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(subway train rushing past)
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♪ ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ ooh... ♪
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♪ the cool September ♪
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♪ blows the seeds away ♪
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♪ the harvest blown ♪
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♪ again this year ♪
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♪ but I'll return ♪
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♪ a stronger man ♪
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♪ I'll return to me ♪
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♪ my homeland ♪
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♪ no grave shall hold ♪
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♪ my body down ♪
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-(car alarm wailing in distance)
-♪ this land is still ♪
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♪ my home ♪
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♪ ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ ooh,
ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ I called to my god ♪
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♪ but he was sleeping ♪
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♪ on that day ♪
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♪ I guess I'll just have to ♪
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♪ depend on me ♪
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♪ oh... ♪
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♪ ooh ♪
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(church bell ringing
in distance)
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♪ this land is still ♪
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-♪ my home. ♪
-(rapid thumping)
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pray tell:
Girl, if you don't stop
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-all that fidgeting.
-I-I'm... What?
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I'm sorry,
I can't-- I can't control it.
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I'm just nervous.
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I am, too.
But we're in good hands.
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You have swollen lymph nodes.
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It's very common
for people with aids.
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When we get back the results of
the biopsy from dr. Greenberg,
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-we'll have a better idea.
-Well, whatever it is, I hope
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it gets rid of these
night sweats.
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I haven't had
a full night's sleep in weeks.
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(knocking)
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may I have a word with, uh...
Pray tell alone?
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Uh, no, stay.
They...
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These women are family.
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The tissue samples
confirmed my suspicion.
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You have
aids-related lymphoma.
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-Cancer?
-Yes.
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The t cells we need
to boost your immunity
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and fight the cancer
aren't there.
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This makes it almost impossible
for me to treat you safely.
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What about, um... Chemo?
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Chemotherapy could
kill the cancer,
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but it'd also kill you.
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Uh, how... How long do I have?
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At most, six months.
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(slow exhale)
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nurse judy:
Fuck this.
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Fuck him.
Smug motherfucker.
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(echoing):
I can tell you, I've seen
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a dozen aids patients
just like you--
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night sweats, fevers,
swollen glands--
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gone on to recover and live.
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And we're getting
a second opinion.
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Blanca:
Pray. Pray.
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-(echoing stops)
-where'd you go?
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-You okay?
-I'm fine. I'm fine.
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Don't y'all worry about me.
Ain't no white man
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in a lab coat and cheap shoes
gonna tell me
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-I got to throw in the towel.
-Amen.
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Pray tell:
I've always known I was
living on limited time.
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But now...
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I know know.
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And I have to use
this time wisely.
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Yeah.
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I have to tell
the people I love
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that I love them.
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-I love you, pray.
-I love you, too.
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I love y'all.
(sighs)
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and there are some other people
who need to hear that from me.
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Some folks I got to forgive.
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(door opens)
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(footfalls approach)
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pray tell:
The category is...
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Live...
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Work...
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Pose!
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♪ ♪
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♪
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♪ lonely teardrops ♪
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♪ my pillows never dry of ♪
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♪ lonely teardrops ♪
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♪ come home ♪
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♪ come home... ♪
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♪ just say you will ♪
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-♪ say you will ♪
-♪ say you will ♪
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♪ say you will ♪
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♪ say
you will ♪
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♪ hey, hey ♪
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♪ say you will ♪
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♪ my heart is cryin', cryin' ♪
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♪ lonely teardrops ♪
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-♪ my pillows never dry of ♪
-(girls laughing)
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♪ lonely teardrops ♪
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♪ come home ♪
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♪ come home... ♪
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♪ just say you will ♪
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-♪ say you will ♪
-girls (singsongy):
Go, pray. Go, pray.
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-♪ say you will. ♪
-go, pray, hey, hey, go, pray.
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Go, pray. Go, pray.
Hey, hey, go, pray.
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-Go, pray. Go, pray.
-Charlene: Prayerful?
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-Is that you, baby?
-Hi, mommy.
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-I thought I'd surprise you.
-Ooh,
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what a blessing
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after all these years.
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Oh, my god.
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How long I got you?
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-For as long as you'll have me.
-Oh! You hungry?
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-Mm. (laughs)
-I'm making catfish
for lunch. Oh.
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Is auntie latrice and jada
coming over?
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Does a one-legged duck
swim in a circle?
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Nah, even hypertension can't
keep latrice from my cooking.
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(laughs)
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look at you!
Come in here.
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Mmm! Mmm, mmm, mmm.
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Mmm.
Frying up real nice.
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-Latrice: Mm, sure is.
-Jada: It is. (laughs)
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is this real silk?
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Yes, of course.
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-You think I'd wear rayon?
-Should I
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pull out your
high school yearbook?
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(laughs)
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-you weren't always a swan.
-Eh...
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How much a silk shirt like that
run you-- hundred, $200?
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How gauche.
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You can call me
all the names you want,
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but the money
you spend on clothes--
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you could fix the leak
in that church roof.
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Charlene:
Oh, stop it, now.
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It's enough chitter-chatter.
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My baby is home.
(exclaims)
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and you have to tell us
about your life in new york.
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-Latrice: Mm.
-It's good.
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It's fine.
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Mm-hmm.
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Challenging.
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That's why I'm visiting.
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-Most I can lend you is $50.
-Oh, hush up, now.
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Baby, is that why you came home?
That... You need money?
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No, mommy.
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-Okay.
-(chuckles)
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I came to share something
with you.
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Well, it can't be worse
than the last time
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-you gathered us for a meal.
-You mean that time
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I bared my soul
to the women I love
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and bravely told them I was gay?
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Latrice:
Oh, lord, here we go again.
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If I have to hear about
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your sexuality one more time.
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I do not talk
about my sex life.
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-That's 'cause you ain't got
no sex life to talk about.
-(chuckles)
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I'm not here
to talk about my sexuality.
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I'm here to talk
about my health.
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Is it the sugars?
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Pray tell:
No, I don't have diabetes.
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-(clears throat)
-jada: Well, what is it--
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sickle cell?
Asthma?
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No. I don't know any other way
to say this, so...
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I have aids.
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I'm dying.
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I have been...
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...Hiv positive for six years,
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and I didn't want
to burden y'all until
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it became serious.
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I know that we've already
been through so much.
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Mommy, I'm not trying
to upset you.
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-Uh-uh.
-And I'm so sorry.
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-I'm sorry.
-Mm-mm.
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-I'm really sorry.
-Mm-mm.
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-Mm-mm.
-Mommy. Mommy...
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Pray, let her go, baby.
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Latrice:
See, I always knew this would
happen. Heavenly father,
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-save his soul...
-Stop it.
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-From eternal damnation.
-Please, please,
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please, please stop.
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I don't need your prayers.
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I need your love.
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I never stopped loving you.
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Hate the sin,
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-love the sinner.
-Oh, jesus.
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Which is why
I care about your soul.
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Just shut your ole big mouth.
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If you cared about
the state of anyone's soul,
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then you would have
stood up for me
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when the church judged me
for getting a divorce.
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You had a child out of wedlock
with a married man!
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I lost my community.
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All because of some outdated law
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that was created by men
some 3,000 years ago.
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No, god's word is immutable.
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Divorce, homosexuality,
pedophilia...
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No, no, no. Don't put
those words beside each other.
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Your god made me this way,
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and there is nothing
wrong with me.
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God made you in his image.
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Everything else is a choice.
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You think it was a choice
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for me to be called "faggot"
and beat
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every day of my childhood?
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You think it was a choice
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for me to lose every man
I've ever loved?
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Sometimes I think I wouldn't
even have this disease
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if it wasn't for the church
and how y'all treated me.
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I...
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That's where
the troubles started.
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The drinking
and the drugging and...
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The one-night stands and...
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I'm so sorry.
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Pray, I didn't know.
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I know that I can't undo
what's already been done,
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but I need you to know
I've always loved you, pray.
