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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!

50
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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!

143
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Take your ass down to the welfare.

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Who the fuck she think she is?

145
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So I guess you th ink you cute now, right?
Uppity bitch.

146
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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 !

153
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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?

155
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l didn't bring her here.

156
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Well, why the fuck did she ri ng my buzzer?

157
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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.

162
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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,

187
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and you have that smirk
on you r face, bitch?

188
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Get it off your fucking face!

189
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Now smi le about that!
Smile about that, you fat bitch.

190
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l'm gonna kill you , bitch !

191
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Get off me, bitch !

192
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And ''blank'' and eggs?

193
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-Bacon?
-Right.

194
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-And ''What's up, Doc?'' He eats these.
-Carrots.

195
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-Right. And ice, it comes in a tray.
-Ice cubes.

196
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Right. And the best part of the steak. The. . .

197
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-The T-bone. The. . .
-No.

198
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-Filet mignon.
-Right!

199
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-And an English. . . Thomas' English. . .
-Muffin!

200
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-Right.
-That's it!

201
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You really need to get some rest.

202
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You have such a big day
ahead of you tomorrow.

203
00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:22,922
And remember, Mommy loves you.

204
00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:31,601
Describe these things that are planned.
Things that are planned. Ready? Go!

205
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Precious, you know l love you.

206
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l'm gonna kick that white lady
out of my house,

207
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move you in with me.

208
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Wanna live in Westchester?

209
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-Commit a. . .
-Crime.

210
00:14:48,388 --> 00:14:50,356
And this is you get back together again.

211
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-A cIass. . .
-Reunion.

212
00:14:51,557 --> 00:14:53,047
And this Is when you're Iike this,

213
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-you're expecting. . .
-Pregnant.

214
00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:56,928
-Yeah. And this is you make a fast. . .
-Escape.

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-Right.
-That's it!

216
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Where you going?

217
00:15:33,566 --> 00:15:35,261
Where you going?

218
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Make sure you play my 852
and tell them to box it.

219
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And get some kitty litter.

220
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Ethel, where you at?

221
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Precious, what are we gonna play?

222
00:15:56,689 --> 00:15:57,678
Girl , get the fuck out of here.

223
00:15:57,790 --> 00:15:59,257
Ain't you supposed to be
at school or somethi ng?

224
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You said we was gonna play.

225
00:16:01,027 --> 00:16:03,154
That's exactly why
we ain't gonna be playing.

226
00:16:03,262 --> 00:16:04,820
l never said noth ing like that.

227
00:17:06,993 --> 00:17:10,690
You would say some shit li ke that to me,
and you don't even mean it?

228
00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:14,927
No, l'm not playing with you.
No, and she call . . . Hold on.

229
00:17:15,935 --> 00:17:18,403
Eaoh One Teach One, hold , please.

230
00:17:18,938 --> 00:17:22,396
Yes. She cal led my house.
l know it wasn't your sister, Trey.

231
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Because it wasn't her.

232
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What this is here?

233
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Each One Teach One.

234
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l'm looking for an alternative school.

235
00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:37,251
This is an alternative.

236
00:17:37,356 --> 00:17:39,449
What alternative is?

237
00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:42,027
What exactly are you aski ng me?

238
00:17:42,094 --> 00:17:44,119
Lady at my other school
told me to come here.

239
00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:47,563
Hotel Theresa.
Said it's an alternative school.

240
00:17:47,633 --> 00:17:53,697
An alternative sohool, it's l ike a choice.
lt's a different way of doing th ings.

241
00:17:53,773 --> 00:17:57,436
So, I need your discharge papers
saying that they discharged you.

242
00:17:57,543 --> 00:18:00,444
l got kicked out of school
'cause l was pregnant.

243
00:18:00,546 --> 00:18:03,413
Well, l still need you r discharge papers,
otherwise we can't let you in.

244
00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:05,541
Ms. Lichenstein didn't say all that.

245
00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:07,950
You the one she called about.

246
00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:11,484
Claireece P. Jones?

247
00:18:11,991 --> 00:18:15,324
They al ready sent over
your discharge papers and stuff.

248
00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:17,055
l could start today?

249
00:18:17,129 --> 00:18:20,462
Yeah. Are you currently receiving AFDC?

250
00:18:20,566 --> 00:18:23,592
My mother get AFDC
for me and my daughter.

251
00:18:23,669 --> 00:18:26,900
So your mother has custody of you and
your daughter, and you're on her budget?

252
00:18:26,973 --> 00:18:29,942
Okay, well, l'm gonna need a copy
of your mother's budget,

253
00:18:30,009 --> 00:18:33,001
and a copy of your phone bi ll
and your utility bill .

254
00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,411
We gotta give you a few tests,
test your reading and your math level,

255
00:18:36,482 --> 00:18:38,143
see where to place you.

256
00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:41,651
Hold on , baby. Each One Teach One, hold.

257
00:18:42,588 --> 00:18:47,116
To enter into the GED classes,
you gotta get an 8.0 or better on the TABE.

258
00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:21,720
There's always somethIng wrong
with these tests.

259
00:19:23,829 --> 00:19:25,956
These tests paint a picture of me
with no brain.

260
00:19:27,233 --> 00:19:29,326
These tests paint a picture
of me and my mother,

261
00:19:29,402 --> 00:19:31,870
my whole famiIy, as Iess than dumb.

262
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:36,032
Just ugly, bIack grease to be wiped away,
find another job for.

263
00:19:37,810 --> 00:19:40,040
Sometimes l wish l was dead.

264
00:19:41,714 --> 00:19:45,411
l'll be okay, I guess, 'cause l'm looking up.

265
00:19:47,653 --> 00:19:50,178
l'm Iooking up for a piano to fall.

266
00:19:50,256 --> 00:19:54,215
Or a desk, couch, TV. . . Momma, maybe.

267
00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:57,422
Always something in my way.

268
00:19:58,764 --> 00:19:59,753
Yeah, man.

