A girl from a poor neighborhood on the path to success A motivational drama about achieving dreams
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00:00:30Baby, get out here before the cereal gets soggy.
00:00:46Two more peanut butter, hurry up.
00:00:48Peanut butter.
00:00:49What is she still doing here?
00:00:52That's for the kids' lunches.
00:00:53Well, Jacob offered to.
00:00:54Well, Jacob's one of the kids.
00:00:56He's a grown ass man, and you ain't his mama.
00:00:58You do know he's 17, right?
00:01:03Hey, Ma. Is everybody up?
00:01:04Yeah, everything's done, of course.
00:01:06What about you, you tired? Where's your brother?
00:01:08Good morning. Jacob?
00:01:10He's just getting up. I got to get back to work.
00:01:13Okay, well, I left the plate for you in the fridge
00:01:15for when you get home.
00:01:16All right, talk to you later.
00:01:17Okay, cool. Love you.
00:01:18Love you.
00:01:20Who was she? Who are you?
00:01:21She was just leaving. Let's go, let's go.
00:01:28Try to eat what we have.
00:01:30Yo, thanks for the sis, Kalani.
00:01:32I hope you protected yourself, seriously.
00:01:34Come, please.
00:01:36Remember, there's a no pet rule in the building.
00:01:39Haters, dead ass, both of you.
00:01:41I'm not hating you. I'm looking out for you.
00:01:43Who stole this, huh? I am.
00:01:46Don't you ever forget it.
00:01:47Buy one minute, fool.
00:01:49Do I get one too, Ma?
00:01:51I'm good, Jacob.
00:01:52I'll take it. No.
00:01:54Look, y'all going to be late.
00:01:55Get home. Take this.
00:01:57Thanks, Jay. No, I got you.
00:02:00And scrub the nasty off the tub before Mom gets home.
00:02:05Hey, she was nasty and a little bit nasty,
00:02:07but she wasn't nasty nasty.
00:02:09Bye, Jacob.
00:02:16Machines and living things convert energy into what?
00:02:20Heat.
00:02:21Good, baby.
00:02:22And how does a living thing convert energy into heat?
00:02:27Sex?
00:02:28That, you better not write on your face.
00:02:34Morning. Come on in.
00:02:35How are you?
00:02:36Late as usual.
00:02:42I thought you said she was coming.
00:02:44She is.
00:02:46She's supposed to anyway.
00:02:48I hope I didn't choose the one day she's sick.
00:02:50That wouldn't change anything.
00:02:52Ahem, girl, what do you do?
00:02:55Uh-uh. What you doing here, Terrence?
00:02:56Boy, you know this ain't your train.
00:02:58Good morning, T.
00:02:59Who you waiting for?
00:03:00Your cousin.
00:03:01Tanya, let's go.
00:03:03What up, Andre?
00:03:04I'm not coming with you no more.
00:03:05Look, I'm trying to get this over with.
00:03:07Come on, girl, you know you're not too busy for your own man.
00:03:10Come on, it's a boy bar.
00:03:12Terrence, where you going?
00:03:13I'm going to class. Where you going?
00:03:15You play too much.
00:03:16You don't even have a book bag.
00:03:17Shut up.
00:03:24...7237 Green State College.
00:03:31Kalani.
00:03:33Ha-ha!
00:03:34Girl, you know you don't want to be late for school.
00:03:39What's up, Kalani?
00:03:41What's up, Terrence?
00:03:49What?
00:03:51Am I making you nervous or something?
00:03:53Well, with you staring at me like that...
00:03:57What you doing on this train anyway?
00:03:58My grandma needed some help with groceries this morning,
00:04:01so I just thought I'd come through.
00:04:02Aw, isn't he sweet?
00:04:05And this is my stop.
00:04:06Tell Kirk I said hi if you see him.
00:04:08You still your man?
00:04:10Yes, that's still my man.
00:04:12You sure?
00:04:20What the hell is doing that?
00:04:23Stop.
00:04:25You need to stop.
00:04:31Okay, girls, your next assignment,
00:04:33write a paper on the lie by Kurt Vonnegut.
00:04:35I expect you all did the reading.
00:04:37Hand down, Kalani, it was a rhetorical question.
00:04:39It's AP literature.
00:04:42Now, who can tell me what Kurt Vonnegut's
00:04:45The Lie was all about?
00:04:47Can I raise my hand now,
00:04:48or is that also a rhetorical question?
00:04:51Amy.
00:04:52It's a book about the American dream.
00:04:54Really?
00:04:56You have to go deeper, Amy.
00:04:59Bethany, what are your thoughts?
00:05:01It's a short story about a boy whose family
00:05:03donates money to a private school much like ours.
00:05:05But the school doesn't accept the boy
00:05:07because his test scores aren't good enough.
00:05:09Even though his family had gone to the school for generations.
00:05:12It's completely unfair.
00:05:14Good.
00:05:15Bethany, you have hit on the topic of this assignment.
00:05:19Continue, Bethany.
00:05:21Most of us in this room would agree that
00:05:23private schools are private for a reason.
00:05:25If you can't afford it,
00:05:27you shouldn't have the right to a better education.
00:05:30That is a very strong point of view.
00:05:34Test days are due on Monday.
00:05:37They account for one-third of your final grade,
00:05:39and I am expecting nothing short of your very best.
00:05:45Kalani, I need to see you for a moment.
00:05:49Okay.
00:05:59Good afternoon, Kalani.
00:06:05Your college application is in.
00:06:08You sure you don't want me to send in the others?
00:06:11I think I can take it to the mailbox myself.
00:06:15I've given this a lot of thought.
00:06:19And Yale is where I want to be in my first choice.
00:06:25I understand.
00:06:27I can be behind it.
00:06:29Thank you.
00:06:31And for helping with the application fee,
00:06:35I don't know what I want to do if I don't get in.
00:06:39The great what-ifs of life.
00:06:42It either propels you to greatness
00:06:46or stunts you into immobility.
00:06:50It's gonna take you sitting down
00:06:54and staying focused on what has to be done.
00:06:58That's your destiny.
00:07:01My destiny?
00:07:03You sound so much like me.
00:07:05Yeah, but did you have a bitch-ass bigot trying to ruin you?
00:07:08I hate Miss Umans.
00:07:11Miss Umans?
00:07:13She has a problem with me.
00:07:15I'm the only black girl in our class,
00:07:18and she makes sure I know it.
00:07:20It's good preparation for you, Kalani.
00:07:25Let me tell you a little story.
00:07:29I was a young brother from the projects.
00:07:33My mother gave birth to me at 13.
00:07:37I had all the world on my shoulder
00:07:41and all the odds against me.
00:07:44I was told that I was brilliant and accomplished, just like you.
00:07:50I even got a scholarship to play baseball
00:07:53and be a pitcher at one of the top-ranked high schools.
00:07:58Then the team got a coach
00:08:02who was not interested in having a black pitcher.
00:08:07I was disappointed. I was upset.
00:08:11I felt like I had lost my confidence.
00:08:14All those things, my grades fell.
00:08:16All those things happened to me.
00:08:18And I think since I'm a black man in this white man's world,
00:08:22why should I dream big?
00:08:25Why can't I just sit on the bench of life like everyone else
00:08:29and don't follow my dreams?
00:08:33I didn't go into baseball like I wanted to.
00:08:38I didn't go into my dreams.
00:08:41But I made it.
00:08:44Yeah.
00:08:46Through all that, I got through it.
00:08:50And I look at that and I think about you
00:08:55because that's what you're going to have to do.