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And I promise you I will be
there with you until the end.
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Mm.
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Now, look,
I'm-a go find your mama
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before she spirals
into one of her fits.
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Charlene?
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I am here for you, too, pray.
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Even though, sometimes, we have
not always seen eye-to-eye.
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-Where you going?
-Church.
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I got to get my soloist together
for Sunday service,
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and I could use some company.
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I'm not going
to that wretched place.
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Watch your mouth.
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A visit will do you some good.
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And you gonna like
the new pastor.
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Who is it?
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Vernon jackson.
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You got to be kidding me.
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God forgives and god forgets.
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Come on!
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(piano playing)
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(sighs)
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woman:
♪ just let me live ♪
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♪ my life ♪
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♪ let it be pleasing ♪
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♪ lord, to thee ♪
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♪ and should I gain ♪
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♪ any praise ♪
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♪ let it go to ♪
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♪ calvary... ♪
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-(piano stops playing)
-♪ ooh. ♪
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hold on.
I got an idea.
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Devin, you come in
after angela right here.
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-Let's try that.
-Angela: Okay.
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(piano resumes playing)
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♪ to god ♪
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♪ be the glory ♪
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♪ to god ♪
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♪ be the glory ♪
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♪ to god ♪
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♪ be the glory ♪
260
00:13:18,265 --> 00:13:21,415
angela:
♪ for the things ♪
261
00:13:21,518 --> 00:13:26,054
♪ he has done ♪
262
00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:29,474
devin:
♪ oh, for every, every, every ♪
263
00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,276
♪ every victory ♪
264
00:13:31,394 --> 00:13:35,363
-♪ he has won ♪
-♪ ooh ♪
265
00:13:35,448 --> 00:13:39,150
both:
♪ to god ♪
266
00:13:39,236 --> 00:13:43,204
♪ be the glory ♪
267
00:13:43,290 --> 00:13:47,408
♪ for the things ♪
268
00:13:47,494 --> 00:13:52,046
♪ he has ♪
269
00:13:52,132 --> 00:13:56,000
♪ done ♪
270
00:13:56,086 --> 00:14:02,557
♪ done... ♪
271
00:14:04,477 --> 00:14:06,127
(song ends)
272
00:14:06,229 --> 00:14:08,129
-(chuckles)
-latrice: Ooh, yes.
273
00:14:08,231 --> 00:14:11,465
Good job, good job.
Come on.
274
00:14:11,568 --> 00:14:15,019
Pray tell:
Y'all better sing! (chuckles)
275
00:14:15,105 --> 00:14:16,271
hi.
276
00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:18,139
Thank you.
Thank you, sister williams.
277
00:14:18,241 --> 00:14:21,192
Sister simms.
Brother walker.
278
00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:25,163
Pastor vernon jackson.
279
00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,083
I never thought
I'd be calling you that.
280
00:14:29,169 --> 00:14:30,151
(chuckles)
281
00:14:30,253 --> 00:14:32,287
it's good to see you,
brother pray.
282
00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:34,322
It's been, what-- uh, 20 years?
283
00:14:34,424 --> 00:14:36,324
-25.
-Mm.
284
00:14:36,426 --> 00:14:39,294
To what do I owe this pleasure?
285
00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:45,383
What if I said
I was here to see you?
286
00:14:47,470 --> 00:14:49,103
I'm married, pray.
287
00:14:49,189 --> 00:14:50,355
Who'd you convince?
288
00:14:50,473 --> 00:14:52,307
Cheryl?
289
00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:53,341
Tina?
290
00:14:53,443 --> 00:14:54,359
Ebony.
291
00:14:54,477 --> 00:14:56,394
We have three kids.
292
00:14:56,479 --> 00:14:58,446
-Ebony alexander?
-Mm-hmm.
293
00:14:58,531 --> 00:15:01,366
You married
my high school best friend?
294
00:15:01,484 --> 00:15:03,201
You know I told her every
295
00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,203
intimate detail
of our love affair.
296
00:15:05,322 --> 00:15:06,487
She knows your truth
297
00:15:06,573 --> 00:15:09,190
and he knows your past.
298
00:15:09,292 --> 00:15:10,458
I'm living my truth.
299
00:15:10,543 --> 00:15:13,378
And I'm happy.
It took some time,
300
00:15:13,496 --> 00:15:15,496
but I resolved those feelings.
301
00:15:15,582 --> 00:15:18,216
With ebony's help.
I made a choice,
302
00:15:18,335 --> 00:15:21,502
and I decided to give my life
over to christ, fully.
303
00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:23,221
This is my home.
304
00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:24,472
I thought I was your home.
305
00:15:26,476 --> 00:15:27,558
That's what you said.
306
00:15:29,312 --> 00:15:31,262
When we were young,
that's what you said.
307
00:15:32,482 --> 00:15:34,148
Was that a lie?
308
00:15:34,234 --> 00:15:36,267
No, I-I... I loved you.
309
00:15:36,353 --> 00:15:38,486
And I'm not ashamed of what
you once meant to me,
310
00:15:38,571 --> 00:15:41,155
but you were asking me to step
away from the church, and I...
311
00:15:41,241 --> 00:15:43,241
No, no, no, no, the church
stepped away from me.
312
00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,109
And I'm not the only one.
313
00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:48,079
Every year I watch
hundreds of kids
314
00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:49,447
flock to the city,
315
00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:52,066
looking for what they lost
316
00:15:52,168 --> 00:15:55,453
after the church
threw them away.
317
00:15:57,123 --> 00:15:58,339
That's what your church do...
318
00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,514
That's what your church did.
319
00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:10,101
To me.
320
00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:12,103
If you just got down
on your knees, I promise you...
321
00:16:12,222 --> 00:16:14,055
Oh, trust, I have
been down on my knees.
322
00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:17,558
And I have received
many blessings from many men.
323
00:16:25,118 --> 00:16:27,402
You know, it's never
too late for salvation.
324
00:16:34,244 --> 00:16:37,245
Yeah, well,
it's too late for me.
325
00:16:38,465 --> 00:16:40,081
I'm dying.
326
00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:41,282
-What?
-Yeah.
327
00:16:41,384 --> 00:16:43,134
How?
328
00:16:46,139 --> 00:16:48,423
You already know.
329
00:16:49,476 --> 00:16:51,509
Same thing
that's killing all of us.
330
00:16:51,594 --> 00:16:53,394
Us?
331
00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,230
Yeah.
332
00:16:56,316 --> 00:16:58,466
-Us.
-(bible thumps)
333
00:16:58,568 --> 00:17:01,019
wait, pray. I-I want you
to come over tonight.
334
00:17:01,104 --> 00:17:03,137
Uh, for dinner
335
00:17:03,239 --> 00:17:06,107
-with ebony and the kids.
-That is a terrible idea.
336
00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,411
"be angry and do not sin;
337
00:17:10,497 --> 00:17:12,363
"do not let the sun
go down on your anger,
338
00:17:12,449 --> 00:17:15,033
and do not give opportunity
to the devil."
339
00:17:15,118 --> 00:17:16,167
really?
340
00:17:16,286 --> 00:17:17,502
You quoting scripture?
341
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,290
(exhales)
342
00:17:30,633 --> 00:17:32,633
-(dog barking in distance)
-(birds chirping)
343
00:17:44,314 --> 00:17:47,265
I see you finally decided
to come out of your room.
344
00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:54,205
You want to talk?
345
00:17:54,324 --> 00:17:56,541
Mommy, I need you
to say something.
346
00:17:56,659 --> 00:17:59,460
There's nothing
to talk about, baby.
347
00:17:59,546 --> 00:18:01,496
What's done is done.
348
00:18:04,667 --> 00:18:06,200
I knew you were gonna
get that thing
349
00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:07,502
once you told me
you were gay.
350
00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:09,470
I saw vernon today.
351
00:18:09,556 --> 00:18:12,340
I'm off to dinner
with him and ebony tonight.
