insurance money was all messed up. Sidney Poitier was in

it. Sidney Poitier played the father?

No, no. Sidney Poitier was the son.

Diana Sands' son. No, not Diana Sands' son. No, he was the one who messed up

insurance money.

It was in Chicago, and they bought this house, remember?

Who was the insurance money?

I told you. The father's insurance money was messed up because... Wait a minute.

The mother died and the father got the insurance money.

Lorraine Hansberry.

It was called... Lorraine Hansberry played the mother.

No, Lorraine Hansberry is the colored woman who wrote it.

I ain't never heard... What was it called?

Called A Raisin in the Sun.

No, I ain't never heard of No Raisin in the Sun.

Well, that's what it is.

No, no. I got... Story mixed up, but that's what it is. No, what you think

is Uptown Saturday Night. That's what you think about. Oh, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, not that.

This is about a family where the husband invests the money with some friends of

his, like you want to do with a rabbit.

I have the story mixed up. I know what I'm talking about. Now, you've got the

whole thing mixed up. Yeah.

Good morning. Good morning, Father.

Good morning. You know the name of that movie?

That movie was The Cabin in the...

Yes,

indeed. That was a good movie. You should have seen it.

I got to go.

Oh, boy, and them tails. You know, they had a cabaret scene in there that

wouldn't wait.

Paula Brown.

Yeah. I'll call you.

Yeah, you know who else was in there? Nina Horne.

Oh, Nina Horne. Nina Horne. And Rochester, too.

Paula Brown. Rochester. The movie was not... Tavern in the sky. It was not

cavern in the sky. It was raisin in the sun.

Damn, sound like tavern in the sky to me.

Well, they must have stole it from this movie.

Good movie.

I enjoyed that movie.

I got something to tell you.

Yeah? I got some information for you.

My brother Bubba is coming to stay with us.

Yeah? Mm -hmm.

With his wife, Mary Alice.

Tonight, tomorrow morning, I'm telling you so that you can get yourself

prepared.

There's going to be a lot of company around here. Or in other words, what I'm

trying to tell you, Father Brown, is you're going to have to move on over.

You're hanked today too, ain't you?

I am never hanked.

What's on your mind?

Nothing on my mind except what I told you is on my mind. My brother is coming.

I know we will.

I love Charles Brown.

I like Raymond.

I mean, I'm in love with Raymond.

Charles, my husband.

I don't know.

Sometimes I wish I'd never left home.

It's not that I'm unhappy.

yet then I'm not happy.

I want to go home to the Fusky, but I don't want to leave here, leave

everything we worked for.

I'm getting tired of it.

Guffling, crimping, scrounging, working hard, getting nothing out

of it, all this concrete.

what's wrong with Charles.

Father Brown gets on my nerve.

He don't know no other way but to be his self.

But with everybody leaning on me, that's what I like about Raymond.

He understands me.

The me I want to be. Just lets me be me. I can lean for a while.

I'm coming.

I'm coming.

What are you doing here?

Come on back.

What are you coming over here for?

You out of your mind?

Take that shield.

Take it off.

Is everything all right? Fine, thank you.

Everything's fine.

I can't walk in his ears. I

never

see another bus. It would be too slow. No.

Never. There will be no more buses.

We got to take a plane back.

Now we got a lot

Oh, look at this bread.

They used to have that kind of bread in that restaurant, you know?

Yeah, Italian bread.

I'm hungry.

I'm hungry, Bubba. You got some money?

Shut up. Shut up. Shut your mouth. I asked you once before, and I'll ask you

again. Do you want a crazy contest? But you will not win. Not this time you

won't win. You know what? You better teach her better than that. You come up

here, I'll let you in my house, right? You don't know how...

You don't know what I'm talking about. Every one of you know what I'm talking

about. I know what you're talking about, Johnnie Mae. But then why don't you do

something? You know what you could do? I'm going to tell you what you could do.

You could cook dinner at least three times.

I got the shop.

I got to go to the supermarket. I got to bring the car up. I got to do that.

What you nodding your head about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't even get to

the unemployment office on time.

On time.

10 o 'clock. You can't even get there. What you so busy doing?

What are y 'all so busy doing?

You come up here. It's my house. Y 'all don't give that up. It's my house.

I want to wash up, okay?

There's not even the tub, just the sink.

I got to do that.

I go to have a cup of coffee. All the coffee is gone. All the sugar is gone.

Little things like that. That bothers me, and I don't want to be bothered. I

work too hard. Is that clear?

Right, right,

right, right. Wrong, because you don't understand nothing.

You better know how to act, or else none of you are going to stay here. I'll put

every...

one of you out and i mean i will do it too you think i can't do it i bet you

goddamn well i can do it i'll do it i'll do it soon i'll do it real soon if y

'all keep on acting like this you know what i mean nasty dirty dishes they be

all greedy pick up a glass yes you're gonna wash the dishes i know you're

wash the dish you're gonna do more than wash the dishes that's right you're

gonna wash the dish how about the laundry the towels be funky i got this

way and two from work. I got to take the law. I can't do that and work two and

deal with this. I am not running a hotel. I keep telling y 'all I ain't

a hotel.

Think I'm running a hotel?

Oh, I'm going to work at the hospital. Watch these people come in, cut up, shot

up and everything. Then I'm going to be a chambermaid in a hotel in my own

house. I don't have a space to go to where I can rest and I have to watch

funky friends come up here, stink up my house with their loud talk and

everything and their beer bottles and drink up all my liquor.

Because your dumb friends, huh what they come here and do you know

Cigarette. You think you could be a medical records administrator?

Or a traffic manager?

Or a copywriter? Or an advertising traffic coordinator?

I can be anything I want to be.

Yeah.

This is the United States of America. Don't you know that, my dear?

You've been drinking.

You got something to drink over there?

You want some?

No, I don't.

Then leave it alone.

Stupid.

Do you want some coffee?

No. You gonna get up?

You know, you smell.

You should get up and take a bath because you smell.

You didn't say that last night.

I was drunk last night.

I don't drink to that.

Do you want some coffee?

No. Well, I do.

And I'm gonna make you a cup because you're gonna drink it anyway.

You know that?

Anything you say, my dear, to a point.

I think you should get up.

That's what I think.

I'm going to check out that old TV place they have up here.

You just lose money there, and you ain't got no money to lose. What do you mean

lose money?

You got to get a job, and I got to get a job.

And I'm looking. I don't know about you.

Well, you keep on looking.

And what are you going to do?

Nothing. I'm going to work my way, you're going to work your way.

You have to get some money to go back to California.

Get Scooter.

I don't think they're taking care of him.

He's been sick, you know that.

I miss him.

You listening to me, Bubba?

Yes, darling.

I'm talking to you.

Stupid.

Let's see, Steve Carson's riding the day.

He's a winner.

Close friend of yours, who I'll bet, right?

Get off my back, okay?

Tell that to the matron. Tell that to the matron. Shut up.

We go right back to California now. I'm ready to go anytime you're ready. You

got it. You produce the money, okay? I took my money and got you out of there.

Now you want to go back? You go back by your damn self. Okay, I will. Just like

you split with James on your damn self.

Well, book!

I dare you! You wait till I get some money, okay?

You wait.

Get up in the morning, your whole day is gone, and you really don't have nothing

to do. The weekends come, you know, I come by, see you, hang out.

Nothing, I don't know, I don't really, this is not the day. That's all I can

say. I've been thinking.

Trying to get myself ready. I'm trying to pack and call my mama, talk to her.

Everybody's excited because I'm coming home. You know how that can be.

I have fun. I go down there for Christmas.

And when I was younger, I liked it a lot because I could walk around and take my

shoes off and run through the grass.

And every chance I get there, first thing I do, winter, spring, or fall, I

my shoes off and I walk around in the yard.

And it's just like a whole, just a free, free thing. The summers get to me,

but...

Yeah, the mosquitoes, but I can deal with that. I'd rather deal with gnats

mosquitoes than these nasty, dirty streets. I can't take it. I really am

very, very tired of y 'all.

And I just need, like, a change. I need a change, you know. You don't have to

explain to me.

Please, please, please.

The people down there, they can use me.

They can help them out. They can use me. I mean, I'm supposed to be all up here

at the hospital and all, but I just need a break. break things aren't happening

before before everything was up when i thought now things are getting like on a

down

you doing sitting all the way over there?

Thinking.

About?