1 00:00:06,073 --> 00:00:08,107 (dog barking in distance) 2 00:00:17,784 --> 00:00:19,952 (subway train rushing past) 3 00:00:20,954 --> 00:00:25,357 ¶ ¶ 4 00:00:37,971 --> 00:00:41,940 ¶ The cool September ¶ 5 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:47,646 ¶ Blows the seeds away ¶ 6 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:53,618 ¶ The harvest blown ¶ 7 00:00:53,653 --> 00:00:56,488 ¶ Again this year ¶ 8 00:00:57,991 --> 00:01:01,626 ¶ But I'll return ¶ 9 00:01:01,661 --> 00:01:06,098 ¶ A stronger man ¶ 10 00:01:06,133 --> 00:01:09,935 ¶ I'll return to me ¶ 11 00:01:09,970 --> 00:01:14,907 ¶ My homeland ¶ 12 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:20,813 ¶ No grave shall hold ¶ 13 00:01:21,815 --> 00:01:25,784 ¶ My body down ¶ 14 00:01:27,821 --> 00:01:30,455 -(car alarm wailing in distance) -¶ This land is still ¶ 15 00:01:30,490 --> 00:01:34,259 ¶ My home ¶ 16 00:01:48,808 --> 00:01:50,442 ¶ I called to my god ¶ 17 00:01:50,477 --> 00:01:52,644 ¶ But he was sleeping ¶ 18 00:01:52,679 --> 00:01:55,280 ¶ On that day ¶ 19 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:56,781 ¶ I guess I'll just have to ¶ 20 00:01:56,816 --> 00:01:59,851 ¶ Depend on me ¶ 21 00:01:59,886 --> 00:02:03,288 ¶ Oh... ¶ 22 00:02:09,829 --> 00:02:13,598 (church bell ringing in distance) 23 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:18,003 ¶ This land is still ¶ 24 00:02:18,038 --> 00:02:20,305 -¶ My home. ¶ -(rapid thumping) 25 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:21,606 PRAY TELL: Girl, if you don't stop 26 00:02:21,641 --> 00:02:23,441 -all that fidgeting. -I-I'm... What? 27 00:02:23,476 --> 00:02:25,343 I'm sorry, I can't-I can't control it. 28 00:02:25,378 --> 00:02:26,478 I'm just nervous. 29 00:02:26,513 --> 00:02:29,881 I am, too. But we're in good hands. 30 00:02:29,916 --> 00:02:31,883 You have swollen lymph nodes. 31 00:02:31,918 --> 00:02:34,152 It's very common for people with AIDS. 32 00:02:34,187 --> 00:02:36,721 When we get back the results of the biopsy from Dr. Greenberg, 33 00:02:36,756 --> 00:02:39,791 -we'll have a better idea. -Well, whatever it is, I hope 34 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:41,626 it gets rid of these night sweats. 35 00:02:41,661 --> 00:02:44,162 I haven't had a full night's sleep in weeks. 36 00:02:44,197 --> 00:02:46,231 (knocking) 37 00:02:47,767 --> 00:02:50,735 May I have a word with, uh... Pray Tell alone? 38 00:02:50,770 --> 00:02:53,371 Uh, no, stay. They... 39 00:02:53,406 --> 00:02:56,508 These women are family. 40 00:02:56,543 --> 00:02:58,410 The tissue samples confirmed my suspicion. 41 00:02:58,445 --> 00:03:00,612 You have AIDS-related lymphoma. 42 00:03:03,083 --> 00:03:05,650 -Cancer? -Yes. 43 00:03:05,685 --> 00:03:07,052 The T cells we need to boost your immunity 44 00:03:07,087 --> 00:03:08,853 and fight the cancer aren't there. 45 00:03:08,888 --> 00:03:11,123 This makes it almost impossible for me to treat you safely. 46 00:03:12,926 --> 00:03:16,228 What about, um... chemo? 47 00:03:16,263 --> 00:03:18,897 Chemotherapy could kill the cancer, 48 00:03:18,932 --> 00:03:21,033 but it'd also kill you. 49 00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:33,145 Uh, how... how long do I have? 50 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:36,381 At most, six months. 51 00:03:44,491 --> 00:03:46,458 (slow exhale) 52 00:03:46,493 --> 00:03:47,792 NURSE JUDY: Fuck this. 53 00:03:47,827 --> 00:03:51,229 Fuck him. Smug motherfucker. 54 00:03:51,264 --> 00:03:52,697 (echoing): I can tell you, I've seen 55 00:03:52,732 --> 00:03:55,200 a dozen AIDS patients just like you-- 56 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:58,236 night sweats, fevers, swollen glands-- 57 00:03:58,271 --> 00:04:00,238 gone on to recover and live. 58 00:04:00,273 --> 00:04:02,941 And we're getting a second opinion. 59 00:04:02,976 --> 00:04:05,277 BLANCA: Pray. Pray. 60 00:04:05,312 --> 00:04:06,444 -(echoing stops) -Where'd you go? 61 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:09,581 -You okay? -I'm fine. I'm fine. 62 00:04:09,616 --> 00:04:11,583 Don't y'all worry about me. Ain't no white man 63 00:04:11,618 --> 00:04:13,752 in a lab coat and cheap shoes gonna tell me 64 00:04:13,787 --> 00:04:16,621 -I got to throw in the towel. -Amen. 65 00:04:16,656 --> 00:04:19,624 PRAY TELL: I've always known I was living on limited time. 66 00:04:19,659 --> 00:04:23,061 But now... 67 00:04:23,096 --> 00:04:25,130 I know know. 68 00:04:27,667 --> 00:04:31,503 And I have to use this time wisely. 69 00:04:34,474 --> 00:04:36,675 Yeah. 70 00:04:36,710 --> 00:04:39,444 I have to tell the people I love 71 00:04:39,479 --> 00:04:41,112 that I love them. 72 00:04:41,147 --> 00:04:44,316 -I love you, Pray. -I love you, too. 73 00:04:44,351 --> 00:04:46,084 I love y'all. (sighs) 74 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:48,954 And there are some other people who need to hear that from me. 75 00:04:51,191 --> 00:04:53,225 Some folks I got to forgive. 76 00:04:54,994 --> 00:04:56,961 (door opens) 77 00:04:56,996 --> 00:04:59,130 (footfalls approach) 78 00:04:59,165 --> 00:05:01,599 PRAY TELL: The category is... 79 00:05:01,634 --> 00:05:05,036 Live... 80 00:05:05,071 --> 00:05:07,339 Work... 81 00:05:07,374 --> 00:05:11,143 Pose! 82 00:05:12,645 --> 00:05:14,713 ¶ ¶ 83 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:36,301 ¶ My heart is cryin', cryin' ¶ 84 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,871 ¶ Lonely teardrops ¶ 85 00:05:39,906 --> 00:05:43,475 ¶ My pillows never dry of ¶ 86 00:05:43,510 --> 00:05:46,644 ¶ Lonely teardrops ¶ 87 00:05:46,679 --> 00:05:49,381 ¶ Come home ¶ 88 00:05:49,416 --> 00:05:52,117 ¶ Come home... ¶ 89 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:56,254 ¶ Just say you will ¶ 90 00:05:56,289 --> 00:05:58,890 -¶ Say you will ¶ -¶ Say you will ¶ 91 00:05:58,925 --> 00:06:01,092 ¶ Say you will ¶ 92 00:06:01,127 --> 00:06:03,094 ¶ Say you will ¶ 93 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:04,429 ¶ Hey, hey ¶ 94 00:06:04,464 --> 00:06:07,766 ¶ Say you will ¶ 95 00:06:07,801 --> 00:06:11,536 ¶ My heart is cryin', cryin' ¶ 96 00:06:11,571 --> 00:06:14,939 ¶ Lonely teardrops ¶ 97 00:06:14,974 --> 00:06:18,610 -¶ My pillows never dry of ¶ -(girls laughing) 98 00:06:18,645 --> 00:06:22,113 ¶ Lonely teardrops ¶ 99 00:06:22,148 --> 00:06:24,182 ¶ Come home ¶ 100 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:28,520 ¶ Come home... ¶ 101 00:06:28,555 --> 00:06:30,622 ¶ Just say you will ¶ 102 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:32,424 -¶ Say you will ¶ -GIRLS (singsongy): Go, Pray. Go, Pray. 103 00:06:32,459 --> 00:06:35,427 -¶ Say you will. ¶ -Go, Pray, hey, hey, go, Pray. 104 00:06:35,462 --> 00:06:38,296 Go, Pray. Go, Pray. Hey, hey, go, Pray. 105 00:06:38,331 --> 00:06:41,333 -Go, Pray. Go, Pray. -CHARLENE: Prayerful? 106 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:44,269 -Is that you, baby? -Hi, Mommy. 107 00:06:44,304 --> 00:06:46,137 -I thought I'd surprise you. -Ooh, 108 00:06:46,172 --> 00:06:48,606 what a blessing 109 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:50,775 after all these years. 110 00:06:50,810 --> 00:06:52,644 Oh, my God. 111 00:06:52,679 --> 00:06:54,279 How long I got you? 112 00:06:54,314 --> 00:06:56,247 -For as long as you'll have me. -Oh! You hungry? 113 00:06:56,282 --> 00:06:59,617 -Mm. (laughs) -I'm making catfish for lunch. Oh. 114 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:01,953 Is Auntie Latrice and Jada coming over? 115 00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:05,256 Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle? 116 00:07:05,291 --> 00:07:08,126 Nah, even hypertension can't keep Latrice from my cooking. 117 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:09,260 (laughs) 118 00:07:09,295 --> 00:07:12,330 Look at you! Come in here. 119 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:17,169 Mmm! Mmm, mmm, mmm. 120 00:07:18,771 --> 00:07:21,306 Mmm. Frying up real nice. 121 00:07:21,341 --> 00:07:24,075 -LATRICE: Mm, sure is. -JADA: It is. (laughs) 122 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:25,577 Is this real silk? 123 00:07:25,612 --> 00:07:28,480 Yes, of course. 124 00:07:28,515 --> 00:07:30,515 -You think I'd wear rayon? -Should I 125 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:32,684 pull out your high school yearbook? 126 00:07:32,719 --> 00:07:33,985 (laughs) 127 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:36,988 -You weren't always a swan. -Eh... 128 00:07:37,023 --> 00:07:40,959 How much a silk shirt like that run you-- hundred, $200? 