352
00:18:14,511 --> 00:18:16,210
Prayerful,
353
00:18:16,312 --> 00:18:19,313
I don't want you
starting any trouble
354
00:18:19,399 --> 00:18:21,215
with pastor vernon.
355
00:18:21,317 --> 00:18:23,384
He's been good
for this community.
356
00:18:23,486 --> 00:18:27,238
And he has helped me
out of some darker times
357
00:18:27,357 --> 00:18:28,656
you could not imagine.
358
00:18:28,741 --> 00:18:30,525
What dark times?
359
00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:32,610
The times when I was so alone
360
00:18:32,695 --> 00:18:34,395
I could barely get out of bed.
361
00:18:34,497 --> 00:18:36,564
The times when I was
so worried about you
362
00:18:36,666 --> 00:18:38,416
and what you were doing
363
00:18:38,535 --> 00:18:41,536
and-and what kind of trouble
you were getting into.
364
00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:44,539
You have no idea
365
00:18:44,624 --> 00:18:46,591
how hurtful it is to have a son
366
00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:50,461
who turns his back
on everything you taught him.
367
00:18:50,547 --> 00:18:53,181
Huh?
Who blatantly
368
00:18:53,266 --> 00:18:57,135
refuses the word of god?
369
00:18:57,220 --> 00:18:58,586
I care about your soul, pray.
370
00:18:58,688 --> 00:19:02,190
-I care about your soul.
-No,
371
00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:03,591
no, all you care about
372
00:19:03,693 --> 00:19:05,526
is what everybody at the church
373
00:19:05,612 --> 00:19:08,429
thinks about you.
374
00:19:08,531 --> 00:19:11,149
Not me or my soul.
375
00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:12,266
If you did, you-you...
376
00:19:12,368 --> 00:19:13,618
You wouldn't have
let your husband
377
00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:17,238
do the things that he did to me
for all those years.
378
00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:20,408
You know I didn't know
what ernest was doing.
379
00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:22,610
I told you!
I told you everything!
380
00:19:22,712 --> 00:19:24,495
And he stopped, didn't he?
381
00:19:24,581 --> 00:19:27,498
Yeah, after I got old enough
to push him off me.
382
00:19:27,584 --> 00:19:29,467
-Well, what was I
supposed to do?
-You were supposed
383
00:19:29,586 --> 00:19:32,286
to believe me
and then leave him!
384
00:19:32,388 --> 00:19:33,504
I could not raise you on my own.
385
00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:35,623
-You needed a father.
-No.
386
00:19:35,725 --> 00:19:38,259
You needed a husband
387
00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:41,512
to save face and keep up
appearances with the church.
388
00:19:41,598 --> 00:19:44,565
You have no idea
what it was like
389
00:19:44,651 --> 00:19:47,268
for me to find my way
in this world.
390
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:48,603
Now, your father
was a good man
391
00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:52,306
and I wish the lord
hadn't taken him so young,
392
00:19:52,408 --> 00:19:54,642
but when he died,
I needed a man.
393
00:19:54,744 --> 00:19:58,579
Now, ernest wasn't perfect,
but he provided for us.
394
00:19:58,665 --> 00:20:00,615
So, why don't you just...
395
00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,650
Why don't you just move on?
396
00:20:02,752 --> 00:20:04,535
(stammers)
397
00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:07,488
-I have moved on.
-Okay.
398
00:20:07,590 --> 00:20:10,291
Just let it be. I mean,
you've been gone 20 years.
399
00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:12,426
Let the past lie.
400
00:20:13,463 --> 00:20:15,463
Okay.
401
00:20:15,548 --> 00:20:19,383
-♪ oh, happy day ♪
-♪ oh, happy day ♪
402
00:20:19,469 --> 00:20:21,385
♪ oh, happy day ♪
403
00:20:21,471 --> 00:20:24,338
♪ oh,
happy day ♪
404
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,608
♪ when jesus washed ♪
405
00:20:27,694 --> 00:20:29,677
♪ he washed my sins away ♪
406
00:20:29,779 --> 00:20:31,679
♪ oh, happy day ♪
407
00:20:31,781 --> 00:20:34,348
♪ he taught me how ♪
408
00:20:34,450 --> 00:20:37,235
♪ he taught me
how ♪
409
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,404
-♪ to watch ♪
-♪ to watch ♪
410
00:20:40,490 --> 00:20:43,491
♪ fight and pray ♪
411
00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:46,327
-♪ yes, he did ♪
-♪ fight and pray ♪
412
00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:49,630
-♪ everybody say, "oh" ♪
-♪ oh ♪
413
00:20:49,716 --> 00:20:52,333
-♪ happy day ♪
-♪ happy day ♪
414
00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:54,218
-♪ oh ♪
-♪ oh ♪
415
00:20:54,337 --> 00:20:56,203
-♪ happy day ♪
-♪ happy day ♪
416
00:20:56,306 --> 00:20:58,306
-♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
-♪ oh ♪
417
00:20:58,391 --> 00:20:59,590
-♪ happy day ♪
-♪ happy day ♪
418
00:20:59,676 --> 00:21:02,560
-♪ oh, happy ♪
-(girl whoops)
419
00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:05,396
♪ oh, happy ♪
420
00:21:05,515 --> 00:21:07,431
♪ day ♪
421
00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:09,433
♪ oh, happy ♪
422
00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:14,689
-♪ day ♪
-♪ day. ♪
423
00:21:18,745 --> 00:21:20,227
good job, everyone.
424
00:21:20,330 --> 00:21:21,562
I'll see you on Sunday
at worship.
425
00:21:21,664 --> 00:21:23,364
-Girl: Okay.
-Girl 2: Yes, ma'am.
426
00:21:23,449 --> 00:21:25,366
(indistinct chatter)
427
00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:27,368
do you want to walk home
together?
428
00:21:27,453 --> 00:21:29,420
Yeah, I'd like that.
429
00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:38,245
♪ strumming my pain
with his fingers ♪
430
00:21:38,348 --> 00:21:42,350
♪ singing my life
with his words ♪
431
00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:46,304
♪ killing me softly
with his song ♪
432
00:21:46,389 --> 00:21:48,472
♪ killing me softly ♪
433
00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:50,391
♪ with his song ♪
434
00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:53,194
♪ telling my whole life ♪
435
00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:54,612
♪ with his words ♪
436
00:21:54,731 --> 00:21:57,565
♪ killing me softly ♪
437
00:21:59,452 --> 00:22:01,619
♪ with his song... ♪
438
00:22:01,738 --> 00:22:04,271
you always look so happy
when you're singing.
439
00:22:04,374 --> 00:22:05,539
I love to sing to the lord.
440
00:22:05,625 --> 00:22:07,458
I wish I sang as good as you.
441
00:22:07,577 --> 00:22:09,327
You have a special gift, pray.
442
00:22:09,412 --> 00:22:11,329
You really think I have a gift?
443
00:22:11,414 --> 00:22:13,381
You're my favorite singer.
444
00:22:13,466 --> 00:22:15,333
(vocalizing)
445
00:22:21,724 --> 00:22:24,342
latrice:
Didn't I tell these boys
to put away the hymnals?
446
00:22:27,597 --> 00:22:28,596
Prayerful!
447
00:22:32,518 --> 00:22:35,302
Ebony:
Oh, come on, freddy.
You know this one.
448
00:22:35,405 --> 00:22:37,304
-I know! I know!
-Vernon: Yeah, let freddy
449
00:22:37,407 --> 00:22:38,489
have his turn, honey.
450
00:22:38,608 --> 00:22:41,442
Freddy:
"and we know that
all things work together
451
00:22:41,527 --> 00:22:44,412
"for good to them
that love god,
452
00:22:44,497 --> 00:22:48,165
and to them who are the called
according to purpose."
453
00:22:48,284 --> 00:22:50,334
-ebony: There you go.
-Hey, great job. That's my boy.
