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My name is Claireece "Precious" Jones.

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I wish l had a Iight-skinned boyfrIend
with real nice hair.

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And l wanna be on the cover of a magazine.

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But first, l wanna be
in one of them BET videos.

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Momma said l can 't dance.

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Plus, she said, who wants
to see my big ass dancing, anyhow?

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Well , if there's no volunteers,
then l'm going to have to call people.

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Okay, Leticia, you got number one. Leticia!

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Jess Wesley, n umber two.

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l like math. l don 't say nothing.

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l don 't open my book, even. I just sit there.

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-You down?
-N u mber six.

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Every day I tell myself
something's gonna happen.

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l'm. . . l'm dead serious.

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Like, l'm gonna break through.

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Or somebody's gonna break through to me.

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l'm gonna be normal

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and pay attention,
and sit ln the front of the cIass.

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Distributive principles. . .

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Someday.

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. . .are principles that
you can do in your head.

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I like Mr. Wicher.

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l pretend he my husband
and we live someplace IIke Westchester.

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Look at him. He like me, too, l know it.

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l can teIl by his eyes.
He aIways looking at me and smiIing at me.

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Boys! Boys ! Boys!

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l'm not you r fucking boy!

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You're disrupting the class.

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Yeah, well, l'm talking now,
so you listen.

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Shut the fuck up ! l'm trying to listen !

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Mr. WIcher know l got his back.

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One twenty-two.

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Why are we barking , Jess?

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Monday's assignment.
l'm assumi ng everybody did it.

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-No.
-No.

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Please. . . Quiet. Precious, get your things.

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l have. . . Come here for a second.

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Now this shit.

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ls there anybody
who didn't do their homework?

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Why? These aren't requests.
These are requirements. Okay?

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You have to go to the principal's office.

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Go to the principal's office!

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All right, that's enoug h . That's enough.

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No, he's not allowed on campus.
Where was he seen?

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Could you get Mr. Tork from Room 25,

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tell him to go to Room 1 6 right away?
Thank you .

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No. He was seen on the second floor.

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Yes. Thank you.

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Send Claireece in here!

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She's ready for you now.

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Mr. Taylor? Ms. Lichenstein.

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Come in.

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Matthew Will iams, second floor.

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ln front of his locker.
Yes. Suspended last week.

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Yeah.

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Yes, absolutely. Thank you.

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Hello, Claireece.

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Are you pregnant?

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You're 1 6. You're still in junior h igh school,

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and you're pregnant with you r second child.

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ls that correct, Claireece?

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Are you pregnant again?

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What happened, Claireece?

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l had sex, Ms. Lichenstein.

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Do you have any other thoughts
about your situation , Claireece?

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Claireece?

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Am I in trouble?

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Thank you. I gotta get back to math.

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Sit down , Claireece. Sit down right now.

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We should have a parent-teacher's
conference with you, me and your mother.

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My mother's busy.

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All right. Well then,
how about if l come to your house?

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lf l were you , l wouldn't.

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l . . . l'm going to have to suspend you.

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That ai n't fai r! l didn't do nothing !
l do my work!

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My grades is good !

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ls something going on at home?

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lf something's going on at home,
l want you to tell me right now.

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You get my cigarettes?

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No, they didn't have it.

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l played the number, though.
l cou ldn't box it.

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Yes. Yeah.

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Right there. Yeah . Daddy loves you.

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Precious, what did you think of the fil m?

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l thought it was fabulous.

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-What's next for you?
-What?

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-How are you feeling?
-l feel great!

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J ust one more, just one more, quick!

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l love you , too!

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You know I love you !

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Hey, boo!

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l ain't gonna say it no more.

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The door was open, so l let myself in.

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Well, there goes my chance
to teII you l'm not home.

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Now, Mary, this is important.

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Now, come on, Mary,
she'll have a great time.

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I'd enroll myself, but l became ineligibIe
for teen pageants a few days ago.

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Yeah, l see your acne's cleared up.

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You know, this pageant can do Brenda
a world of good, Mary.

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And the man In charge, he's tops
in his fieId. A brilliant promoter.

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How long have you two been dating?

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A dance teacher.

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Tel l them assholes to stop ringing my bell.

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I hate crackheads.

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No one ever ring this bell
ex cept for crackheads.

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Why they fucking wIth us?

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Stop ringing the goddamn buzzers,
motherfuckers!

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Give the ghetto a bad name.

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Stop ringing the goddamn buzzer!

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Stop it!

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Stop it!

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press ''listen ,'' stupid.

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lt's Sandra Lichenstein
for Claireece and Ms. Mary Johnston.

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Who is that, Precious?

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White bitch from school.

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What do you want?

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Claireece, l want to talk to you
about your education .

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Eighty-six that bitch.

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My mother don 't wanna get cut off weIfare.

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And that's just what this visit
gonna result in.

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Ms. Lichenstein , get out of here
before l kick your ass.

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All right, Claireece, l spoke to Mr. Wicher,

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and he toId me
that you're one of his best math students.

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lf your fat ass don't get
that bitch away from here. . .

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...like a, like a potential for math.

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So l called Mrs. McKnight

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from Higher EducatIon Alternative
Each One Teach One.

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It's an alternative school.

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Claireece, are you listeni ng to me?

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Yeah.

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Okay. Mrs. McKnight. Each One Teach One.

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lt's located at the 1 1 th floor,
Hotel Theresa, 1 25th Street.

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-Get rid of that bitch .
-The semester started a few days ago,

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so you're not too late.

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Eleventh floor.

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l heard you the first time.

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Okay.

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I don 't know what an alternative school is,
but l feel l wanna know.

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My heart is aII warm inside.

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Mr. WIcher think I'm a good student.

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I knew that he liked me.

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School ai n't gon na help none!

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Take your ass down to the welfare.

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Who the fuck she think she is?

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So I guess you th ink you cute now, right?
Uppity bitch.

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You should have kept
your fucking mouth shut.

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Just 'cause he gon na give you
more children than he give me,

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you think you something fucki ng special?

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Fuck you and fuck him !

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Precious!

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Precious! Precious!

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Get down here, bitch !

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You brought that white bitch u p
in my house !

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You . . .
Why would you bring that bitch up in here?

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l didn't bring her here.

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Well, why the fuck did she ri ng my buzzer?

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l can't hear you, Precious.

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Since you got
so much motherfucking mouth,

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and you gonna bring a bitch u p
in my house,

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why would that bitch ring
my goddamn buzzer?

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l didn't tell her to come here.

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See, l think right now, you feeling
like you're becoming a grown woman.

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'Cause of that shit you pu lled
in the kitchen .

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l should've fucked you up,
but l let you walk away,

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and l let you come get yourself together.

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But, bitch, l'm gonna let you know
if you ever pull that shit on me again,

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that will be your last
motherfucking day standing,

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l promise you that.

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You gonna send a white bitch
to my motherfucking buzzer?

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Tal king about some higher education?

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You're a dummy, bitch,
you will never know shit.

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Don't nobody want you.
Don't nobody need you.

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You done fucked around
and fucked my motherfucking man

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and had two motherfucking children,

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and one of them is a goddamn animal,

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running around,
looking crazy as a motherfucker.

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Bitch, you know what?
See, I think you. . . l think you're trying me.

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l think you're real ly tryi ng to fuck with me.
You're fucki ng with my money.

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And you're gonna stand u p there
and look down at me

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like you're a motherfucking woman.

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l'm gonna show you
what real women do, bitch.

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See, you don't know
what real motherfucking women do.

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Real motherfucking women sacrifice.

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l should've aborted your motherfucking ass.
'Cause you ai n't shit.

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l knew it the day the doctors put you
in my goddamn hand

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you wasn't a goddamn thing,

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and you have that smirk
on you r face, bitch?

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Get it off your fucking face!

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Now smi le about that!
Smile about that, you fat bitch.

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l'm gonna kill you , bitch !

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Get off me, bitch !

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And ''blank'' and eggs?

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-Bacon?
-Right.

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-And ''What's up, Doc?'' He eats these.
-Carrots.

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-Right. And ice, it comes in a tray.
-Ice cubes.

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Right. And the best part of the steak. The. . .

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-The T-bone. The. . .
-No.

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-Filet mignon.
-Right!

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-And an English. . . Thomas' English. . .
-Muffin!

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-Right.
-That's it!

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You really need to get some rest.

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You have such a big day
ahead of you tomorrow.

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And remember, Mommy loves you.

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Describe these things that are planned.
Things that are planned. Ready? Go!

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Precious, you know l love you.

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l'm gonna kick that white lady
out of my house,

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move you in with me.

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Wanna live in Westchester?

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-Commit a. . .
-Crime.

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And this is you get back together again.

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-A cIass. . .
-Reunion.

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And this Is when you're Iike this,

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-you're expecting. . .
-Pregnant.

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-Yeah. And this is you make a fast. . .
-Escape.

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-Right.
-That's it!

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Where you going?

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Where you going?

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Make sure you play my 852
and tell them to box it.

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And get some kitty litter.

220
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Ethel, where you at?

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Precious, what are we gonna play?

222
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Girl , get the fuck out of here.

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Ain't you supposed to be
at school or somethi ng?

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You said we was gonna play.

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That's exactly why
we ain't gonna be playing.

226
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l never said noth ing like that.

227
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You would say some shit li ke that to me,
and you don't even mean it?

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No, l'm not playing with you.
No, and she call . . . Hold on.

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Eaoh One Teach One, hold , please.

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Yes. She cal led my house.
l know it wasn't your sister, Trey.

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Because it wasn't her.

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What this is here?

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Each One Teach One.

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l'm looking for an alternative school.

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This is an alternative.

236
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What alternative is?

237
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,900
What exactly are you aski ng me?

238
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Lady at my other school
told me to come here.

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Hotel Theresa.
Said it's an alternative school.

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An alternative sohool, it's l ike a choice.
lt's a different way of doing th ings.

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So, I need your discharge papers
saying that they discharged you.

242
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l got kicked out of school
'cause l was pregnant.

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Well, l still need you r discharge papers,
otherwise we can't let you in.

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Ms. Lichenstein didn't say all that.

245
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You the one she called about.

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Claireece P. Jones?

247
00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,300
They al ready sent over
your discharge papers and stuff.

248
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,000
l could start today?