129 00:07:40,994 --> 00:07:42,460 How gauche. 130 00:07:42,495 --> 00:07:44,462 You can call me all the names you want, 131 00:07:44,497 --> 00:07:46,364 but the money you spend on clothes-- 132 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:48,032 you could fix the leak in that church roof. 133 00:07:48,067 --> 00:07:49,534 CHARLENE: Oh, stop it, now. 134 00:07:49,569 --> 00:07:51,436 It's enough chitter-chatter. 135 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:54,138 My baby is home. (exclaims) 136 00:07:54,173 --> 00:07:58,042 And you have to tell us about your life in New York. 137 00:07:58,077 --> 00:07:59,644 -LATRICE: Mm. -It's good. 138 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:02,013 It's fine. 139 00:08:02,048 --> 00:08:03,515 Mm-hmm. 140 00:08:04,517 --> 00:08:05,717 Challenging. 141 00:08:05,752 --> 00:08:07,785 That's why I'm visiting. 142 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:10,121 -Most I can lend you is $50. -Oh, hush up, now. 143 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:12,891 Baby, is that why you came home? That... You need money? 144 00:08:12,926 --> 00:08:15,460 No, Mommy. 145 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:17,962 -Okay. -(chuckles) 146 00:08:17,997 --> 00:08:19,998 I came to share something with you. 147 00:08:20,033 --> 00:08:21,633 Well, it can't be worse than the last time 148 00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:24,002 -you gathered us for a meal. -You mean that time 149 00:08:24,037 --> 00:08:26,137 I bared my soul to the women I love 150 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:28,006 and bravely told them I was gay? 151 00:08:28,041 --> 00:08:29,641 LATRICE: Oh, Lord, here we go again. 152 00:08:29,676 --> 00:08:30,975 If I have to hear about 153 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:33,478 your sexuality one more time. 154 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:35,813 I do not talk about my sex life. 155 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:38,383 -That's 'cause you ain't got no sex life to talk about. -(chuckles) 156 00:08:38,418 --> 00:08:41,586 I'm not here to talk about my sexuality. 157 00:08:41,621 --> 00:08:43,421 I'm here to talk about my health. 158 00:08:43,456 --> 00:08:44,656 Is it the sugars? 159 00:08:44,691 --> 00:08:46,357 PRAY TELL: No, I don't have diabetes. 160 00:08:46,392 --> 00:08:47,592 -(clears throat) -JADA: Well, what is it-- 161 00:08:47,627 --> 00:08:49,394 sickle cell? Asthma? 162 00:08:49,429 --> 00:08:53,231 No. I don't know any other way to say this, so... 163 00:08:57,704 --> 00:08:59,471 I have AIDS. 164 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:04,943 I'm dying. 165 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:12,984 I have been... 166 00:09:14,587 --> 00:09:17,522 ...HIV positive for six years, 167 00:09:17,557 --> 00:09:20,959 and I didn't want to burden y'all until 168 00:09:20,994 --> 00:09:22,894 it became serious. 169 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:25,763 I know that we've already been through so much. 170 00:09:25,798 --> 00:09:27,699 Mommy, I'm not trying to upset you. 171 00:09:27,734 --> 00:09:30,401 -Uh-uh. -And I'm so sorry. 172 00:09:30,436 --> 00:09:32,203 -I'm sorry. -Mm-mm. 173 00:09:32,238 --> 00:09:33,938 -I'm really sorry. -Mm-mm. 174 00:09:33,973 --> 00:09:35,540 -Mm-mm. -Mommy. Mommy... 175 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,709 Pray, let her go, baby. 176 00:09:37,744 --> 00:09:40,945 LATRICE: See, I always knew this would happen. Heavenly Father, 177 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:42,380 -save his soul... -Stop it. 178 00:09:42,415 --> 00:09:45,049 -from eternal damnation. -Please, please, 179 00:09:45,084 --> 00:09:49,020 please, please stop. 180 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:52,557 I don't need your prayers. 181 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:54,959 I need your love. 182 00:09:54,994 --> 00:09:56,961 I never stopped loving you. 183 00:09:56,996 --> 00:09:58,630 Hate the sin, 184 00:09:58,665 --> 00:10:00,298 -love the sinner. -Oh, Jesus. 185 00:10:00,333 --> 00:10:03,835 Which is why I care about your soul. 186 00:10:03,870 --> 00:10:06,304 Just shut your ole big mouth. 187 00:10:06,339 --> 00:10:08,439 If you cared about the state of anyone's soul, 188 00:10:08,474 --> 00:10:10,441 then you would have stood up for me 189 00:10:10,476 --> 00:10:12,844 when the church judged me for getting a divorce. 190 00:10:12,879 --> 00:10:15,446 You had a child out of wedlock with a married man! 191 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:17,148 I lost my community. 192 00:10:17,183 --> 00:10:20,451 All because of some outdated law 193 00:10:20,486 --> 00:10:22,687 that was created by men some 3,000 years ago. 194 00:10:22,722 --> 00:10:24,188 No, God's word is immutable. 195 00:10:24,223 --> 00:10:28,292 Divorce, homosexuality, pedophilia... 196 00:10:28,327 --> 00:10:31,129 No, no, no. Don't put those words beside each other. 197 00:10:31,164 --> 00:10:33,531 Your god made me this way, 198 00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:35,533 and there is nothing wrong with me. 199 00:10:35,568 --> 00:10:38,536 God made you in His image. 200 00:10:38,571 --> 00:10:40,171 Everything else is a choice. 201 00:10:40,206 --> 00:10:42,106 You think it was a choice 202 00:10:42,141 --> 00:10:44,776 for me to be called "faggot" and beat 203 00:10:44,811 --> 00:10:45,943 every day of my childhood? 204 00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:47,478 You think it was a choice 205 00:10:47,513 --> 00:10:49,481 for me to lose every man I've ever loved? 206 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:52,450 Sometimes I think I wouldn't even have this disease 207 00:10:52,485 --> 00:10:54,819 if it wasn't for the church and how y'all treated me. 208 00:10:54,854 --> 00:10:56,187 I... 209 00:10:59,992 --> 00:11:02,093 That's where the troubles started. 210 00:11:04,731 --> 00:11:07,398 The drinking and the drugging and... 211 00:11:07,433 --> 00:11:09,500 the one-night stands and... 212 00:11:09,535 --> 00:11:11,469 I'm so sorry. 213 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:13,505 Pray, I didn't know. 214 00:11:15,241 --> 00:11:19,077 I know that I can't undo what's already been done, 215 00:11:19,112 --> 00:11:23,014 but I need you to know I've always loved you, Pray. 216 00:11:23,049 --> 00:11:27,018 And I promise you I will be there with you until the end. 217 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:30,088 Mm. 218 00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:33,424 Now, look, I'm-a go find your mama 219 00:11:33,459 --> 00:11:36,194 before she spirals into one of her fits. 220 00:11:38,231 --> 00:11:39,564 Charlene? 221 00:11:41,134 --> 00:11:43,134 I am here for you, too, Pray. 222 00:11:44,303 --> 00:11:47,972 Even though, sometimes, we have not always seen eye-to-eye. 223 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:51,709 -Where you going? -Church. 224 00:11:51,744 --> 00:11:53,611 I got to get my soloist together for Sunday service, 225 00:11:53,646 --> 00:11:55,580 and I could use some company. 226 00:11:55,615 --> 00:11:57,448 I'm not going to that wretched place. 227 00:11:57,483 --> 00:11:58,783 Watch your mouth. 228 00:11:58,818 --> 00:12:00,451 A visit will do you some good. 229 00:12:00,486 --> 00:12:02,687 And you gonna like the new pastor. 230 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:04,188 Who is it? 231 00:12:04,223 --> 00:12:05,790 Vernon Jackson. 232 00:12:05,825 --> 00:12:08,426 You got to be kidding me. 233 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:09,961 God forgives and God forgets. 