454
00:22:50,453 --> 00:22:52,203
-That's my son.
-Cynthia: My turn,
455
00:22:52,288 --> 00:22:54,205
-my turn.
-Okay, let me
give you a good one.
456
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,456
Uh... How about
457
00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:59,326
-romans 13:8.
-Mm.
458
00:22:59,429 --> 00:23:03,297
"owe no one anything except
to love each other; for the one
459
00:23:03,383 --> 00:23:05,633
who loves another
has fulfilled the law."
460
00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:09,303
-ebony: Oh, so good. (laughs)
-vernon: Oh. Great job.
461
00:23:09,389 --> 00:23:10,304
-(vernon laughs)
-(phone ringing)
462
00:23:10,390 --> 00:23:12,223
-oh. Uh, honey...
-Oh.
463
00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:13,474
-We're-we're at dinner.
-I know,
464
00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:15,476
I know, um,
just give me a moment.
465
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,361
You guys were amazing.
That was amazing.
466
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,563
-(laughs)
-vernon: Hello? Yes.
467
00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:22,683
Oh. Okay.
468
00:23:22,785 --> 00:23:24,652
I'll be there in ten minutes.
Thank you.
469
00:23:24,737 --> 00:23:27,204
(hangs up)
470
00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:29,240
mrs. Williams is near the end.
471
00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:31,492
I won't be long.
Uh,
472
00:23:31,577 --> 00:23:34,295
will you be here
when I get back, pray?
473
00:23:37,333 --> 00:23:38,466
Of course he will.
474
00:23:38,551 --> 00:23:40,668
I could use some help
cleaning the dishes.
475
00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:43,587
Well, and you know I always
know the dish, darling.
476
00:23:43,673 --> 00:23:45,673
-(laughs) yes, you do.
-(chuckles)
477
00:23:46,726 --> 00:23:49,310
all right, you two behave.
478
00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:52,212
Ebony:
Okay, kids, clear your plates.
479
00:23:52,315 --> 00:23:55,182
Well, y'all raised some smart
and well-behaved children.
480
00:23:55,268 --> 00:23:56,550
-Mm. Thank you.
-(chuckles)
481
00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:59,487
I've raised a few myself,
although I doubt any of them
482
00:23:59,572 --> 00:24:01,489
-can recite bible verses.
-Oh... (laughs)
483
00:24:01,574 --> 00:24:03,491
although they do know
all the lyrics
484
00:24:03,576 --> 00:24:05,326
to every whitney and janet song.
485
00:24:05,411 --> 00:24:07,528
Uh...
486
00:24:07,613 --> 00:24:09,497
So do I.
487
00:24:09,582 --> 00:24:11,231
You do remember that
488
00:24:11,334 --> 00:24:13,584
-I had all the moves
back in the day, right?
-Mm.
489
00:24:13,703 --> 00:24:15,503
-Mm...
-Oh!
490
00:24:15,588 --> 00:24:18,506
Yes! Cheerleading captain,
prom queen.
491
00:24:18,591 --> 00:24:20,674
-Yeah, you still got it, girl.
-(laughs)
492
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,427
I can hear you thinking,
493
00:24:23,546 --> 00:24:25,579
"why did that girl
marry vernon?"
494
00:24:25,681 --> 00:24:27,247
well, I do have to admit
495
00:24:27,350 --> 00:24:28,599
I had to fix my face
when vernon told me.
496
00:24:28,718 --> 00:24:33,354
-Mm.
-Girl, you could've had anybody.
497
00:24:33,439 --> 00:24:36,440
Yeah.
Vernon is a good man.
498
00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,443
I believe in him.
What he's built, his mission,
499
00:24:39,562 --> 00:24:41,612
what he means to the community.
500
00:24:41,731 --> 00:24:45,449
See, pray tell, that's what
marriage is all about.
501
00:24:45,568 --> 00:24:49,269
You take the good with the bad.
502
00:24:49,372 --> 00:24:51,155
And so you just turn a blind eye
503
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,325
to the fact that
your husband is gay?
504
00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,494
I know my husband.
And I trust him.
505
00:24:56,579 --> 00:25:00,498
And I don't want
to rock this boat.
506
00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:03,283
But I do need your help.
507
00:25:03,386 --> 00:25:05,503
And I'm asking as an old friend.
508
00:25:06,589 --> 00:25:08,389
You notice how
there's five years
509
00:25:08,474 --> 00:25:10,424
between cynthia and the baby?
510
00:25:11,594 --> 00:25:14,512
Yeah, it's because, uh...
511
00:25:14,597 --> 00:25:18,232
Well, he wouldn't lay with me
in all that time.
512
00:25:18,317 --> 00:25:19,633
I know how you two
513
00:25:19,735 --> 00:25:22,269
were together
back in the school days.
514
00:25:22,355 --> 00:25:25,689
And I hear how vernon
talks to you.
515
00:25:27,610 --> 00:25:29,660
And I see how you look at him.
516
00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:32,446
But I do want to...
517
00:25:32,532 --> 00:25:35,649
I want to make him feel good.
518
00:25:35,751 --> 00:25:37,651
Ebony, you're asking me
519
00:25:37,753 --> 00:25:40,454
to tell you
how to pleasure your man?
520
00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:42,540
Yes.
521
00:25:42,625 --> 00:25:44,291
Sweetheart...
522
00:25:44,377 --> 00:25:46,660
-Your husband is a homosexual.
-No.
523
00:25:46,762 --> 00:25:49,162
-He likes men.
-No.
524
00:25:49,265 --> 00:25:50,598
There's nothing you can do
to change that.
525
00:25:50,683 --> 00:25:54,385
No, he is a strong, good,
god-fearing man.
526
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,270
The good lord
wouldn't give vernon
527
00:25:56,355 --> 00:25:58,556
something that
he couldn't overcome.
528
00:25:58,641 --> 00:26:02,192
He is just as god made him.
529
00:26:02,311 --> 00:26:04,194
It's not a choice.
530
00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:06,230
But you are making a choice.
531
00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:09,567
-Why?
-Because I believe in marriage.
532
00:26:09,652 --> 00:26:12,570
How many marriages
that aren't as strong as ours
533
00:26:12,655 --> 00:26:14,521
are gonna break apart
if ours breaks apart?
534
00:26:14,624 --> 00:26:16,523
Your marriage is not strong.
535
00:26:16,626 --> 00:26:20,327
It's built on sinking sand.
I know, I know...
536
00:26:20,413 --> 00:26:23,414
That your church teaches you
that there's no higher calling
537
00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:25,382
than to stand by your man.
538
00:26:25,501 --> 00:26:28,385
Men created those lies
so that they could act out
539
00:26:28,504 --> 00:26:30,588
and then come back home
whenever they wanted to.
540
00:26:30,673 --> 00:26:33,340
What does that mean?
Hmm?
541
00:26:36,429 --> 00:26:38,228
That even in their own churches,
542
00:26:38,347 --> 00:26:41,315
black folks worship a white man.
543
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,319
Jesus didn't absolve our sins
through joy and peace.
544
00:26:45,404 --> 00:26:48,405
The crucifixion
was torture and pain.
545
00:26:48,524 --> 00:26:51,609
That's the lord telling us
that life is violent.
546
00:26:51,694 --> 00:26:53,277
Life is cruel.
547
00:26:53,362 --> 00:26:55,245
Life hurts.
548
00:26:56,332 --> 00:26:58,165
But the more we hurt,
549
00:26:58,250 --> 00:27:00,618
the closer we are to god.
550
00:27:02,455 --> 00:27:05,372
Your god sounds
like a real asshole.
551
00:27:05,458 --> 00:27:07,207
(exhales)
552
00:27:09,378 --> 00:27:10,511
pray tell.
553
00:27:10,596 --> 00:27:12,412
It's so hard.
554
00:27:12,515 --> 00:27:14,465
I need your help.
555
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,300
Please.