269
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:02,095
Yo, make sure you get that
for me, too, man.

270
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,691
Alternative.

271
00:20:03,769 --> 00:20:05,760
Man, you gotta stop smoking
them shits, man.

272
00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:08,169
That ain't the only thing
that's gonna fucking kill you.

273
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,105
Hustling in these streets gonna kill you.

274
00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:12,172
lt is what it is.

275
00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:14,337
Then my mInd come back down to Earth.

276
00:20:15,181 --> 00:20:17,945
Let me get some of that sweet ass, orca!

277
00:20:18,451 --> 00:20:19,440
What up, mama?

278
00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:21,577
Why boys aIways grabbIng on themseIves?

279
00:20:21,687 --> 00:20:25,521
You heard what the fuck I said?
l said give me some fucking ass.

280
00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:28,389
l'm serious!
When you gonna let me hit that?

281
00:20:28,461 --> 00:20:29,519
That bitch is laughing. . .

282
00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:30,960
l wish they'd Ieave me alone.

283
00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,054
-She's stupid.
-Yeah .

284
00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:37,600
Yo, that's not even funny.

285
00:20:38,137 --> 00:20:40,469
That's what she'd get anyway, no.

286
00:20:43,209 --> 00:20:44,471
Precious!

287
00:22:44,263 --> 00:22:47,232
Ma, I need some money!

288
00:22:51,537 --> 00:22:53,164
Ma, I'm hungry!

289
00:22:55,241 --> 00:22:57,766
Come take care of Mommy, Precious.

290
00:23:02,848 --> 00:23:05,078
l wish she'd stop this shit.

291
00:23:12,091 --> 00:23:14,082
The other day l cried.

292
00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:18,858
l felt stupid. But you know what?

293
00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:21,059
Fuck that day.

294
00:23:22,368 --> 00:23:26,202
That's why God, or whoever,
makes new days.

295
00:23:26,939 --> 00:23:28,634
Still hungry, though.

296
00:23:34,446 --> 00:23:36,812
Nigger wants me to leave my kids.

297
00:23:38,050 --> 00:23:39,540
They're my kids.

298
00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:45,588
-What d'you want, baby?
-Give me a basket, please.

299
00:23:45,658 --> 00:23:47,489
-Sides?
-l don't know yet.

300
00:23:47,593 --> 00:23:51,222
Still thinking about it.
Trying to watch my figure.

301
00:23:55,067 --> 00:23:58,059
Butchie, you got a 1 0-piece ready?

302
00:24:19,825 --> 00:24:21,349
potato salad.

303
00:24:21,860 --> 00:24:23,020
Thank you.

304
00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:30,865
Hell, no, she didn't!

305
00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:33,938
Get her ass! Get that big bitch !

306
00:25:07,406 --> 00:25:10,034
No, l am not the one.

307
00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:18,308
You in ABE?

308
00:26:20,379 --> 00:26:21,471
Yeah.

309
00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:24,877
Ti me's a-wasting.

310
00:26:48,173 --> 00:26:49,902
What's your name?

311
00:26:50,742 --> 00:26:52,175
Claireece.

312
00:26:53,412 --> 00:26:55,141
Are you coming in?

313
00:27:01,587 --> 00:27:04,021
That door closes in 20 seconds.

314
00:27:09,428 --> 00:27:11,692
How are you guys doing today?

315
00:27:13,198 --> 00:27:15,792
Would you like to joi n us, Consuelo?

316
00:27:16,935 --> 00:27:19,460
Consuelo, class is beginning.

317
00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:25,771
You guys know
that you are in the ABE class.

318
00:27:26,278 --> 00:27:29,770
Th is is not GED .
This is to get you ready for your GED.

319
00:27:50,903 --> 00:27:54,361
These journals are very important
to this class, so do not forget them.

320
00:27:54,473 --> 00:27:56,839
You will need to use them every day
that you are here.

321
00:27:56,909 --> 00:27:58,376
They are the key to this class.

322
00:27:58,477 --> 00:27:59,808
lt's 9: 07 , Joann. You're late.

323
00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:02,506
You're the one who said breakfast is
the most important meal of the day.

324
00:28:02,581 --> 00:28:05,550
Tomorrow, that door wil l be looked at 9: 00.

325
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,520
l want you to state you r name,
where you were born ,

326
00:28:12,591 --> 00:28:17,255
your favorite color, something you do well
and why you're here.

327
00:28:18,497 --> 00:28:20,158
l'll go first.

328
00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:21,756
When you due?

329
00:28:22,668 --> 00:28:24,829
-My name. . .
-What you mean, you don't know?

330
00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:26,564
. . . is Blu Rain.

331
00:28:26,672 --> 00:28:28,902
-That's your real name?
-Yes, it is.

332
00:28:29,007 --> 00:28:31,441
Your first name's Blu?

333
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,946
My favorite color is pu rple. l sing well.

334
00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:41,880
And l'm here

335
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,782
because l love to teach.

336
00:28:46,892 --> 00:28:48,359
She like to sing.

337
00:28:48,427 --> 00:28:49,894
Rhonda?

338
00:28:49,962 --> 00:28:53,955
l wish l could sIng.
Go to church and sing in the choir.

339
00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:56,231
Show them how it's done.

340
00:28:56,301 --> 00:29:01,034
All right.
My name is Rhonda patrice Johnson.

341
00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:04,239
Problem?

342
00:29:05,611 --> 00:29:07,545
-l should smack her.
-What?

343
00:29:07,613 --> 00:29:13,142
l was born in Kingston , Jamaica,
and my favorite color is blue.

344
00:29:13,652 --> 00:29:15,244
And l cook good.

345
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,948
My mother, she used to have a restaurant
over on 7 th Avenue.

346
00:29:18,056 --> 00:29:20,616
Before she get sick,
she teach me everything.

347
00:29:20,726 --> 00:29:24,560
So I'm here to get my reading up,
so l can get my G ED.

348
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:33,329
My name is Rita Romero.
l was born here in Harlem.