234 00:12:09,996 --> 00:12:11,462 Come on! 235 00:12:11,497 --> 00:12:13,865 (piano playing) 236 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:15,500 (sighs) 237 00:12:20,473 --> 00:12:24,408 WOMAN: ¶ Just let me live ¶ 238 00:12:24,443 --> 00:12:28,279 ¶ My life ¶ 239 00:12:28,314 --> 00:12:30,381 ¶ Let it be pleasing ¶ 240 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,785 ¶ Lord, to Thee ¶ 241 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:36,320 ¶ And should I gain ¶ 242 00:12:36,355 --> 00:12:40,758 ¶ Any praise ¶ 243 00:12:40,793 --> 00:12:42,927 ¶ Let it go to ¶ 244 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:49,934 ¶ Calvary... ¶ 245 00:12:52,138 --> 00:12:55,573 -(piano stops playing) -¶ Ooh. ¶ 246 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:57,542 Hold on. I got an idea. 247 00:12:58,644 --> 00:13:01,479 Devin, you come in after Angela right here. 248 00:13:01,514 --> 00:13:02,847 -Let's try that. -ANGELA: Okay. 249 00:13:02,882 --> 00:13:03,948 (piano resumes playing) 250 00:13:03,983 --> 00:13:07,485 ¶ To God ¶ 251 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:12,523 ¶ Be the glory ¶ 252 00:13:12,558 --> 00:13:16,294 ¶ To God ¶ 253 00:13:16,329 --> 00:13:19,764 ¶ Be the glory ¶ 254 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:24,202 ¶ To God ¶ 255 00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:27,171 ¶ Be the glory ¶ 256 00:13:27,206 --> 00:13:30,641 ANGELA: ¶ For the things ¶ 257 00:13:30,676 --> 00:13:34,879 ¶ He has done ¶ 258 00:13:34,914 --> 00:13:38,783 DEVIN: ¶ Oh, for every, every, every ¶ 259 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:40,384 ¶ Every victory ¶ 260 00:13:40,419 --> 00:13:44,522 -¶ He has won ¶ -¶ Ooh ¶ 261 00:13:44,557 --> 00:13:48,125 BOTH: ¶ To God ¶ 262 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,196 ¶ Be the glory ¶ 263 00:13:52,231 --> 00:13:56,567 ¶ For the things ¶ 264 00:13:56,602 --> 00:14:01,038 ¶ He has ¶ 265 00:14:01,073 --> 00:14:04,909 ¶ Done ¶ 266 00:14:04,944 --> 00:14:11,916 ¶ Done... ¶ 267 00:14:13,619 --> 00:14:15,086 (song ends) 268 00:14:15,121 --> 00:14:17,088 -(chuckles) -LATRICE: Ooh, yes. 269 00:14:17,123 --> 00:14:20,758 Good job, good job. Come on. 270 00:14:20,793 --> 00:14:23,895 PRAY TELL: Y'all better sing! (chuckles) 271 00:14:23,930 --> 00:14:25,396 Hi. 272 00:14:25,431 --> 00:14:27,098 Thank you. Thank you, Sister Williams. 273 00:14:27,133 --> 00:14:30,201 Sister Simms. Brother Walker. 274 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:34,072 Pastor Vernon Jackson. 275 00:14:35,975 --> 00:14:37,942 I never thought I'd be calling you that. 276 00:14:37,977 --> 00:14:39,110 (chuckles) 277 00:14:39,145 --> 00:14:41,345 It's good to see you, Brother Pray. 278 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,447 It's been, what-- uh, 20 years? 279 00:14:43,482 --> 00:14:45,449 -25. -Mm. 280 00:14:45,484 --> 00:14:48,319 To what do I owe this pleasure? 281 00:14:51,657 --> 00:14:54,559 What if I said I was here to see you? 282 00:14:56,495 --> 00:14:57,962 I'm married, Pray. 283 00:14:57,997 --> 00:14:59,463 Who'd you convince? 284 00:14:59,498 --> 00:15:01,532 Cheryl? 285 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:02,600 Tina? 286 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:03,601 Ebony. 287 00:15:03,636 --> 00:15:05,703 We have three kids. 288 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:07,772 -Ebony Alexander? -Mm-hmm. 289 00:15:07,807 --> 00:15:10,608 You married my high school best friend? 290 00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:12,276 You know I told her every 291 00:15:12,311 --> 00:15:14,312 intimate detail of our love affair. 292 00:15:14,347 --> 00:15:15,813 She knows your truth 293 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:18,282 and He knows your past. 294 00:15:18,317 --> 00:15:19,750 I'm living my truth. 295 00:15:19,785 --> 00:15:22,653 And I'm happy. It took some time, 296 00:15:22,688 --> 00:15:24,889 but I resolved those feelings. 297 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:27,291 With Ebony's help. I made a choice, 298 00:15:27,326 --> 00:15:30,895 and I decided to give my life over to Christ, fully. 299 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,296 This is my home. 300 00:15:32,331 --> 00:15:33,698 I thought I was your home. 301 00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:36,935 That's what you said. 302 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:40,305 When we were young, that's what you said. 303 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,074 Was that a lie? 304 00:15:43,109 --> 00:15:45,343 No, I-I... I loved you. 305 00:15:45,378 --> 00:15:47,778 And I'm not ashamed of what you once meant to me, 306 00:15:47,813 --> 00:15:50,114 but you were asking me to step away from the church, and I... 307 00:15:50,149 --> 00:15:52,283 No, no, no, no, the church stepped away from me. 308 00:15:52,318 --> 00:15:54,085 And I'm not the only one. 309 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,988 Every year I watch hundreds of kids 310 00:15:57,023 --> 00:15:58,756 flock to the city, 311 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:01,092 looking for what they lost 312 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:04,796 after the church threw them away. 313 00:16:06,032 --> 00:16:07,532 That's what your church do... 314 00:16:13,706 --> 00:16:15,840 That's what your church did. 315 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:19,110 To me. 316 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:21,112 If you just got down on your knees, I promise you... 317 00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:22,947 Oh, trust, I have been down on my knees. 318 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:26,884 And I have received many blessings from many men. 319 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,594 You know, it's never too late for salvation. 320 00:16:43,235 --> 00:16:46,337 Yeah, well, it's too late for me. 321 00:16:47,606 --> 00:16:49,006 I'm dying. 322 00:16:49,041 --> 00:16:50,408 -What? -Yeah. 323 00:16:50,443 --> 00:16:52,076 How? 324 00:16:54,947 --> 00:16:57,682 You already know. 325 00:16:58,617 --> 00:17:00,918 Same thing that's killing all of us. 326 00:17:00,953 --> 00:17:02,686 Us? 327 00:17:02,721 --> 00:17:05,389 Yeah. 328 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:07,825 -Us. -(Bible thumps) 329 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:09,927 Wait, Pray. I-I want you to come over tonight. 330 00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:12,163 Uh, for dinner 331 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:15,033 -with Ebony and the kids. -That is a terrible idea. 332 00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:19,737 "Be angry and do not sin; 333 00:17:19,772 --> 00:17:21,605 "do not let the sun go down on your anger, 334 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,941 and do not give opportunity to the devil." 335 00:17:23,976 --> 00:17:25,276 Really? 336 00:17:25,311 --> 00:17:26,811 You quoting scripture? 337 00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:31,449 (exhales) 338 00:17:44,630 --> 00:17:46,664 -(dog barking in distance) -(birds chirping) 339 00:17:58,010 --> 00:18:01,145 I see you finally decided to come out of your room. 340 00:18:04,950 --> 00:18:08,085 You want to talk? 341 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,721 Mommy, I need you to say something. 342 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:13,491 There's nothing to talk about, baby. 343 00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:15,593 What's done is done. 344 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:19,997 I knew you were gonna get that thing 345 00:18:20,032 --> 00:18:21,599 once you told me you were gay. 346 00:18:21,634 --> 00:18:23,467 I saw Vernon today. 347 00:18:23,502 --> 00:18:26,270 I'm off to dinner with him and Ebony tonight. 348 00:18:28,474 --> 00:18:29,940 Prayerful, 349 00:18:29,975 --> 00:18:33,144 I don't want you starting any trouble 350 00:18:33,179 --> 00:18:34,945 with Pastor Vernon. 351 00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:37,281 He's been good for this community. 352 00:18:37,316 --> 00:18:41,018 And he has helped me out of some darker times 353 00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:42,853 you could not imagine. 354 00:18:42,888 --> 00:18:44,588 What dark times? 355 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,790 The times when I was so alone 356 00:18:46,825 --> 00:18:48,325 I could barely get out of bed. 357 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,661 The times when I was so worried about you 358 00:18:50,696 --> 00:18:52,429 and what you were doing 359 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:55,633 and-and what kind of trouble you were getting into. 360 00:18:55,668 --> 00:18:58,636 You have no idea 361 00:18:58,671 --> 00:19:00,704 how hurtful it is to have a son 362 00:19:00,739 --> 00:19:04,542 who turns his back on everything you taught him. 363 00:19:04,577 --> 00:19:07,011 Huh? Who blatantly 364 00:19:07,046 --> 00:19:10,948 refuses the word of God? 365 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:12,783 I care about your soul, Pray. 366 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:15,986 -I care about your soul. -No, 367 00:19:16,021 --> 00:19:17,788 no, all you care about 368 00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:19,657 is what everybody at the church 369 00:19:19,692 --> 00:19:22,459 thinks about you. 370 00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:24,895 Not me or my soul. 371 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:26,130 If you did, you-you... 372 00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:27,865 you wouldn't have let your husband 373 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,001 do the things that he did to me for all those years. 