00:08:57You're going to have to get through it.
00:08:59All the things that you're angry about,
00:09:02all the ways in which your dreams are often undermined,
00:09:06you're going to have to get through it.
00:09:08And you, you can do that.
00:09:12I think so.
00:09:15Step one is to be present and to be focused.
00:09:19So get out there.
00:09:23I got it.
00:09:25Are you kidding?
00:09:26Daddy's in the south of France, last I heard.
00:09:29The card's got us.
00:09:31Thanks.
00:09:32No problem.
00:09:34Thank you.
00:09:39You know the school you're going to go to?
00:09:41I don't know.
00:09:42I don't know.
00:09:43I don't know.
00:09:44I don't know.
00:09:45I don't know.
00:09:46I don't know.
00:09:47I don't know.
00:09:48I don't know.
00:09:49I don't know.
00:09:51You know the school year's almost over
00:09:52and you've still never taken me to a party in Harlem?
00:09:55I hear they're epic.
00:09:56I could be your plus one.
00:09:58My plus one?
00:09:59What?
00:10:00I mean it.
00:10:01You're telling me you don't need a blow-off steam?
00:10:03Katie, have you ever been above 96th Street?
00:10:06Of course I have.
00:10:07I took a tour of Columbia.
00:10:09Mm, okay.
00:10:11Yeah.
00:10:12Okay.
00:10:17Kalani, you ready?
00:10:18Let's go.
00:10:19Hi, Katie.
00:10:20Hi, Kirk.
00:10:21It's nice to see you again.
00:10:22Oh, it's nice to see you too.
00:10:24Hi, Katie.
00:10:26Kalani, you know I don't like being down here.
00:10:28Don't be so dramatic.
00:10:29Kalani, let's go.
00:10:33Um, bye, Katie.
00:10:35I'll see you later.
00:10:36Okay.
00:10:37Let me know about going out this weekend.
00:10:39Gotcha.
00:10:41I thought we had plans, just you and I.
00:10:50You're looking good today, baby.
00:10:52You waiting on me?
00:10:54My brother was supposed to pick me up.
00:10:56I don't know where he is, and he's not picking up his phone.
00:10:58Hey, Ty, hop in the V.
00:10:59Let's get to the crib.
00:11:00I'm with my friends tonight, Malik.
00:11:02I'm good.
00:11:04You headed back to 155th?
00:11:05I can give you a ride if that's what you asked.
00:11:07Well, you took me for a ride a couple times last month,
00:11:10and then I never saw you again.
00:11:13Boy, you know I love you, shorty.
00:11:15I'm gonna hop in the whip so we can get to the crib.
00:11:18I'm gonna hop in the whip so we can get to the crib.
00:11:40What's up?
00:11:41Nice and tight.
00:11:43And your soup's done.
00:11:46I could eat.
00:12:06Hey, Dad.
00:12:07Hey, Pastor.
00:12:08Hey, Kalani.
00:12:10How you doing? How's Mom and the family?
00:12:12Everybody's good.
00:12:13Yeah?
00:12:14What about this knucklehead?
00:12:16How's he treating you?
00:12:17Son, you're not gonna help her with the backpack?
00:12:23I taught you better than that.
00:12:24Yes, my bad, Dad.
00:12:26Offer her something to drink?
00:12:27Oh, I'm fine, really.
00:12:29Okay.
00:12:30You guys have homework?
00:12:31Yeah, a big paper.
00:12:33All right, well, you know you're welcome to stay
00:12:35and have dinner with us.
00:12:37Just tell your mom.
00:12:39Thanks, Pastor.
00:12:40All right, I have a big meeting at the church,
00:12:42so be back in a couple hours.
00:12:43All right, Pop. Love you.
00:12:45Take care.
00:12:46Got my eye on you.
00:12:50I need something to drink.
00:13:04Okay, how about we shut this?
00:13:07Wait, what are you doing?
00:13:09Let's go upstairs.
00:13:10Why?
00:13:11It's more comfortable up there.
00:13:12Come on, babe.
00:13:13I'm fine.
00:13:15Comfortable enough.
00:13:16Damn boy.
00:13:21Yo, I'm not your damn boy.
00:13:23And I'm not a dog.
00:13:27Okay, what just happened?
00:13:28Why you always gotta be like that?
00:13:30Like what?
00:13:31Boring. Kalani, boring.
00:13:33A tease.
00:13:34All my friends get to brag about
00:13:35what their girls do for them.
00:13:36I can't say nothing.
00:13:38You don't do nothing for me,
00:13:39you don't want me,
00:13:40and you don't care about me.
00:13:45I care about you.
00:13:47Then prove it.
00:14:08Kurt.
00:14:09No.
00:14:11I said no.
00:14:12Relax, relax.
00:14:14I said no.
00:14:15Relax.
00:14:16Stop.
00:14:18Stop, Kurt.
00:14:20Stop, Kurt.
00:14:22Stop.
00:14:24Stop!
00:14:27Stop.
00:14:35Hey, babies.
00:14:38Hey, where you going?
00:14:40You're my future wife.
00:14:56I wonder where all my children are.
00:14:58Hey, Mom.
00:14:59What's got you so out of breath?
00:15:01Goddamn.
00:15:03Where's Bebe?
00:15:05I'm gonna kill that little girl.
00:15:06There's some chicken and dumplings on the stove
00:15:08with some white rice.
00:15:09Go make yourself a plate.
00:15:10I'm not hungry, Mom.
00:15:12Chicken and dumplings is one of your favorites.
00:15:13What, you sick as hell?
00:15:15No, Mom.
00:15:16Bebe.
00:15:18Do you know what time it is?
00:15:20I'm sorry, I didn't think you was home yet.
00:15:22I was waiting on Jacob,
00:15:24and he never came to get me.
00:15:25Just because I'm not home
00:15:26doesn't mean you shouldn't be.
00:15:28I want you to come straight home after school,
00:15:30whether Jacob gets you or not.
00:15:31Do you understand?
00:15:33Yes, Mama.
00:15:35So where have you been?
00:15:36With a friend.
00:15:37What friend?
00:15:38Ty from downstairs.
00:15:40I thought I told you to stay away from that family.
00:15:43I'm sorry, I forgot.
00:15:45You forgetting something?
00:15:51You stink, Bebe.
00:15:53You been having sex?
00:15:55No.
00:15:56Don't you lie to me, girl.
00:15:57Where you get this necklace from, huh?
00:15:58From a friend.
00:15:59He give it to you for nothing?
00:16:01Ma, I didn't do anything.
00:16:02The next words that come out of your mouth
00:16:03better not be a lie.
00:16:07I can't even look at you right now
00:16:08and get out of my face
00:16:09and go take a shower before I beat your ass.
00:16:11I told you to look after your sister.
00:16:13How could you let this happen?
00:16:24Kalani, have you seen my shower cap?
00:16:29Have you seen my shower cap?
00:16:33You mad at me, too?
00:16:35What do you think?
00:16:37Why don't you tell me you're having sex, Bebe?
00:16:43I'm not mad at you.
00:16:45I'm mad at you.
00:16:47I'm mad at you.
00:16:49I'm mad at you.
00:16:52I can't protect you if you don't tell me anything.
00:16:56I'm sorry.
00:17:00You use condoms, right?
00:17:02Sometimes.
00:17:04Sometimes?
00:17:05They only work if you use them every time.
00:17:07He doesn't like condoms.
00:17:09He says they don't feel the same.