249
00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,400
Yeah. Are you currently receiving AFDC?

250
00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,500
My mother get AFDC
for me and my daughter.

251
00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,900
So your mother has custody of you and
your daughter, and you're on her budget?

252
00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:27,900
Okay, well, l'm gonna need a copy
of your mother's budget,

253
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000
and a copy of your phone bi ll
and your utility bill .

254
00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:34,400
We gotta give you a few tests,
test your reading and your math level,

255
00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,100
see where to place you.

256
00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,600
Hold on , baby. Each One Teach One, hold.

257
00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:45,100
To enter into the GED classes,
you gotta get an 8.0 or better on the TABE.

258
00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,700
There's always somethIng wrong
with these tests.

259
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,900
These tests paint a picture of me
with no brain.

260
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,300
These tests paint a picture
of me and my mother,

261
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,800
my whole famiIy, as Iess than dumb.

262
00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:34,000
Just ugly, bIack grease to be wiped away,
find another job for.

263
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,000
Sometimes l wish l was dead.

264
00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:43,400
l'll be okay, I guess, 'cause l'm looking up.

265
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,100
l'm Iooking up for a piano to fall.

266
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,200
Or a desk, couch, TV. . . Momma, maybe.

267
00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,400
Always something in my way.

268
00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:57,700
Yeah, man.

269
00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,000
Yo, make sure you get that
for me, too, man.

270
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,600
Alternative.

271
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:03,700
Man, you gotta stop smoking
them shits, man.

272
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,100
That ain't the only thing
that's gonna fucking kill you.

273
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,100
Hustling in these streets gonna kill you.

274
00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:10,100
lt is what it is.

275
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,300
Then my mInd come back down to Earth.

276
00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,900
Let me get some of that sweet ass, orca!

277
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,400
What up, mama?

278
00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:19,500
Why boys aIways grabbIng on themseIves?

279
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,500
You heard what the fuck I said?
l said give me some fucking ass.

280
00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,300
l'm serious!
When you gonna let me hit that?

281
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:27,500
That bitch is laughing. . .

282
00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:28,900
l wish they'd Ieave me alone.

283
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000
-She's stupid.
-Yeah .

284
00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:35,600
Yo, that's not even funny.

285
00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:38,400
That's what she'd get anyway, no.

286
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,400
Precious!

287
00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,300
Ma, I need some money!

288
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,200
Ma, I'm hungry!

289
00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:55,800
Come take care of Mommy, Precious.

290
00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,100
l wish she'd stop this shit.

291
00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,100
The other day l cried.

292
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,900
l felt stupid. But you know what?

293
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,100
Fuck that day.

294
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,300
That's why God, or whoever,
makes new days.

295
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,700
Still hungry, though.

296
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:34,900
Nigger wants me to leave my kids.

297
00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:37,600
They're my kids.

298
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,600
-What d'you want, baby?
-Give me a basket, please.

299
00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:45,500
-Sides?
-l don't know yet.

300
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,300
Still thinking about it.
Trying to watch my figure.

301
00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:56,100
Butchie, you got a 1 0-piece ready?

302
00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:19,400
potato salad.

303
00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,100
Thank you.

304
00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:28,900
Hell, no, she didn't!

305
00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:32,000
Get her ass! Get that big bitch !

306
00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:08,100
No, l am not the one.

307
00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:16,400
You in ABE?

308
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,500
Yeah.

309
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,900
Ti me's a-wasting.

310
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,100
What's your name?

311
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,300
Claireece.

312
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,300
Are you coming in?

313
00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:02,200
That door closes in 20 seconds.

314
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,800
How are you guys doing today?

315
00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:13,900
Would you like to joi n us, Consuelo?

316
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,600
Consuelo, class is beginning.

317
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,900
You guys know
that you are in the ABE class.

318
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,900
Th is is not GED .
This is to get you ready for your GED.

319
00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:52,500
These journals are very important
to this class, so do not forget them.

320
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,000
You will need to use them every day
that you are here.

321
00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:56,500
They are the key to this class.

322
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,000
lt's 9: 07 , Joann. You're late.

323
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,700
You're the one who said breakfast is
the most important meal of the day.

324
00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:03,700
Tomorrow, that door wil l be looked at 9: 00.

325
00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,700
l want you to state you r name,
where you were born ,

326
00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:15,400
your favorite color, something you do well
and why you're here.

327
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,300
l'll go first.

328
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,900
When you due?

329
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,000
-My name. . .
-What you mean, you don't know?

330
00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:24,700
. . . is Blu Rain.

331
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,100
-That's your real name?
-Yes, it is.

332
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,600
Your first name's Blu?

333
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,100
My favorite color is pu rple. l sing well.

334
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,000
And l'm here

335
00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:44,900
because l love to teach.

336
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,500
She like to sing.

337
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,000
Rhonda?

338
00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:52,100
l wish l could sIng.
Go to church and sing in the choir.

339
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,400
Show them how it's done.

340
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:59,200
All right.
My name is Rhonda patrice Johnson.

341
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:02,400
Problem?

342
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,700
-l should smack her.
-What?

343
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:11,300
l was born in Kingston , Jamaica,
and my favorite color is blue.

344
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,400
And l cook good.

345
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,100
My mother, she used to have a restaurant
over on 7 th Avenue.

346
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,800
Before she get sick,
she teach me everything.

347
00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:22,700
So I'm here to get my reading up,
so l can get my G ED.

348
00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:31,500
My name is Rita Romero.
l was born here in Harlem.

349
00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:36,800
l'm here 'cause l was an addict
and I dropped out of school.

350
00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,800
So l never got
my reading and writing together.

351
00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:43,100
My favorite color's black.

352
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,600
What do you do good?

353
00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,400
''Well,'' Joann. ''What do you do well?''

354
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,400
-What do l do well?
-No. Rita?

355
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:53,800
l'm a good mother. Very good mother.

356
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,200
My name's Jermaine.
My favorite color is red.

357
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:02,400
Tel l us where you were born first.

358
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,700
l was born in the Bronx. Still live there.

359
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,700
My favorite color is red. Used to be blue.

360
00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,300
l can dance real good.

361
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,600
Homie of mine told me
about Each One Teach One,

362
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:18,400
so l came here to stay out of trouble.

363
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,300
So you came here to Harlem
to stay out of trouble? ls that right?

364
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,800
Yeah.

365
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,500
-Consuelo?
-This is bul lshit.

366
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,100
You think so?

367
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:33,300
Claireece?

368
00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:37,500
Can l skip, too?

369
00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:41,100
Joann?

370
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,700
Okay. l'm Joann . Hey.

371
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:49,500
My favorite color is fluorescent beige

372
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,500
and my ambition is to have
my own record layer.

373
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,600
What's a record layer?

374
00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:56,600
Tell us where you come from
and why you come to this school.

375
00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:58,600
l was born i n Kings Cou nty Hospital,

376
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:01,100
but my mother moved us to Harlem
when l was nine.

377
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,300
l'm here to get my G ED, and then . . .
Well, l'm already into the music industry.

378
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,900
l'm just trying to take oare of
this little education thing so l can move up.

379
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,100
Let's beg in . This is ABE.

380
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,500
Can l go?

381
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:25,400
l wish I could sit
in the back of the class again.

382
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,900
My name Claireece ''Precious'' Jones.

383
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,800
l go by Precious.

384
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,000
l live in Harlem . l like yellow.

385
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:53,100
And l had problems at my other school,
so l come here.

386
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,300
Something you do well?

387
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,200
Nothing.

388
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,200
Everybody's good at something.

389
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:08,700
Come on.

390
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:16,000
Well , l oan cook. And. . .

391
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:21,300
l never really talked in class before.

392
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,400
How does that make you feel?

393
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Here.

394
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,800
lt makes me feel here.

395
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,200
Everybody open their journal.

396
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:50,400
Write the date at the top of the page,
and write.

397
00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,200
l don't care if you spell everything wrong.

398
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:56,400
l don't care if it's grammatically incorrect.
But just write.

399
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:58,200
Write anything that you're feeling.

400
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:00,600
This class will be a revolving door.

401
00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:03,900
Some of you will make it
and some of you won't.

402
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,300
Fifteen min utes. Go.

403
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:15,300
Before, l got a A-minus at English,
and l didn 't have to say nothing.

404
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,700
Ms. Rain saId we gonna read
and write in our notebooks every day.

405
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,000
How we supposed to do that?

406
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,600
But then she see the worry on my face
and she say,

407
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:31,800
''The longest journey
begin with a singIe step. ''

408
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,100
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.

409
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:39,800
Come on , come on , do the work.

410
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,300
You love it, love it, learn it.

411
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:45,700
Consuelo?

412
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,300
''C'' for Consuelo.

413
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,600
''C'' for kiok your ass.

414
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,000
lt's ''K'' for kick your ass, stupid.

415
00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:55,100
l got the ''D,'' Ms. Rain.

416
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,900
''D'' for dick.

417
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,900
Ms. Rai n , tell this little-ass bitch
that she don't know me.

418
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,900
Which you wish you had.

419
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,300
-Help her.
-''E.''

420
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,500
''E.''

421
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:20,000
''E.''

422
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,100
''F'' for fat.

423
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:50,800
What?

424
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:52,500
Good.

425
00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:59,200
Hey! Hey! Hey! Q u it it! Hey!

426
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:02,200
-What?
-Hey, you stop it right now!

427
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:03,800
-You fucking. . .
-Q uit it!

428
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:05,000
-She just hit me!
-Drop it!

429
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:06,200
Shut the fuck up!

430
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:08,600
She just slapped me!

431
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:10,000
Get out.

432
00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:13,300
We don't fight i n my class. Sit down.

433
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,000
''C'' for cold.

434
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,600
Do you live with anybody?

435
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:34,300
My mother.

436
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:36,700
What does she do?

437
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:40,800
She don't do nothing.

438
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,200
l want you to read a page from this book.

439
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:56,700
Try.

440
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,200
All l need you to do is sound out
these words for me.

441
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:03,900
You don't have to know every word.

442
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,700
You just have to. . . lt doesn't matter
if you stumble or. . . Try for me. . .

443
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,900
. . .or trip up on it.
You just need to say what you know.

444
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,600
Come on . You can do this.
Try. Take it word by word .

445
00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:18,300
-Are you listening to me?
-Precious!