374 00:19:31,036 --> 00:19:34,405 You know I didn't know what Ernest was doing. 375 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,807 I told you! I told you everything! 376 00:19:36,842 --> 00:19:38,576 And he stopped, didn't he? 377 00:19:38,611 --> 00:19:41,645 Yeah, after I got old enough to push him off me. 378 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,514 -Well, what was I supposed to do? -You were supposed 379 00:19:43,549 --> 00:19:46,083 to believe me and then leave him! 380 00:19:46,118 --> 00:19:47,551 I could not raise you on my own. 381 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:49,753 -You needed a father. -No. 382 00:19:49,788 --> 00:19:52,056 You needed a husband 383 00:19:52,091 --> 00:19:55,593 to save face and keep up appearances with the church. 384 00:19:55,628 --> 00:19:58,596 You have no idea what it was like 385 00:19:58,631 --> 00:20:01,065 for me to find my way in this world. 386 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:02,733 Now, your father was a good man 387 00:20:02,768 --> 00:20:06,103 and I wish the Lord hadn't taken him so young, 388 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:08,772 but when he died, I needed a man. 389 00:20:08,807 --> 00:20:12,710 Now, Ernest wasn't perfect, but he provided for us. 390 00:20:12,745 --> 00:20:14,745 So, why don't you just... 391 00:20:14,780 --> 00:20:16,780 why don't you just move on? 392 00:20:16,815 --> 00:20:18,582 (stammers) 393 00:20:18,617 --> 00:20:21,452 -I have moved on. -Okay. 394 00:20:21,487 --> 00:20:24,088 Just let it be. I mean, you've been gone 20 years. 395 00:20:24,123 --> 00:20:26,290 Let the past lie. 396 00:20:27,293 --> 00:20:29,393 Okay. 397 00:20:29,428 --> 00:20:33,230 -¶ Oh, happy day ¶ -¶ Oh, happy day ¶ 398 00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,266 ¶ Oh, happy day ¶ 399 00:20:35,301 --> 00:20:38,102 ¶ Oh, happy day ¶ 400 00:20:38,137 --> 00:20:41,605 ¶ When Jesus washed ¶ 401 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,774 ¶ He washed my sins away ¶ 402 00:20:43,809 --> 00:20:45,776 ¶ Oh, happy day ¶ 403 00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:48,112 ¶ He taught me how ¶ 404 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:50,948 ¶ He taught me how ¶ 405 00:20:50,983 --> 00:20:54,285 -¶ To watch ¶ -¶ To watch ¶ 406 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,421 ¶ Fight and pray ¶ 407 00:20:57,456 --> 00:21:00,090 -¶ Yes, he did ¶ -¶ Fight and pray ¶ 408 00:21:00,125 --> 00:21:03,794 -¶ Everybody say, "Oh" ¶ -¶ Oh ¶ 409 00:21:03,829 --> 00:21:06,163 -¶ Happy day ¶ -¶ Happy day ¶ 410 00:21:06,198 --> 00:21:07,931 -¶ Oh ¶ -¶ Oh ¶ 411 00:21:07,966 --> 00:21:09,900 -¶ Happy day ¶ -¶ Happy day ¶ 412 00:21:09,935 --> 00:21:12,102 -¶ Oh, oh, oh, oh ¶ -¶ Oh ¶ 413 00:21:12,137 --> 00:21:13,671 -¶ Happy day ¶ -¶ Happy day ¶ 414 00:21:13,706 --> 00:21:16,607 -¶ Oh, happy ¶ -(girl whoops) 415 00:21:16,642 --> 00:21:19,310 ¶ Oh, happy ¶ 416 00:21:19,345 --> 00:21:21,345 ¶ Day ¶ 417 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:23,347 ¶ Oh, happy ¶ 418 00:21:23,382 --> 00:21:28,786 -¶ Day ¶ -¶ Day. ¶ 419 00:21:32,825 --> 00:21:33,824 Good job, everyone. 420 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:35,592 I'll see you on Sunday at worship. 421 00:21:35,627 --> 00:21:37,161 -GIRL: Okay. -GIRL 2: Yes, ma'am. 422 00:21:37,196 --> 00:21:39,163 (indistinct chatter) 423 00:21:39,198 --> 00:21:41,165 Do you want to walk home together? 424 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,234 Yeah, I'd like that. 425 00:21:47,206 --> 00:21:51,875 ¶ Strumming my pain with his fingers ¶ 426 00:21:51,910 --> 00:21:56,046 ¶ Singing my life with his words ¶ 427 00:21:56,081 --> 00:22:00,017 ¶ Killing me softly with his song ¶ 428 00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:02,519 ¶ Killing me softly ¶ 429 00:22:02,554 --> 00:22:04,321 ¶ With his song ¶ 430 00:22:04,356 --> 00:22:06,890 ¶ Telling my whole life ¶ 431 00:22:06,925 --> 00:22:08,792 ¶ With his words ¶ 432 00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:11,662 ¶ Killing me softly ¶ 433 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,799 ¶ With his song... ¶ 434 00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:18,035 You always look so happy when you're singing. 435 00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:19,636 I love to sing to the Lord. 436 00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:21,472 I wish I sang as good as you. 437 00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:23,207 You have a special gift, Pray. 438 00:22:23,242 --> 00:22:25,209 You really think I have a gift? 439 00:22:25,244 --> 00:22:27,244 You're my favorite singer. 440 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:29,113 (vocalizing) 441 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:42,526 Prayerful! 442 00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:49,066 EBONY: Oh, come on, Freddy. You know this one. 443 00:22:49,101 --> 00:22:51,068 -I know! I know! -VERNON: Yeah, let Freddy 444 00:22:51,103 --> 00:22:52,436 have his turn, honey. 445 00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:55,272 FREDDY: "And we know that all things work together 446 00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:58,275 "for good to them that love God, 447 00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:01,945 and to them who are the called according to purpose." 448 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:04,248 -EBONY: There you go. -Hey, great job. That's my boy. 449 00:23:04,283 --> 00:23:06,016 -That's my son. -CYNTHIA: My turn, 450 00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,018 -my turn. -Okay, let me give you a good one. 451 00:23:08,053 --> 00:23:09,453 Uh... how about 452 00:23:09,488 --> 00:23:13,190 -Romans 13:8. -Mm. 453 00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:17,094 "Owe no one anything except to love each other; for the one 454 00:23:17,129 --> 00:23:19,763 who loves another has fulfilled the law." 455 00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:23,100 -EBONY: Oh, so good. (laughs) -VERNON: Oh. Great job. 456 00:23:23,135 --> 00:23:24,101 -(Vernon laughs) -(phone ringing) 457 00:23:24,136 --> 00:23:25,936 -Oh. Uh, honey... -Oh. 458 00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:27,438 -we're-we're at dinner. -I know, 459 00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:29,440 I know, um, just give me a moment. 460 00:23:29,475 --> 00:23:31,275 You guys were amazing. That was amazing. 461 00:23:31,310 --> 00:23:33,577 -(laughs) -VERNON: Hello? Yes. 462 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:36,814 Oh. Okay. 463 00:23:36,849 --> 00:23:38,782 I'll be there in ten minutes. Thank you. 464 00:23:38,817 --> 00:23:40,951 (hangs up) 465 00:23:40,986 --> 00:23:42,986 Mrs. Williams is near the end. 466 00:23:43,021 --> 00:23:45,456 I won't be long. Uh, 467 00:23:45,491 --> 00:23:47,992 will you be here when I get back, Pray? 468 00:23:50,963 --> 00:23:52,429 Of course he will. 469 00:23:52,464 --> 00:23:54,765 I could use some help cleaning the dishes. 470 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,634 Well, and you know I always know the dish, darling. 471 00:23:57,669 --> 00:23:59,703 -(laughs) Yes, you do. -(chuckles) 472 00:24:00,806 --> 00:24:03,173 All right, you two behave. 473 00:24:03,208 --> 00:24:05,976 EBONY: Okay, kids, clear your plates. 474 00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:08,912 Well, y'all raised some smart and well-behaved children. 475 00:24:08,947 --> 00:24:10,647 -Mm. Thank you. -(chuckles) 476 00:24:10,682 --> 00:24:13,517 I've raised a few myself, although I doubt any of them 477 00:24:13,552 --> 00:24:15,519 -can recite Bible verses. -Oh... (laughs) 478 00:24:15,554 --> 00:24:17,488 Although they do know all the lyrics 479 00:24:17,523 --> 00:24:19,156 to every Whitney and Janet song. 480 00:24:19,191 --> 00:24:21,592 Uh... 481 00:24:21,627 --> 00:24:23,494 so do I. 482 00:24:23,529 --> 00:24:24,995 You do remember that 483 00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:27,698 -I had all the moves back in the day, right? -Mm. 484 00:24:27,733 --> 00:24:29,500 -Mm... -Oh! 485 00:24:29,535 --> 00:24:32,536 Yes! Cheerleading captain, prom queen. 