556
00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:19,353
(baby crying)
557
00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:23,440
I can't...
558
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,361
Baby, mama's coming.
559
00:27:31,484 --> 00:27:33,200
-(engine stops)
-(door opens)
560
00:27:33,285 --> 00:27:35,235
-vernon: Oh, hey, pray.
-(door closes)
561
00:27:37,406 --> 00:27:38,539
how'd it go?
562
00:27:38,624 --> 00:27:41,325
Mrs. Williams passed peacefully.
563
00:27:42,545 --> 00:27:44,328
Just never get used to it.
564
00:27:45,381 --> 00:27:48,215
-No, you don't.
-So, how'd it go in here?
565
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,384
Did you spill any secrets?
566
00:27:50,469 --> 00:27:53,253
(short chuckle)
I didn't have to.
567
00:27:55,408 --> 00:27:57,641
You know, it's a nice night out.
568
00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:01,311
Let's go for a walk.
569
00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:12,239
Pray tell:
I haven't been here in ages.
570
00:28:12,324 --> 00:28:15,159
(chuckles)
does it look different?
571
00:28:15,277 --> 00:28:16,643
The only thing
that's changed is us.
572
00:28:16,729 --> 00:28:18,529
(both chuckle)
573
00:28:18,631 --> 00:28:22,282
the years have been
kind to you, pastor vernon.
574
00:28:22,368 --> 00:28:24,284
Well, thank you.
575
00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:27,487
No, you're supposed to say
"you, too."
576
00:28:27,590 --> 00:28:29,656
I see some things never change.
577
00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,659
I got to teach you everything.
578
00:28:32,762 --> 00:28:35,295
Well, from what I recall,
579
00:28:35,381 --> 00:28:38,348
we taught each other a lot
right here.
580
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,684
All the things
that really matter.
581
00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:48,559
I've missed you so much.
582
00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:51,562
Fix it, jesus.
583
00:28:51,647 --> 00:28:54,565
I've never stopped
loving you, pray.
584
00:28:54,650 --> 00:28:57,317
Dear heavenly father,
I ask you to come
585
00:28:57,403 --> 00:28:59,369
and save vernon from himself.
586
00:28:59,488 --> 00:29:02,539
Forgive him for the wreckage
that he's about to create,
587
00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:06,326
and give him some sense,
in jesus' name. Amen.
588
00:29:06,412 --> 00:29:08,162
Don't be flip.
This is my life, pray.
589
00:29:08,247 --> 00:29:10,247
What do you want, vernon?
590
00:29:10,332 --> 00:29:12,633
Seeing you again.
591
00:29:12,718 --> 00:29:15,502
Reflecting on our past.
592
00:29:15,588 --> 00:29:20,257
You have reawakened something
within me.
593
00:29:20,342 --> 00:29:24,344
You were right
all those years ago.
594
00:29:24,430 --> 00:29:26,513
I should have gone with you.
595
00:29:28,350 --> 00:29:29,600
But I was too scared.
596
00:29:29,685 --> 00:29:32,236
But you have a wife
and kids.
597
00:29:32,354 --> 00:29:33,487
You-you can't abandon them.
598
00:29:33,572 --> 00:29:37,390
You asked me what I want.
599
00:29:37,493 --> 00:29:39,693
This is what I want.
600
00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:51,338
♪ strumming my pain
with his fingers ♪
601
00:29:51,423 --> 00:29:54,591
♪ singing my life
with his words... ♪
602
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:58,411
I don't... I don't have
much longer.
603
00:29:58,514 --> 00:30:00,413
I don't care.
604
00:30:00,516 --> 00:30:02,382
I just want to be with you.
605
00:30:04,353 --> 00:30:06,520
But you have your family
and your, and your congregation.
606
00:30:06,605 --> 00:30:09,273
I can't-- I can't let you
blow up your life
607
00:30:09,391 --> 00:30:10,524
for six months with me.
608
00:30:10,609 --> 00:30:13,527
That's my choice to make.
609
00:30:13,612 --> 00:30:17,231
I wish I'd made it back then,
but I-I'm making it now.
610
00:30:17,316 --> 00:30:19,533
(vocalizing)
611
00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:22,569
I'm dying, vernon.
612
00:30:24,373 --> 00:30:27,541
I'm dying of aids.
613
00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:33,297
I was with you in the beginning.
614
00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:36,750
Let me be there for you
in the end.
615
00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:40,337
You are the love
616
00:30:40,422 --> 00:30:43,257
of my life, pray.
617
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:46,677
Don't you want our story
to have a different ending?
618
00:30:46,762 --> 00:30:48,512
♪ with his fingers ♪
619
00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:52,349
♪ singing my life
with his words ♪
620
00:30:52,434 --> 00:30:54,601
♪ killing me softly
with his song... ♪
621
00:30:54,687 --> 00:31:00,240
rewriting... My past
is not gonna change my future.
622
00:31:00,326 --> 00:31:02,642
I know how my story ends.
623
00:31:02,745 --> 00:31:05,529
You want to rewrite yours, fine,
624
00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:08,481
but I cannot hold the pen.
625
00:31:08,584 --> 00:31:09,482
Pray,
626
00:31:09,585 --> 00:31:12,252
we can rewrite our story.
627
00:31:12,338 --> 00:31:15,422
I'm asking you
to have faith in me.
628
00:31:15,507 --> 00:31:18,592
In us.
629
00:31:18,677 --> 00:31:23,263
"faith without works is dead."
630
00:31:23,349 --> 00:31:25,665
james 2:26.
631
00:31:25,768 --> 00:31:30,270
♪ telling my whole life
with his words ♪
632
00:31:30,356 --> 00:31:32,556
♪ killing me softly... ♪
633
00:31:32,641 --> 00:31:34,725
I'm going home on Sunday.
634
00:31:37,479 --> 00:31:40,347
The bus leaves at 5:00 p.M.
635
00:31:40,449 --> 00:31:42,482
♪ he was strumming my pain ♪
636
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:43,650
I'll be there.
637
00:31:43,736 --> 00:31:48,372
♪ yeah, he was singing
my life ♪
638
00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:51,325
♪ killing me softly
with his song ♪
639
00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:53,327
♪ killing me softly ♪
640
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,329
♪ with his song ♪
641
00:31:55,414 --> 00:31:59,216
♪ telling my whole life
with his words ♪
642
00:31:59,335 --> 00:32:02,636
♪ killing me softly ♪
643
00:32:02,721 --> 00:32:06,974
♪ with his song. ♪
644
00:32:07,076 --> 00:32:08,041
redd foxx:
Well, no, I didn't mean
645
00:32:08,143 --> 00:32:09,042
to call you no clucking duck.
646
00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:11,345
-(laughing)
-(door closes)
647
00:32:11,430 --> 00:32:13,964
what I meant was, like,
a cackling hen.
648
00:32:14,066 --> 00:32:16,266
-(charlene laughs)
-no, no, donna, donna,
649
00:32:16,352 --> 00:32:18,235
wait a minute, honey,
don't cry, don't cry.
650
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,353
Please. Listen to me.
651
00:32:19,438 --> 00:32:21,972
-Mm-hmm.
-Mm!
652
00:32:22,057 --> 00:32:23,323
Guess we all got our secrets.
653
00:32:23,425 --> 00:32:25,359
-Don't tell your aunts.
-I'm-a tell you like
654
00:32:25,461 --> 00:32:27,260
-you used to always tell me.
-What?
655
00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:29,997
-God knows all.
-Yes.
656
00:32:30,099 --> 00:32:33,116
(laughs)
657
00:32:33,202 --> 00:32:35,002
-(tv turns off)
-let me ask you something.
658
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,170
When you lived here,
how many times
659
00:32:37,289 --> 00:32:39,373
would you say you snuck off
to the greyhound
660
00:32:39,458 --> 00:32:41,258
to go to new york?
661
00:32:41,343 --> 00:32:42,993
Every other week, I guess.