00:17:10What if you get an STD?
00:17:12That won't happen.
00:17:13Are you stupid?
00:17:14No.
00:17:15You know what?
00:17:16First thing Monday morning you go into the clinic,
00:17:18but tomorrow you're gonna get your condoms
00:17:20but tomorrow you're gonna get your butt up,
00:17:22go to the pharmacy and get some condoms
00:17:24since it seems like you cannot control yourself
00:17:26and you need to get a pregnancy test.
00:17:28I'm fine.
00:17:29How do you know?
00:17:31Because I'm not pregnant.
00:17:32When was your last period?
00:17:34I don't know. I don't remember.
00:17:35Last month?
00:17:36I don't know.
00:17:37Exactly. You don't know anything.
00:17:38You're taking the test.
00:17:40I'll give you the money.
00:17:41That's it.
00:17:42Your shower cap is over there.
00:17:43You protect your hair but not your life.
00:17:45Stupid.
00:17:50I'm sorry.
00:18:20I'm sorry.
00:18:47Ma.
00:18:51You okay?
00:18:53And I plead your precious blood over my mother.
00:18:57Keep baby and Jacob in your hand
00:19:01according to your will, God.
00:19:04In Jesus' name, amen.
00:19:09Amen.
00:19:21Get up!
00:19:23Get up!
00:19:28What are you doing?
00:19:29Call your brother and tell him to come get his stuff.
00:19:31I've had enough. He's got to go.
00:19:33He didn't come home last night and then I find this.
00:19:36Where was it?
00:19:38Right here in his room.
00:19:40Did you know Kalani?
00:19:42No. No, Ma.
00:19:44Tell him I'm flushing it down the toilet.
00:19:46I won't have this in my house.
00:19:50Ma.
00:19:51Ma, please, stop.
00:19:53You need to call your brother and tell him to come get his stuff.
00:19:56Otherwise, he'll be picking it up off the curb.
00:19:58I want him out.
00:20:00Ma.
00:20:01Ma.
00:20:19Bianca, hurry up!
00:20:20Calm down, Ma. You're pressured.
00:20:22You need to do what I told you to do.
00:20:23Get Jacob on the phone. That's what you need to do.
00:20:28Ma.
00:20:29Ma!
00:20:30Kalani, get out of my way!
00:20:50Hello?
00:20:51Why didn't you tell me?
00:20:52This is what you into now, Jacob?
00:20:54Have you lost your mind?
00:20:56Ma found your stash and she flushed it.
00:20:58She flushed it?
00:21:00You're kidding me right now.
00:21:01She could get me killed.
00:21:02She could get all of us killed.
00:21:04You're the one who gonna get us killed.
00:21:06I'm doing this to take care of y'all.
00:21:08I put my life on the line every day for this family.
00:21:10Do you even know what that's like?
00:21:12Jacob...
00:21:13You know what?
00:21:14Just keep Mom out of my room, all right?
00:21:16I gotta go handle this.
00:21:19Okay.
00:21:41Hey.
00:21:43Why you look so damn depressed?
00:21:45I'm going through stuff.
00:21:46Girl.
00:21:47Don't nobody want to hear you complain about your perfect little life.
00:21:49You don't know nothing about my life, so shut up.
00:21:51Crystal for real.
00:21:53She's your cousin.
00:21:55Anyway.
00:21:56We gonna shop it up, right?
00:21:58Because you know I gotta look real cute.
00:22:00Y'all calling me to the party tonight?
00:22:02We gotta get ready.
00:22:04Go with Crystal.
00:22:05I'm good.
00:22:06You know Crystal can't.
00:22:07She on that leash for the Lord.
00:22:09And I'm not going by myself.
00:22:11No.
00:22:12See, if your brother was going, that's a different story.
00:22:14But I have choir practice.
00:22:16And I try to hang with you heathens.
00:22:18I'm not going, Tanya.
00:22:20Look, I just need something real cute,
00:22:22because you know my man gonna be there.
00:22:24Which one?
00:22:26Doesn't matter.
00:22:27Come on.
00:22:29Let me get you a tight dress.
00:22:31Bye, pooch.
00:22:47Yeah, Phillip?
00:22:54Where's Malik?
00:22:55He's busy.
00:22:56I need to talk to him.
00:22:57But he's busy.
00:22:58Coco's here.
00:22:59I don't care about that chick.
00:23:01It's important, Ty.
00:23:02Get him for me.
00:23:03I need to talk to him.
00:23:05OK.
00:23:06Sit down.
00:23:07He'll be out soon.
00:23:09Do you still watch these cartoons?
00:23:11I stopped watching these, like, six months ago.
00:23:24Baby, you look better than all of those girls.
00:23:27I know.
00:23:28I know.
00:23:29I know.
00:23:30I know.
00:23:31I know.
00:23:32I know.
00:23:33I know.
00:23:34I know.
00:23:35I know.
00:23:36I know.
00:23:37I know.
00:23:38I really care about you.
00:23:40You always say that.
00:23:41Look, could you go get your brother?
00:23:43Why didn't anyone just chill with me?
00:23:44Why does one have to be my brother?
00:23:48Malik, you don't see me?
00:23:51What you doing here?
00:23:52I have to talk to you.
00:23:53No, I'm busy.
00:23:55But it's important.
00:23:58My baby mom's just here.
00:23:59You got the role.
00:24:01So?
00:24:02I'm your baby mom's, too?
00:24:07What'd you say?
00:24:10I'm your new baby mom's.
00:24:16Wait, wait, wait.
00:24:18You told me you ain't even had your period yet.
00:24:21I got it.
00:24:23Well, I had it.
00:24:26All them times we're on, you ain't say nothing?
00:24:28I'm sorry.
00:24:29I told you I couldn't mess with you no more if you had your period, baby.
00:24:32It's not like I planned it.
00:24:35I'm sorry.
00:24:36What you trying to do?
00:24:37She be in jail.
00:24:38What's going on in here?
00:24:39Malik.
00:24:40Go in the room.
00:24:41Who is this?
00:24:42Who are you?
00:24:43Don't worry about me.
00:24:44Worry about yourself.
00:24:45Malik, who is this girl?
00:24:46Coco, go in the room.
00:24:47Malik.
00:24:48Get in the room.
00:24:49Malik.
00:24:53You really pregnant, baby?
00:24:56Why would I make this up?
00:24:58You can't have no baby.
00:24:59He'll kill you.
00:25:00You don't know him, baby.
00:25:03He did that because he's in shock.
00:25:05I'm his girl.
00:25:06He loves me.
00:25:07Malik already got a girl.
00:25:09And your boy?
00:25:19Can't do that.
00:25:20But Malik.
00:25:21Get away from me.
00:25:22Hey.
00:25:23But.
00:25:24I want her gone when I come back out of here.
00:25:26You better leave now.
00:25:27Don't tell me what to do.
00:25:30I'm sorry.
00:25:32I'm sorry.
00:25:34I'm sorry.
00:25:36I'm sorry.
00:25:37I'm sorry.
00:25:38I'm sorry.
00:25:39I'm sorry.
00:25:40I'm sorry.
00:25:41I'm sorry.
00:25:42I'm sorry.
00:25:43I'm sorry.
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00:25:47I'm sorry.
00:25:48I'm sorry.
00:25:49I'm sorry.
00:25:50I'm sorry.
00:25:51I'm sorry.
00:25:52I'm sorry.
00:25:53I'm sorry.
00:25:54I'm sorry.
00:25:55I'm sorry.
00:25:56I'm sorry.
00:25:57I'm sorry.
00:25:59I'm sorry.
00:26:01I'm sorry.
00:26:04Girl.
00:26:05This is cute, right?
00:26:07If you want to look like a highlighter.
00:26:09Bitch, don't hate.
00:26:10I'm going to try it on.
00:26:11What about this?
00:26:13This is appropriate.
00:26:14No, girl.
00:26:15You've been hanging with the puppy.
00:26:17Why did I kiss too long, girl?
00:26:18Come on.
00:26:19I'm not going to church, okay?
00:26:20I'm trying to turn up.
00:26:21Woo, girl!
00:26:23I'm about to be flipped.
00:26:24Ah!
00:26:25Still cute.
00:26:32Ooh.
00:26:33Ooh.
00:26:38I'm ready to go.
00:26:40Where's the dress?
00:26:43Really?
00:26:45You that broke?
00:26:46That dress was like $9.
00:26:47You look like a highlighter.
00:26:48Girl, don't hate.
00:26:49At least I don't fit into the background like you.
00:26:51Take it off.
00:26:54Look.
00:26:55Hold my purse.
00:26:56Shut up.
00:26:57Hold it.
00:26:58Let me fix my shoe.
00:27:00Hey.
00:27:01Hey, get back here.
00:27:03Get back here.
00:27:04Ah!
00:27:05Get back here.
00:27:06You gotta pay for that.
00:27:10Yo, girl, that was crazy.
00:27:13Boo!
00:27:14What the hell, Tanya?
00:27:15You could have just warned us.
00:27:16You just left us there.
00:27:18I totally thought you were right behind me.
00:27:20And guess what?
00:27:21Y'all were.
00:27:22You know what that could have did to my chances at Yale
00:27:24if we got caught, stupid?
00:27:25Ridiculous.
00:27:26Unbelievable.
00:27:27Girl, where's my purse?
00:27:29Ask me to go shopping with you ever again in life, ever.
00:27:32Let it go.
00:27:32There's a party to get ready for.
00:27:34I told you I'm not going.
00:27:36I have a paper due Monday.
00:27:37I said that.
00:27:38Really?
00:27:39Homework over a party?
00:27:40Yes.
00:27:41Kalani, you're so corny.
00:27:41Really?
00:27:42Come on now.
00:27:43You're corny.
00:27:44It's not about being corny.
00:27:45Tanya, it's about getting into Yale.
00:27:47Right.
00:27:47After Harvard, the second or third most prestigious
00:27:49school in the country.
00:27:51Tanya, you clearly don't get it, but.
00:27:54You're obsessed with that school, right?
00:27:56Did you even apply to Columbia or City College even?
00:27:59Oh no, she trying to be one of those bougie Negroes
00:28:01who leaves Harlem behind and forgets where they came from.
00:28:04OK.
00:28:05Or, it's about that sperm donor you're so fascinated with.
00:28:10He went to Yale.
00:28:12Big deal.
00:28:12He was an asshole.
00:28:14He used your mom, had to push out three of y'all.
00:28:16Really?
00:28:17He pulled back to his real family on the Upper West Side.
00:28:20Forget that fool.
00:28:21Because you don't need to hide in the shadow of that bastard.
00:28:23Move on.
00:28:24What are you talking about?
00:28:25I live in the shadow.
00:28:26Me and my brother.
00:28:27Walk in his shoes.
00:28:28Pay his bills.
00:28:29Bitch, you didn't do it alone.
00:28:31OK?
00:28:32I was there too when your ass was too
00:28:33little to do a goddamn thing.
00:28:35Meanwhile, my mama sucking dick in the stairwell.
00:28:39We family.
00:28:40We got through it without that fool.
00:28:42And we getting through now.
00:28:45What you need to do is find his ass,
00:28:47call him out in front of his dumb-ass wife,
00:28:49and them fat-ass kids.
00:28:52They fat. You know it.
00:28:53They fat.
00:28:53You seen them on Facebook?
00:28:54How do you know they fat?
00:28:56What are you talking about?
00:28:57Listen, look, look.
00:28:59I just wanted to see you smile, right?
00:29:01A laugh.
00:29:02Now, please, go with me to this party.
00:29:03No, I'm not going.
00:29:05I have dreams.
00:29:06It goes.
00:29:07You can pipe dream about Yale, and your playa-pimp daddy,
00:29:10all of that stuff afterwards.
00:29:11It's not a pipe dream.
00:29:12It's not about a dream deferred.
00:29:15It's about getting into Yale.
00:29:16I have dreams, goals, aspirations, vision.
00:29:19Unlike you, whose vision doesn't go past tonight
00:29:22and some lame-ass nigga in Jordans.
00:29:24That's your life, not mine.
00:29:25Why you got to make my man lame, though?
00:29:27OK.
00:29:28Look at your ex with his fake, religious, bad, rough ass,
00:29:31you know, his rough snake.
00:29:33That's why I'm not going to Yale because he went to Yale.
00:29:36I'm going because Jane Matilda Baldwin went to Yale,
00:29:39the first black woman to graduate Yale Law,
00:29:42the first black woman to become a judge.
00:29:44Thank you very much.
00:29:46And I'm going to go the distance and become a lawyer.
00:29:49Maybe I'll become a judge.
00:29:50And when I do, then I'll come back to Harlem,
00:29:53pick up my whole entire family, and move
00:29:55them to Stryver's Row.
00:29:57You're welcome.
00:29:58I'll be your neighbor then.
00:29:59Yes, you will.
00:30:00Thank you.
00:30:01OK, that's cute, inspiring.
00:30:03Kumbaya-ish.
00:30:05But until then, we going to a pop-in party, right?
00:30:08When you hit it big, I'll move my ashy little kids
00:30:11on up to Kalani Street.
00:30:14OK, fine, fine.
00:30:16I'll go.
00:30:17But you got to give me some smoke.
00:30:19You going to go?
00:30:20Yes, girl.
00:30:21I got it.
00:30:21Get this loud, get this drink, get this steak.
00:30:24Yes, girl, girl.
00:30:25Come on, let's make a soul train line.
00:30:27Ah, ah, ah.
00:30:28Girl, don't act like you ain't no hoe.
00:30:31Come on, girl.
00:30:32I know you like it.
00:30:33Listen, we going.
00:30:34We going.
00:30:35You better not get drunk.
00:30:35That's all I know.
00:30:36I can't take you when you drunk.
00:30:37I'm going to be at choir.
00:30:38You drunk?
00:30:39I never get drunk.
00:30:40Girl!
00:30:40Oh, my god.
00:30:41Oh, my god.
00:30:59Kalani!
00:31:00Girl.
00:31:01Yes, we talk about burning up, Sean Paul, that bitch.
00:31:04Duh, ah, ah, girl, make it rain on her.
00:31:08Girl, y'all make it rain, too.
00:31:09I know!
00:31:26If I knew you were coming, I would have got here a lot earlier.
00:31:30That's love.
00:31:32Come here.
00:31:39I love you.
00:32:10I love you.
00:32:14So you break up with Kirk and it's on to the next.
00:32:16No more kiss?
00:32:17Yes.
00:32:22I'm sorry, I have to get her home.
00:32:26No, I'll help you. There's nobody here I want to hang out with anyway.
00:32:29It's Dennis.
00:32:30Uh-uh, girl.
00:32:31Okay, you don't go.
00:32:33What did you drink?
00:32:34What did you...
00:32:35Girl, I can't tell you.
00:32:36Say it, John Legend.
00:32:37John.
00:32:37Oh my goodness.
00:32:38John.
00:32:39What's up?
00:32:40I didn't see you.
00:32:41Let's get you home.
00:32:44Almost there.
00:32:51That's cool. That's a pretty coat on him.
00:32:53That's nice.
00:32:54Lonnie, I'm going. I'll see y'all.
00:32:57I'm sorry.
00:32:58Bye, y'all.
00:32:59The party's lit.
00:33:01Oh my gosh.
00:33:02I'm sorry.
00:33:03It's cool.
00:33:05Uh...
00:33:08I'm sorry. It's just, um...
00:33:10I'm sorry.
00:33:14I live up on the 18th.
00:33:17It was good seeing you tonight, Kalani.
00:33:28Hey.
00:33:29Hey.
00:33:31Mom's at work.
00:33:32I heard that.
00:33:33Did Jacob come home?
00:33:36No.
00:33:39Baby, isn't it a little late for you to be eating a plate of bacon?
00:33:44Yeah.
00:33:45I don't want it.
00:33:47Did you get that pregnancy test?
00:33:50Yeah.
00:33:52And?
00:33:58Hello? You deaf?
00:33:59I heard you.
00:34:00Okay.
00:34:02You were right.
00:34:04You're pregnant.
00:34:07You're pregnant?
00:34:08Yeah.
00:34:09Did you tell Ty?
00:34:12Yeah.
00:34:13Well?
00:34:15He wants me to get rid of it.
00:34:18Are you?
00:34:20I don't know.
00:34:22What should I do?
00:34:23I can't tell you that. You gotta figure that out on your own.
00:34:27Well, what would you do?
00:34:28I wouldn't know.
00:34:29Well, what would you do?
00:34:30I wouldn't have had sex in the first place. You're a kid.
00:34:34How old is Ty?
00:34:36Um, 13.
00:34:38What is wrong with you?
00:34:40I can't have one decent day.
00:34:41I don't know. I don't know how this happened. I'm sorry.
00:34:43Don't apologize to me. You're the one who got pregnant.
00:34:46I can't have one decent day without dealing with mess from you,
00:34:50Ma, Jacob, Tanya, Auntie.
00:34:53Like, one day apiece.
00:34:59I'm scared, Kalani.
00:35:05I'm here for you, sis, okay?
00:35:16Doug.
00:35:18Wake up.
00:35:29Girls, time to get ready for church.
00:35:31Good morning, Ma.
00:35:32What you doing?
00:35:34I've been up since 5, working on my English paper.
00:35:37You wanna read it?
00:35:39I need you to get ready for church.
00:35:41Oh, wake up, baby. Wake up.
00:35:46Did your brother come home?
00:35:47I haven't spoken to him since yesterday.
00:35:50Call him and remind him of his responsibility to pay his part of the rent.
00:35:55Call him and remind him of his responsibility to pay his part of the rent.
00:35:59I got a notice under my door, and you know I don't like getting no notices under my door.
00:36:03And wake her up, too.
00:36:06Okay, Ma.
00:36:09Wake up, baby.
00:36:12Baby.
00:36:13Baby. Hey, baby.
00:36:15Hey, hey, hey, baby.
00:36:17No.
00:36:19We gotta go to church.
00:36:20I'm not going.
00:36:22Why?
00:36:23I feel like a hypocrite.
00:36:26Nobody in church is perfect.
00:36:28Nobody.
00:36:30I know.
00:36:31You're a weed head.
00:36:33Girl, since you know so much, get your butt up.
00:36:36Up.
00:36:49Your phone's ringing.
00:36:51Hello?
00:36:52Jacob, where are you? Ma, calm down.
00:36:55She's been asking for you.
00:36:57She needs you to pay her half of the rent.
00:37:00I'm sorry. She told me to remind you.
00:37:02Honey, I'ma be home in a few, and I'ma take care of that.
00:37:05I decided, though, I can do more for y'all if I don't live there.
00:37:10Please come home.
00:37:11I'm coming home to get my stuff, and then I'm out.
00:37:14I gotta go.
00:37:16Bye.
00:37:21You got that money for me?
00:37:27Ta-da.
00:37:34That's all I got right now.
00:37:36This ain't enough, Carmen. I thought you said you got me.
00:37:39I gotta pay what I owe for rent and for the rock, or else they'll be coming for me.
00:37:42I was already supposed to settle up yesterday.
00:37:44What am I supposed to do with this, Carmen?
00:37:46Listen, listen.
00:37:47Next week, I can ask my husband for more.
00:37:49I got you, babe. Come on.
00:37:51I don't even know why you bringing him up.
00:37:53And next week is too late. I need the money now, Carmen.
00:37:55Don't leave, please.
00:37:57I gotta go.
00:37:58You said you got me, but obviously you don't.
00:38:00So you know what I'ma have to do? I'ma have to go out here and get it on my own,
00:38:02like I should've in the first place.
00:38:04Don't go yet, babe. You're gonna need breakfast.
00:38:06I gotta go.
00:38:07Come on. Please stay. Please.
00:38:11Jacob.
00:38:12I gotta go home.
00:38:13Jacob.
00:38:14I gotta go home.
00:38:44Bye.
00:38:59Miss Joss, how you doing?
00:39:01Good to see you and family here this morning.
00:39:03You know we love you.
00:39:05I love you.
00:39:14Yes, it will.
00:39:18But the thing is,
00:39:26Thank you, choir, for that lovely selection.
00:39:29That was perfect because it fits perfectly with our message this morning.
00:39:33God is working it out for you.
00:39:37I'll say it one more time.
00:39:39God is
00:39:40God is
00:39:41working it out
00:39:42working it out
00:39:43for you.
00:39:44for you.
00:39:45Sometimes we feel like
00:39:47he isn't watching us at all.
00:39:49Sometimes we feel like he isn't there.
00:39:52But the Bible tells us that the eyes of the Lord
00:39:55are in every place, beholding the evil
00:39:58and the good.
00:40:09What the hell is wrong with you?
00:40:11Nothing.
00:40:12Leave her alone.
00:40:16I can't be here. I wanna go home.
00:40:20Okay, baby.
00:40:21Maybe that's the best thing.
00:40:24You gotta stop crying, sweetie.
00:40:26You're too pretty to be crying like that.
00:40:33Let me try.
00:40:36Ah!
00:40:40Ain't y'all two-thirds y'all know it all.
00:40:42Girl, I'm gonna fix this.
00:40:52All right, go ahead, but go straight home.
00:40:55You understand?
00:40:58All right, get some rest.
00:41:01I'm in a situation. I need some help.
00:41:04Yes, it is a beautiful day,
00:41:06a fine day to do business.
00:41:08Now, this is serious.
00:41:09What?
00:41:10What, we lost a little damn common
00:41:12courtesy in this age today?
00:41:14You're a loan shark.
00:41:15I need a loan. Enough said.
00:41:17Can you help?
00:41:18Loan shark?
00:41:21Nah, you see,
00:41:23I'm just a man who helps folk put a damn paper
00:41:26on their dreams.
00:41:29All right, fine, what can I help you with?
00:41:31A thousand.
00:41:32That's it?
00:41:33Ain't I hear that sister of yours got eyes on cops?
00:41:36A thousand for now.
00:41:37I'm gonna handle that a different way, later.
00:41:41One thousand United States legal title.
00:41:46A great choice.
00:41:48All right.
00:41:49I won't even ask for a piece of your sister's ear.
00:41:51What?
00:41:52Nigga, you lucky I don't smoke before a move like that.
00:41:55All right, now, juice is ten percent a week.
00:41:57You know where to find it.
00:41:58Have fun.
00:42:03At the restaurant down the block.
00:42:05Goodbye.
00:42:08Is that Terrence?
00:42:09Yeah.
00:42:10He's on his way.
00:42:17I just want my friend to be happy.
00:42:19Okay?
00:42:20Hey.
00:42:26Excited to see me, I can tell.
00:42:30I gotta go check on Bebe.
00:42:39Hey, Bebe, you home yet?
00:42:42I'll be home in a second.
00:42:44I told you to go straight home.
00:42:47You need to rest.
00:42:50You're gonna be a little late.
00:42:51Are you gonna be okay?
00:42:55All right.
00:42:56Love you.
00:42:59Love you, too.
00:43:00Bye.
00:43:20I have something I need to tell you.
00:43:24I'm listening.
00:43:27I'm a virgin, and I plan on staying that way.
00:43:31You think that's why I want to be with you?
00:43:35Well, Kirk and I used to argue about that all the time.
00:43:39I'm not Kirk.
00:43:40I like you for who you are.
00:43:45Well, you say that, but we don't even know each other.
00:43:49I mean, we know each other, but we don't know each other.
00:43:59Okay.
00:44:00So, what do you want to know?
00:44:03Um, what do you plan on doing after school?
00:44:08Well, I'm definitely going to college.
00:44:09Hoping to get into Howard.
00:44:11Howard? That's a good school.
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13What about you?
00:44:14I want to go to college, too.
00:44:16Where?
00:44:18Yale.
00:44:20Yale?
00:44:22Wow.
00:44:23I feel like it's a little out of my league, but it's the same way I felt before I applied to the school I'm at now.
00:44:29You're right.
00:44:31I definitely didn't know the girl behind those beautiful braids.
00:44:48From now on, only when we're in public, but not like this when we're alone, Ty.
00:44:53What do you mean?
00:44:55Malik, I've been waiting for you.
00:44:59Ty, I thought I told you not to let her back in here.
00:45:02I have to talk to you.
00:45:03About what?
00:45:05I already gave you the bread.
00:45:07I'm keeping it.
00:45:09You're not keeping it.
00:45:11I'm keeping it.
00:45:13I'm keeping it.
00:45:14I already gave you the bread.
00:45:16I'm keeping it.
00:45:17No, you're not.
00:45:19Look, I got a plan.
00:45:21Ty and I will act like we're a couple, and people will think it's his, but you and I will not.
00:45:26You're going to do what I said.
00:45:27No, I'm keeping the baby. Look, we can figure this out.
00:45:40You think this is a game choice?
00:45:41I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Malik.
00:45:43You think I'm pretty, son?
00:45:44No, stop! Help me!
00:45:46No!
00:45:48Ty!
00:45:49Help me! Stop!
00:45:51Please!
00:45:54Yo, Ma, you here?
00:46:13Hey.
00:46:41Hey, Kay, it's me.
00:46:43You don't have to call back.
00:46:45I'm just in here thinking about pops.
00:46:50I know you worry about me, but I know I love you.
00:46:56I'm real corny right now, just sitting at the crib looking at my life in trash bag.
00:47:04I gotta go.
00:47:06I know I love you.
00:47:14Kalani?
00:47:15I just left you a message.
00:47:16Yo, playboy, you at the end of the road.
00:47:18Wait, wait, I can get you your money. Just give me some more time.
00:47:34Yo, Ma, is that you?
00:47:40Yo, Ma!
00:47:44Hey.
00:47:51Baby!
00:47:54Baby, what happened? Oh, my God.
00:47:56What happened?
00:48:02She's bleeding.
00:48:04She's bleeding.
00:48:05She's bleeding bad.
00:48:06My sister, my baby sister, we need ambulance now.
00:48:09Polo Tower C, 18th floor.
00:48:12I'm right here, baby. I'm right here.
00:48:15I'm right here, okay?
00:48:17I need you to tell me what happened, okay?
00:48:19It was my fault.
00:48:21He told me he didn't want another baby.
00:48:24Who? Who, baby? Who?
00:48:28Malik.
00:48:37Where's your brother?
00:48:38He ain't here.
00:48:39Man, move!
00:48:40Malik, where you at?
00:48:42Get your ass out here.
00:48:46Man, that's my sister. What's wrong with you, man?
00:48:48She's a kid, man.
00:48:50She's a baby, you son of a bitch.
00:48:52If I ever see you around again, I'll kill you.
00:48:54You hear me? I'll kill you.
00:49:06Malik!
00:49:10Malik!
00:49:24Yeah, Mom. Okay. Okay, I'm on the way. I'll meet you at the hospital.
00:49:27What's going on?
00:49:28My mom needs to meet her at the hospital.
00:49:30Okay, well, I'm going with you.
00:49:31Thank you.
00:49:37I didn't know. I swear to you, I didn't know this was happening.
00:49:41I have to ask you these questions, Ms. Johnson. I'm sure you understand.
00:49:44Kalani, thank God you're here.
00:49:45What baby? What happened?
00:49:47They got me out here questioning like I'm a criminal.
00:49:50That baby's in the room down the hall.
00:49:53You're from Child Protective Services?
00:49:55We're asking your mother a few questions. It's standard procedure in matters like this.
00:49:59My mom busts her ass every day. You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:50:03You the brother?
00:50:05It's a friend.
00:50:06Well, then you can't be in here, son.
00:50:08I just wanted to make sure Kalani got here okay.
00:50:11I'll be in the waiting room here if either of you two need anything.
00:50:18You could give us some privacy too, miss.
00:50:22Of course. Here's my card.
00:50:26I'll reach out to you if I have more questions.
00:50:39Do you know you could have cost me my child? I trusted you.
00:50:44What's taking so long? I called 20 minutes ago. This isn't God related.
00:50:48This isn't God related.
00:50:53Henry Hopp, God damn it. He's dying.
00:50:58Jacob. Jacob, my love. Jacob.
00:51:03Jacob, wake up.
00:51:16Hello?
00:51:17Hello?
00:51:18Hello? Who's this?
00:51:20Oh my God.
00:51:22Where's Jacob?
00:51:24Where's Jacob? Put him on the phone.
00:51:31I'm so sorry.
00:51:33There's so much blood.
00:51:36Jacob's being shot.
00:51:39Put him on the phone. Put the phone to his ear.
00:51:43Jacob, Mr. Baby, please wake up.
00:51:47Jacob? Can you hear me?
00:51:52Jacob.
00:51:55We came into this world together, Jay, me and you.
00:51:58You came in one minute before me.
00:52:01To protect me.
00:52:03We have big dreams. We're gonna do big things together. Remember?
00:52:08Remember, Jacob?
00:52:12What's happening? Where's Jacob?
00:52:15Hello?
00:52:17Hello?
00:52:39I love you.
00:52:42I'll never leave.
00:52:47You're a part of me.
00:52:52I love you.
00:52:56So much.
00:52:59I'll never leave.
00:53:03You're a part of me.
00:53:07So stay.
00:53:10Stay.
00:53:13Stay with me.
00:53:17Stay with me.
00:53:27Paul wrote these words in the book of Second Timothy, chapter 4, verse 7.
00:53:36He says, I have fought the good fight.
00:53:43I have finished the race.
00:53:48I have kept the faith.
00:53:56But there are these times when the loved one we have lost has been taken far too soon.
00:54:07Taken violently.
00:54:10Taken before they could even finish their race.
00:54:19Jacob.
00:54:21Jacob was taken too soon.
00:54:24He was taken too soon.
00:54:29And at times like these,
00:54:32we ask questions.
00:54:35The main question we ask is,
00:54:38why?
00:54:42Why so young?
00:54:47Why so soon?
00:54:51Why this pain? Why this grief?
00:54:56Why this pain?
00:54:58Why this pain? Why this grief?
00:55:02Why did God
00:55:05allow this
00:55:08to happen?
00:55:13I want you to know
00:55:16that it is perfectly okay to ask,
00:55:20why?
00:55:24Jesus himself asked, why?
00:55:28While on the cross,
00:55:32he claimed,
00:55:35Eli, Eli, sebachthani,
00:55:39which is to say, my God, my God, why
00:55:44has thou forsaken me?
00:55:54The problem with that question is
00:55:59most of the time we'll never find that answer.
00:56:06So beloved, it behooves us this morning to somehow, in some way,
00:56:11change the question
00:56:15from why to, to what?
00:56:21What do I do now?
00:56:24What do we do next?
00:56:29I'll tell you what you do.
00:56:32You grow.
00:56:35You keep loving. You keep praying.
00:56:39You live.
00:56:53Got some good news.
00:56:54I got in. I got accepted. I'm going to Howard.
00:56:56Oh, wow. Congratulations.
00:57:02I'm still waiting on some financial aid,
00:57:04and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to take out some student loans,
00:57:06but I'm in there.
00:57:08Whatever you gotta do, right?
00:57:10You know, the family's having a party this Friday to celebrate,
00:57:12and you already know.
00:57:18How you feeling?
00:57:20I don't really know how to feel.
00:57:23We're here for you, you know.
00:57:26Whatever you need.
00:57:28Okay?
00:57:52My God, Kalani, what are you doing here?
00:57:56I'm so sorry.
00:57:58Screw this paper.
00:58:00Screw Miss Umans. I could have come and picked it up for you.
00:58:03You need to be with your family right now.
00:58:06This is about my family.
00:58:23Bethany, please collect the essays.
00:58:27Kalani, if you need more time, I understand.
00:58:30I can give you an extension.
00:58:32No, I have it right here.
00:58:34You finished your paper?
00:58:37This is the real world.
00:58:39There's plenty of extensions in the real world.
00:58:41There's never enough time.
00:58:53Okay.
00:59:06Can I talk to you?
00:59:08You don't have to talk at all.
00:59:15Come here. Come here. Come here, baby.
00:59:17Come here.
00:59:19Come here.
00:59:21Come here.
00:59:23I wish I could take this pain away, but I can't.
00:59:27And I wish I had the words, but I don't.
00:59:32Okay, but I'm here.
00:59:34I'm here.
00:59:36I'm here.
00:59:37Can you come with me?
00:59:40What's this?
00:59:42I found my father's address.
00:59:47You don't want to do this. Not now.
00:59:50I know his family doesn't know about his son,
00:59:53but I think he needs to know his son is dead.
00:59:55I think you're angry, and you deserve to be.
00:59:58I just want to drop the obituary off.
01:00:00I don't care how he feels about it.
01:00:02You think it's as simple as that?
01:00:04What, you knock on the door,
01:00:06and he's gonna pull you into his arms?
01:00:09Now, what is a family, Kalani?
01:00:12What does it really mean to be a dad?
01:00:15Now, anybody can be a father,
01:00:17but Jacob's life,
01:00:19Jacob's loss,
01:00:21is worthy of a dad.
01:00:26I don't have the answers to that.
01:00:28You're gonna have to think this through.
01:00:32I need you.
01:00:34I need you to think it through.
01:00:37I need you to think it through.
01:00:40I can't. I don't have any more room.
01:00:43I don't have the room for it.
01:00:45I can't do it.
01:00:46I can't do everything
01:00:48and be everything to everybody.
01:00:50I can't take my sister to school,
01:00:52make sure she's okay,
01:00:53make her lunch, bury my brother,
01:00:56try to get into college,
01:00:57try to have a life and be a kid.
01:00:59I can't do it. I can't do it.
01:01:01Kalani, Kalani.
01:01:03Take a breath.
01:01:05Take a breath.
01:01:08All you're going through
01:01:10is too much for anyone
01:01:13at any age.
01:01:15And maybe you should take a break.
01:01:17No, no, no.
01:01:18You should take a break from school for a while.
01:01:21It's gonna be all right.
01:01:23It won't affect your grades.
01:01:28This is one moment in your life
01:01:30that you have to go through.
01:01:34You will get through it.
01:01:44Hey, little lady.
01:01:46Hey, Mr. Stokes.
01:01:48This elevator's broken,
01:01:50and this one's going express.
01:01:53Express to where?
01:01:55It's going straight to the top.
01:01:58Well, I live up on 18th.
01:02:00I can walk down.
01:02:01What are you gonna do?
01:02:02I don't know.
01:02:03I don't know.
01:02:04I don't know.
01:02:05I don't know.
01:02:06I don't know.
01:02:07I don't know.
01:02:08I don't know.
01:02:09I don't know.
01:02:10I don't know.
01:02:11I don't know.
01:02:12I live up on 18th.
01:02:13I can walk down.
01:02:14What are you gonna do?
01:02:15Wait for the repairman.
01:02:17What else can I do?
01:02:38I know you remember us.
01:02:41Here she goes.
01:02:42Keep it moving.
01:02:43Damn.
01:02:44You know I got room for you too, sweetheart.
01:02:45Oh, shut up.
01:02:46Shut up.
01:02:47Watch your mouth, yo.
01:02:48Just keep it moving.
01:02:49To college.
01:02:53Damn, how the elevator's broken.
01:02:56Hello.
01:02:59How you doing?
01:03:01Mr. Rose called.
01:03:03I'm worried about you.
01:03:06He says I need a mental health break.
01:03:09I don't know, Mom.
01:03:10I think he's right.
01:03:11Nonsense is for white folks.
01:03:18Can I fix you something to eat?
01:03:21No, Mom, I'm good.
01:03:24I'll run you a bath.
01:03:27Now you sound like me.
01:03:38A letter came for you from Yale.
01:03:43You really applied to the same school as your father.
01:03:52You gonna open it?
01:04:02It's so thin.
01:04:04You know, they send those rejection letters out by the thousands.
01:04:08There are plenty of other schools right here in New York.
01:05:09I love you.
01:05:28So, what'd it say?
01:05:31I got in.
01:05:33I can't believe it, I got in.
01:05:35Let me see.
01:05:42Oh, my God.
01:05:52What about Bebe?
01:05:56I don't know.
01:05:59Well, what about helping me around here?
01:06:01It's all the way in Connecticut.
01:06:04You're not planning on accepting this, are you?
01:06:08Ma, I'm going.
01:06:10No, you're not.
01:06:12To Yale, of all places? Really, Kalani?
01:06:16There are plenty of schools that are closer.
01:06:19Write them and tell them that you've decided to take a school that's closer to your family.
01:06:25It's my decision, and I've made it.
01:06:28It's Yale, Ma.
01:06:31Not everybody gets an opportunity like this, but I did.
01:06:37With Jacob gone,
01:06:40you just gonna leave?
01:06:44I'm not Jacob, Mom.
01:06:46I'm coming back.
01:06:49I got bills that I need help with every day, Kalani.
01:06:53I need help with Bebe.
01:06:56You got responsibilities here, okay?
01:06:58I'm not the mom.
01:07:00You're the mom.
01:07:02You are. I wanna be a kid.
01:07:07Let me be a kid.
01:07:12Mom.
01:07:23Mom.
01:07:54Remember this dress?
01:07:56You never let me wear it.
01:07:58It's yours.
01:08:00Are you serious?
01:08:02Can I have the shoes, too?
01:08:05Now you're pushing it.
01:08:10Alright, take the shoes, girl.
01:08:15I have something from Jacob, too.
01:08:19I don't know why he was hiding it, but I'm glad I found it when I did.
01:08:25This is kind of intense.
01:08:36I think I'll look at it later.
01:08:39Okay. Your time.
01:08:48Finally get the room to yourself.
01:08:51It's all I've ever wanted.
01:08:53But now I'm not so sure.
01:08:59You really have to go, Kalani.
01:09:02I want you to make good decisions.
01:09:07Smart choices.
01:09:10And those times where you don't have all the answers from just a phone call, eh?
01:09:19Mom's gonna have me doing everything around here.
01:09:22It's a lot, but it's not so bad.
01:09:25Just keep the room clean. Do what she asks of you.
01:09:29And just don't grow up too fast, you know?
01:09:33You'll be my age before you know it.
01:09:36But take care of Mom.
01:09:39I'm serious, baby. Okay?
01:09:42Okay.
01:09:48Kalani?
01:09:51Can we cuddle tonight?
01:09:54Come on.
01:09:59But don't hog all the cover.
01:10:02I'm hogging it already.
01:10:07Love you, Kalani.
01:10:10I love you, too.
01:10:30Alright, I'm coming down.
01:10:40Bye, Mom.
01:11:06Bye, Mom.
01:11:11Didn't think I was gonna say goodbye, did you?
01:11:16I thought you were asleep.
01:11:19I haven't slept in weeks.
01:11:27I made you all your favorites.
01:11:30There's a sweet potato pie in that little bag.
01:11:33I'm saving that for Thanksgiving to make sure your butt comes home.
01:11:37Thanks, Mom.
01:11:42I am so proud of you.
01:11:46I know I haven't said that nearly as much as I should have,
01:11:49but I really am proud of you.
01:11:53Thanks, Mom.
01:11:59Get on out of here.
01:12:02Get on out of here.
01:12:18It's a go, Kat.
01:12:20It goes pretty well with the Sorry I Missed Christmas with the Family Rolex.
01:12:24All I got was corporate and the family.
01:12:27Trade?
01:12:33Grand Central, right?
01:12:35Any chance we can make a quick pit stop? I need to stop by the school.
01:12:39Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
01:12:58Hey, Kalani.
01:13:00You have a minute?
01:13:06I know this is going to sound weird and uncomfortable and awkward,
01:13:13but do you remember that conversation we had after Jacob died about family?
01:13:19Well, I didn't go to my father's house.
01:13:22You were right.
01:13:24There is a difference between a father and a dad.
01:13:29So I want you to have this.
01:13:39Jacob Johnson.
01:13:42Don't forget me.
01:13:45Impossible.
01:13:48All right. I'll be in the stands cheering you on.
01:13:54Thanks for everything.
01:13:58Thank you.
01:14:01Too young to be tired
01:14:07Too high to be higher
01:14:13Too far to go further
01:14:18But too strong to deter
01:14:23In my eyes, all I see is my fire
01:14:29In my heart, all I feel is desire
01:14:34In my dreams, all I see is my life
01:14:40Until I live what I see, I'll just strive
01:14:54And drive
01:15:08Giving up is not an option
01:15:14You don't see him like me often
01:15:21When in his mind I've chosen
01:15:26And I'm made of my mind, I'll just strive
01:15:38Strive
01:15:44Strive
01:15:50Strive
01:15:53Hello?
01:15:55Hey, it's me.
01:15:57Hey.
01:15:59So you on your way, or...?
01:16:01Yeah, I'm actually almost there.
01:16:04What about you?
01:16:05Me too.
01:16:07I didn't realize how far out of the city Howard actually is.
01:16:10And in the opposite direction of you.
01:16:14I mean, there's always holidays.
01:16:16That's true.
01:16:20Are you going back for Thanksgiving, or...?
01:16:23Yeah.
01:16:25What about you?
01:16:26I'll be back.
01:16:29You know, in the meantime, I'm definitely going to miss it, but...
01:16:34You know, especially you.
01:16:37Okay.
01:16:39But yeah, I'll be back for Thanksgiving.
01:16:45I probably should get going, because I'm just about to pull up in a second.
01:16:52Okay.
01:16:54All right, well, just remember, Kalani, you deserve it.
01:17:00Thanks, Terrence. So do you.
01:17:04Thanks.
01:17:08Strive
01:17:12Your parents must be so proud of you.
01:17:15Strive
01:17:17They are.
01:17:21I won't stop, I won't stop
01:17:26I'll strive
01:17:30When it gets hard, I'll just strive
01:17:36With tears in my eyes, I'll just strive
01:17:42No matter what, no matter how
01:17:53And I know now is my time
01:18:01To strive
01:18:31Follow your dreams
01:18:33Keep it movin' forward
01:18:35Keep movin'
01:18:37Keep it movin' forward
01:18:39I don't care what they say
01:18:41Keep it movin' forward
01:18:44Just keep movin'
01:18:46Keep it movin' forward
01:18:48If you're feelin' down
01:18:52Get up and dance
01:18:53It'll make you feel better
01:18:58Who are you? What you doin'?
01:18:59What's your life? What you stand for?
01:19:02If you don't stand for nothin'
01:19:03You're gonna fall for sure
01:19:06And if you're all about your crew
01:19:08And you ain't an individual
01:19:11You might drown in the ocean
01:19:12With no support
01:19:15I don't care what they say
01:19:17Keep it movin' forward
01:19:19I don't care what they do
01:19:21Keep it movin' forward
01:19:24Follow your dreams
01:19:26Keep it movin' forward
01:19:28Keep movin'
01:19:30Keep it movin' forward
01:19:32I don't care what they say
01:19:34Keep it movin' forward
01:19:37Just keep movin'
01:19:39Keep it movin' forward
01:19:41If you're feelin' down
01:19:45Get up and dance
01:19:46It'll make you feel better
01:19:57bass solo
01:20:05bass solo
01:20:08But I don't care what they say
01:20:10Keep it movin' forward
01:20:12I don't care what they do
01:20:14Keep it movin' forward
01:20:17Follow your dreams
01:20:19Keep it movin' forward
01:20:21Keep movin'
01:20:23Keep it movin' forward
01:20:25I don't care what they say
01:20:27Keep it movin' forward
01:20:30Just keep movin'
01:20:32Keep it movin' forward
01:20:34If you're feelin' down
01:20:37Get up and dance
01:20:39It'll make you feel better
01:20:41Ooh, ah
01:20:44Keep it movin' forward
01:20:47bass solo
01:21:05But I don't care what they say
01:21:07Keep it movin' forward
01:21:09I don't care what they do
01:21:11Keep it movin' forward
01:21:14Follow your dreams
01:21:16Keep it movin' forward
01:21:18Keep movin'
01:21:20Keep it movin' forward
01:21:22I don't care what they say
01:21:24Keep it movin' forward
01:21:27Just keep movin'
01:21:29Keep it movin' forward
01:21:31If you're feelin' down
01:21:35Get up and dance
01:21:36It'll make you feel better
01:21:38Ooh, ah