446
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,400
l just wanna know where you are
in your readi ng skills.

447
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,700
'Cause l'm looking at your test scores. . .

448
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,300
Some higher fucking learning.
You're a dumb bitch!

449
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,000
Try to read, okay?

450
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,400
Just help me and then I can help you.

451
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,900
We'll start from scratch. Word for word.

452
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,600
l want you better than you r mother.

453
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,000
-l'm gonna call the nurse.
-No.

454
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,500
lt all look the same to me.

455
00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:50,700
What's this?

456
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:55,500
l can't do that, Ms. Rain.

457
00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,200
push yourself.

458
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,000
A.

459
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,200
What's this word?

460
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,300
Do you know the letters? Come on.

461
00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:16,000
''D .''

462
00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:20,600
''A.''

463
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,600
''Y.''

464
00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:26,300
Do you know that word?

465
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,100
''Day.''

466
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,000
What word is that?

467
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,800
Ate. Ate.

468
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,300
Good . Almost. The word is ''At.''

469
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,400
''At.''

470
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,300
''The.''

471
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,100
Sound it out.

472
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,600
''Beach.''

473
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,800
The word is ''Shore.''
lt's almost like ''Beaoh.''

474
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,000
Very good.

475
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:01,200
Now, read the whole thing for me.

476
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,400
''A

477
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,300
''Day

478
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,100
''At The

479
00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,500
''Shore.''

480
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,400
Get your big ass in here.

481
00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,400
Where was you at this morning?

482
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,500
You hear me talking to you?
Where was you at this morning?

483
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,000
School. l was at school.

484
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:52,500
You a lying whore.

485
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,600
-l'm not lying.
-You is.

486
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,700
The welfare done called here saying
they gonna remove you from my budget

487
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,700
'cause you ain't been
attending school regularly.

488
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:01,400
l told you l got kicked out.

489
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:03,500
l been home nearly every day
for two weeks now.

490
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,100
You ai n't told me nothing
about no damn school today.

491
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,200
l told you l was going
to school this morning.

492
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:15,100
You plan on putting some food
in that frying pan?

493
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,900
Precious, you got something
you wanna say?

494
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,100
-No.
-Then don't be slamming shit down in here.

495
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,800
You u nderstand?

496
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:29,200
Yes, ma'am.

497
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,300
You need to forget about that school shit
and take your ass down to the welfare.

498
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,200
l'm getti ng a stipend from school.

499
00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,500
Fool, what the fuck is a stipend?
What is that?

500
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,200
Fuck a sti pend .
l said take your ass down to the welfare.

501
00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:43,400
Right now?

502
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:47,200
Why in the fuck would you go right now?
It's at n ighttime. Shit is closed.

503
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,500
You gotta be there by 7:00 a. m.

504
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,200
in the morning
if you wanna talk to somebody.

505
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,900
Fucking stupid.

506
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:00,200
You thi n k you're too good now?
ls that what it is?

507
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,900
You think you is too good for the welfare?

508
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,600
There's more wh ite folk getting assistance
than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis.

509
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,000
l think l said therapy. . .

510
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:18,800
Hurry your ass up.
l am i n here fucking starving.

511
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,200
Now what you gonna do
if l die of starvation?

512
00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,400
Where you gonna go after that?

513
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,600
l forgot. School.

514
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,900
Eaoh. . . What that bitch say?
Each one do what?

515
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:33,000
Each one teach one?

516
00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:34,600
Well, they don't know
who the fuck they teaching,

517
00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:36,800
'cause you can't learn shit.

518
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,300
Keep on listening to them white people.

519
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,000
That's what's gonna get you fucked up.

520
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,900
Precious, l'm hungry.

521
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,700
You ain't cooked no col lard g reens
with the fucking pigs' feet?

522
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,200
Like, how am l supposed to eat pigs' feet
with no collard greens?

523
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:25,100
And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet
have so much hair in it?

524
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,500
You eat it. You come eat this shit.

525
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,800
-l'm not hungry, though.
-Yes, you is.

526
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:34,100
Precious, if you don't get
this goddamn plate. . .

527
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:44,000
You just fix mine when you get done.
Since you fucked it u p, you gonna eat it up.

528
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,500
Hurry up and eat, Precious.
l'm fucking hu ng ry, too.

529
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:53,900
And don't let it get cold ,
'cause cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit.

530
00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:05,900
So, tell me about. . .
Tel l me about your home life.

531
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,400
Ain't nothi ng to really talk about.

532
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:14,400
You're in a safe place. Just talk.

533
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:15,800
What's going on?

534
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:17,200
What's the first thing
that comes to your mind

535
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:19,400
when you think about home?

536
00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:23,200
l just wish l had my own TV,
so l could watch it in my room.

537
00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:27,500
lf l had my own TV,
l wouldn't have to watch it with my mother.

538
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,400
And what's it like,
watching TV with your mother?

539
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:33,200
You enjoy watching TV with your mother?

540
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:38,300
l need to know about your home life.
l need to know what it's like where you live.

541
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,400
My mother's like a whale on the couch.

542
00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:45,500
She say I eat al l the time,
but she always making me eat.

543
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,800
Then she call me a fat mess.

544
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:51,000
She say the apartment
is little 'cause of me.

545
00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:53,900
Only time she ever leaves
is to play her numbers.

546
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,900
l feel like l cou ld just sit in the house
with her every day,

547
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,400
the shades drawn,

548
00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:02,700
watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again.

549
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,800
Can you help out with that?

550
00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:09,700
Can we talk about something else now?

551
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,900
How about your firstborn?

552
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,300
Mongo?

553
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,300
Mongo is her. . . ls that. . .

554
00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,600
Mongo. That's short for ''mongoloid.''

555
00:45:27,500 --> 00:45:31,800
ls that what you call her? Or that's. . .
What is that? A nickname?

556
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:34,400
She got Down's syndr ome.

557
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:43,600
How you doing, Precious?

558
00:45:43,700 --> 00:45:46,300
My grandmother Toosie
bring little Mongo over to our house

559
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,700
on days when the social worker come,
so it look like she live with us.

560
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,300
Answer the fucking door.

561
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:58,200
Do you see what you did? God damn it.

562
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:01,500
Then my mother gets money
and the food stamps for me and Mongo.

563
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,000
Who is it?

564
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,300
It's Ms. Turner.

565
00:46:06,300 --> 00:46:07,300
Social worker's here.

566
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,100
Why didn't you tell me that bitch
was comi ng so fucking early?

567
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,900
My fucking wig . Come get my wig !

568
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,300
Come up!

569
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:21,900
Where's my lipstick?

570
00:46:25,700 --> 00:46:28,300
Thank you, thank you.

571
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,500
-Get off of me.
-Leave that chi ld alone, please.

572
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,700
Mind your goddam n business.

573
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:47,600
-H i , Precious.
-Hey.

574
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,900
-Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?
-H i , Mary. How are you?

575
00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:54,200
Please excuse that.
My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over.

576
00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:56,600
please, have a seat. Excuse the mess.

577
00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:58,200
-Thank you.
-Than ks.

578
00:46:58,300 --> 00:46:59,500
How are you, Mary?

579
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,600
l'm doi ng really good, Ms. Turner.
Thank you .

580
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,000
When was the last time
you've taken her to the doctor?

581
00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:09,400
Precious, when. . .
When did we take her? The baby?

582
00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:10,600
Last month.

583
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:14,100
Yeah. . . On the 1 6th.
On the 1 6th . Yes, yes, ma'am.

584
00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:17,200
Okay, and what did the doctor say?

585
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:22,800
They said
that she's progressing really good.

586
00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:24,700
She's doing really good.

587
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,900
-That's good .
-Yes, ma'am.

588
00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:28,900
And have you been looking for a job?

589
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,200
I have, Ms. Turner. l am.
But they've all been saying the same thing.

590
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,800
You know, they'll call me back.
They'll get back to me.

591
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,300
When did you go looking for the job?

592
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,600
l went last week
and l filled out several appl ications.

593
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:49,400
And they all said the same thing,
that they would call me.

594
00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:52,700
Mommy!

595
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,600
No ! No!

596
00:47:56,900 --> 00:47:59,200
ls that a new microwave oven?

597
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,600
A. . . A microwave?

598
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,300
No, ma'am.
We warm our things up in the oven.

599
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,100
-l see. lt's a toaster oven.
-Yes. Yes, ma'am.

600
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,400
Okay.
l wi ll be seeing and speaking with you

601
00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:16,700
in a week or so.

602
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:17,900
-l n a week or so?
-Yes.

603
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:21,400
Okay, do you know what time you'll be. . .
You'l l be comi ng?

604
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:22,800
-I'l l let you know.
-Okay.

605
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,300
-l'l l let you know.
-Thank you so much.

606
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,100
Precious, any questions for me?

607
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:31,300
How are you, Precious?

608
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,500
l'm doi ng good . How you doing?

609
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,200
l'm good, thank you.

610
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,400
Ladies, thank you for your time.

611
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:42,400
Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.
Have a great day.

612
00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:44,600
-And you . Bye, Sheila.
-Bye.

613
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:52,200
Come get this motherfucking . . . Get her.

614
00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:55,100
Moving all around and shit
while l'm trying to talk to this bitch.

615
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:57,200
Makes me fucking itch.

616
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,200
She done threw her fucking candy
on the floor.

617
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:02,800
Goddamn animal.

618
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:07,600
And now you gonna give it to her?
put the fucking candy back on the floor!

619
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:09,200
Then you go and pick it u p
and let her have it.

620
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:12,500
You're so fucki ng stupid.
Just like her dumb ass.

621
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,300
That bitch gon na come up i n here
and l gotta fucking make pretend?

622
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:17,700
l'm so sick of it.

623
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,300
l don't know what the fuck
you shaking your head for.

624
00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:21,800
You didn't do no goddamn better.

625
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:24,000
You know what?
Let's tal k about your father.

626
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:26,500
Tel l me about your relationshi p with him.

627
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,100
I don't know much more
than you do, Ms. White.

628
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,800
lt's Ms. Weiss.

629
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:33,600
Talk to me about
the little you do know about your father,

630
00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:36,900
'cause it is im portant,
whether you know it or not.

631
00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:40,300
He give me this baby
and my one before it, but l. . .

632
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,000
What did you say he gave you?