486 00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:34,838 -Yeah, you still got it, girl. -(laughs) 487 00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:37,374 I can hear you thinking, 488 00:24:37,409 --> 00:24:39,610 "Why did that girl marry Vernon?" 489 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:40,944 Well, I do have to admit 490 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:42,713 I had to fix my face when Vernon told me. 491 00:24:42,748 --> 00:24:47,150 -Mm. -Girl, you could've had anybody. 492 00:24:47,185 --> 00:24:50,354 Yeah. Vernon is a good man. 493 00:24:50,389 --> 00:24:53,357 I believe in him. What he's built, his mission, 494 00:24:53,392 --> 00:24:55,692 what he means to the community. 495 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:59,363 See, Pray Tell, that's what marriage is all about. 496 00:24:59,398 --> 00:25:03,133 You take the good with the bad. 497 00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:04,902 And so you just turn a blind eye 498 00:25:04,937 --> 00:25:08,305 to the fact that your husband is gay? 499 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:10,641 I know my husband. And I trust him. 500 00:25:10,676 --> 00:25:14,578 And I don't want to rock this boat. 501 00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:17,080 But I do need your help. 502 00:25:17,115 --> 00:25:19,517 And I'm asking as an old friend. 503 00:25:20,552 --> 00:25:22,252 You notice how there's five years 504 00:25:22,287 --> 00:25:24,421 between Cynthia and the baby? 505 00:25:25,591 --> 00:25:28,592 Yeah, it's because, uh... 506 00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:31,929 well, he wouldn't lay with me in all that time. 507 00:25:31,964 --> 00:25:33,764 I know how you two 508 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:36,066 were together back in the school days. 509 00:25:36,101 --> 00:25:39,870 And I hear how Vernon talks to you. 510 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,741 And I see how you look at him. 511 00:25:44,977 --> 00:25:46,343 But I do want to... 512 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:49,780 I want to make him feel good. 513 00:25:49,815 --> 00:25:51,782 Ebony, you're asking me 514 00:25:51,817 --> 00:25:54,418 to tell you how to pleasure your man? 515 00:25:54,453 --> 00:25:56,587 Yes. 516 00:25:56,622 --> 00:25:58,055 Sweetheart... 517 00:25:58,090 --> 00:26:00,791 -your husband is a homosexual. -No. 518 00:26:00,826 --> 00:26:02,893 -He likes men. -No. 519 00:26:02,928 --> 00:26:04,761 There's nothing you can do to change that. 520 00:26:04,796 --> 00:26:08,365 No, he is a strong, good, God-fearing man. 521 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,100 The good Lord wouldn't give Vernon 522 00:26:10,135 --> 00:26:12,769 something that he couldn't overcome. 523 00:26:12,804 --> 00:26:15,973 He is just as God made him. 524 00:26:16,008 --> 00:26:17,975 It's not a choice. 525 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:20,077 But you are making a choice. 526 00:26:20,112 --> 00:26:23,780 -Why? -Because I believe in marriage. 527 00:26:23,815 --> 00:26:26,717 How many marriages that aren't as strong as ours 528 00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:28,619 are gonna break apart if ours breaks apart? 529 00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:30,587 Your marriage is not strong. 530 00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:34,224 It's built on sinking sand. I know, I know... 531 00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:37,394 that your church teaches you that there's no higher calling 532 00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:39,262 than to stand by your man. 533 00:26:39,297 --> 00:26:42,265 Men created those lies so that they could act out 534 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:44,668 and then come back home whenever they wanted to. 535 00:26:44,703 --> 00:26:47,103 What does that mean? Hmm? 536 00:26:50,175 --> 00:26:51,942 That even in their own churches, 537 00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:55,112 Black folks worship a white man. 538 00:26:55,147 --> 00:26:59,116 Jesus didn't absolve our sins through joy and peace. 539 00:26:59,151 --> 00:27:02,452 The crucifixion was torture and pain. 540 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:05,789 That's the Lord telling us that life is violent. 541 00:27:05,824 --> 00:27:07,190 Life is cruel. 542 00:27:07,225 --> 00:27:09,059 Life hurts. 543 00:27:10,062 --> 00:27:11,962 But the more we hurt, 544 00:27:11,997 --> 00:27:14,832 the closer we are to God. 545 00:27:16,334 --> 00:27:19,302 Your god sounds like a real asshole. 546 00:27:19,337 --> 00:27:21,005 (exhales) 547 00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,608 Pray Tell. 548 00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:26,376 It's so hard. 549 00:27:26,411 --> 00:27:28,512 I need your help. 550 00:27:28,547 --> 00:27:30,080 Please. 551 00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:33,183 (baby crying) 552 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:37,354 I can't... 553 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:41,225 Baby, Mama's coming. 554 00:27:45,363 --> 00:27:46,963 -(engine stops) -(door opens) 555 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:48,999 -VERNON: Oh, hey, Pray. -(door closes) 556 00:27:51,169 --> 00:27:52,569 How'd it go? 557 00:27:52,604 --> 00:27:55,172 Mrs. Williams passed peacefully. 558 00:27:56,441 --> 00:27:58,108 Just never get used to it. 559 00:27:59,111 --> 00:28:02,045 -No, you don't. -So, how'd it go in here? 560 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,347 Did you spill any secrets? 561 00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:07,051 (short chuckle) I didn't have to. 562 00:28:09,287 --> 00:28:11,855 You know, it's a nice night out. 563 00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:15,125 Let's go for a walk. 564 00:28:24,302 --> 00:28:26,036 PRAY TELL: I haven't been here in ages. 565 00:28:26,071 --> 00:28:28,939 (chuckles) Does it look different? 566 00:28:28,974 --> 00:28:30,841 The only thing that's changed is us. 567 00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:32,609 (both chuckle) 568 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:36,113 The years have been kind to you, Pastor Vernon. 569 00:28:36,148 --> 00:28:38,115 Well, thank you. 570 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:41,551 No, you're supposed to say "You, too." 571 00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:43,787 I see some things never change. 572 00:28:43,822 --> 00:28:46,790 I got to teach you everything. 573 00:28:46,825 --> 00:28:49,092 Well, from what I recall, 574 00:28:49,127 --> 00:28:52,195 we taught each other a lot right here. 575 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,832 All the things that really matter. 576 00:28:59,638 --> 00:29:02,740 I've missed you so much. 577 00:29:04,276 --> 00:29:05,776 Fix it, Jesus. 578 00:29:05,811 --> 00:29:08,779 I've never stopped loving you, Pray. 579 00:29:08,814 --> 00:29:11,248 Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to come 580 00:29:11,283 --> 00:29:13,383 and save Vernon from himself. 581 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:16,720 Forgive him for the wreckage that he's about to create, 582 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:20,257 and give him some sense, in Jesus' name. Amen. 583 00:29:20,292 --> 00:29:21,925 Don't be flip. This is my life, Pray. 584 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,127 What do you want, Vernon? 585 00:29:24,162 --> 00:29:26,797 Seeing you again. 586 00:29:26,832 --> 00:29:29,566 Reflecting on our past. 587 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:34,104 You have reawakened something within me. 588 00:29:34,139 --> 00:29:38,241 You were right all those years ago. 589 00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:40,477 I should have gone with you. 590 00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:43,780 But I was too scared. 591 00:29:43,815 --> 00:29:46,016 But you have a wife and kids. 592 00:29:46,051 --> 00:29:47,517 You-you can't abandon them. 593 00:29:47,552 --> 00:29:51,321 You asked me what I want. 594 00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:53,957 This is what I want. 595 00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:05,168 ¶ Strumming my pain with his fingers ¶ 596 00:30:05,203 --> 00:30:08,705 ¶ Singing my life with his words... ¶ 597 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:12,309 I don't... I don't have much longer. 