349
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:38,675
l'm here 'cause l was an addict
and I dropped out of school.

350
00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:42,639
So l never got
my reading and writing together.

351
00:29:43,181 --> 00:29:44,978
My favorite color's black.

352
00:29:45,083 --> 00:29:46,448
What do you do good?

353
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:49,282
''Well,'' Joann. ''What do you do well?''

354
00:29:49,354 --> 00:29:52,289
-What do l do well?
-No. Rita?

355
00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:55,620
l'm a good mother. Very good mother.

356
00:29:59,031 --> 00:30:02,091
My name's Jermaine.
My favorite color is red.

357
00:30:02,167 --> 00:30:04,294
Tel l us where you were born first.

358
00:30:04,369 --> 00:30:07,532
l was born in the Bronx. Still live there.

359
00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:11,541
My favorite color is red. Used to be blue.

360
00:30:12,944 --> 00:30:15,139
l can dance real good.

361
00:30:15,213 --> 00:30:17,443
Homie of mine told me
about Each One Teach One,

362
00:30:17,516 --> 00:30:20,280
so l came here to stay out of trouble.

363
00:30:20,352 --> 00:30:23,150
So you came here to Harlem
to stay out of trouble? ls that right?

364
00:30:23,221 --> 00:30:24,620
Yeah.

365
00:30:24,690 --> 00:30:27,352
-Consuelo?
-This is bul lshit.

366
00:30:27,459 --> 00:30:28,983
You think so?

367
00:30:33,732 --> 00:30:35,131
Claireece?

368
00:30:37,736 --> 00:30:39,397
Can l skip, too?

369
00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:42,873
Joann?

370
00:30:42,974 --> 00:30:46,410
Okay. l'm Joann . Hey.

371
00:30:49,047 --> 00:30:51,242
My favorite color is fluorescent beige

372
00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:54,217
and my ambition is to have
my own record layer.

373
00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:55,343
What's a record layer?

374
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:58,355
Tell us where you come from
and why you come to this school.

375
00:30:58,423 --> 00:31:00,391
l was born i n Kings Cou nty Hospital,

376
00:31:00,492 --> 00:31:02,892
but my mother moved us to Harlem
when l was nine.

377
00:31:02,994 --> 00:31:08,022
l'm here to get my G ED, and then . . .
Well, l'm already into the music industry.

378
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,695
l'm just trying to take oare of
this little education thing so l can move up.

379
00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:16,833
Let's beg in . This is ABE.

380
00:31:16,908 --> 00:31:18,239
Can l go?

381
00:31:23,849 --> 00:31:27,114
l wish I could sit
in the back of the class again.

382
00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:39,688
My name Claireece ''Precious'' Jones.

383
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:42,562
l go by Precious.

384
00:31:44,302 --> 00:31:47,703
l live in Harlem . l like yellow.

385
00:31:48,774 --> 00:31:54,804
And l had problems at my other school,
so l come here.

386
00:31:57,149 --> 00:31:59,083
Something you do well?

387
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:02,951
Nothing.

388
00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:05,987
Everybody's good at something.

389
00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:10,459
Come on.

390
00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:17,796
Well , l oan cook. And. . .

391
00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:23,070
l never really talked in class before.

392
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,175
How does that make you feel?

393
00:32:36,588 --> 00:32:37,748
Here.

394
00:32:41,526 --> 00:32:43,517
lt makes me feel here.

395
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:47,989
Everybody open their journal.

396
00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:52,126
Write the date at the top of the page,
and write.

397
00:32:53,672 --> 00:32:55,936
l don't care if you spell everything wrong.

398
00:32:56,007 --> 00:32:58,134
l don't care if it's grammatically incorrect.
But just write.

399
00:32:58,210 --> 00:32:59,939
Write anything that you're feeling.

400
00:33:00,011 --> 00:33:02,343
This class will be a revolving door.

401
00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:05,610
Some of you will make it
and some of you won't.

402
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,048
Fifteen min utes. Go.

403
00:33:11,857 --> 00:33:17,056
Before, l got a A-minus at English,
and l didn 't have to say nothing.

404
00:33:18,363 --> 00:33:22,493
Ms. Rain saId we gonna read
and write in our notebooks every day.

405
00:33:22,567 --> 00:33:24,728
How we supposed to do that?

406
00:33:27,405 --> 00:33:30,340
But then she see the worry on my face
and she say,

407
00:33:30,408 --> 00:33:33,571
''The longest journey
begin with a singIe step. ''

408
00:33:35,981 --> 00:33:38,882
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.

409
00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:41,508
Come on , come on , do the work.

410
00:33:41,586 --> 00:33:45,022
You love it, love it, learn it.

411
00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:47,490
Consuelo?

412
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,093
''C'' for Consuelo.

413
00:33:50,562 --> 00:33:52,325
''C'' for kiok your ass.

414
00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:54,729
lt's ''K'' for kick your ass, stupid.

415
00:33:54,833 --> 00:33:56,824
l got the ''D,'' Ms. Rain.

416
00:34:01,172 --> 00:34:02,662
''D'' for dick.

417
00:34:03,508 --> 00:34:05,601
Ms. Rai n , tell this little-ass bitch
that she don't know me.

418
00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:07,678
Which you wish you had.

419
00:34:15,754 --> 00:34:17,085
-Help her.
-''E.''

420
00:34:17,188 --> 00:34:18,280
''E.''

421
00:34:20,692 --> 00:34:21,784
''E.''

422
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,878
''F'' for fat.

423
00:34:51,323 --> 00:34:52,551
What?

424
00:34:52,991 --> 00:34:54,151
Good.

425
00:34:57,762 --> 00:35:00,822
Hey! Hey! Hey! Q u it it! Hey!

426
00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:03,832
-What?
-Hey, you stop it right now!

427
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:05,459
-You fucking. . .
-Q uit it!

428
00:35:05,570 --> 00:35:06,662
-She just hit me!
-Drop it!

429
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:07,897
Shut the fuck up!

430
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:10,232
She just slapped me!

431
00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:11,639
Get out.

432
00:35:12,344 --> 00:35:14,972
We don't fight i n my class. Sit down.

433
00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:21,682
''C'' for cold.

434
00:35:31,262 --> 00:35:33,253
Do you live with anybody?

435
00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:35,998
My mother.

436
00:35:36,701 --> 00:35:38,362
What does she do?

437
00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:42,438
She don't do nothing.

438
00:35:46,011 --> 00:35:48,878
l want you to read a page from this book.

439
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:58,315
Try.

440
00:36:00,058 --> 00:36:03,892
All l need you to do is sound out
these words for me.

441
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:05,519
You don't have to know every word.

442
00:36:05,630 --> 00:36:09,327
You just have to. . . lt doesn't matter
if you stumble or. . . Try for me. . .

443
00:36:09,401 --> 00:36:13,531
. . .or trip up on it.
You just need to say what you know.

444
00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:17,233
Come on . You can do this.
Try. Take it word by word .

445
00:36:18,309 --> 00:36:19,901
-Are you listening to me?
-Precious!

446
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:23,003
l just wanna know where you are
in your readi ng skills.

447
00:36:23,081 --> 00:36:24,378
'Cause l'm looking at your test scores. . .

448
00:36:24,482 --> 00:36:26,973
Some higher fucking learning.
You're a dumb bitch!

449
00:36:27,052 --> 00:36:28,679
Try to read, okay?

450
00:36:28,753 --> 00:36:31,085
Just help me and then I can help you.

451
00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:33,590
We'll start from scratch. Word for word.

452
00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:36,217
l want you better than you r mother.

453
00:36:37,262 --> 00:36:39,696
-l'm gonna call the nurse.
-No.

454
00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:47,102
lt all look the same to me.

455
00:36:50,775 --> 00:36:52,367
What's this?

456
00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:57,112
l can't do that, Ms. Rain.

457
00:36:58,183 --> 00:36:59,844
push yourself.

458
00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:03,614
A.

459
00:37:05,457 --> 00:37:06,890
What's this word?

460
00:37:12,097 --> 00:37:14,930
Do you know the letters? Come on.

461
00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:17,626
''D .''

462
00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:22,270
''A.''

463
00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:25,240
''Y.''

464
00:37:25,977 --> 00:37:27,968
Do you know that word?

465
00:37:30,482 --> 00:37:31,710
''Day.''

466
00:37:33,818 --> 00:37:35,615
What word is that?

467
00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,486
Ate. Ate.

468
00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:41,991
Good . Almost. The word is ''At.''

469
00:37:43,828 --> 00:37:45,056
''At.''

470
00:37:47,665 --> 00:37:48,927
''The.''

471
00:37:51,636 --> 00:37:52,728
Sound it out.

472
00:37:52,804 --> 00:37:54,294
''Beach.''

473
00:37:54,405 --> 00:37:57,499
The word is ''Shore.''
lt's almost like ''Beaoh.''

474
00:37:58,243 --> 00:37:59,676
Very good.

475
00:38:00,311 --> 00:38:02,836
Now, read the whole thing for me.

476
00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:06,009
''A

477
00:38:07,585 --> 00:38:08,984
''Day

478
00:38:11,589 --> 00:38:13,750
''At The

479
00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:16,192
''Shore.''

480
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:26,027
Get your big ass in here.

481
00:38:38,716 --> 00:38:41,014
Where was you at this morning?

482
00:38:47,692 --> 00:38:50,183
You hear me talking to you?
Where was you at this morning?

483
00:38:50,295 --> 00:38:52,661
School. l was at school.

484
00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:54,163
You a lying whore.

485
00:38:54,232 --> 00:38:56,223
-l'm not lying.
-You is.

486
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:59,326
The welfare done called here saying
they gonna remove you from my budget

487
00:38:59,404 --> 00:39:01,304
'cause you ain't been
attending school regularly.

488
00:39:01,372 --> 00:39:03,067
l told you l got kicked out.

489
00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:05,199
l been home nearly every day
for two weeks now.

490
00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:08,677
You ai n't told me nothing
about no damn school today.

491
00:39:08,746 --> 00:39:11,738
l told you l was going
to school this morning.

492
00:39:13,418 --> 00:39:16,649
You plan on putting some food
in that frying pan?

493
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,492
Precious, you got something
you wanna say?

494
00:39:24,562 --> 00:39:26,689
-No.
-Then don't be slamming shit down in here.

495
00:39:26,764 --> 00:39:28,356
You u nderstand?

496
00:39:29,267 --> 00:39:30,734
Yes, ma'am.

497
00:39:32,437 --> 00:39:35,873
You need to forget about that school shit
and take your ass down to the welfare.

498
00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:37,771
l'm getti ng a stipend from school.

499
00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:40,071
Fool, what the fuck is a stipend?
What is that?

500
00:39:40,178 --> 00:39:43,739
Fuck a sti pend .
l said take your ass down to the welfare.

501
00:39:43,848 --> 00:39:44,940
Right now?

502
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:48,712
Why in the fuck would you go right now?
It's at n ighttime. Shit is closed.

503
00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:50,048
You gotta be there by 7:00 a. m.

504
00:39:50,121 --> 00:39:52,715
in the morning
if you wanna talk to somebody.

505
00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:54,417
Fucking stupid.

506
00:39:58,096 --> 00:40:01,759
You thi n k you're too good now?
ls that what it is?

507
00:40:02,567 --> 00:40:05,468
You think you is too good for the welfare?

508
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:13,109
There's more wh ite folk getting assistance
than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis.

509
00:40:14,946 --> 00:40:16,538
l think l said therapy. . .

510
00:40:16,614 --> 00:40:20,380
Hurry your ass up.
l am i n here fucking starving.

511
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:22,746
Now what you gonna do
if l die of starvation?

512
00:40:22,820 --> 00:40:24,981
Where you gonna go after that?

513
00:40:26,157 --> 00:40:28,125
l forgot. School.

514
00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:32,427
Eaoh. . . What that bitch say?
Each one do what?

515
00:40:32,497 --> 00:40:34,590
Each one teach one?

516
00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:36,133
Well, they don't know
who the fuck they teaching,

517
00:40:36,234 --> 00:40:38,395
'cause you can't learn shit.

518
00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:41,804
Keep on listening to them white people.

519
00:40:41,906 --> 00:40:44,568
That's what's gonna get you fucked up.

520
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:49,409
Precious, l'm hungry.

521
00:41:15,373 --> 00:41:19,207
You ain't cooked no col lard g reens
with the fucking pigs' feet?

522
00:41:19,711 --> 00:41:22,703
Like, how am l supposed to eat pigs' feet
with no collard greens?

523
00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:26,648
And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet
have so much hair in it?

524
00:41:26,718 --> 00:41:30,017
You eat it. You come eat this shit.

525
00:41:30,121 --> 00:41:32,385
-l'm not hungry, though.
-Yes, you is.

526
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,653
Precious, if you don't get
this goddamn plate. . .

527
00:41:41,065 --> 00:41:45,559
You just fix mine when you get done.
Since you fucked it u p, you gonna eat it up.

528
00:41:46,070 --> 00:41:49,005
Hurry up and eat, Precious.
l'm fucking hu ng ry, too.

529
00:41:51,075 --> 00:41:55,478
And don't let it get cold ,
'cause cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit.

530
00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:07,339
So, tell me about. . .
Tel l me about your home life.

531
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:12,872
Ain't nothi ng to really talk about.

532
00:44:13,384 --> 00:44:15,875
You're in a safe place. Just talk.

533
00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:17,209
What's going on?

534
00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:18,652
What's the first thing
that comes to your mind

535
00:44:18,723 --> 00:44:20,850
when you think about home?

536
00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:24,655
l just wish l had my own TV,
so l could watch it in my room.

537
00:44:25,396 --> 00:44:28,957
lf l had my own TV,
l wouldn't have to watch it with my mother.

538
00:44:29,033 --> 00:44:31,831
And what's it like,
watching TV with your mother?

539
00:44:31,903 --> 00:44:34,667
You enjoy watching TV with your mother?

540
00:44:34,739 --> 00:44:39,733
l need to know about your home life.
l need to know what it's like where you live.

541
00:44:40,745 --> 00:44:42,872
My mother's like a whale on the couch.

542
00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:46,973
She say I eat al l the time,
but she always making me eat.

543
00:44:47,051 --> 00:44:49,246
Then she call me a fat mess.

544
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:52,481
She say the apartment
is little 'cause of me.

545
00:44:52,557 --> 00:44:55,355
Only time she ever leaves
is to play her numbers.

546
00:44:55,426 --> 00:44:58,361
l feel like l cou ld just sit in the house
with her every day,

547
00:44:58,429 --> 00:44:59,862
the shades drawn,

548
00:44:59,931 --> 00:45:04,163
watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again.

549
00:45:05,036 --> 00:45:07,266
Can you help out with that?

550
00:45:08,506 --> 00:45:11,168
Can we talk about something else now?

551
00:45:17,448 --> 00:45:19,382
How about your firstborn?

552
00:45:19,450 --> 00:45:20,781
Mongo?

553
00:45:22,620 --> 00:45:24,713
Mongo is her. . . ls that. . .

554
00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:28,051
Mongo. That's short for ''mongoloid.''

555
00:45:28,926 --> 00:45:33,260
ls that what you call her? Or that's. . .
What is that? A nickname?

556
00:45:33,965 --> 00:45:35,899
She got Down's syndr ome.

557
00:45:44,108 --> 00:45:45,075
How you doing, Precious?

558
00:45:45,142 --> 00:45:47,736
My grandmother Toosie
bring little Mongo over to our house

559
00:45:47,812 --> 00:45:52,146
on days when the social worker come,
so it look like she live with us.

560
00:45:53,651 --> 00:45:55,710
Answer the fucking door.

561
00:45:57,388 --> 00:45:59,618
Do you see what you did? God damn it.

562
00:45:59,724 --> 00:46:02,989
Then my mother gets money
and the food stamps for me and Mongo.

563
00:46:03,094 --> 00:46:04,493
Who is it?

564
00:46:05,096 --> 00:46:06,723
It's Ms. Turner.

565
00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:08,789
Social worker's here.

566
00:46:08,899 --> 00:46:12,596
Why didn't you tell me that bitch
was comi ng so fucking early?

567
00:46:12,670 --> 00:46:15,332
My fucking wig . Come get my wig !

568
00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:16,770
Come up!

569
00:46:21,512 --> 00:46:23,343
Where's my lipstick?

570
00:46:27,118 --> 00:46:29,746
Thank you, thank you.

571
00:46:39,664 --> 00:46:42,929
-Get off of me.
-Leave that chi ld alone, please.

572
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,195
Mind your goddam n business.

573
00:46:47,104 --> 00:46:49,095
-H i , Precious.
-Hey.

574
00:46:49,507 --> 00:46:52,305
-Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?
-H i , Mary. How are you?

575
00:46:52,376 --> 00:46:55,641
Please excuse that.
My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over.

576
00:46:55,713 --> 00:46:58,011
please, have a seat. Excuse the mess.

577
00:46:58,115 --> 00:46:59,639
-Thank you.
-Than ks.

578
00:46:59,717 --> 00:47:00,979
How are you, Mary?

579
00:47:01,052 --> 00:47:04,044
l'm doi ng really good, Ms. Turner.
Thank you .

580
00:47:04,889 --> 00:47:07,449
When was the last time
you've taken her to the doctor?

581
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:10,891
Precious, when. . .
When did we take her? The baby?

582
00:47:10,995 --> 00:47:12,019
Last month.

583
00:47:12,129 --> 00:47:15,530
Yeah. . . On the 1 6th.
On the 1 6th . Yes, yes, ma'am.

584
00:47:16,133 --> 00:47:18,693
Okay, and what did the doctor say?

585
00:47:21,305 --> 00:47:24,240
They said
that she's progressing really good.

586
00:47:24,342 --> 00:47:26,139
She's doing really good.

587
00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:28,371
-That's good .
-Yes, ma'am.

588
00:47:28,479 --> 00:47:30,208
And have you been looking for a job?

589
00:47:30,314 --> 00:47:34,580
I have, Ms. Turner. l am.
But they've all been saying the same thing.

590
00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:38,177
You know, they'll call me back.
They'll get back to me.

591
00:47:40,558 --> 00:47:42,685
When did you go looking for the job?

592
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,924
l went last week
and l filled out several appl ications.

593
00:47:47,031 --> 00:47:50,728
And they all said the same thing,
that they would call me.

594
00:47:52,837 --> 00:47:54,099
Mommy!

595
00:47:54,505 --> 00:47:56,996
No ! No!

596
00:47:58,275 --> 00:48:00,539
ls that a new microwave oven?

597
00:48:00,945 --> 00:48:02,913
A. . . A microwave?

598
00:48:03,948 --> 00:48:07,611
No, ma'am.
We warm our things up in the oven.

599
00:48:08,953 --> 00:48:11,421
-l see. lt's a toaster oven.
-Yes. Yes, ma'am.

600
00:48:11,522 --> 00:48:15,788
Okay.
l wi ll be seeing and speaking with you

601
00:48:17,094 --> 00:48:18,083
in a week or so.

602
00:48:18,195 --> 00:48:19,219
-l n a week or so?
-Yes.

603
00:48:19,296 --> 00:48:22,788
Okay, do you know what time you'll be. . .
You'l l be comi ng?

604
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,128
-I'l l let you know.
-Okay.

605
00:48:24,235 --> 00:48:25,600
-l'l l let you know.
-Thank you so much.

606
00:48:25,703 --> 00:48:28,467
Precious, any questions for me?

607
00:48:30,875 --> 00:48:32,638
How are you, Precious?

608
00:48:32,743 --> 00:48:35,803
l'm doi ng good . How you doing?

609
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,571
l'm good, thank you.

610
00:48:39,717 --> 00:48:41,742
Ladies, thank you for your time.

611
00:48:41,819 --> 00:48:43,753
Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.
Have a great day.

612
00:48:43,821 --> 00:48:45,982
-And you . Bye, Sheila.
-Bye.

613
00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:53,563
Come get this motherfucking . . . Get her.

614
00:48:53,631 --> 00:48:56,498
Moving all around and shit
while l'm trying to talk to this bitch.

615
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,500
Makes me fucking itch.

616
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,568
She done threw her fucking candy
on the floor.

617
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,164
Goddamn animal.

618
00:49:05,810 --> 00:49:08,938
And now you gonna give it to her?
put the fucking candy back on the floor!

619
00:49:09,013 --> 00:49:10,571
Then you go and pick it u p
and let her have it.

620
00:49:10,648 --> 00:49:13,845
You're so fucki ng stupid.
Just like her dumb ass.

621
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:17,648
That bitch gon na come up i n here
and l gotta fucking make pretend?

622
00:49:17,755 --> 00:49:19,086
l'm so sick of it.

623
00:49:19,156 --> 00:49:21,624
l don't know what the fuck
you shaking your head for.

624
00:49:21,692 --> 00:49:23,159
You didn't do no goddamn better.

625
00:49:23,260 --> 00:49:25,319
You know what?
Let's tal k about your father.

626
00:49:25,429 --> 00:49:27,863
Tel l me about your relationshi p with him.

627
00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:30,433
I don't know much more
than you do, Ms. White.

628
00:49:30,501 --> 00:49:32,162
lt's Ms. Weiss.

629
00:49:32,269 --> 00:49:34,931
Talk to me about
the little you do know about your father,

630
00:49:35,005 --> 00:49:38,270
'cause it is im portant,
whether you know it or not.

631
00:49:39,043 --> 00:49:41,637
He give me this baby
and my one before it, but l. . .

632
00:49:41,712 --> 00:49:44,306
What did you say he gave you?

633
00:49:44,381 --> 00:49:45,814
-Noth ing .
-No, Claireece, you just said

634
00:49:45,883 --> 00:49:47,043
your father gave you something.

635
00:49:47,151 --> 00:49:49,142
-l heard you just say. . .
-You didn't hear shit.

636
00:49:49,220 --> 00:49:52,018
-l heard you say your father. . .
-l ain't say nothing . I ai n't say shit like it.

637
00:49:52,122 --> 00:49:53,953
-l don't care, honey.
-l d idn't say nothing like that.

638
00:49:54,024 --> 00:49:55,616
-l need to know this.
-Let's move on .

639
00:49:55,693 --> 00:49:57,058
l need to know th is to help you.

640
00:49:57,161 --> 00:50:00,153
-Bitch , can we change the subject?
-Okay.

641
00:50:00,231 --> 00:50:03,394
Well , l'll see you next time, then.
Or maybe you'll see someone else.

642
00:50:03,501 --> 00:50:08,063
But you're gonna have to talk to somebody
if you want you r check, sweetie.

643
00:50:18,315 --> 00:50:20,340
l see vampires, too.

644
00:50:23,187 --> 00:50:26,520
They come at night.
They tel l me l'm one of them.

645
00:50:27,892 --> 00:50:31,020
They say, ''Precious, you belong with us.''

646
00:50:33,430 --> 00:50:35,921
And then they go downstai rs
th roug h the floor.

647
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,866
The people that live under us,
they is vampi res,

648
00:50:38,936 --> 00:50:41,268
so that's where they should go.

649
00:50:41,839 --> 00:50:44,000
They be so nasty, though,

650
00:50:44,074 --> 00:50:46,440
leaving thei r di rty tampons and shit
in the garbage.

651
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:48,944
Don't even offer to take it out.

652
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:51,571
They got no fucking home training.

653
00:50:54,618 --> 00:50:58,384
l been going to the doctor, too. lt's nice.

654
00:50:59,790 --> 00:51:04,124
Ms. Rain fall out when she fou nd out
l ain't never been to no doctor before.

655
00:51:07,298 --> 00:51:09,698
Don't know how l had my first baby
on the kitchen floor

656
00:51:09,767 --> 00:51:12,702
with my momma kicking me
u pside my head .

657
00:51:15,372 --> 00:51:16,737
Them the kind of things
you're talking about

658
00:51:16,807 --> 00:51:19,640
when you say,
say whatever come to my mind?

659
00:51:24,214 --> 00:51:26,944
That's the end of them welfare checks.

660
00:51:27,051 --> 00:51:31,078
l just couIdn 't lie no more.
I shouIdn't have said none of that.

661
00:51:34,625 --> 00:51:36,422
Momma gonna kIll me.

662
00:51:45,269 --> 00:51:46,827
Motherfuckers!

663
00:51:50,474 --> 00:51:52,101
Are we done?

664
00:51:52,176 --> 00:51:53,939
l'm not doing this with you today.

665
00:51:54,011 --> 00:51:56,673
At night, we went out on a field trip.

666
00:52:01,852 --> 00:52:03,786
These girls is crazy.

667
00:52:04,188 --> 00:52:07,521
Ain 't nobody ever grabbed my hand
like that before.

668
00:52:24,274 --> 00:52:26,708
...as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination

669
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:29,802
for the presIdency
of the United States of America.

670
00:52:30,481 --> 00:52:34,212
...and by havIng destroyed it,
now we don 't know. . .

671
00:52:36,620 --> 00:52:41,557
...and the testimony you're about to give
wilI be the truth, the whole truth. . .

672
00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:43,524
I stiIl have a dream.

673
00:52:45,362 --> 00:52:48,991
It is a dream deeply rooted
in the American dream.

674
00:52:50,234 --> 00:52:54,000
l have a dream that one day

675
00:52:55,506 --> 00:53:00,671
this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of. . .

676
00:53:00,744 --> 00:53:02,871
l'm gonna teach my baby all of this.

677
00:53:02,980 --> 00:53:06,006
''We hold these truths to be seIf-evident,

678
00:53:06,083 --> 00:53:08,176
''that all men are created equal. ''

679
00:53:08,252 --> 00:53:10,516
No fear. That's bullshit. That's bu llshit.

680
00:53:10,587 --> 00:53:11,679
You mean , write a whole new one?

681
00:53:11,755 --> 00:53:14,656
No, girl , if I need to explain myself to you. . .

682
00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:16,488
-You'll figure it out.
-You think that l'm stupid?

683
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,586
Oh , my God . That l believe in you?

684
00:53:21,598 --> 00:53:23,156
That l think you're incredible?

685
00:53:23,233 --> 00:53:24,928
Yes, but l don't know what to do.

686
00:53:25,035 --> 00:53:28,061
All rig ht, pull it together. Okay.
Who's next?

687
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:30,370
l'm happy to be writing.

688
00:53:30,441 --> 00:53:33,433
-Go ahead , Rhonda.
-I'm happy to be In school, too.

689
00:53:33,544 --> 00:53:36,877
Ms. Rain say we gonna write
every day in our notebook.

690
00:53:36,947 --> 00:53:38,915
She gonna wrlte back to us every day, too.

691
00:53:39,016 --> 00:53:42,782
''Yesterday l went to church for
the first time since l come to this country.

692
00:53:42,886 --> 00:53:44,183
''l got all the way to Brooklyn.

693
00:53:44,254 --> 00:53:47,052
''The church was up the block and around
the corner upon the 3 trai n .

694
00:53:47,124 --> 00:53:48,785
''The preacher preached
two and a half hours

695
00:53:48,892 --> 00:53:51,383
-''about Jehovah .
-Rhonda ! Rhonda!

696
00:53:51,462 --> 00:53:54,898
''And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,
Jehovah delivers.''

697
00:53:54,965 --> 00:53:56,956
ls that a fairytale?

698
00:53:58,535 --> 00:53:59,866
Sit down.

699
00:53:59,937 --> 00:54:01,234
Did anybody do this assign ment?

700
00:54:01,305 --> 00:54:03,796
Momma say this school ain 't shit.

701
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:06,375
She say you can 't Iearn nothing
writing in no book.

702
00:54:06,443 --> 00:54:11,642
-This is a fai rytale called ''Enchanted.''
-She wrong about that. l is learning.

703
00:54:14,418 --> 00:54:17,876
''Once upon a time, i n a faraway land,

704
00:54:18,288 --> 00:54:22,418
''there lived a beautiful princess
named Joan n-a.

705
00:54:22,993 --> 00:54:27,293
''She was very, very fly and extra, extra tall,

706
00:54:27,898 --> 00:54:31,390
''and every single boy loved her,
big and small .

707
00:54:32,169 --> 00:54:36,265
''Except for one idiot boy
who was so stupid and dumb.

708
00:54:36,340 --> 00:54:40,572
''And out of all the cute boys who loved her,
he was the cutest one.''

709
00:54:41,678 --> 00:54:44,977
-That's all l got so far.
-That's a good beginning.

710
00:54:45,082 --> 00:54:48,609
Thinking about littIe Mongo, too. l miss her.

711
00:54:48,986 --> 00:54:50,453
That's how you start a fairytale.

712
00:54:50,521 --> 00:54:52,819
l'm happy my baby coming up.

713
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:57,791
I'm gonna read to this baby, too,
and hang coIors on its wall.

714
00:54:58,695 --> 00:55:01,630
Listen, baby. Mother not dumb.

715
00:55:01,698 --> 00:55:03,996
Mother Iove you. Listen.

716
00:55:04,501 --> 00:55:08,164
''Once upon a time,
there was a mag ical princess

717
00:55:08,272 --> 00:55:11,435
''who lived in a magical bubble
under the sea.

718
00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:14,034
''And she was from land.''

719
00:55:29,293 --> 00:55:30,954
Stop screaming.

720
00:55:51,915 --> 00:55:55,749
His name's AbduI Jamal Lewis Jones.

721
00:55:56,753 --> 00:55:59,586
He heaIthy. His mother Iove him.

722
00:56:15,739 --> 00:56:17,934
The food in this hospital's nasty.

723
00:56:18,609 --> 00:56:19,735
lt's not from here.

724
00:56:19,843 --> 00:56:21,401
Where it from?

725
00:56:21,511 --> 00:56:24,036
A little shop by my house where

726
00:56:24,114 --> 00:56:26,548
I get my organic food ,
so l don't have to eat that

727
00:56:26,617 --> 00:56:29,211
nasty mystery-meat stuff
they got downstairs.

728
00:56:29,286 --> 00:56:32,278
Can you bring me something?
l don't like fru it. l like McDonald's.

729
00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:34,584
First of al l , l don't eat McDonald's.

730
00:56:34,691 --> 00:56:37,353
Second of all, you don't need
to be eating McDonald's, either.

731
00:56:37,427 --> 00:56:38,451
lt's not healthy.

732
00:56:38,562 --> 00:56:40,757
But l li ke McDonald's.
We all like McDonald's, right?

733
00:56:40,864 --> 00:56:43,458
We like McDonald's, too, over here.

734
00:56:43,567 --> 00:56:45,057
l don't like no damn McDonald's.

735
00:56:45,135 --> 00:56:48,229
l want some of that organio shit
like you got.

736
00:56:48,639 --> 00:56:50,106
Well , l tell you what,

737
00:56:50,207 --> 00:56:52,732
when you get up out of here,
you go with all you r l ittle friends,

738
00:56:52,809 --> 00:56:53,776
and you go to McDonald's,

739
00:56:53,877 --> 00:56:55,742
and you get as much
McDonald's as you want.

740
00:56:55,812 --> 00:56:58,280
But right now,
you're gonna take care of your health.

741
00:56:58,382 --> 00:57:00,077
Are you a doctor?

742
00:57:01,151 --> 00:57:03,119
-Are you her doctor?
-Am l a doctor?

743
00:57:03,220 --> 00:57:05,882
-Yeah .
-l am a nu rse's aide.

744
00:57:05,956 --> 00:57:07,753
Nurse John-John.

745
00:57:07,824 --> 00:57:09,485
Oh , that's funny?

746
00:57:09,993 --> 00:57:11,756
Well, you're a man.

747
00:57:12,496 --> 00:57:15,158
-You've never seen a male nurse?
-No.

748
00:57:15,332 --> 00:57:17,425
Not looking like you do.

749
00:57:18,235 --> 00:57:22,331
I am a male nurse.
l am Nurse John McFadden.

750
00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:24,999
So was you up in the room
when she popped the baby out?

751
00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:26,132
You was like, all up i n between her. . .

752
00:57:26,243 --> 00:57:28,268
Joan n , don't be nasty!

753
00:57:28,345 --> 00:57:29,937
How was it? Was he screaming?

754
00:57:30,013 --> 00:57:31,105
lt hurt.

755
00:57:31,181 --> 00:57:32,773
Tough gal like you had to scream?

756
00:57:32,849 --> 00:57:37,115
Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.
lt hurt. And it burned.

757
00:57:37,187 --> 00:57:38,449
-Are you married?
-Shut up!

758
00:57:38,522 --> 00:57:40,183
You got a girlfriend?

759
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:42,690
-Why you asking? He don't want you.
-How would you know?

760
00:57:42,793 --> 00:57:44,454
Why don't you stop being a ho
for 1 0 minutes?

761
00:57:44,528 --> 00:57:45,688
What's wrong with these people?

762
00:57:45,796 --> 00:57:47,161
You don't want her, right?

763
00:57:47,264 --> 00:57:50,028
l wish l was a cantalou pe in that cup.

764
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:51,623
So he could eat you?

765
00:57:51,702 --> 00:57:55,331
Okay, no. l gotta go. l gotta go.

766
00:57:55,772 --> 00:57:58,536
No, that's all right. That's all right.

767
00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:03,780
Can l get a kiss, too, Nurse John?

768
00:58:03,847 --> 00:58:06,611
-Good afternoon , ladies.
-Bye, N urse John .

769
00:58:06,683 --> 00:58:09,550
-Bye !
-Good night, Nurse John-John !

770
00:58:10,988 --> 00:58:13,286
Precious and John-John

771
00:58:13,357 --> 00:58:15,325
Sitting in a tree

772
00:58:15,392 --> 00:58:19,192
-F-U-C-K-I-N-G
-Shut up! Y'all are nasty.

773
00:58:22,899 --> 00:58:25,561
You thi n k he's spending the night
up in here?

774
00:58:27,738 --> 00:58:30,969
Now she gonna write
about Nurse John in her book!

775
00:58:32,242 --> 00:58:33,903
''Dear Ms. Rain,

776
00:58:34,411 --> 00:58:37,574
''AlI the years I sit in cIass, l never learned.

777
00:58:37,881 --> 00:58:40,748
''Now I got a baby again by my father.

778
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:44,146
''I wIsh I had a boyfriend Iike other girls.

779
00:58:44,221 --> 00:58:47,384
''Then I'll feel right
that l have to quit school.

780
00:58:47,491 --> 00:58:50,983
''I love my baby, but l want school, too.

781
00:58:51,061 --> 00:58:53,427
" Social worker ask me
if l wanna give littIe Mongo

782
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:57,057
''and Abdul up for adoption.
l could kilI her.

783
00:58:57,501 --> 00:59:01,232
'"She never helped before.
Now she wanna take my kids away?

784
00:59:01,938 --> 00:59:05,203
''lf she takes AbduI,
l won 't have nothing no more. ''