662
00:32:43,095 --> 00:32:45,045
-Uh-huh.
-You know, whenever
663
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:46,296
-I could afford to.
-Mm-hmm.
664
00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:48,999
I'd be sitting in that window
665
00:32:49,101 --> 00:32:51,969
waiting for your butt to
get back all weekend.
666
00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:54,054
And one day you just didn't.
667
00:32:58,027 --> 00:33:00,944
You didn't start no mess over at
pastor vernon's house, did you?
668
00:33:01,030 --> 00:33:04,114
That house is plenty messy
all by itself without my help.
669
00:33:04,199 --> 00:33:07,234
You know what I love
about you people?
670
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:10,237
Every damn--
every one of you
671
00:33:10,322 --> 00:33:12,205
has a secret that you think
672
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,291
the other people don't
know about.
673
00:33:14,376 --> 00:33:16,209
But everybody knows everything.
674
00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:19,413
Because peace is more important
than truth.
675
00:33:19,498 --> 00:33:23,216
It's because the lies
make you feel alive.
676
00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:27,254
It's the lies that keep
the fires inside of you burning.
677
00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:29,222
They're the only thing
in this godforsaken town
678
00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:30,373
that are real.
679
00:33:30,476 --> 00:33:33,209
Is this why you came back
after all these years?
680
00:33:33,312 --> 00:33:35,395
To tell me off?
681
00:33:35,514 --> 00:33:38,982
To cuss out your own mother?
682
00:33:39,068 --> 00:33:40,150
I didn't curse you.
683
00:33:40,235 --> 00:33:41,234
Y'all cursed me,
684
00:33:41,353 --> 00:33:44,021
told me that
I would never be blessed.
685
00:33:44,106 --> 00:33:46,222
I only left because
it wasn't safe for me here.
686
00:33:46,325 --> 00:33:49,359
And now I've come back
to make things right.
687
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,363
But I need you, mommy...
688
00:33:53,449 --> 00:33:57,000
To admit your faults.
689
00:33:57,086 --> 00:33:59,369
How you let that man do
what he did to me.
690
00:33:59,455 --> 00:34:02,372
How you tossed me out
691
00:34:02,458 --> 00:34:06,409
and chose the church over me
when all I did...
692
00:34:06,512 --> 00:34:08,428
Was tell you my truth.
693
00:34:10,466 --> 00:34:14,051
I know, I know.
694
00:34:14,136 --> 00:34:16,053
I know I did wrong by you.
695
00:34:16,138 --> 00:34:18,188
I was scared
696
00:34:18,273 --> 00:34:22,225
that I would lose everything
that I had ever known.
697
00:34:22,311 --> 00:34:24,094
You know,
that's my greatest shame.
698
00:34:24,196 --> 00:34:26,429
I knew...
699
00:34:26,532 --> 00:34:30,150
I did know that nothing
was ever wrong...
700
00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:32,202
(crying)
701
00:34:36,241 --> 00:34:40,327
nothing was ever wrong
with my beautiful,
702
00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:43,947
headstrong, talented boy.
703
00:34:44,049 --> 00:34:47,951
-(sobs)
-I am sorry.
704
00:34:48,053 --> 00:34:49,386
Could you forgive me?
705
00:34:49,471 --> 00:34:53,006
Because I-I really...
706
00:34:53,092 --> 00:34:55,008
I really want to do good
this time.
707
00:34:55,094 --> 00:34:57,177
I-I do.
708
00:34:59,398 --> 00:35:02,065
I love you so much.
709
00:35:02,151 --> 00:35:04,317
I love you, too.
710
00:35:10,442 --> 00:35:12,275
Okay...
711
00:35:12,361 --> 00:35:16,163
Can I ask you something?
712
00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:19,116
You believe in salvation,
don't you?
713
00:35:19,201 --> 00:35:22,119
In god?
714
00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:24,204
Uh...
715
00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:26,289
The way that you do, like...
716
00:35:28,427 --> 00:35:32,262
...With the big man
up in the heavens and stuff?
717
00:35:32,347 --> 00:35:34,131
No.
718
00:35:35,517 --> 00:35:40,020
(sniffles)
but I do believe in a god.
719
00:35:44,476 --> 00:35:46,309
How is he?
720
00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:50,230
I mean, what's he like,
your god?
721
00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:52,348
(sniffles)
722
00:35:52,451 --> 00:35:54,401
he is kind.
723
00:35:57,122 --> 00:35:59,072
-He is loving.
-Uh-huh.
724
00:36:01,994 --> 00:36:05,028
He is forgiving.
725
00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:07,030
That is the god
that's inside me.
726
00:36:07,132 --> 00:36:08,999
Yes. He is.
727
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:10,366
(laughs):
He is.
728
00:36:10,469 --> 00:36:13,386
(exhales)
729
00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:16,206
(sighs, stammers)
730
00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:17,340
would you, uh...
731
00:36:19,394 --> 00:36:22,145
...Visit the church with me,
one more time?
732
00:36:22,231 --> 00:36:25,982
I-I mean, I think it would,
I think it would give us peace.
733
00:36:26,068 --> 00:36:27,184
I don't know about that.
734
00:36:27,269 --> 00:36:30,020
-Why?
-(both laugh)
735
00:36:30,105 --> 00:36:32,939
I don't know that I need
to be up in the lord's house,
736
00:36:33,025 --> 00:36:35,158
knowing how the saints
feel about me and my kind.
737
00:36:35,244 --> 00:36:37,944
Well, why don't you go
for the music?
738
00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:41,948
Come on, now, you know you were
always the star in the choir.
739
00:36:42,034 --> 00:36:44,901
You know you had the best voice.
740
00:36:45,003 --> 00:36:47,370
My god gave you that gift.
741
00:36:49,341 --> 00:36:51,258
Please?
742
00:36:51,376 --> 00:36:53,093
Ple-- all right.
743
00:36:53,212 --> 00:36:55,345
-Come on.
-(both laugh)
744
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:01,134
♪ ♪
745
00:37:05,274 --> 00:37:09,359
♪ welcome
to the house of the lord ♪
746
00:37:09,444 --> 00:37:13,029
♪ welcome to the house
of the lord ♪
747
00:37:13,115 --> 00:37:15,365
♪ there are no strangers here ♪
748
00:37:15,450 --> 00:37:18,368
♪ everybody's welcome here ♪
749
00:37:18,453 --> 00:37:21,238
♪ welcome to the house
of the lord ♪
750
00:37:21,323 --> 00:37:24,040
♪ make yourself at home ♪
751
00:37:24,126 --> 00:37:26,076
♪ in the house of the lord ♪
752
00:37:28,046 --> 00:37:31,414
♪ welcome, welcome ♪
753
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,284
♪ welcome ♪
754
00:37:34,386 --> 00:37:37,420
♪ welcome, oh, hallelujah ♪
755
00:37:37,506 --> 00:37:40,473
♪ you are welcome ♪
756
00:37:43,011 --> 00:37:45,061
♪ welcome here. ♪
757
00:37:45,147 --> 00:37:46,146
(cheering, applause)
758
00:37:46,265 --> 00:37:47,964
yeah!
759
00:37:48,066 --> 00:37:48,965
Praise him!
760
00:37:49,067 --> 00:37:51,101
(whooping)
761
00:37:51,186 --> 00:37:52,352
latrice:
Good morning.
762
00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:54,938
-Congregation: Good morning.
-Ooh, I said good morning!
763
00:37:55,023 --> 00:37:56,356
-Congregation: Good morning!
-Whoo!
764
00:37:56,441 --> 00:38:00,243
For our next song,
I would like to invite
765
00:38:00,329 --> 00:38:03,280
-a special guest to join us.
-Mm.
766
00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:06,166
-He was raised in this church.
-Mm-hmm.
767
00:38:06,285 --> 00:38:08,151
Latrice:
His voice used
to fill this church.
768
00:38:08,253 --> 00:38:10,003
-Charlene: Yes.
-It's been a very long time
769
00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:11,321
since he's been here.
770
00:38:11,423 --> 00:38:13,990
But the lord has
brought him back to us.
771
00:38:14,092 --> 00:38:15,125
Won't he do it!
772
00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:17,210
-Amen.
-Others: Amen.
773
00:38:18,263 --> 00:38:20,096
Latrice:
Prayerful.
774
00:38:20,182 --> 00:38:22,098
Will you join us, please?
775
00:38:23,352 --> 00:38:25,468
Go on, now.
You've been summoned.
776
00:38:33,445 --> 00:38:35,395
-Mm-hmm.
-Latrice: Yes.
777
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,314
-Amen!
-(cheering, applause)
778
00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:40,350
-hallelujah!
-Uh...
779
00:38:40,452 --> 00:38:42,986
"this day"?
780
00:38:51,463 --> 00:38:53,413
♪ ♪
781
00:39:03,008 --> 00:39:05,342
♪ give us ♪
782
00:39:05,427 --> 00:39:08,061
♪ this day ♪
783
00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:12,265
♪ our daily bread ♪
784
00:39:12,351 --> 00:39:15,018
♪ you said ♪
785
00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:19,239
♪ you would ♪
786
00:39:19,358 --> 00:39:23,276
♪ supply all ♪
787
00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:27,280
♪ my needs ♪
788
00:39:27,366 --> 00:39:32,068
♪ according to ♪
789
00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:36,122
♪ your riches ♪
790
00:39:36,208 --> 00:39:38,291
♪ I have ♪
791
00:39:38,377 --> 00:39:41,928
♪ but to ask ♪
792
00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:44,247
♪ and I shall ♪
793
00:39:44,349 --> 00:39:49,302
♪ receive ♪
794
00:39:55,193 --> 00:39:59,312
-♪ to go ♪
-♪ to go from here ♪
795
00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:03,149
♪ and share this love ♪
796
00:40:03,235 --> 00:40:05,952
♪ you gave ♪
797
00:40:06,071 --> 00:40:09,289
♪ to me ♪
798
00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:11,408
♪ to show ♪
799
00:40:11,493 --> 00:40:13,410
♪ someone ♪
800
00:40:13,495 --> 00:40:16,279
♪ who's lost ♪
801
00:40:16,381 --> 00:40:21,968
♪ and help them find ♪
802
00:40:22,087 --> 00:40:26,256
♪ their way ♪
803
00:40:26,341 --> 00:40:30,343
♪ the way to truth ♪
804
00:40:30,429 --> 00:40:32,262
♪ and faith ♪
805
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:35,014
♪ so they can ♪
806
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,468
♪ be free ♪
807
00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:43,106
♪ like me ♪
808
00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:46,109
♪ lord ♪
809
00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:51,030
♪ we need your love ♪
810
00:40:52,117 --> 00:40:54,250
♪ lord ♪
811
00:40:54,336 --> 00:40:59,155
♪ we need your peace ♪
812
00:40:59,257 --> 00:41:03,326
♪ o, lord ♪
813
00:41:03,428 --> 00:41:05,094
♪ we need your ♪
814
00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:11,384
♪ joy ♪
815
00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:16,005
♪ this ♪
816
00:41:16,107 --> 00:41:20,143
♪ day ♪
817
00:41:20,228 --> 00:41:22,178
♪ thank you, lord ♪
818
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,197
-♪ thank you for this day ♪
-♪ mm ♪
819
00:41:24,316 --> 00:41:27,066
♪ for another day ♪
820
00:41:27,152 --> 00:41:30,153
♪ I thank you ♪
821
00:41:30,238 --> 00:41:32,405
-♪ thank you, lord ♪
-♪ I know I've made ♪
822
00:41:32,491 --> 00:41:35,158
♪ some mistakes in my life ♪
823
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:37,410
♪ thank you for your mercy ♪
824
00:41:37,496 --> 00:41:39,379
♪ and your grace ♪
825
00:41:39,498 --> 00:41:42,198
-♪ thank you for your grace ♪
-♪ I, I ♪
826
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:44,200
♪ shake in my body ♪
827
00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:48,204
♪ but I thank you
for another day, ah ♪
828
00:41:48,306 --> 00:41:51,140
♪ thank you for this day ♪
829
00:41:51,226 --> 00:41:53,092
-♪ thank you ♪
-♪ been through ♪
830
00:41:53,178 --> 00:41:56,212
♪ so many trials
and tribulations ♪
831
00:41:56,314 --> 00:41:59,933
-♪ thank you for this day ♪
-♪ but I thank you ♪
832
00:42:00,018 --> 00:42:03,353
♪ but I thank you ♪
833
00:42:03,438 --> 00:42:07,390
-♪ I'm so tired, lord ♪
-♪ thank you for this day ♪
834
00:42:07,492 --> 00:42:09,943
♪ I surrender ♪
835
00:42:10,028 --> 00:42:13,246
♪ put my life in your hands ♪
836
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:17,233
♪ oh, oh ♪
837
00:42:17,335 --> 00:42:20,286
♪ this ♪
838
00:42:20,372 --> 00:42:25,408
♪ day. ♪
839
00:42:25,510 --> 00:42:28,261
(cheering, applause)
840
00:42:33,385 --> 00:42:35,385
hallelujah.
841
00:42:35,470 --> 00:42:38,037
-Oh, that's right.
-(cheering continues)
842
00:42:39,541 --> 00:42:41,491
jada:
So you basically came into town
843
00:42:41,576 --> 00:42:44,410
for a farewell performance,
and just tore us all up.
844
00:42:44,496 --> 00:42:46,079
(chuckles)
845
00:42:46,164 --> 00:42:47,247
child, you ain't
changed one bit.
846
00:42:47,332 --> 00:42:49,415
(both laugh)
847
00:42:49,501 --> 00:42:52,502
so, uh, how did things go
with your mama?
848
00:42:52,587 --> 00:42:54,203
Pray tell:
Good, good, I think.
849
00:42:54,306 --> 00:42:56,472
You know, I'm a grown man now.
850
00:42:56,558 --> 00:43:00,159
I'm not a child anymore,
and she's her own woman,
851
00:43:00,262 --> 00:43:03,146
and I forgive that woman.
852
00:43:03,231 --> 00:43:04,397
I forgive her.
853
00:43:04,516 --> 00:43:06,266
Do you forgive me?
854
00:43:06,351 --> 00:43:07,350
For what?
855
00:43:07,435 --> 00:43:09,435
For not protecting you.
856
00:43:09,521 --> 00:43:12,188
Pray, I knew,
857
00:43:12,274 --> 00:43:15,241
and I didn't-- I did nothing!
858
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:16,492
I'm sorry, though.
859
00:43:16,578 --> 00:43:19,329
-It's okay. It's okay.
-I'm sorry.
860
00:43:19,414 --> 00:43:22,582
-(crying softly)
-is that why you wanted
to have chicken and waffles?
861
00:43:24,202 --> 00:43:26,202
For absolution before I go?
862
00:43:26,288 --> 00:43:29,122
(laughs)
you...
863
00:43:29,207 --> 00:43:30,506
You stop that silly talk.
864
00:43:30,592 --> 00:43:35,211
When things get tough for you
in new york,
865
00:43:35,297 --> 00:43:37,213
I will be coming there
866
00:43:37,299 --> 00:43:40,249
so that you can feel your family
in those last days.
867
00:43:40,352 --> 00:43:42,385
More than that,
868
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:45,138
I want you to get
everything you want
869
00:43:45,223 --> 00:43:47,140
exactly the way
you want it to be.
870
00:43:57,285 --> 00:43:59,202
-Power of attorney?
-Mm-hmm.
871
00:43:59,287 --> 00:44:03,039
Now, I know you got people there
who love you and all, you know,
872
00:44:03,124 --> 00:44:05,274
but you know how it works.
873
00:44:05,377 --> 00:44:08,211
The law won't let them
make decisions for you
874
00:44:08,296 --> 00:44:10,279
because they're not blood.
875
00:44:10,382 --> 00:44:13,115
Now, you sign these papers
876
00:44:13,218 --> 00:44:17,503
and I will make sure that you
get everything that you want.
877
00:44:17,589 --> 00:44:21,140
I will come there
and I will see it through.
878
00:44:21,259 --> 00:44:24,394
So tell me,
what are your final wishes?
879
00:44:24,479 --> 00:44:26,396
I know you've been thinking
about this already now.
880
00:44:26,481 --> 00:44:29,148
What, you-you want
a parade or something?
881
00:44:29,267 --> 00:44:31,517
(laughs):
No. No.
882
00:44:31,603 --> 00:44:33,436
The opposite of that.
883
00:44:35,490 --> 00:44:39,525
I... Want to die
peacefully at home.
884
00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:44,364
And then I want to be cremated.
885
00:44:44,449 --> 00:44:49,118
So where do you want us
to put your ashes?
886
00:44:49,204 --> 00:44:53,289
I want you to buy
a bunch of heart lockets
887
00:44:53,375 --> 00:44:57,126
and fill them
with a little piece of me.
888
00:44:58,296 --> 00:45:00,179
And give them to all my friends
889
00:45:00,298 --> 00:45:03,015
and one for you
and aunt latrice and mommy.
890
00:45:03,134 --> 00:45:07,136
And then you'll all have
a piece of me, wherever you go.
891
00:45:08,556 --> 00:45:10,223
Y'all ain't never
getting rid of me.
892
00:45:10,308 --> 00:45:12,308
(both laugh)
893
00:45:14,312 --> 00:45:15,445
okay.
894
00:45:15,530 --> 00:45:18,147
You let me do all of that
for you, pray.
895
00:45:18,233 --> 00:45:20,149
Let me love you now
like I wasn't strong enough
896
00:45:20,235 --> 00:45:22,151
to love you then.
897
00:45:24,289 --> 00:45:26,289
You deserve that.
898
00:45:27,325 --> 00:45:28,374
(sniffles)
899
00:45:36,334 --> 00:45:39,168
oh, there's this bossy bitch
named elektra
900
00:45:39,254 --> 00:45:42,171
who's gonna think that she
deserves one of these lockets.
901
00:45:42,257 --> 00:45:46,342
I want you to tell her
that I said from the grave
902
00:45:46,428 --> 00:45:51,013
-that she can kiss
my entire ass.
-(laughs)
903
00:45:51,099 --> 00:45:53,065
okay?
904
00:45:53,184 --> 00:45:55,067
Only good thing about dying
is that I won't have to listen
905
00:45:55,186 --> 00:45:57,236
-to her bullshit no more.
-(both laugh)
906
00:45:59,274 --> 00:46:01,190
cheers.
907
00:46:01,276 --> 00:46:03,225
Oh, mm-hmm.
908
00:46:03,328 --> 00:46:05,194
(laughing)
909
00:46:07,532 --> 00:46:09,532
♪ ♪
910
00:46:13,371 --> 00:46:15,338
(indistinct chatter)
911
00:46:21,212 --> 00:46:23,212
♪ ♪
912
00:46:32,607 --> 00:46:34,557
♪ ♪
913
00:46:42,150 --> 00:46:44,066
("free" by deniece williams
playing)
914
00:46:44,152 --> 00:46:46,402
(bus brakes squeak, hiss)
915
00:46:51,376 --> 00:46:55,995
♪ and I've just got to be me ♪
916
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,114
♪ be, be ♪
917
00:46:59,217 --> 00:47:01,450
♪ be ♪
918
00:47:01,553 --> 00:47:06,389
♪ and I've just
got to be me, yeah ♪
919
00:47:06,474 --> 00:47:12,144
♪ be, be ♪
920
00:47:13,348 --> 00:47:15,431
♪ I've got to be free... ♪
921
00:47:15,517 --> 00:47:17,299
young vernon:
I don't know, I think elvis
is pretty cool.
922
00:47:17,402 --> 00:47:19,301
Young pray tell:
Please. Elvis got nothing
923
00:47:19,404 --> 00:47:20,353
on jackie wilson.
924
00:47:20,438 --> 00:47:22,188
Have you heard
"lonely teardrops"?
925
00:47:22,273 --> 00:47:24,273
♪ oh ♪
926
00:47:24,359 --> 00:47:26,409
♪ and I've just got to be me ♪
927
00:47:26,494 --> 00:47:28,494
♪ yeah, yeah ♪
928
00:47:28,613 --> 00:47:30,479
♪ be ♪
929
00:47:30,582 --> 00:47:35,451
-♪ be ♪
-♪ ooh ♪
930
00:47:35,537 --> 00:47:37,253
♪ oh ♪
931
00:47:37,338 --> 00:47:43,042
♪ be free ♪
932
00:47:43,127 --> 00:47:45,378
♪ be, yeah, be me ♪
933
00:47:45,463 --> 00:47:47,463
♪ I've just got to be free... ♪
934
00:47:47,549 --> 00:47:49,348
elektra:
Have you seen her mug shots?
935
00:47:49,467 --> 00:47:52,001
-Papi: Wait, who-de-who?
-Blanca: Left eye.
936
00:47:52,103 --> 00:47:54,020
I heard that
when she got arrested that day,
937
00:47:54,138 --> 00:47:55,271
she walked out of that house
938
00:47:55,356 --> 00:47:56,472
with the thing
still under her eye.
939
00:47:56,558 --> 00:47:58,474
-She's a g.
-Angel: That is so inspiring.
940
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,143
-She's a hero.
-Papi: Hold on, what about
his sneakers, though?
941
00:48:01,229 --> 00:48:04,063
-Huh?
-Angel: Baby,
if you ever cheat on me,
942
00:48:04,148 --> 00:48:06,148
I'm gonna take all your sneakers
and your clothes, too,
943
00:48:06,234 --> 00:48:07,366
and I'm gonna put them
in the tub
944
00:48:07,485 --> 00:48:09,018
and I'm gonna light them
on fire,
945
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,369
but not with gasoline.
946
00:48:10,488 --> 00:48:12,187
I'm-a do it with essential oils,
947
00:48:12,290 --> 00:48:13,489
so you think about me
when they're burning.
948
00:48:13,575 --> 00:48:15,357
-(laughs): Oh...
-Okay, shall we?
949
00:48:15,460 --> 00:48:17,359
(quietly):
Yes.
950
00:48:17,462 --> 00:48:19,078
Dear heavenly father,
we thank you
951
00:48:19,163 --> 00:48:21,297
for this food and drink
that we're about to receive.
952
00:48:21,382 --> 00:48:24,166
In a world
where so many are hungry,
953
00:48:24,252 --> 00:48:27,303
may we eat with humble hearts.
954
00:48:27,388 --> 00:48:29,221
In a world where
so many are lonely,
955
00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:31,340
may we love with open arms.
956
00:48:31,426 --> 00:48:35,311
May we all be fed,
may we all be healed,
957
00:48:35,396 --> 00:48:40,149
may we all be loved,
may we all be at peace.
958
00:48:40,234 --> 00:48:42,401
-Amen.
-Others: Amen.
959
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,020
-(exhales)
-ah...
960
00:48:44,105 --> 00:48:46,072
-Hey, woman. Hey, trans.
-Soup, please.
961
00:48:46,190 --> 00:48:48,024
-Mmm-mmm.
-Hey, trans woman.
962
00:48:48,109 --> 00:48:50,359
-This is my mama's recipe.
-Ooh, this shit looks good.
963
00:48:50,445 --> 00:48:52,411
-Just need a little broth.
-Hey.
964
00:48:52,530 --> 00:48:54,497
♪ ♪
965
00:49:22,427 --> 00:49:25,428
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