598 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,277 I don't care. 599 00:30:14,312 --> 00:30:16,213 I just want to be with you. 600 00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:20,483 But you have your family and your, and your congregation. 601 00:30:20,518 --> 00:30:23,019 I can't... I can't let you blow up your life 602 00:30:23,054 --> 00:30:24,521 for six months with me. 603 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:27,524 That's my choice to make. 604 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:30,894 I wish I'd made it back then, but I-I'm making it now. 605 00:30:30,929 --> 00:30:33,530 (vocalizing) 606 00:30:33,565 --> 00:30:36,533 I'm dying, Vernon. 607 00:30:38,036 --> 00:30:41,505 I'm dying of AIDS. 608 00:30:44,776 --> 00:30:47,044 I was with you in the beginning. 609 00:30:48,747 --> 00:30:50,881 Let me be there for you in the end. 610 00:30:51,883 --> 00:30:54,084 You are the love 611 00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,887 of my life, Pray. 612 00:30:56,922 --> 00:31:00,824 Don't you want our story to have a different ending? 613 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:02,559 ¶ With his fingers ¶ 614 00:31:02,594 --> 00:31:06,263 ¶ Singing my life with his words ¶ 615 00:31:06,298 --> 00:31:08,732 ¶ Killing me softly with his song... ¶ 616 00:31:08,767 --> 00:31:13,937 Rewriting... my past is not gonna change my future. 617 00:31:13,972 --> 00:31:16,773 I know how my story ends. 618 00:31:16,808 --> 00:31:19,576 You want to rewrite yours, fine, 619 00:31:19,611 --> 00:31:22,445 but I cannot hold the pen. 620 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,446 Pray, 621 00:31:23,481 --> 00:31:25,949 we can rewrite our story. 622 00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:29,252 I'm asking you to have faith in me. 623 00:31:29,287 --> 00:31:32,589 In us. 624 00:31:32,624 --> 00:31:36,927 "Faith without works is dead." 625 00:31:36,962 --> 00:31:39,763 James 2:26. 626 00:31:39,798 --> 00:31:43,967 ¶ Telling my whole life with his words ¶ 627 00:31:44,002 --> 00:31:46,603 ¶ Killing me softly... ¶ 628 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:48,805 I'm going home on Sunday. 629 00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:54,110 The bus leaves at 5:00 p.m. 630 00:31:54,145 --> 00:31:56,379 ¶ He was strumming my pain ¶ 631 00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:57,647 I'll be there. 632 00:31:57,682 --> 00:32:02,285 ¶ Yeah, he was singing my life ¶ 633 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,221 ¶ Killing me softly with his song ¶ 634 00:32:05,256 --> 00:32:07,223 ¶ Killing me softly ¶ 635 00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:09,225 ¶ With his song ¶ 636 00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:12,963 ¶ Telling my whole life with his words ¶ 637 00:32:12,998 --> 00:32:16,766 ¶ Killing me softly ¶ 638 00:32:16,801 --> 00:32:21,838 ¶ With his song. ¶ 639 00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:26,943 REDD FOXX: Well, no, I didn't mean 640 00:32:26,978 --> 00:32:29,112 to call you no clucking duck. 641 00:32:29,147 --> 00:32:31,681 -(laughing) -(door closes) 642 00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:33,917 What I meant was, like, a cackling hen. 643 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,519 -(Charlene laughs) -No, no, Donna, Donna, 644 00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:38,455 wait a minute, honey, don't cry, don't cry. 645 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:39,789 Please. Listen to me. 646 00:32:39,824 --> 00:32:41,958 -Mm-hmm. -Mm! 647 00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:43,626 Guess we all got our secrets. 648 00:32:43,661 --> 00:32:45,762 -Don't tell your aunts. -I'm-a tell you like 649 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,530 -you used to always tell me. -What? 650 00:32:47,565 --> 00:32:50,000 -God knows all. -Yes. 651 00:32:50,035 --> 00:32:53,136 (laughs) 652 00:32:53,171 --> 00:32:54,971 -(TV turns off) -Let me ask you something. 653 00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:57,307 When you lived here, how many times 654 00:32:57,342 --> 00:32:59,676 would you say you snuck off to the Greyhound 655 00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:01,544 to go to New York? 656 00:33:01,579 --> 00:33:03,013 Every other week, I guess. 657 00:33:03,048 --> 00:33:05,181 -Uh-huh. -You know, whenever 658 00:33:05,216 --> 00:33:06,616 -I could afford to. -Mm-hmm. 659 00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:09,052 I'd be sitting in that window 660 00:33:09,087 --> 00:33:11,988 waiting for your butt to get back all weekend. 661 00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:14,157 And one day you just didn't. 662 00:33:17,929 --> 00:33:20,897 You didn't start no mess over at Pastor Vernon's house, did you? 663 00:33:20,932 --> 00:33:24,300 That house is plenty messy all by itself without my help. 664 00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:27,504 You know what I love about you people? 665 00:33:27,539 --> 00:33:30,540 Every damn... every one of you 666 00:33:30,575 --> 00:33:32,475 has a secret that you think 667 00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:34,544 the other people don't know about. 668 00:33:34,579 --> 00:33:36,413 But everybody knows everything. 669 00:33:36,448 --> 00:33:39,849 Because peace is more important than truth. 670 00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:43,420 It's because the lies make you feel alive. 671 00:33:43,455 --> 00:33:47,524 It's the lies that keep the fires inside of you burning. 672 00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:49,426 They're the only thing in this godforsaken town 673 00:33:49,461 --> 00:33:50,727 that are real. 674 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:53,396 Is this why you came back after all these years? 675 00:33:53,431 --> 00:33:55,832 To tell me off? 676 00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:58,935 To cuss out your own mother? 677 00:33:58,970 --> 00:34:00,236 I didn't curse you. 678 00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:01,604 Y'all cursed me, 679 00:34:01,639 --> 00:34:04,107 told me that I would never be blessed. 680 00:34:04,142 --> 00:34:06,509 I only left because it wasn't safe for me here. 681 00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:09,813 And now I've come back to make things right. 682 00:34:11,483 --> 00:34:13,783 But I need you, Mommy... 683 00:34:13,818 --> 00:34:17,020 to admit your faults. 684 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:19,756 How you let that man do what he did to me. 685 00:34:19,791 --> 00:34:22,759 How you tossed me out 686 00:34:22,794 --> 00:34:26,796 and chose the church over me when all I did... 687 00:34:26,831 --> 00:34:28,832 was tell you my truth. 688 00:34:30,802 --> 00:34:34,104 I know, I know. 689 00:34:34,139 --> 00:34:36,106 I know I did wrong by you. 690 00:34:36,141 --> 00:34:38,408 I was scared 691 00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:42,445 that I would lose everything that I had ever known. 692 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,147 You know, that's my greatest shame. 693 00:34:44,182 --> 00:34:46,916 I knew... 694 00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:50,320 I did know that nothing was ever wrong... 695 00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:52,322 (crying) 696 00:34:56,361 --> 00:35:00,730 Nothing was ever wrong with my beautiful, 697 00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:03,967 headstrong, talented boy. 698 00:35:04,002 --> 00:35:07,971 -(sobs) -I am sorry. 699 00:35:08,006 --> 00:35:09,806 Could you forgive me? 700 00:35:09,841 --> 00:35:13,109 Because I-I really... 701 00:35:13,144 --> 00:35:15,111 I really want to do good this time. 702 00:35:15,146 --> 00:35:17,380 I-I do. 703 00:35:19,684 --> 00:35:22,185 I love you so much. 704 00:35:22,220 --> 00:35:24,654 I love you, too. 705 00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:32,595 Okay... 706 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:36,366 can I ask you something? 707 00:35:36,401 --> 00:35:39,202 You believe in salvation, don't you? 708 00:35:39,237 --> 00:35:42,205 In God? 709 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,440 Uh... 710 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,510 the way that you do, like... 711 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,482 ...with the big man up in the heavens and stuff? 712 00:35:52,517 --> 00:35:54,251 No. 713 00:35:55,887 --> 00:36:00,056 (sniffles) But I do believe in a God. 714 00:36:04,862 --> 00:36:06,696 How is he? 715 00:36:06,731 --> 00:36:10,633 I mean, what's he like, your God? 716 00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:12,802 (sniffles) 717 00:36:12,837 --> 00:36:14,838 He is kind. 718 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,209 -He is loving. -Uh-huh. 719 00:36:21,913 --> 00:36:25,081 He is forgiving. 720 00:36:25,116 --> 00:36:27,083 That is the God that's inside me. 721 00:36:27,118 --> 00:36:28,985 Yes. He is. 722 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:30,753 (laughs): He is. 723 00:36:30,788 --> 00:36:33,823 (exhales) 724 00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:36,426 (sighs, stammers) 725 00:36:36,461 --> 00:36:37,761 Would you, uh... 726 00:36:39,731 --> 00:36:42,365 ...visit the church with me, one more time? 727 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,935 I-I mean, I think it would, I think it would give us peace. 728 00:36:45,970 --> 00:36:47,403 I don't know about that. 729 00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:50,073 -Why? -(both laugh) 730 00:36:50,108 --> 00:36:52,909 I don't know that I need to be up in the Lord's house, 731 00:36:52,944 --> 00:36:55,345 knowing how the saints feel about me and my kind. 732 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:57,947 Well, why don't you go for the music? 733 00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:02,051 Come on, now, you know you were always the star in the choir. 734 00:37:02,086 --> 00:37:04,887 You know you had the best voice. 735 00:37:04,922 --> 00:37:07,824 My God gave you that gift. 736 00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:11,628 Please? 737 00:37:11,663 --> 00:37:13,263 Ple... All right. 738 00:37:13,298 --> 00:37:15,665 -Come on. -(both laugh) 739 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:21,304 ¶ ¶ 740 00:37:25,476 --> 00:37:29,746 ¶ Welcome to the house of the Lord ¶ 741 00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:33,082 ¶ Welcome to the house of the Lord ¶ 742 00:37:33,117 --> 00:37:35,752 ¶ There are no strangers here ¶ 743 00:37:35,787 --> 00:37:38,788 ¶ Everybody's welcome here ¶ 744 00:37:38,823 --> 00:37:41,557 ¶ Welcome to the house of the Lord ¶ 745 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,093 ¶ Make yourself at home ¶ 746 00:37:44,128 --> 00:37:46,129 ¶ In the house of the Lord ¶ 747 00:37:47,965 --> 00:37:51,834 ¶ Welcome, welcome ¶ 748 00:37:51,869 --> 00:37:54,604 ¶ Welcome ¶ 749 00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,840 ¶ Welcome, oh, hallelujah ¶ 750 00:37:57,875 --> 00:38:00,977 ¶ You are welcome ¶ 751 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:05,281 ¶ Welcome here. ¶ 752 00:38:05,316 --> 00:38:06,449 (cheering, applause) 753 00:38:06,484 --> 00:38:08,017 Yeah! 754 00:38:08,052 --> 00:38:09,085 Praise Him! 755 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,321 (whooping) 756 00:38:11,356 --> 00:38:12,822 LATRICE: Good morning. 757 00:38:12,857 --> 00:38:14,991 -CONGREGATION: Good morning. -Ooh, I said good morning! 758 00:38:15,026 --> 00:38:16,826 -CONGREGATION: Good morning! -Whoo! 759 00:38:16,861 --> 00:38:20,630 For our next song, I would like to invite 760 00:38:20,665 --> 00:38:23,666 -a special guest to join us. -Mm. 761 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:26,436 -He was raised in this church. -Mm-hmm. 762 00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:28,338 LATRICE: His voice used to fill this church. 763 00:38:28,373 --> 00:38:30,106 -CHARLENE: Yes. -It's been a very long time 764 00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:31,674 since he's been here. 765 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:34,010 But the Lord has brought him back to us. 766 00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:35,278 Won't he do it! 767 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:37,414 -Amen. -OTHERS: Amen. 768 00:38:38,416 --> 00:38:40,283 LATRICE: Prayerful. 769 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:42,218 Will you join us, please? 770 00:38:43,654 --> 00:38:45,922 Go on, now. You've been summoned. 771 00:38:53,731 --> 00:38:55,865 -Mm-hmm. -LATRICE: Yes. 772 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:57,667 -Amen! -(cheering, applause) 773 00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:00,803 -Hallelujah! -Uh... 774 00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:03,106 "This Day"? 775 00:39:11,849 --> 00:39:13,883 ¶ ¶ 776 00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:25,762 ¶ Give us ¶ 777 00:39:25,797 --> 00:39:28,264 ¶ This day ¶ 778 00:39:28,299 --> 00:39:32,668 ¶ Our daily bread ¶ 779 00:39:32,703 --> 00:39:35,104 ¶ You said ¶ 780 00:39:35,139 --> 00:39:39,609 ¶ You would ¶ 781 00:39:39,644 --> 00:39:43,613 ¶ Supply all ¶ 782 00:39:43,648 --> 00:39:47,583 ¶ My needs ¶ 783 00:39:47,618 --> 00:39:52,121 ¶ According to ¶ 784 00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:56,292 ¶ Your riches ¶ 785 00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:58,594 ¶ I have ¶ 786 00:39:58,629 --> 00:40:01,931 ¶ But to ask ¶ 787 00:40:01,966 --> 00:40:04,534 ¶ And I shall ¶ 788 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:09,606 ¶ Receive ¶ 789 00:40:15,179 --> 00:40:19,649 -¶ To go ¶ -¶ To go from here ¶ 790 00:40:19,684 --> 00:40:23,319 ¶ And share this love ¶ 791 00:40:23,354 --> 00:40:25,922 ¶ You gave ¶ 792 00:40:25,957 --> 00:40:29,592 ¶ To me ¶ 793 00:40:29,627 --> 00:40:31,761 ¶ To show ¶ 794 00:40:31,796 --> 00:40:33,763 ¶ Someone ¶ 795 00:40:33,798 --> 00:40:36,466 ¶ Who's lost ¶ 796 00:40:36,501 --> 00:40:41,938 ¶ And help them find ¶ 797 00:40:41,973 --> 00:40:46,442 ¶ Their way ¶ 798 00:40:46,477 --> 00:40:50,613 ¶ The way to truth ¶ 799 00:40:50,648 --> 00:40:52,448 ¶ And faith ¶ 800 00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:54,951 ¶ So they can ¶ 801 00:40:54,986 --> 00:40:58,821 ¶ Be free ¶ 802 00:40:58,856 --> 00:41:03,259 ¶ Like me ¶ 803 00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:06,262 ¶ Lord ¶ 804 00:41:06,297 --> 00:41:11,067 ¶ We need your love ¶ 805 00:41:12,036 --> 00:41:14,504 ¶ Lord ¶ 806 00:41:14,539 --> 00:41:19,308 ¶ We need your peace ¶ 807 00:41:19,343 --> 00:41:23,613 ¶ O, Lord ¶ 808 00:41:23,648 --> 00:41:25,147 ¶ We need your ¶ 809 00:41:25,182 --> 00:41:31,787 ¶ Joy ¶ 810 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:35,958 ¶ This ¶ 811 00:41:35,993 --> 00:41:40,229 ¶ Day ¶ 812 00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:42,298 ¶ Thank you, Lord ¶ 813 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:44,400 -¶ Thank you for this day ¶ -¶ Mm ¶ 814 00:41:44,435 --> 00:41:47,136 ¶ For another day ¶ 815 00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:50,239 ¶ I thank you ¶ 816 00:41:50,274 --> 00:41:52,742 -¶ Thank you, Lord ¶ -¶ I know I've made ¶ 817 00:41:52,777 --> 00:41:55,244 ¶ Some mistakes in my life ¶ 818 00:41:55,279 --> 00:41:57,747 ¶ Thank you for your mercy ¶ 819 00:41:57,782 --> 00:41:59,715 ¶ And your grace ¶ 820 00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:02,418 -¶ Thank you for your grace ¶ -¶ I, I ¶ 821 00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:04,420 ¶ Shake in my body ¶ 822 00:42:04,455 --> 00:42:08,424 ¶ But I thank you for another day, ah ¶ 823 00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:11,327 ¶ Thank you for this day ¶ 824 00:42:11,362 --> 00:42:13,229 -¶ Thank you ¶ -¶ Been through ¶ 825 00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:16,432 ¶ So many trials and tribulations ¶ 826 00:42:16,467 --> 00:42:19,902 -¶ Thank you for this day ¶ -¶ But I thank you ¶ 827 00:42:19,937 --> 00:42:23,739 ¶ But I thank you ¶ 828 00:42:23,774 --> 00:42:27,777 -¶ I'm so tired, Lord ¶ -¶ Thank you for this day ¶ 829 00:42:27,812 --> 00:42:29,946 ¶ I surrender ¶ 830 00:42:29,981 --> 00:42:33,549 ¶ Put my life in your hands ¶ 831 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:37,420 ¶ Oh, oh ¶ 832 00:42:37,455 --> 00:42:40,556 ¶ This ¶ 833 00:42:40,591 --> 00:42:45,761 ¶ Day. ¶ 834 00:42:45,796 --> 00:42:48,398 (cheering, applause) 835 00:42:53,638 --> 00:42:55,738 Hallelujah. 