633
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,500
-Noth ing .
-No, Claireece, you just said

634
00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:45,700
your father gave you something.

635
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,800
-l heard you just say. . .
-You didn't hear shit.

636
00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:50,700
-l heard you say your father. . .
-l ain't say nothing . I ai n't say shit like it.

637
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,600
-l don't care, honey.
-l d idn't say nothing like that.

638
00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:54,300
-l need to know this.
-Let's move on .

639
00:49:54,300 --> 00:49:55,700
l need to know th is to help you.

640
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,800
-Bitch , can we change the subject?
-Okay.

641
00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:02,000
Well , l'll see you next time, then.
Or maybe you'll see someone else.

642
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,700
But you're gonna have to talk to somebody
if you want you r check, sweetie.

643
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,000
l see vampires, too.

644
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,200
They come at night.
They tel l me l'm one of them.

645
00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:29,700
They say, ''Precious, you belong with us.''

646
00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:34,600
And then they go downstai rs
th roug h the floor.

647
00:50:34,700 --> 00:50:37,500
The people that live under us,
they is vampi res,

648
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,900
so that's where they should go.

649
00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:42,700
They be so nasty, though,

650
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:45,100
leaving thei r di rty tampons and shit
in the garbage.

651
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,600
Don't even offer to take it out.

652
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:50,200
They got no fucking home training.

653
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:57,000
l been going to the doctor, too. lt's nice.

654
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:02,800
Ms. Rain fall out when she fou nd out
l ain't never been to no doctor before.

655
00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:08,300
Don't know how l had my first baby
on the kitchen floor

656
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,400
with my momma kicking me
u pside my head .

657
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,400
Them the kind of things
you're talking about

658
00:51:15,500 --> 00:51:18,300
when you say,
say whatever come to my mind?

659
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:25,600
That's the end of them welfare checks.

660
00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:29,700
l just couIdn 't lie no more.
I shouIdn't have said none of that.

661
00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:35,100
Momma gonna kIll me.

662
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,600
Motherfuckers!

663
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,900
Are we done?

664
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:52,700
l'm not doing this with you today.

665
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,400
At night, we went out on a field trip.

666
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,500
These girls is crazy.

667
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:06,300
Ain 't nobody ever grabbed my hand
like that before.

668
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,500
...as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination

669
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,600
for the presIdency
of the United States of America.

670
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:33,000
...and by havIng destroyed it,
now we don 't know. . .

671
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:40,300
...and the testimony you're about to give
wilI be the truth, the whole truth. . .

672
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,300
I stiIl have a dream.

673
00:52:44,100 --> 00:52:47,700
It is a dream deeply rooted
in the American dream.

674
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,800
l have a dream that one day

675
00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:59,400
this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of. . .

676
00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:01,600
l'm gonna teach my baby all of this.

677
00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:04,800
''We hold these truths to be seIf-evident,

678
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,900
''that all men are created equal. ''

679
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,300
No fear. That's bullshit. That's bu llshit.

680
00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:10,400
You mean , write a whole new one?

681
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:13,400
No, girl , if I need to explain myself to you. . .

682
00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:15,200
-You'll figure it out.
-You think that l'm stupid?

683
00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:18,300
Oh , my God . That l believe in you?

684
00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:21,900
That l think you're incredible?

685
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,700
Yes, but l don't know what to do.

686
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,800
All rig ht, pull it together. Okay.
Who's next?

687
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,100
l'm happy to be writing.

688
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,200
-Go ahead , Rhonda.
-I'm happy to be In school, too.

689
00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:35,600
Ms. Rain say we gonna write
every day in our notebook.

690
00:53:35,700 --> 00:53:37,700
She gonna wrlte back to us every day, too.

691
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,500
''Yesterday l went to church for
the first time since l come to this country.

692
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:42,900
''l got all the way to Brooklyn.

693
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,800
''The church was up the block and around
the corner upon the 3 trai n .

694
00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:47,500
''The preacher preached
two and a half hours

695
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,100
-''about Jehovah .
-Rhonda ! Rhonda!

696
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,600
''And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,
Jehovah delivers.''

697
00:53:53,700 --> 00:53:55,700
ls that a fairytale?

698
00:53:57,300 --> 00:53:58,600
Sit down.

699
00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:00,000
Did anybody do this assign ment?

700
00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:02,500
Momma say this school ain 't shit.

701
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:05,100
She say you can 't Iearn nothing
writing in no book.

702
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:10,400
-This is a fai rytale called ''Enchanted.''
-She wrong about that. l is learning.

703
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,600
''Once upon a time, i n a faraway land,

704
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,200
''there lived a beautiful princess
named Joan n-a.

705
00:54:21,700 --> 00:54:26,000
''She was very, very fly and extra, extra tall,

706
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,100
''and every single boy loved her,
big and small .

707
00:54:30,900 --> 00:54:35,000
''Except for one idiot boy
who was so stupid and dumb.

708
00:54:35,100 --> 00:54:39,300
''And out of all the cute boys who loved her,
he was the cutest one.''

709
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,700
-That's all l got so far.
-That's a good beginning.

710
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,400
Thinking about littIe Mongo, too. l miss her.

711
00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:49,200
That's how you start a fairytale.

712
00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:51,600
l'm happy my baby coming up.

713
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:56,500
I'm gonna read to this baby, too,
and hang coIors on its wall.

714
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,400
Listen, baby. Mother not dumb.

715
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,700
Mother Iove you. Listen.

716
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:06,900
''Once upon a time,
there was a mag ical princess

717
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,200
''who lived in a magical bubble
under the sea.

718
00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:12,800
''And she was from land.''

719
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:29,700
Stop screaming.

720
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:54,500
His name's AbduI Jamal Lewis Jones.

721
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,400
He heaIthy. His mother Iove him.

722
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,800
The food in this hospital's nasty.

723
00:56:17,500 --> 00:56:18,600
lt's not from here.

724
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:20,300
Where it from?

725
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,900
A little shop by my house where

726
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,400
I get my organic food ,
so l don't have to eat that

727
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:28,100
nasty mystery-meat stuff
they got downstairs.

728
00:56:28,100 --> 00:56:31,100
Can you bring me something?
l don't like fru it. l like McDonald's.

729
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,400
First of al l , l don't eat McDonald's.

730
00:56:33,500 --> 00:56:36,200
Second of all, you don't need
to be eating McDonald's, either.

731
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:37,300
lt's not healthy.

732
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,600
But l li ke McDonald's.
We all like McDonald's, right?

733
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:42,300
We like McDonald's, too, over here.

734
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:43,900
l don't like no damn McDonald's.

735
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,100
l want some of that organio shit
like you got.

736
00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:49,000
Well , l tell you what,

737
00:56:49,100 --> 00:56:51,600
when you get up out of here,
you go with all you r l ittle friends,

738
00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:52,600
and you go to McDonald's,

739
00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:54,600
and you get as much
McDonald's as you want.

740
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,100
But right now,
you're gonna take care of your health.

741
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,900
Are you a doctor?

742
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,000
-Are you her doctor?
-Am l a doctor?

743
00:57:02,100 --> 00:57:04,700
-Yeah .
-l am a nu rse's aide.

744
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,600
Nurse John-John.

745
00:57:06,700 --> 00:57:08,300
Oh , that's funny?

746
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,600
Well, you're a man.

747
00:57:11,300 --> 00:57:14,000
-You've never seen a male nurse?
-No.

748
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,300
Not looking like you do.

749
00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:21,200
I am a male nurse.
l am Nurse John McFadden.

750
00:57:21,300 --> 00:57:23,800
So was you up in the room
when she popped the baby out?

751
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,000
You was like, all up i n between her. . .

752
00:57:25,100 --> 00:57:27,100
Joan n , don't be nasty!

753
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:28,800
How was it? Was he screaming?

754
00:57:28,900 --> 00:57:30,000
lt hurt.

755
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,600
Tough gal like you had to scream?

756
00:57:31,700 --> 00:57:36,000
Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.
lt hurt. And it burned.

757
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,300
-Are you married?
-Shut up!

758
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,000
You got a girlfriend?

759
00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:41,500
-Why you asking? He don't want you.
-How would you know?

760
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,300
Why don't you stop being a ho
for 1 0 minutes?

761
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:44,500
What's wrong with these people?

762
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,000
You don't want her, right?

763
00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:48,900
l wish l was a cantalou pe in that cup.

764
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,500
So he could eat you?

765
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:54,200
Okay, no. l gotta go. l gotta go.

766
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,400
No, that's all right. That's all right.

767
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:02,600
Can l get a kiss, too, Nurse John?

768
00:58:02,700 --> 00:58:05,500
-Good afternoon , ladies.
-Bye, N urse John .

769
00:58:05,500 --> 00:58:08,400
-Bye !
-Good night, Nurse John-John !

770
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,100
Precious and John-John

771
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,200
Sitting in a tree

772
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,000
-F-U-C-K-I-N-G
-Shut up! Y'all are nasty.

773
00:58:21,700 --> 00:58:24,400
You thi n k he's spending the night
up in here?

774
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,800
Now she gonna write
about Nurse John in her book!

775
00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:32,800
''Dear Ms. Rain,

776
00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:36,400
''AlI the years I sit in cIass, l never learned.

777
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:39,600
''Now I got a baby again by my father.

778
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,000
''I wIsh I had a boyfriend Iike other girls.

779
00:58:43,100 --> 00:58:46,200
''Then I'll feel right
that l have to quit school.

780
00:58:46,300 --> 00:58:49,800
''I love my baby, but l want school, too.

781
00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:52,300
" Social worker ask me
if l wanna give littIe Mongo

782
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,900
''and Abdul up for adoption.
l could kilI her.

783
00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,100
'"She never helped before.
Now she wanna take my kids away?

784
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,100
''lf she takes AbduI,
l won 't have nothing no more. ''

785
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,000
''Dear Precious,

786
00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:09,300
''I think your first responsibility
has to be to yourself.

787
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,100
''If you keep Abdul, you might have nothing.

788
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,600
''You're learning to read and write.
That's everything.

789
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,400
''You come back to school
when you get out of the hospital.

790
00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:18,600
''You're onIy 1 7. ''

791
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,100
This looks like a big-ass condom.

792
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,100
Use that for Nurse John.

793
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,800
Not looking l ike that.
Your hair looks a mess.

794
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,500
-l'm giving you banjee.
-Shut up!

795
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,100
l got your journal.

796
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:33,700
Thank you.

797
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,500
What's wrong?

798
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:41,900
Nothing.

799
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,600
Are you sure?

800
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:44,700
Yeah , l'm sure.

801
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:49,200
All right. l'm bored. l'm about to leave. Bye.

802
00:59:50,900 --> 00:59:52,500
Bye, Ms. Toosie.

803
00:59:53,100 --> 00:59:54,600
You got a nasty-ass mouth.

804
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:56,800
You got a nasty-ass hat.

805
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,000
That's what's wrong ,
you hanging out with bitches like that.

806
01:00:02,100 --> 01:00:03,700
Here's your baby.

807
01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:06,300
lt's probably the last time
you're gonna ever see him.

808
01:00:06,300 --> 01:00:07,800
Grandmother come and visit and say,

809
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,400
''Only a dog would drop a baby
and walk off. ''

810
01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:11,800
Not even a dog.

811
01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:14,500
Say later, '"Not even a dog. "

812
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,700
l'm proud of you .
Ain't nothing like you r mother.

813
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,100
''Where was your grandmother
when your father was abusIng you?

814
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,300
''Where is IIttle Mongo now?

815
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,800
''What is going to be the best thing for you
in this situation ?"

816
01:00:26,900 --> 01:00:29,200
''Ms. Rain, you ask too many questions.

817
01:00:29,300 --> 01:00:31,800
''Sometimes l wish l could stop breathing.

818
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:34,300
''I just wanna be a good mother. ''

819
01:00:35,300 --> 01:00:37,500
''Being a good mother mIght mean
letting Abdul be raised

820
01:00:37,500 --> 01:00:41,200
''by someone who's better abIe than you
to meet his needs. "

821
01:00:41,900 --> 01:00:45,400
''Ms. Rain, I is the best
to meet my chiId's needs. ''

822
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:56,600
''Who's gonna heIp you?

823
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,500
''How wIll you support yourself?

824
01:01:00,700 --> 01:01:03,700
''How wiIl you keep learning
to read and write?'"

825
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:06,900
''The weIfare helped Momma. ''

826
01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:11,200
''You look and see
how much welfare has helped your mom.

827
01:01:13,500 --> 01:01:15,200
''You could get your GED,

828
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,900
''and go to college.
You can do anything, PrecIous. ''

829
01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:41,500
You back?

830
01:02:42,100 --> 01:02:43,400
What's his name?

831
01:02:43,900 --> 01:02:45,500
Can l hold it?

832
01:03:49,300 --> 01:03:50,900
Hey, Precious.

833
01:03:54,700 --> 01:03:55,900
Hey.

834
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,100
You had the baby?

835
01:04:01,700 --> 01:04:03,000
A boy.

836
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,500
Where you been all this ti me?

837
01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:14,700
Let me see him.

838
01:04:22,100 --> 01:04:23,800
Can l hold hi m?

839
01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:45,300
He look like his daddy.

840
01:04:50,900 --> 01:04:52,400
He named Abdul.

841
01:04:53,700 --> 01:04:57,300
put all this shit down
and go get me something to drink.

842
01:05:15,700 --> 01:05:17,200
You bitch !

843
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,000
-You fucking bitch !
-You crazy, Mom ma?

844
01:05:20,100 --> 01:05:22,600
Am l crazy? Bitch , if l was to. . .

845
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,300
You ruined my fucking life!

846
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,000
You done took my man ,
you had those fucking babies,

847
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:29,400
and you got me put off the welfare

848
01:05:29,500 --> 01:05:31,800
for running your goddamned
stupid-ass mouth !

849
01:05:31,900 --> 01:05:35,700
l ain't stupid and l didn't take you r man.
Your husband raped me !

850
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:37,300
Didn't no-fucking-body rape you !

851
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,700
Bitch, don't you put
your fucki ng hands on me!

852
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,600
Mary, leave that gi rl alone!

853
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:43,200
Can l see the baby now?

854
01:08:54,900 --> 01:08:58,000
B. . . C. . . D. . .

855
01:08:58,900 --> 01:09:03,300
E. . . F. . . G . . . H. . .

856
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,700
l . . . J . . . K. . .

857
01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:15,300
l'm tired of shopping.

858
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,400
Yes, because they all trying
to take your money.

859
01:09:17,500 --> 01:09:19,400
They don't. . .

860
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,900
l'm cal ling the cops.

861
01:09:37,100 --> 01:09:39,600
Tel l me what you see back there.

862
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:56,500
l could teII by Ms. Rain 's face
l ain 't gonna be homeless no more.

863
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:58,600
l just don't know
where l'm gonna end up, though.

864
01:09:58,700 --> 01:10:00,300
l'll hold.

865
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,000
I feel bad for her.

866
01:10:04,100 --> 01:10:07,800
She just an ABC teacher.
She ain 't no social worker.

867
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:10,700
What's going on?

868
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:11,900
But she all l couId think of.

869
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,500
Look, when the others get here,
tell them to start writing .

870
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,700
And whichever one of you is older
is in charge, okay?

871
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,500
Consuelo, l know that's not you.
Come here.

872
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,700
Ms. Rai n , l can't stay. l'm serious.
l've tried to talk. . .

873
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,400
Consuelo, you're not leaving class
and l'm not dealing with this right now.

874
01:10:23,500 --> 01:10:25,800
Take this money.
Go get something for Precious to wear.

875
01:10:25,900 --> 01:10:28,300
Quick. And bring back my change.

876
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:32,100
Sixteen years old . A three-day-old infant.

877
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,900
The baby not bleed ing .
l think this is Precious' blood.

878
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,800
Well, why didn't you tell me that before?

879
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,600
We'll find you a place to live.

880
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,600
Joann , you're late.

881
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,800
Rhonda, you ain't the teacher.

882
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,300
Joan n , Ms. Rain is busy
with Precious today,

883
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,500
so l am the teacher today.

884
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:55,500
Okay. Why?

885
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:57,700
-Where's Preoious?
-J ust sit. Pull out your notebook.

886
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:00,200
Joann , you wanna say one of you r raps
to the baby?

887
01:11:00,300 --> 01:11:01,700
What's the baby doing here?

888
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,500
-Joann's gonna rap for you.
-Let me see.

889
01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:06,000
She all right. She's doing good.

890
01:11:06,700 --> 01:11:09,700
Why is the baby wrapped u p
in a blood-covered blanket?

891
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,500
-Joann, what's so funny?
-For real . What happened?

892
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,000
You don't wanna know is
how it got on the blanket.

893
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:15,200
You know what your problem is, Joann?

894
01:11:15,300 --> 01:11:17,000
That you can't take anything
serious enough.

895
01:11:17,100 --> 01:11:19,500
-Jermaine, me expect better from you.
-Okay, Rhonda.

896
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,200
Joann, stop laughing at this baby.

897
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,100
Queens.

898
01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:29,200
Let me call you back.

899
01:11:29,300 --> 01:11:30,600
J ust tell me what happened !

900
01:11:30,700 --> 01:11:32,000
No, it's not funny.

901
01:11:32,100 --> 01:11:35,000
But Joann, there's nothing funny
about a baby with blood on it.

902
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,800
I got a West Ind ian friend
who's a Council member.

903
01:11:36,900 --> 01:11:39,000
Let me see what she can do.
Hold on a second.

904
01:11:39,100 --> 01:11:42,400
l found a lesson plan in our notebooks.
We're gonna. . .

905
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:45,700
Claireece Jones.

906
01:11:45,700 --> 01:11:48,000
Hey, Ms. Lisa. How you been?

907
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:50,100
l don't know.

908
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:54,100
l went to see that movie, Barfly, last night.
piece of shit.

909
01:11:55,100 --> 01:11:58,200
-l'm sorry.
-It's on my desk. Can you hold?

910
01:11:58,300 --> 01:12:00,600
Something's wrong with you, Precious.

911
01:12:00,700 --> 01:12:02,200
This baby stink.

912
01:12:02,300 --> 01:12:04,600
Well, we don't have a pamper,
so have a seat with the baby.

913
01:12:04,700 --> 01:12:07,300
-l am sitting.
-l n you r seat, please.

914
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,500
The fi rst thing

915
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:15,300
is shut the bumba-ros-clot. . .

916
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,700
Ms. Rai n , why did you let Rhonda
teach the class?

917
01:12:18,700 --> 01:12:20,400
She don't even know how to speak English.

918
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:21,500
Let Rhonda take over.

919
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:25,200
-Shut the bumba-ros-clot up.
-What the fuck is a ''ros clot''?

920
01:12:25,300 --> 01:12:27,200
Yeah, Brenda, you there?

921
01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:29,900
The last four of the Social are. . .

922
01:12:29,900 --> 01:12:32,500
2-4-2-1 .

923
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,700
-Rita?
-l just wan na know how to spell ''Aquarius.''

924
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,700
-Anybody know how to spell ''Aquarius''?
-lt's A-Q-U-A-R-l-U-S.

925
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,000
Can you spell ''boy'' then?

926
01:12:39,100 --> 01:12:40,300
Can you spell ''slut'' then?

927
01:12:40,500 --> 01:12:42,100
Let's explore that.

928
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,600
You wanna spel l ''slut,'' Consuelo,
I'l l give you the first letter.

929
01:12:45,700 --> 01:12:47,800
Can you spell ''illegal immigrant,'' then?

930
01:12:47,900 --> 01:12:49,900
Great, thank you.

931
01:12:51,500 --> 01:12:54,000
Can you please use ''slut'' in a sentence?

932
01:12:54,100 --> 01:12:55,500
Consuelo is a slut. . .

933
01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:58,300
-You the one who's the ho up in here. . .
-Joann is not a slut.

934
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,800
perfect. You get a gold star.

935
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,300
But you know she likes that.

936
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:06,700
Well, she's just insecure.

937
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:08,400
-You think?
-Yeah.

938
01:13:08,900 --> 01:13:12,500
-That chicken was good .
-Real ly good . Did you have enough?

939
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,500
There ain't more, is there?

940
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,300
-ls there more?
-Yeah .

941
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:18,900
Maybe later. Not now.

942
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,900
l don't want you to thi n k l'm greedy.

943
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,400
You're not greedy.
lf you're h u ngry, let's get you some more.

944
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,600
l guess l kind of eat
too much sometimes, though.

945
01:13:26,700 --> 01:13:27,900
No, you don't.

946
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,900
-Blu , is that you?
-Not always.

947
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,100
What are you doing here?

948
01:13:32,500 --> 01:13:35,200
l live here. Why didn't you tell me?

949
01:13:35,300 --> 01:13:38,100
-Hey, sweetie.
-ls this. . . ls this. . .

950
01:13:39,700 --> 01:13:41,900
This is Katherine, Precious.

951
01:13:41,900 --> 01:13:44,000
-Are you okay?
-lt's so nice to meet you , finally.

952
01:13:44,100 --> 01:13:47,500
Oh, my God. These straight-up Iesbians.

953
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,200
-This is Abdul.
-He's gorgeous. He looks just like you.

954
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:53,600
Precious, can l hold him?

955
01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:55,400
You know how to?

956
01:13:55,500 --> 01:13:57,500
They stilI nIce enough
to let us stay in their home

957
01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,900
untiI l get situated, though.

958
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:04,100
-He's heavy. Oh , my God !
-You wanna hold him?

959
01:14:04,100 --> 01:14:06,600
l guess thIs is how the peoples
on TV feel at Chrlstmastime.

960
01:14:06,700 --> 01:14:09,300
-Don't drop him.
-Come on. l on ly work with children.

961
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:10,400
You know how you are. I saw you. . .

962
01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:12,600
When we were putting up the tree,
you dropped half the top of it.

963
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:14,200
They're so nice to me and Abdul.

964
01:14:14,300 --> 01:14:16,400
-Be careful . Hold him with both hands.
-please.

965
01:14:16,500 --> 01:14:18,200
Oh, Abdul.

966
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:22,300
Merry Christmas, Precious.

967
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,300
Thank you.

968
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:25,700
Why peoples that barely know me

969
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,100
should be nicer to me
than my mother and my father?

970
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:31,200
I felt warm.

971
01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:32,700
-What?
-l'm j ust. . .

972
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:36,000
l'm just concerned about the baby
and the cats upstairs.

973
01:14:36,100 --> 01:14:37,200
They're fine.

974
01:14:37,300 --> 01:14:39,300
Grandmother's scared of Momma.

975
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,800
l know that's why
she ain 't letting me stay with her.

976
01:14:41,900 --> 01:14:43,800
lf Ronald McDonald were running things. . .

977
01:14:43,900 --> 01:14:46,700
Ms. Rain say don't be afraid of nothing.

978
01:14:47,300 --> 01:14:49,800
I bet she ain't scared of Momma.

979
01:14:49,900 --> 01:14:52,500
Wouldn't you be a little bit suspicious?

980
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:53,800
J ust write the book.

981
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:57,200
-Well , who's gon na read it?
-Nobody, if you don't write it.

982
01:14:57,300 --> 01:15:00,800
You know, Precious writes every day.
You should try it.

983
01:15:00,900 --> 01:15:04,200
ls that right?
What do you write about, Precious?

984
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:06,200
Stuff.

985
01:15:07,300 --> 01:15:09,700
My life. Abdul.

986
01:15:12,100 --> 01:15:14,300
How come y'all don't like McDonald's?

987
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,200
Katherine was just drawing a comparison

988
01:15:16,300 --> 01:15:18,400
so that her point could be
more easily understood .

989
01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:19,500
Yes.

990
01:15:19,500 --> 01:15:22,000
They talk like TV channels l don't watch.

991
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:23,500
My U ncle Clayton.

992
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:27,100
I'm gIad Abdul here to listen in on them,
though, 'cause l know they're smart.

993
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:28,600
Before he got saved,

994
01:15:28,700 --> 01:15:31,300
he used to smoke like a ch imney
and drink like a fish.

995
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:33,500
l don 't understand a word they're saying.

996
01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:35,100
You u nderstand?

997
01:15:38,700 --> 01:15:40,200
Y'all be watching Oprah?

998
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,200
No. l don't, actually.
You know what ti me l get home from work.

999
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:46,400
-l watch it.
-Momma say homos is bad peoples.

1000
01:15:47,100 --> 01:15:49,500
But Momma,
homos not ones who raped me.

1001
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,900
And what do that make you?

1002
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:56,100
Homos not ones who let me sit in cIass
alI them years and never Iearn nothing.

1003
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,100
The homos not ones who seIl crack
to peoples in HarIem.

1004
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,100
-. . .that l have ever seen. Tell her!
-That doesn't work.

1005
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,800
I wonder what Oprah got to say about that.

1006
01:16:03,900 --> 01:16:06,300
Ms. Rain is the one
who put the chaIk in my hand,

1007
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,800
made me queen of the ABC's.

1008
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:13,700
After l settled at the halfway house,

1009
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:16,200
l worked my hardest
to memorize letter sounds,

1010
01:16:16,300 --> 01:16:19,300
writing in the journal,
and reading smaller and fatter books.

1011
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,600
Then I found out the Mayor's office
give me a literacy award

1012
01:16:22,700 --> 01:16:24,400
and a check for progress.

1013
01:16:26,900 --> 01:16:28,600
One, two, three.

1014
01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:30,400
The party is on.

1015
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:32,100
Go, Joann !

1016
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,500
Let me see what you got!

1017
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:42,700
Everybody come. Nurse John, Cornrows,
all the staff was out there.

1018
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,500
Even Ms. Katherine showed up.

1019
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,100
Precious.

1020
01:16:50,300 --> 01:16:51,700
What's up?

1021
01:16:52,300 --> 01:16:53,800
What's that?

1022
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:56,100
What does it look like?

1023
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,100
plastic stupid apple.

1024
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:02,900
A little something for you.

1025
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,700
-ls there more money in it?
-You're so greedy.

1026
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,600
Yo, who's that?

1027
01:17:11,500 --> 01:17:12,700
What?

1028
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,600
-What?
-Come on.

1029
01:17:18,100 --> 01:17:20,600
Precious, where are you taki ng me?

1030
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:25,700
What am l su pposed to do, diva? Yeah?
Wait a minute. Hold on, girl.

1031
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:27,300
Yeah . . .

1032
01:17:31,500 --> 01:17:33,600
My mom called last night.

1033
01:17:36,300 --> 01:17:39,600
And we don't really have a relationship.

1034
01:17:40,100 --> 01:17:42,900
We don't talk,
because she really has a problem with. . .

1035
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,700
Some folks got a light around them
that shine for other peoples.

1036
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,900
l think maybe some of them was in tunnels,

1037
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,700
and in that tunnel,
maybe the only light they had

1038
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,300
was inside of them.

1039
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,600
Then l thought about how strong
you've had to be.

1040
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:04,000
And then,
even Iong after they escaped that tunnel. . .

1041
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:08,100
-l'l l help you clean up.
-Okay.

1042
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,800
... they stilI be shining for everybody else.

1043
01:18:16,100 --> 01:18:18,100
That's Ms. Rain to me.

1044
01:18:21,100 --> 01:18:22,600
''Awar d for Outstanding Achievement.''

1045
01:18:22,700 --> 01:18:26,300
In a book I read,
this Iady escaped to a halfway house.

1046
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:27,600
And when she was there,

1047
01:18:27,700 --> 01:18:30,600
she asked the peopIe there
what a halfway house was.

1048
01:18:30,700 --> 01:18:35,000
They told her it was halfway between
her old Iife and where she wanna be.

1049
01:18:35,100 --> 01:18:37,000
That's kind of nice.

1050
01:18:38,700 --> 01:18:41,800
That also mean l can't stay here forever.

1051
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,000
There's still a way to go.

1052
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:47,700
lt'd be something to get my own apartment.

1053
01:18:48,500 --> 01:18:52,000
Abdul nine months and aImost walking.
He's smart, too.

1054
01:18:52,700 --> 01:18:55,800
l've been reading to him
since the day he was born.

1055
01:18:55,900 --> 01:18:58,900
He 's barely taIking,
but he's already counting.

1056
01:18:59,900 --> 01:19:01,700
Momma, Daddy,

1057
01:19:02,500 --> 01:19:06,900
IS 1 1 1, 4 4 4 Lenox all seem
like some old, bad dream.

1058
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:13,000
I wish l couId've just started out here,
but still with Abdul.

1059
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:18,600
I'm gonna get Mongo, too.
l gotta get Mongo back.

1060
01:19:20,700 --> 01:19:21,800
Hey, Miss Cassidy.

1061
01:19:21,900 --> 01:19:24,100
Hey, Precious,
somebody downstairs for you.

1062
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,000
-Who is It?
-l didn 't ask who it was.

1063
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:27,200
You want me to watch the baby?

1064
01:19:27,300 --> 01:19:30,200
No, l gotta go down and get him anyway.

1065
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,300
Your daddy dead.

1066
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:09,700
That's all?

1067
01:20:14,700 --> 01:20:16,600
He had that Al DS virus.

1068
01:20:32,100 --> 01:20:33,400
There you go, dreaming again.r

1069
01:20:33,500 --> 01:20:36,100
Precious, do you hear me taIking to you?

1070
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:38,700
Did you hear what l said?

1071
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:45,100
You got it?

1072
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:47,900
Got what?

1073
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,000
-The Al DS virus.
-No.

1074
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:52,600
How do you know?

1075
01:20:52,700 --> 01:20:55,600
We never did it u p in the ass, so l know.

1076
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,500
You better get to a doctor, Mom.

1077
01:21:05,300 --> 01:21:07,000
You coming home?

1078
01:21:23,900 --> 01:21:25,400
Yo, Preoious!

1079
01:21:44,100 --> 01:21:47,100
Rita, what do l mean when l say the author

1080
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:51,900
descri bes her protagonist's circumstances
as ''unrelenting''?

1081
01:21:52,900 --> 01:21:55,200
l don't k now. l don't know.

1082
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:01,100
lt's l ike, say, like if Rita,
she tries to do something,

1083
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:03,700
and she's going and she's going,
and me, l try to stop her

1084
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:06,400
and she no stop, she keep on going.

1085
01:22:07,100 --> 01:22:08,800
Relentless-un.

1086
01:23:01,500 --> 01:23:04,000
l'll see you tonig ht. Bye.

1087
01:23:53,100 --> 01:23:54,600
Come with me.

1088
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:57,400
Precious?

1089
01:23:59,300 --> 01:24:00,700
Excuse me?

1090
01:24:02,700 --> 01:24:04,800
Nurse say l'm H lV positive.

1091
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:13,900
l ain't got nothing to write today.

1092
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,400
ls your baby okay?

1093
01:24:18,500 --> 01:24:21,900
He all right.
l just got to stop breastfeeding him.

1094
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,800
Remember, you once told me

1095
01:24:28,300 --> 01:24:31,100
you never really got to tell your story.

1096
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:34,600
-Write.
-Fuck you !

1097
01:24:35,100 --> 01:24:38,100
You know nothing
of what l've been through.

1098
01:24:39,300 --> 01:24:41,600
l ain't never had no boyfriend.

1099
01:24:44,300 --> 01:24:46,900
My daddy said he gonna marry me.

1100
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:50,900
How he gonna do that?
lt wou ld fucking be illegal !

1101
01:25:07,100 --> 01:25:08,300
Write.

1102
01:25:10,500 --> 01:25:13,000
l'm tired , Ms. Rain.

1103
01:25:13,900 --> 01:25:17,100
lf not for you rself,
then for the people who love you.

1104
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:19,000
Nobody loves me.

1105
01:25:19,100 --> 01:25:21,400
people do love you, Precious.

1106
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,300
please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain.

1107
01:25:25,100 --> 01:25:27,500
Love ain't done nothing for me.

1108
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:32,000
Love beat me, raped me,

1109
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:37,400
called me an animal ,
make me feel worthless.

1110
01:25:38,100 --> 01:25:39,600
Make me sick.

1111
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,100
That wasn't love, Precious.

1112
01:25:46,100 --> 01:25:48,000
Your baby loves you.

1113
01:25:51,300 --> 01:25:52,700
l love you.

1114
01:26:00,100 --> 01:26:01,300
Write.

1115
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,200
What are you thinking?

1116
01:26:14,300 --> 01:26:18,600
You never told me about
your relationship with your mother.

1117
01:26:21,300 --> 01:26:23,000
l didn't, did l?

1118
01:26:23,700 --> 01:26:26,300
Really, l'm here to help you.

1119
01:26:26,300 --> 01:26:29,500
You can talk to me.
This is a safe environment.

1120
01:26:30,900 --> 01:26:32,300
You're right.

1121
01:26:32,300 --> 01:26:34,800
We could talk about your daddy instead.

1122
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:37,800
We could talk about my mother, my father,

1123
01:26:37,900 --> 01:26:42,300
my aunts or my sister or my brother,
but none of it's gonna help you .

1124
01:26:42,900 --> 01:26:44,400
You don't even l ike me.

1125
01:26:44,500 --> 01:26:47,500
Have we not been in this room together

1126
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,900
for, like, a year, discussing your life?

1127
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:54,000
Does that mean we like each other,
because we discuss my l ife?

1128
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:55,500
l can't speak for you.

1129
01:26:55,600 --> 01:27:00,000
l can only speak for me,
and l do like you . l do.

1130
01:27:00,700 --> 01:27:02,500
So, are you ltalian, or. . .

1131
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:03,900
What color are you , anyway?

1132
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,100
Are you some type of black or Spanish?

1133
01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:08,400
What color do you think l am?

1134
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,700
No, l'd like to know.
What color do you think l am?

1135
01:27:14,500 --> 01:27:16,200
My throat is dry.

1136
01:27:17,100 --> 01:27:18,800
Your throat is dry?

1137
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,000
lt's really hot in here.

1138
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,100
lt is kind of hot in here.

1139
01:27:23,700 --> 01:27:26,500
l'm gonna go get a soda.
What do you want?

1140
01:27:26,900 --> 01:27:28,700
Soda sou nds fine.

1141
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:30,200
All right.

1142
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:02,300
Thank you.

1143
01:28:02,900 --> 01:28:04,300
No problem.

1144
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,200
So, I have to talk to you about your mother,

1145
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,100
and l don't know
how you're gonna feel about this,

1146
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,000
but she says she wants to see you

1147
01:28:17,100 --> 01:28:21,700
and she wants to be reu n ited
with you and her grandchildren.

1148
01:28:22,300 --> 01:28:25,200
She wants to come
and have a session here with you.

1149
01:28:25,300 --> 01:28:26,900
What did you tell her?

1150
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:29,800
l said l had to speak to you about it.

1151
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:33,900
lt's up to you.

1152
01:28:33,900 --> 01:28:36,900
l don't know.
l never thought about it before.

1153
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,900
Ms. Weiss said in that file l got HIV.

1154
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,400
She said l was supposed to die from it.

1155
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:45,600
l ain't worried about dying.

1156
01:28:45,700 --> 01:28:49,600
Shit, l gotta worry about
how l'm supposed to raise these kids.

1157
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:53,100
l was just writing , like, about. . .

1158
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:55,900
l wanna open up this clinic

1159
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:59,200
about, l ike, mothers and their children.

1160
01:29:00,100 --> 01:29:03,100
You know, just,
if they're sick or something like that.

1161
01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:06,800
l always wanted to do that,
give back to the community.

1162
01:29:06,900 --> 01:29:09,800
Because I know my mom would be
proud of me if l did that,

1163
01:29:09,900 --> 01:29:11,600
and my children, too.

1164
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:15,300
l want my children to be proud
of their mother, you know?

1165
01:29:16,500 --> 01:29:21,000
-That's always what l wanted to do, so. . .
-That's good. That's really nice.

1166
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:29,100
l don't really want to read the whole thing,
l kind of just wanna say what it's about.

1167
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:34,100
Okay, the counselors
at Advanoement House,

1168
01:29:35,900 --> 01:29:38,400
they were quizzing me
about my mother and my father, right?

1169
01:29:38,500 --> 01:29:40,200
But it's not really about them.

1170
01:29:40,300 --> 01:29:42,400
They're trying to get me to do workfare.

1171
01:29:42,500 --> 01:29:44,900
-They want me to be a home attendant.
-How do you know?

1172
01:29:44,900 --> 01:29:47,200
Because I stole my file and l read it.

1173
01:29:47,300 --> 01:29:49,200
All they want me to do is work.

1174
01:29:49,300 --> 01:29:52,600
Now, l do wanna work,
but not for no welfare check.

1175
01:29:52,700 --> 01:29:54,100
What kind of sense that make,

1176
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:57,100
for somebody like Precious to quit school
before she got her G ED

1177
01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:59,800
and go work
for some old white people somewhere?

1178
01:29:59,900 --> 01:30:03,000
She ain't never gonna be nothing
if she gets stuck in some shit like that.

1179
01:30:03,100 --> 01:30:04,600
Rhonda used to home attend.

1180
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:07,600
She used to have to go all the way out
to Brighton Beach.

1181
01:30:07,700 --> 01:30:11,100
Yeah , okay, Rhonda wou ld be
worki ng there all day and night.

1182
01:30:11,100 --> 01:30:13,200
She'd be on call , right?

1183
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:17,800
She made $6 . 3 7 an hour,
but for only eight hours.

1184
01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:20,500
That eq ual out to $50. 96.

1185
01:30:21,500 --> 01:30:22,900
But that's not a whole lot of money,

1186
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:26,100
especially 'cause,
for real , she there for 2 4 hours.

1187
01:30:26,300 --> 01:30:31,000
So, $50.96 divided by 2 4

1188
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:35,000
is $2. 1 2 an hou r. That's not a lot of money.

1189
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:39,400
She said that old bitch wou ld ring a bell,
like, a real-life, actual bell

1190
01:30:39,500 --> 01:30:41,300
when she wanted something from her
in the middle of the n ight.

1191
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:44,100
-You don't want to do that shit.
-Rhonda, is that true? Rhonda!

1192
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:47,300
Them home attendants be working for, like,
six days a week.

1193
01:30:47,300 --> 01:30:51,200
l'd only see Abdul on Sunday.
plus, l'd have to leave class.

1194
01:30:51,500 --> 01:30:54,800
Well, that's not an option.
You're not leaving class.

1195
01:30:54,900 --> 01:30:58,000
plus, I'm gonna start goi ng to
insect survivor meeti ngs.

1196
01:30:58,200 --> 01:30:59,600
lt's ''incest.''

1197
01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:04,600
-That ain't what l said?
-No, you said ''insect.''

1198
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:06,500
What's the difference?

1199
01:31:06,500 --> 01:31:08,300
Well, one's where your family molests you,

1200
01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:11,100
the other's like a roach or bugs.

1201
01:31:13,700 --> 01:31:16,400
-So, you a scientist now?
-l'm just saying.

1202
01:31:16,500 --> 01:31:19,200
No, that's cool. Thank you . Thank you.

1203
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:29,000
lt was hard telling them strangers there
what my father did.

1204
01:31:29,100 --> 01:31:31,100
Sometimes it felt good.

1205
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:40,600
Last week, Ms. Rain asked us
to write down what we wanna be Iike.

1206
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,500
l wrote that I be real skinny,

1207
01:31:45,300 --> 01:31:47,500
with IIght skin and long hair.

1208
01:31:48,900 --> 01:31:50,600
Loretha Holloway?

1209
01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:52,900
Go on back there.

1210
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:54,900
She read it and said l'm beautiful like l am.

1211
01:31:54,900 --> 01:31:58,400
But, there's no kids back there
for me to play with .

1212
01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:02,600
J ust shut up and sit there, then.

1213
01:32:02,700 --> 01:32:06,000
Gonna talk to this lady
before my shit gets cut off.

1214
01:32:06,100 --> 01:32:07,600
But somehow,

1215
01:32:08,700 --> 01:32:12,000
right now. . . And I don 't know why, but. . .

1216
01:32:14,100 --> 01:32:15,900
l think she right.

1217
01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:23,300
Here.

1218
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:33,600
Claireece Jones?

1219
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:41,600
l think she right.

1220
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:48,900
Okay, Mrs. Johnston ,
let's tal k about the abuse.

1221
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,200
There were no drugs in my house.

1222
01:32:51,300 --> 01:32:53,300
l didn't play that.
There weren't no drugs in my house.

1223
01:32:53,300 --> 01:32:55,000
Precious knew l wou ld whup her ass

1224
01:32:55,100 --> 01:32:56,600
if she gonna bri ng some d rugs
up in my house.

1225
01:32:56,700 --> 01:32:59,100
You know what l'm talking about.

1226
01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:05,300
l'm referring to specific
sexual and physical acts

1227
01:33:05,900 --> 01:33:07,700
involving Precious.

1228
01:33:08,300 --> 01:33:10,300
Why you ain't say that?

1229
01:33:11,100 --> 01:33:12,700
Yes, that.

1230
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:16,700
What do you wanna know?

1231
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:18,700
According to Precious' files,

1232
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:22,900
she has now had two ch ildren
by your boyfriend,

1233
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:27,200
the late Carl Kenwood Jones,
who was also her father.

1234
01:33:33,500 --> 01:33:35,500
-Yeah .
-This is accurate?

1235
01:33:37,900 --> 01:33:39,700
Yes, Ms. Weiss.

1236
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:43,300
l need to know why you're here.
You've been calling this office

1237
01:33:43,500 --> 01:33:47,400
saying you want to be reunited
with Precious and your grandchild.

1238
01:33:47,500 --> 01:33:51,000
Now, l really need to know
what's gone on in that home.

1239
01:33:51,100 --> 01:33:53,200
Ms. Weiss,
l understand we need to discuss it,

1240
01:33:53,300 --> 01:33:54,600
but l'm just telling you.

1241
01:33:54,700 --> 01:33:57,500
You said l've been call ing here
and l've been wanting to see

1242
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,000
Precious and my grandson.

1243
01:33:59,100 --> 01:34:03,600
You're goddamn right I wanna see them.
Because they belong to me. Okay?

1244
01:34:03,700 --> 01:34:06,700
Now, there was a time
Precious had everything,

1245
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:08,600
and l done told her that.

1246
01:34:08,700 --> 01:34:12,300
And me and Carl, we loved Precious.
And you need to know that.

1247
01:34:12,400 --> 01:34:15,100
We loved Precious and we had dreams.

1248
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:19,900
Precious was born around the same time
Ms. West's son got kil led .

1249
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:25,400
The su mmertime.
She was born in the summertime.

1250
01:34:25,500 --> 01:34:27,400
Remember? Remember that?

1251
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:29,700
l was born in November.

1252
01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:31,800
November.

1253
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,100
Yeah, that's right.

1254
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:38,300
My Scorpio child.

1255
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:41,900
You know. . .

1256
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:46,600
Scorpios, they can be tricky.

1257
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:52,400
And, l'm not sayi ng that they lie.
l'm not saying that.

1258
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,300
But you just gotta watch them.

1259
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:03,000
Can we talk about the actual acts

1260
01:35:03,100 --> 01:35:05,800
of physical and sexual abuse

1261
01:35:05,900 --> 01:35:08,400
that occurred in your household?

1262
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:10,500
When it first began,

1263
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:13,600
where it happened
and how did you respond?

1264
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,100
Precious was a little girl.

1265
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,600
Try and remember
how old you think she was.

1266
01:35:30,900 --> 01:35:32,400
She was three.

1267
01:35:34,400 --> 01:35:37,900
And l had been giving her the bottle

1268
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:42,200
and l was g iving Carl the tittie

1269
01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:46,700
because my m ilk hadn't d ried u p
in my breasts

1270
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:51,100
but not from her, but because Carl was. . .

1271
01:35:52,300 --> 01:35:54,200
Because Carl was sucking on them

1272
01:35:54,300 --> 01:35:58,100
and that's what kept my milk in my breasts.

1273
01:36:00,900 --> 01:36:03,600
And l thought that that was for hygiene.

1274
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:07,300
l did what my mother told me

1275
01:36:07,900 --> 01:36:11,800
that l was supposed to do with my child,
so that's what l d id .

1276
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:14,900
And you're sitting u p there
and you're trying to judge me. . .

1277
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,800
l'm not judging you,
but you're asking me for money

1278
01:36:17,900 --> 01:36:20,300
and you're aski ng me
to be reunited with your grandson.

1279
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,800
But, Ms. Weiss,
l don't like you looking at me like that.

1280
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:26,400
You got this bitch looki ng at me
like I'm some kind of fucking monster.

1281
01:36:26,500 --> 01:36:28,400
We don't talk like this i n my office, okay?

1282
01:36:28,500 --> 01:36:32,100
l didn't want her suoking behind him,
because that was nasty.

1283
01:36:32,200 --> 01:36:35,900
And th ings that he was. . .
lt was just nasty, Ms. Weiss.

1284
01:36:41,500 --> 01:36:45,100
l had a man , and l have a ch ild

1285
01:36:46,900 --> 01:36:50,800
and l had to take care of both of them.
Okay?

1286
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:57,400
Did l want Carl to touch my baby?

1287
01:36:59,500 --> 01:37:01,800
Because l would lay my baby.

1288
01:37:01,900 --> 01:37:06,600
l would lay her on the side of me,
on this pillow

1289
01:37:08,300 --> 01:37:10,500
and it was pink

1290
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:14,300
and it had this little white writing on it

1291
01:37:14,300 --> 01:37:18,500
and it had her name,
because she was Precious.

1292
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:21,700
And l would lay my baby on that pillow

1293
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:25,200
and Carl would be laying on the other side

1294
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:30,500
and then we would . . .
We would start doing it

1295
01:37:30,500 --> 01:37:32,700
and he reached over

1296
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,000
and he touched my baby.

1297
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:38,600
And l asked him,

1298
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:42,000
l said, ''Carl, what are you doing?''

1299
01:37:42,100 --> 01:37:44,500
And he told me to shut. . .

1300
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:47,500
To sh ut my fat ass up,
and it was good for her.

1301
01:37:47,700 --> 01:37:50,900
-And what did you do then?
-I sh ut my fat ass up.

1302
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:54,700
And l don't want you to sit there
and judge me, Ms. Weiss.

1303
01:37:54,900 --> 01:37:56,700
You shut up
and you let hi m abuse your daughter?

1304
01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:58,700
l did not want him to abuse my daughter.

1305
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:00,300
-l d id not want hi m to hurt her.
-But you al lowed hi m

1306
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:02,300
-to hurt her.
-I d id not want him to do nothing to her.

1307
01:38:02,300 --> 01:38:04,300
l wanted h im to make love to me.

1308
01:38:04,300 --> 01:38:07,300
That was my man.
That was my fucking man.

1309
01:38:07,500 --> 01:38:10,300
That was my man
and he wanted my daughter.

1310
01:38:11,700 --> 01:38:13,900
And that's why l hated her.

1311
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:17,000
Because my man,
who was supposed to be loving me,

1312
01:38:17,100 --> 01:38:20,000
who was supposed
to be making love to me,

1313
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:23,300
was fucking my baby.

1314
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:27,000
She made him leave.
She made him go away.

1315
01:38:27,500 --> 01:38:28,700
So, whose fault was it, then?

1316
01:38:28,800 --> 01:38:31,900
lt's this bitch's fau lt
because she let my man have her

1317
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:33,600
and she d idn't say nothing.

1318
01:38:33,700 --> 01:38:35,700
She didn't scream. She didn't do nothing.

1319
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:39,300
So, those things she told you l did to her,

1320
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:42,500
who else was gonna love me?

1321
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:49,200
Since you got your degree
and you know every-fucking-thing,

1322
01:38:49,300 --> 01:38:53,300
who was gonna love me,
who was gonna make me feel good?

1323
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:57,100
Who was gonna touch me
and make me feel good late at night?

1324
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,700
And she made him go away, so. . .

1325
01:39:00,500 --> 01:39:04,000
When you sit there and you write
them fucking notes on your pad

1326
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:08,100
about who you th ink l am ,
and why l did it, all of that.

1327
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:11,600
Because l didn't have nobody.

1328
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:23,600
The people from

1329
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:27,200
Each One Teach One,

1330
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,900
they had . . . They called me

1331
01:39:33,900 --> 01:39:37,000
and they told me that my baby
was writing poems.

1332
01:39:37,100 --> 01:39:38,600
ln fact, you know what, l got. . .

1333
01:39:38,700 --> 01:39:40,200
Wait a minute.

1334
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:07,700
l'm sorry.

1335
01:40:08,700 --> 01:40:12,100
l'm sorry.
And, Ms. Weiss, l don't want no checks.

1336
01:40:12,100 --> 01:40:16,400
l don't need no more money. please.
l'm so sorry.

1337
01:40:17,300 --> 01:40:19,400
l took that TABE test again.

1338
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:21,800
And what happened?

1339
01:40:21,900 --> 01:40:23,500
l scored a 7. 8.

1340
01:40:25,300 --> 01:40:27,200
Last time it was 2. 8.

1341
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:30,900
Accordi ng to that test,

1342
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:33,700
l'm reading at
a seventh- and eighth-grade level.

1343
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,200
Next year, high school. Atter that, college.

1344
01:40:44,700 --> 01:40:46,500
Well, l like you, too.

1345
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:50,900
But you can't handle me.

1346
01:40:52,700 --> 01:40:55,000
You can't handle none of this.

1347
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:06,400
You know, l never knew what you was
until this day.

1348
01:41:06,500 --> 01:41:09,200
Not even atter all them things you did.

1349
01:41:10,700 --> 01:41:14,200
Maybe l was too stupid , or
maybe l just didn't want to.

1350
01:41:16,700 --> 01:41:19,000
You ain't gonna see me no more.

1351
01:41:22,600 --> 01:41:23,900
Bye!

1352
01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:29,500
l didn't want him to h urt my baby.

1353
01:41:29,500 --> 01:41:32,000
Please, God ,
l didn't want him to h urt my baby.

1354
01:41:32,100 --> 01:41:35,000
Ms. Weiss,
l didn't want him to h urt my baby.

1355
01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:36,800
l would say to him , l would say. . .

1356
01:41:36,900 --> 01:41:40,200
''Carl, what are you doing?
What are you doing? What are you doing?''

1357
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:50,800
Can you go get her back?

1358
01:41:50,900 --> 01:41:53,500
You can do that,
because that's what you do.

1359
01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:55,400
That's what you do.

1360
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:59,500
l need you to go
and l need you to get my baby back.

1361
01:41:59,600 --> 01:42:03,200
You told me that I could come in here
and you cou ld get. . .

1362
01:42:03,700 --> 01:42:05,200
You could get Precious to say. . .

1363
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,800
Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss?