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Instead of breaking up

Friday morning.

School time.

You dig?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, get up. All right, man. All right.

Come on, man.

Mr. Mason gonna have my ass missing class all this week.

That ain't nothing new.

Come on.

Get dressed.

Hey, Cochise.

Pass me my glasses, man.

Hey, man, no wonder you can't keep a girl.

Man, you see that?

I'm worrying about being kicked out of school and you busy signifying.

I'm sorry.

Besides, your mama like it.

Jive.

is prepared to help each of you students to choose the right road inside and

outside of school.

Now, you all have a copy of the school code, and I'd like for you to read it

with me.

Would you share those with him? I gave too many to your row.

Just pass it. Are you all with me?

We will all read the code together. The Cooley High School Code.

Cooley students are... of developing good character.

We are good sports.

We are good losers as well as good winners.

We do have respect for our school and will do nothing that would reflect on

Cooley's good name.

At Social Function, we do follow...

Can I have some ketchup on it?

We don't have any ketchup.

You ain't got no ketchup?

That's right.

Got some relish? Can I have some relish on it, please?

I don't have any relish. You got no relish? No relish. Well, what you got?

We have mustard.

Mustard? That's it. You mean a great big establishment like this and all you got

is mustard?

That's right.

I don't like mustard. You like mustard? Yeah, I like mustard.

Oh, yeah, well then, here, you eat the hot dog.

Yeah, that one right there. Look, look like Johnny May.

Oh, and that one right there. That one like son. Oh, see, she got a new

boyfriend, too. Oh, but dig Beverly in the corner back there.

Yeah, that look just like Beverly.

It's more like you, Buddha.

It's more like Buddha's mama.

Oh, you better be glad I ain't sensitive.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right, man. We glad you ain't sensitive, because if you

was sensitive, you wouldn't like me feeding this to your daddy over there.

just like Pootis' daddy.

Man, y'all ain't supposed to feed the gorillas. It's bad for their appetite.

Oh, shut up, man. Take this, you big, black, ugly gorilla.

Hey, man, what's wrong with you? Man, don't be talking to a gorilla like that.

Oh, shut up. Hey, Mr. Gorilla, you gotta forgive these humans.

They don't know how to act in front of no gorilla.

Nigga's crazy, man.

I don't believe this. Are you crazy?

See, you be nice to him, and he'll be nice to you.

scholarship.

Your mama's a hoe.

Oh, by the way, I'm giving a quarter party tonight.

Belly rub?

It ain't gonna be no belly rub. It's gonna be a nice quarter party.

Well, I gotta study.

Well, if you see Tyrone, tell him to come.

All right.

Where'd the priest go?

I give you one guess.

next time she caught you gambling?

Got a point there. I'm coming.

Gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.

Oh, hell no.

You know where my money is, Walt. You ain't making me a break, man.

Excuse me. What'd you say? Oh, I wasn't even talking to you. Oh, now, gentlemen,

gentlemen. No need to create havoc and melee.

How much money you got left? Fifty cents.

Fifty cents?

Oh, we was shooting a dime.

I know that.

But now we're shooting 50 cents.

Am I faded?

Yeah, you're faded.

Where you

going? I'd like to get through to the washroom.

Let the lady...

Why don't you gamble someplace else?

Because we're gambling here, sweet thing.

This is a restaurant, not an alley.

Hey, hey, keep on stepping, baby.

We want it to be preached till we go to church. Y'all need to go to church.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

If I don't get some of that, I'll give up your mama.

Dollar say you don't.

Preacher, don't.

Come on, Johnny, please.

Come on, you'll tell.

Sweet. I won't tell her soon.

Well, I'll do it if she'll do it.

Come on, Sandra.

Yeah, come on, Sandra.

I ain't giving you nothing.

Okay, Preacher, come here.

Here's those ladies.

Look, here's one friend to another. I want to tell you something. What? Get

your chick out of here. Why? She blew my action, man.

Aw, man, I can always get it off of Sandra. She's just trying to give me a

hard time, that's all. Come on, man. No, no, hey, hey, man. This is some place

else, Jack. I don't want her here.

I think we should leave.

I'll take it.

Okay.

Oh, geez, I'm ready to go home.

Oh, baby.

Look, wait a minute. I just want to talk to you.

I'm just thinking of it.

Just because I don't want to get into it.

Hey, man.

Look, I don't mean to break nothing up, but I'm going to split.

So I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to go and take Sandra home.

Yeah? You ain't got to make no speech, man.

Just go.

Yeah, okay.

Bye.

Come on, Jimmy Lee. Now, if you can afford them fancy rings and clothes,

then you can give me some money. Now, you know these welfare checks ain't

enough to live on. Oh, Aunt Melba, now I need these clothes to work in.

You ain't never done a day's work in your life.

Oh, Aunt Melba, that sure is cold.

I mean, most of the time, I help to pay the rent here.

Now, I ain't playing with you, Jimmy. Mama, didn't I get a letter today?

Did you look up on the dresser where the mail is kept?

Yeah. Well, then, if it's not on the dresser, then it ain't come yet.

Now, Jimmy Lee, I ain't playing with you.

And what about jail?

Your uncle and me had to go and bail you out at 3 in the morning.

Hey, listen, you know, I sure do want to thank you all for coming out and getting

me out of jail, you know?

I got to split now, Melba. Thanks a lot, huh? All right, Jimmy Lee.

Now, don't forget what I told you. Oh, don't worry.

Don't you have a scar?

Great grub, Aunt Melba.

And don't worry, Melba, I'll bring you the money back tonight. I promise, all

right? Make sure you do, young man.

scholarship dynamite yeah i'm really out of sight man hey man that is really

junk you write.

Has anybody heard Preacher's poetry?

Your eyes are like glimmered pools of eternity swallowing up my soul.

No, man, wait a minute. There's more. Check this out.

Liquid dreams and vision of you beckon to my throbbing manhood.

Well, that's because you're a bunch of stupid niggas that don't know shit.

Oh, just drop it, man.

Drop it, man.

He ain't got no more of this.

Give me a wide head off.

Hey,

man, what they know, man? They don't know nothing.

We're supposed to be celebrating, right?

Right?

Come on, man. Let's go get some of that wine.

Yeah. Oh.

This is for the brothers who ain't here.

Hey, man, you're pouring out our wine.

This is for the brothers who ain't here.

Forget them, man. They ain't here. They don't get none.

Oh, yeah. Man, look, there's a lot of brothers that's dead or in jail, and we

just got to give them a little bit of respect.

I understand.

You pour your wine out. We'll drink all of it.

Respect. The kid goes first.

Good kid. Good, good.

Hey, man, when's that party start?

I don't know, about 8 o'clock or something, she said. We better be

getting over there, man.

I've been looking for you since yesterday.

I don't give me that. You had my number. You wouldn't even call.

Hey, look, my mama didn't pay the phone bill, so I took the phone out, and I

didn't have a dime to be right in your corner.

Well, you could have done something.

I did. I came over.

Shit.

Hey, look, wait a minute. Come on over. Let me talk to you about it. I got to

watch the door.

Hey, preach. Preach, man. Come watch the door.

What? Come watch the door.

Preach, watch the door.

You can trust me.

Yeah, I bet.

Damn.

Hey, you kept me waiting the whole lunch period, didn't you? I tried to come on

over. You know I'd have been there if I could have got there.

Oh, yeah.

but a heat rash.

Come on, let's go.

Aw, be cool, man.

Fun gonna start in a minute.

Well, my fun ain't gonna start right now.

Excuse me.

Hey, Tyrone, it was pretty cool how you handled Don, I think. Yeah, man, rap 13

always works.

Why don't you go somewhere?

My name is Richard Morris.

I came to talk to you.

By the time I get up, I want to know your name, your address, and your

telephone number.

Name.

Loretta Brown.

Address.

Why don't you call me Friday?

I watched you play all last season, and I'm probably your biggest fan.

feel like dancing.

the Portuguese.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Yeah.

This is dynamite.

You like poetry?

Oh, yeah. This is pretty.

I didn't know that.

Oh, yeah, girl.

But if you really like love poetry, you ought to check out a dude called Walter

Benton.

He got this poem called Where I Pick Malian or God, I would make you

exactly as you are.

in every dimension from your warm hair to your intimate toes would you be holy

in your own image i would change nothing bad or take away

yeah that's dynamite and that poem fits you

too you know yeah it really fits you yeah i'm gonna give you that

as soon as i steal a copy

Here.

That was Sam's stuff, man. You know he ain't gonna sell it to us.

Yeah, but Jimmy Lee can't get in.

Mm-hmm.

Well, all right.

That's all. That's all right. Yeah, that's all right. Hey, fellas.

It's about time.

Hey, man.

What y'all doing?

What y'all in there doing? It's a party.

Listen to me.

Man,

what we doing? What about the party?

Bad said I'm on the scene with the record machine. Come to Eli's and

Robert's Lounge. Check it out.

Yeah,

man, I can get you all the chicks you want.

Shh, hold it down.

Cool it. Cool it. Listen, man, all these chicks live in different places, you

understand? Yeah. It's a hassle to drag you all around town, so I got these

pictures here of them, you dig?

You just check through and find out which one you want.

Come on with me, man. We'll call her.

Hey, is it time now, baby?

You know, I got this cat that wants to come up.

Right.

Yeah, okay.

All right, we'll be right over.

All right, my man, you're in luck.

Oh, but first, I gots to stop and get this cat his money back.

You got a what?

These bitches steal, man, you know? So to keep my customers safe, I hoes their

money for them.

Oh, yeah? Yeah.

Man, this chick is a real freak. Matter of fact, she's so good, she might not

last no more than 30 seconds.

Hey, but we got a set party. Policy, man. If you don't last no more than five

minutes, you get a second try free of charge.

Where do you think you're going?

You stay here, man. You're too young.

Hey, Johnny Ray.

See my buddy?

Jimmy Lee? Yeah.

He was here about 30 seconds ago. Made a phone call and left. Oh, man.

Was he going to work?

Yeah, he had a customer with him.

Yeah, okay. Come on, y'all.

Hey, baby.

Hey. Hey.

Hey.

Yeah,

now, dig, man. This chick you're going to see, she is out of sight. I mean, she

is bad.

But she's one of them thieves, man, you know?

So to keep you from being robbed, because I don't want no unhappy

customers, it'd be a wise thing for you to put your money in this envelope here

and seal it, you know, and I'll just hold it for you until you're finished.

Thief, huh? Hey, I can't stop her, man.

But she's clean, right?

Yeah, all my girls are.

All right, now listen. You go up there and you ask for Louise, okay?

From the top floor all the way in the back.

All right? Knock on the last door on your left, okay? All the way to the

rear.

And I'll wait for you in the car until you finish.

What the hell you want here, hunky?

I'm looking... Is Louise here?

There's no goddamn Louise Leoville, hunky, but I...

And don't be going through no red lights now.

Don't worry about it, fellas.

Hey, man, let's hear some sounds. Yeah.

I used to drive this Maserati for this rich...

1776.

1862, dummy.

Hey, put that away.

Let's go to the movies.

Yeah, Chief, let's go to the movies, man. It's Jeffrey. Who you thinking it

is? What you want now, man?

What the hell, Jeff?

I want my basketball.

Forget it. Get out of here and quit running back and forth.

This is my room. I can come in my room anytime I want. Hey, man, how are we

supposed to get any studying done like this?

I told you we should have went to my house.

That means one of us ain't going.

Hey, if I ain't going, ain't nobody going.

Man.

Hey, geez, the genius has struck again, man. Come here.

Now, that's all we got to do.

Let me get out of here, man.

Man, all we got to do is go down.

Pretty black fine thing you got to pay for what you get.

What's that, man? Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Go on, give me the money.

Give me the money.

Give me the money, man!

I'm the rest.

Well, y'all don't look like no cops to me. That's why they hired us, baby,

because we don't look...

against this wall here.

I'm sorry, Dorothy. Excuse me. Get up one more time and break your left toe.

Excuse me.

Let's sit somewhere else.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Excuse me. I'm sorry.

Excuse me. Can I sit over here?

Thank you.

Sit down, man. What? Sit down. I'm sorry, man. Sorry, my ass.

I said I'm sorry. What else can I say? I ought to kick your ass.

Hey, if you think you're so big and bad, why don't you pick on somebody your own

size? I'll kick your ass, too. You and what I'm. This army, it's like, whoa!

You ain't fat shit.

Count!

Hey, man,

it's all my fault. I'm sorry.

And listen, take care of Dee and make sure she eats.

Bye, Dee.

And eat your supper and be a good girl. Bye, Ma.

Girl, if you don't get out of my face.

It's for me. Get back. It's for me.

Take her with you.

Oh, probably gonna be there. She gonna spoil everything.

I don't care.

Mama said for you to take care of her, and if you leave her, I'm telling.

You can take care of her. You ain't doing nothing.

I don't care.

You take her with you anyway.

Damn. Can't have no fun.

I'm gonna tell Mama you been cussing, too.

Well, you know, God, I would make you exactly as you are in all dimensions.

From your warm hair to your intimate toes, would you be holy in your own

image? I would change nothing, add or take away.

Yeah.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day.

When it's cold outside.

I guess you say.

in the tree.

Well, we're here.

I'm sorry.

You all right?

Take him out of here.

Oh,

shit!

I guess I can do it.

You can do it?

I forgot to tell you.

I've never done anything like this before.

Give me Eve.

You know what? What?

I'm embarrassed.

Oh, baby.

Ain't nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about.

Maybe I feel better with something on. Could you hand me my panties?

Something on? Yeah.

Hand me your panties. Yeah.

until I tell Cochise I won. That nigga owes me a dollar, babe.

You bet?

Hey, Brenda.

Listen, baby.

A bet?

A bet? I'm nothing but a cheap dollar bet.

No, no. Wait a minute. Now, listen. It's not really like that.

Baby, just let me talk to you, you know? I thought you was different.

I really thought you meant it. I do mean it, baby. You know I mean it. You know I

care for you. I mean, I really do care for you, now. You don't. Anyway, just

wait till I find my drawers. Listen, don't be upset.

man change one or two and make it wrong hey w means it's wrong stupid does that

mean

I must have said or done something to you during one of my blackouts, huh?

Yeah. You see, I had these spells.

It's something like epilepsy.

Doctors say there ain't no cure for it, baby, but when I come to, I've said and

done all kinds of crazy things. Now, Dick, see, the last thing... The last

thing I remember, we were in bed talking, and I blacked out.

I don't want to hear it. But it's the truth, baby.

It all... It always happens, especially when I'm excited or something. You know,

really happy, the adrenaline rushes from my head, and before I know it, I'm

unconscious.

Baby, anything I do after that, I'm not responsible for. Now, you got to forgive

me.

Oh, Brenda,

don't be that way.

Okay.

Okay, I forgive you.

That's for yesterday, bastard.

What's that all about? Sandra, I can explain, baby.

Listen, um, um...

My mother got down on me. Hello, Mr. Mason.

Hello, Mr. Mason. I see you, Porter. See you later. Good afternoon,

Mr. Mason. Hey, wait a minute.

Take off those shades.

These is my shades and my face.

Man, you can pull that bad act out on the street, but you don't move me.

Now you take off those shades before I bounce you off those hall lockers.

You better make at least a C on your midterm.

After you, Mr. Mason. All right, Sandra.

You after school. You after school.

Hey, Mr. Mason, when are you going to bring up that fine daughter of yours so

I can rap to her a little bit? Just as soon as I find out where you were last

Friday.

Now, I want to talk.

To you.

Where you been all last week?

Oh, I was home sick with the flu, Mr. Mason.

That's a lie.

Because I was at your house twice last week.

I wasn't home.

I was at my aunt's house.

My mama sent me to my aunt's house while she go to work because she didn't want

me to be home by myself.

And then, see, my little sisters...

You fail the course.

And anybody caught cheating will be an automatic fail for both persons.

Which reminds me. Preach.

Get up here.

That's your desk, Mr. Mason. Today you are my guest of honor.

to cover the Civil War.

Brenda?

Pass these out, please.

Hello, how you doing, George?

How you doing, David?

What are you doing here?

I have a couple of warrants for the arrest of Richard Morris and Leroy

Jackson.

Grand Theft Auto.

All right, let's walk it up.

Let's step it up.

Turn to your left down there at the corner.

last Friday night?

I was at this party on the west side.

What time did you leave the party?

About 1.

We left the party about 3 AM, and we caught the Jackson Street bus, and we

rode all the way. Wait a minute. Last time you told us, Terry, you caught the

L.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, see, we caught the L, and then we took the bus.

Look, I'm tired of you lying.

He told me four different stories.

Mister, I swear on a stack of Bibles, I ain't never been in a stolen car ever in

my life. And that's the truth.

Bullshit!

No, it's not bullshit.

I know those two kids. Those are good kids.

Richard Morris just won a scholarship to college.

Now, you don't want him to lose that over a simple joyride.

These kids have got to be taught a lesson.

Well, is a lesson worth ruining their lives?

You admit that they weren't even on the scene when the car was stolen, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Well?

Okay, they'll be out in an hour.

Thanks, George.

You're still my main man.

Oh, uh, what about the other two?

No way, baby, no way. Their record's much too bad.

Oh, man, change the grand theft auto to...

Simple joyride or something. I don't know. Get out of here.

Okay. Thanks, George.

Uh, I won't forget it.

See you Wednesday.

I told the dude that we went to a party on the west side and then we went home

and we left at one o'clock.

Oh, man, no. No, man.

I told them we left at about 4 a.m. and that we didn't see Stone and Robert at

all. Hey, my team had to say nothing. Nothing? I had to say something, man.

Morris and Jackson?

What's going on?

You're going to go home.

Hey, what about us?

You've got to be booked. You're going to stand trial.

Guess I'll have to tell you who told on us.

Mm-hmm.

Mama called, said she had to work overtime.

She'll be home late.

Hi, Mama.

Don't hi, Mama me.

What you doing riding around in stolen cars?

Uh, Mama, that wasn't me. They got the wrong somebody.

Don't lie to me. I swear, Mama. They made a mistake. It was somebody that

looked like me. Shut up. I don't...

You know you can trust me.

Mama, I've been thinking.

Maybe I ought to leave. I mean, I'm almost 18 years old now.

That's how you put it through the hoop, Junior.

Look at Cochise on my side, man.

I ain't playing with no chumps that squeal on their friends.

What you talking about?

They telling them Stone and Roberts to get out of jail.

Hey, man, that's a lie.

Hey, man, if you didn't tell, how come you out and Stone and Roberts ain't?

I don't know, man.

Yeah. Man, we didn't say nothing.

Somebody ought to kick your ass.

Don't worry.

Stone and Roberts are going to do just that when they get out of jail.

Chump.

Man, you better carry your bald-headed ass on out of here.

Have you seen him preach?

Not since the gym, Mr. Mason.

You don't know why he didn't come to class?

Sure don't.

Hide the dice. Hide the dice.

You boys better get out of here. Class is getting ready to start.

And leave the dice.

What happened to you today?

I don't understand you, Jackson.

You read poetry books and history books for fun, and you make the worst grades

in two states.

You didn't even try to make up the midterm you missed.

Don't you want to graduate?

Don't much matter.

Oh, man.

For 10 years, man, I've been pushing kids through this school just so that

when they applied for a job, they could write high school graduate on their job

application. That's why when I find a guy who has potential, I hate to see him

keep messing up.

Son, what is it you want, huh?

With your brains, you can have it.

Whatever it is, man, knowledge will get it for you.

Don't you want something?

I want to live forever.

You through, Mr. Mason?

Yeah, man, I'm through.

And the next time you're in trouble, don't count on me, jail or anything

else.

You got us out. Yeah, who else?

Mr. Mason, thank you. Thank you, hear me? What's the matter with you? Oh,

you'll never understand.

Uh, I got to... I got to find Cochise.

Yeah, baby, this stuff is so good, baby, make your knees, baby. You ain't find no

better stuff. Hey, Jerry Lee, brother. Hey, man. Hey, yo, what's happening,

brother? Hey, man, you seen Cochise?

Oh, yeah, he's up at my place, man. He took some chick up there a couple of

hours ago to get down, you dig?

Hey, man, well, you think he's still up there because I got to talk to him?

Well, yeah, he probably... Well, dig it, man. Why don't you come on by there with

me? I'll take you by. I got to go home anyway, all right? Okay. Hey, listen.

What do you mean, man?

Then why should you? That's my fault. I know that.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me?

See, in the beginning, it was like that. I mean it. Give me that sword.

Hey, Stone, what's happening, man?

Hey, man, what's happening?

Hey, Dick, when y'all get out? We just got out this morning. Our people got us

out of New Belk.

Well, I just thought of something. I got some business I got to take care of. I

got to take care of it right away.

Yeah, so I want to talk to you. So meet me at the L station in about 15 minutes.

Yeah, at the L. Are you sure? I'm positive. Go ahead now. Hurry up. Hurry

up. I'll be right there. All right.

Stomp your ears.

Open the side door for me, please.

Martha, please.

Hey, Brenda!

Brenda!

Hey, um, have you seen Preach? Yeah, he was... supposed to meet me here the last

time i saw him he was in martha stone and robert had just come in he was

acting sort of crazy how long ago was that about 20 minutes ago yeah okay

later

Cochise was looking for you.

Later for Cochise.

Boy, I'm in love.

But he seemed a little upset when I told him you were at Martha's.

Upset? Yeah, I bet.

What'd he say?

Nothing. I just told him Stone and Robbie had just come in and he ran off.

Stone and Robbie?

Yeah. And he went off looking for me? Uh-huh.

Oh, wow.

Hey, look, baby, I gotta get off at this next stop here.

Oh, now, don't get mad, Brenda, but I can't explain now. I gotta get off here.

I'll call you later tonight.

I'll call you later tonight.

What's happening? You seen Chase? Yeah, man. He just went around the corner.

Was Stone and Robert with him? No.

What's happening, man? We'll tell you later.

It is your end.

How do I say goodbye?

It's so hard to say goodbye to

yesterday.

To yesterday.

I don't know where this road

is going.

I hope it's worth all the pain.

It's so hard to say goodbye

to yesterday.

For the dudes who ain't here.

You know, sometimes I'll be walking down the street or sitting around, and I look

up, and I expect to see you coming around the corner.

I hear your voice calling my name or something. I almost expect you to go to

Hollywood with me.

I know.

Hey, don't worry, man. I'm going to make it. I can lie and steal too good not to

survive.

Put it in the guys.

They're going to be all right, man. They're going to make it.

Yeah, we were sitting around the other night. We got high.

Man.

And I told them, man. I said, look, Chiefs wouldn't want y'all just sitting

around wasting time, you know?

They're going to make it.

They're going to make it.

Man, I have so much to tell you.

I wrote a poem for you.

Nigga, I know you don't like poetry, but I'm gonna read it to you anyway.

I ain't never read my poetry for nobody, not even my mama.

I can see a damn thing.

Here goes.

We were friends a long time ago.

Laughing, rapping, chasing girls, obeying no laws except

the one of caring.

Basketball days and high nights.

No tomorrows.

Unable to remember yesterday.

We live for today.

Man, it don't rhyme.

Jeez.

You could have been the greatest, man.

You could have been.

Swish.

Until emptiness is-