836 00:42:55,773 --> 00:42:57,974 -Oh, that's right. -(cheering continues) 837 00:43:02,413 --> 00:43:04,113 JADA: So you basically came into town 838 00:43:04,148 --> 00:43:06,449 for a farewell performance, 839 00:43:06,484 --> 00:43:08,751 and just tore us all up. 840 00:43:08,786 --> 00:43:10,086 (chuckles) 841 00:43:10,121 --> 00:43:11,387 Child, you ain't changed one bit. 842 00:43:11,422 --> 00:43:13,756 (both laugh) 843 00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:16,792 So, uh, how did things go with your mama? 844 00:43:16,827 --> 00:43:18,227 PRAY TELL: Good, good, I think. 845 00:43:18,262 --> 00:43:20,730 You know, I'm a grown man now. 846 00:43:20,765 --> 00:43:24,133 I'm not a child anymore, and she's her own woman, 847 00:43:24,168 --> 00:43:27,103 and I forgive that woman. 848 00:43:27,138 --> 00:43:28,604 I forgive her. 849 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:30,339 Do you forgive me? 850 00:43:30,374 --> 00:43:31,507 For what? 851 00:43:31,542 --> 00:43:33,676 For not protecting you. 852 00:43:33,711 --> 00:43:36,178 Pray, I knew, 853 00:43:36,213 --> 00:43:39,315 and I didn't... I did nothing! 854 00:43:39,350 --> 00:43:40,750 I'm sorry, though. 855 00:43:40,785 --> 00:43:43,452 -It's okay. It's okay. -I'm sorry. 856 00:43:43,487 --> 00:43:46,956 -(crying softly) -Is that why you wanted to have chicken and waffles? 857 00:43:48,059 --> 00:43:50,192 For absolution before I go? 858 00:43:50,227 --> 00:43:53,095 (laughs) You... 859 00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:54,797 You stop that silly talk. 860 00:43:54,832 --> 00:43:59,135 When things get tough for you in New York, 861 00:43:59,170 --> 00:44:01,303 I will be coming there 862 00:44:01,338 --> 00:44:04,373 so that you can feel your family in those last days. 863 00:44:04,408 --> 00:44:06,642 More than that, 864 00:44:06,677 --> 00:44:09,178 I want you to get everything you want 865 00:44:09,213 --> 00:44:11,080 exactly the way you want it to be. 866 00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:23,292 -Power of attorney? -Mm-hmm. 867 00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:26,962 Now, I know you got people there who love you and all, you know, 868 00:44:26,997 --> 00:44:29,365 but you know how it works. 869 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,301 The law won't let them make decisions for you 870 00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:34,370 because they're not blood. 871 00:44:34,405 --> 00:44:37,039 Now, you sign these papers 872 00:44:37,074 --> 00:44:41,744 and I will make sure that you get everything that you want. 873 00:44:41,779 --> 00:44:45,081 I will come there and I will see it through. 874 00:44:45,116 --> 00:44:48,551 So tell me, what are your final wishes? 875 00:44:48,586 --> 00:44:50,586 I know you've been thinking about this already, now. 876 00:44:50,621 --> 00:44:53,089 What, you... you want a parade or something? 877 00:44:53,124 --> 00:44:55,858 (laughs): No. No. 878 00:44:55,893 --> 00:44:57,627 The opposite of that. 879 00:44:59,630 --> 00:45:03,966 I... want to die peacefully at home. 880 00:45:06,637 --> 00:45:08,671 And then I want to be cremated. 881 00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:13,109 So where do you want us to put your ashes? 882 00:45:13,144 --> 00:45:17,446 I want you to buy a bunch of heart lockets 883 00:45:17,481 --> 00:45:21,084 and fill them with a little piece of me. 884 00:45:22,286 --> 00:45:24,253 And give them to all my friends 885 00:45:24,288 --> 00:45:26,922 and one for you and Aunt Latrice and Mommy. 886 00:45:26,957 --> 00:45:31,060 And then you'll all have a piece of me, wherever you go. 887 00:45:32,797 --> 00:45:34,296 Y'all ain't never getting rid of me. 888 00:45:34,331 --> 00:45:36,332 (both laugh) 889 00:45:38,302 --> 00:45:39,735 Okay. 890 00:45:39,770 --> 00:45:42,104 You let me do all of that for you, Pray. 891 00:45:42,139 --> 00:45:44,106 Let me love you now like I wasn't strong enough 892 00:45:44,141 --> 00:45:46,109 to love you then. 893 00:45:48,179 --> 00:45:50,313 You deserve that. 894 00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:52,515 (sniffles) 895 00:46:00,357 --> 00:46:03,259 Oh, there's this bossy bitch named Elektra 896 00:46:03,294 --> 00:46:06,262 who's gonna think that she deserves one of these lockets. 897 00:46:06,297 --> 00:46:10,599 I want you to tell her that I said from the grave 898 00:46:10,634 --> 00:46:14,937 -that she can kiss my entire ass. -(laughs) 899 00:46:14,972 --> 00:46:17,006 Okay? 900 00:46:17,041 --> 00:46:19,074 Only good thing about dying is that I won't have to listen 901 00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:21,310 -to her bullshit no more. -(both laugh) 902 00:46:23,314 --> 00:46:25,281 Cheers. 903 00:46:25,316 --> 00:46:27,316 Oh, mm-hmm. 904 00:46:27,351 --> 00:46:29,152 (laughing) 905 00:46:31,822 --> 00:46:33,856 ¶ ¶ 906 00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:39,495 (indistinct chatter) 907 00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:47,136 ¶ ¶ 908 00:46:56,881 --> 00:46:58,915 ¶ ¶ 909 00:47:06,090 --> 00:47:08,057 ("Free" by Deniece Williams playing) 910 00:47:08,092 --> 00:47:10,693 (bus brakes squeak, hiss) 911 00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:19,902 ¶ And I've just got to be me ¶ 912 00:47:19,937 --> 00:47:23,138 ¶ Be, be ¶ 913 00:47:23,173 --> 00:47:25,741 ¶ Be ¶ 914 00:47:25,776 --> 00:47:30,579 ¶ And I've just got to be me, yeah ¶ 915 00:47:30,614 --> 00:47:36,118 ¶ Be, be ¶ 916 00:47:37,421 --> 00:47:39,722 ¶ I've got to be free... ¶ 917 00:47:39,757 --> 00:47:41,423 YOUNG VERNON: I don't know, I think Elvis is pretty cool. 918 00:47:41,458 --> 00:47:43,425 YOUNG PRAY TELL: Please. Elvis got nothing 919 00:47:43,460 --> 00:47:44,560 on Jackie Wilson. 920 00:47:44,595 --> 00:47:46,228 Have you heard "Lonely Teardrops"? 921 00:47:46,263 --> 00:47:48,397 ¶ Oh ¶ 922 00:47:48,432 --> 00:47:50,599 ¶ And I've just got to be me ¶ 923 00:47:50,634 --> 00:47:52,835 ¶ Yeah, yeah ¶ 924 00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:54,770 ¶ Be ¶ 925 00:47:54,805 --> 00:47:59,742 -¶ Be ¶ -¶ Ooh ¶ 926 00:47:59,777 --> 00:48:01,443 ¶ Oh ¶ 927 00:48:01,478 --> 00:48:07,016 ¶ Be free ¶ 928 00:48:07,051 --> 00:48:09,752 ¶ Be, yeah, be me ¶ 929 00:48:09,787 --> 00:48:11,854 ¶ I've just got to be free... ¶ 930 00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:13,589 ELEKTRA: Have you seen her mug shots? 931 00:48:13,624 --> 00:48:15,925 -PAPI: Wait, who-de-who? -BLANCA: Left Eye. 932 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,960 I heard that when she got arrested that day, 933 00:48:17,995 --> 00:48:19,428 she walked out of that house 934 00:48:19,463 --> 00:48:20,863 with the thing still under her eye. 935 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:22,798 -She's a G. -ANGEL: That is so inspiring. 936 00:48:22,833 --> 00:48:25,134 -She's a hero. -PAPI: Hold on, what about his sneakers, though? 937 00:48:25,169 --> 00:48:28,070 -Huh? -ANGEL: Baby, if you ever cheat on me, 938 00:48:28,105 --> 00:48:30,205 I'm gonna take all your sneakers and your clothes, too, 939 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:31,607 and I'm gonna put them in the tub 940 00:48:31,642 --> 00:48:32,908 and I'm gonna light them on fire, 941 00:48:32,943 --> 00:48:34,610 but not with gasoline. 942 00:48:34,645 --> 00:48:36,278 I'm-a do it with essential oils, 943 00:48:36,313 --> 00:48:37,880 so you think about me when they're burning. 944 00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:39,615 -(laughs): Oh... -Okay, shall we? 945 00:48:39,650 --> 00:48:41,617 (quietly): Yes. 946 00:48:41,652 --> 00:48:43,052 Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you 947 00:48:43,087 --> 00:48:45,454 for this food and drink that we're about to receive. 948 00:48:45,489 --> 00:48:48,123 In a world where so many are hungry, 949 00:48:48,158 --> 00:48:51,393 may we eat with humble hearts. 950 00:48:51,428 --> 00:48:53,262 In a world where so many are lonely, 951 00:48:53,297 --> 00:48:55,497 may we love with open arms. 952 00:48:55,532 --> 00:48:59,401 May we all be fed, may we all be healed, 953 00:48:59,436 --> 00:49:04,239 may we all be loved, may we all be at peace. 954 00:49:04,274 --> 00:49:06,775 -Amen. -OTHERS: Amen. 955 00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:07,977 -(exhales) -Ah... 956 00:49:08,012 --> 00:49:10,145 -Hey, woman. Hey, trans. -Soup, please. 957 00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:11,981 -Mmm-mmm. -Hey, trans woman. 958 00:49:12,016 --> 00:49:14,650 -This is my mama's recipe. -Ooh, this shit looks good. 959 00:49:14,685 --> 00:49:16,819 -Just need a little broth. -Hey. 960 00:50:31,061 --> 00:50:32,962 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH