[Music] God's heaven [Music] wake up come on Travis it's 7 30. come on you're not the only one to use the bathroom and don't forget your clothes [Music] all right go ahead and lay there next thing you know drives to be finished in the bathroom and Mr Johnson will be in there but at least it's time for you to get up [Music] you out yet what you mean out they hardly got in there good yet what the hell are you doing all that yelling for if I can't even get in there yet I'm Tech coming today they said Saturday and this is just Friday and I hope to God you ain't gonna get up here first thing this morning stop talking to me about my money cause I thought I don't want to hear it something that mattered with you this morning no I'm just sleepy as the devil what kind of eggs you want not scrambled paper gun table set off another bomb yesterday did they what's the matter with you ain't nothing to matter with me what is that boy doing in the bathroom all this time he just gonna have to start getting up earlier I can't be late to work on account of him fooling around in there oh no he ain't going to be getting up no earlier no such thing it ain't his fault that he can't get it but no earlier nights because he got a bunch of crazy good for nothing clowns sitting up here running their mouths and what is supposed to be his bedroom after 10 o'clock at night that's what you mad about ain't him things I want to talk about with my friends just couldn't be important in your mind and could they why you always gotta smoke before you eat in the morning you look young this morning baby yeah just for a second stirring them eggs real young again stop it it's gone now you look like yourself again man if you don't shut up and leave me alone first thing a man all the learning life is not to make love to no colored woman first thing in the morning it all sounds evil people at eight o'clock in the morning come come on I'm going I'm going sit down and have your breakfast Travis Mama this is Friday check on tomorrow huh you get your mind off money and eat your breakfast this was the one I'm supposed to bring 50 cents in the school well I ain't got no 50 cents this morning teachers say we have to I don't care what teachers say I ain't got it eat your breakfast Travis and Grandma whatever no and I want you to stop asking your grandmother for money you hear me gotta leave Mom I don't ask her just give me her sometime Travis Willard younger I got too much on me this morning Travis could I maybe go carry some groceries in front of the supermarket for a little while after school then just hush I said if you're through eating you can get over there and go make up your bed I'm gone get your jacket looks chilly out this morning get coffee and milk money and not a single penny for no caps you hear me yes Mom oh mama makes me so mad sometimes I wouldn't kiss that woman goodbye for nothing in this world this morning not for nothing in this world hmm [Music] now who's the lone angry man are you oh golly mama oh golly mama get on out of here you gonna be late crap please go carry some groceries honey it's starting to get so cold evening go carry groceries after school at the supermarket don't let him go I have to she won't give me the 50 cents why not cause we don't have it tell the boy things like that full yes sir thanks Daddy in fact there's another 50 cents buy yourself some fruit today or take a taxi cab to school or something you better go now get to school man okay bye honey you know what I was thinking about in the bathroom this morning I know what you was thinking about about what me and Willie Harris was talking about last night Whitney Harris is a good for nothing loud now Charlie Atkins was a good for nothing now too wasn't he when he wanted me to go into the dry cleaning business one and now he's grossing a hundred thousand a year you still call him a loud Mouse I'm tired ain't you tired of everything me the boy the way we live is beat up whole she wouldn't do nothing to help now would you Walter please leave me alone mama would listen to you you know she listened to you more than she do me and Benny should think more of you all you have to do is just sit down with her when you're drinking your coffee and talk about things like you do and say easy like if you've been thinking about that being watery so interested in about the storm on sips them on coughing like what you say it ain't really that important to you and the next thing you know she be listening good and when I come home I can tell her the details now This Ain't Gonna Fly by Night proposition baby I mean we figured it out me really and Bobo Bobo yeah you see this Lego Store we got in mind cost 75 000 and we figured the initial investment on the place be about thirty thousand see that'd be ten thousand each get your eggs they're gonna get cold that's it there you are man say to his woman I got me a dream his woman say eat your eggs man say I gotta take hold of this here world baby can this woman say eat your eggs and go to work he said I gotta change my life I'm choking a deaf baby and she say your eggs is getting cold Walter that ain't none of our money this morning I was looking in the mirror and thinking about it I'm 35 years old I've been married 11 years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room I got to give him his stories about how rich white people live eat your eggs Walter damn my ex honey you never say nothing new so you would rather be Mr Arnold than be his chauffeur so I would rather be living in Buckingham Palace that bathroom better be free Walter don't start nothing with her now if Johnson's are forever in there I'm gonna start timing those people dear sister you should get up earlier really would you suggest Dawn where's the paper you're a horrible looking chick at this hour good morning everybody how is school coming lovely lovely and you know biology is the greatest I dissected something look just like you yesterday I just wondered if you made up your mind and everything then what did I answer yesterday morning remember the day before that that was so nasty Benny and the day before that and the day before that I'm interested in you something wrong with that ain't many girls who decide to be a doctor right that's it quarterly just leave her alone and go to work Danny you know the check is coming tomorrow that money belongs to Mama Walter and it's for her to decide how she wants to use it I don't care if she wants to buy a house or a rocket ship or just nail it up somewhere and look at it it's hers not ours hers now ain't that fun you just got your mother's interest at heart ain't you girl you such a nice girl but if Mama got that money she can always take a few thousand and help you through school too can't she I never asked anyone around here to do anything for me no and the line between asking and just accepting when the time comes it's big and wide ain't it what do you want from me brother that I quit school I just drop dead which I don't want nothing but for you to stop acting holy around here forgive me forever wanting to be anything at all forgive me forgive me stop it your mama told doctor anyway I mean if you so crazy about messing around with sick people then go be a nurse like other women or just get married and be quiet oh well you finally got it said it took you three years but you finally got it said hmm well to give up leave me alone it's Mama's money he was my father too so what he was mine too when Travis's grandfather but that insurance money belongs to Mama picking on me is not gonna make her give it to you to invest in any liquor stores and I for once said God bless Mama for that roof did you see did you hear did you hear honey please go to work nobody in this house is ever gonna understand me cause you're a nut who's a nut you V is mad boy the world's most backward race of people and that's a fact and then they're all those prophets that would lead us out of the Wilderness get into the swamps Lord if this little old plant don't get more Sun than it's been getting it ain't never gonna see spring again what's the matter with you this morning roof you looked right Pete beanie honey it's too drafty for you to be sitting around half dressed where's your robe in the cleanest well go get mine and put it on cold Mama honest no but you so thin oh that's me bathroom's free foreign Lord have mercy look at that pole bed oh bless his heart he tries don't he no he don't have to try at all because he knows you're gonna come along behind him and fix everything well your little boy ain't supposed to know about housekeeping that's what he is what you fix for his breakfast this morning I feed my son Lena I ain't meddling I just noticed all last week he had cold cereal and a child ought to have some hot grits or something when he goes out in the car I gave him hot oats is that all right I ain't meddling put a lot of nice butter on it he likes lots of butter what was they fighting about now you know as well as I do Walter's still wearing herself Sick by that money no he is you had breakfast some coffee girl you better start eating looking after yourself better we're almost thin as Travis Nina um now don't you stop child it's too early in the morning to be talking about money it ain't Christian it's just that he got his heart set on that stove give me that liquor store for Willie Harris wants him to invest in yes we ain't no business people Ruth we just plain walking folks ain't nobody business people until they're going to business Mama something is happening between water and me I don't know what it is but he needs something something I can't give him no more he needs this chance Elena liquor honey I don't want that on my ledger this late in life what was younger what's the matter with you today you look like you could fall over right there and you better stay home from work today I can't stay home she be calling up the agency and screaming at him my girl didn't come in today oh she just about had a fit well let her have it I'll just call her up and say you got the flu why the flu because it sounds respectable to him something white people get to I gots to go in we need the money child we got a great big old chat coming tomorrow now that's your money it ain't got nothing to do with me we all feel like that water and banning me even Travis ten thousand dollars sure he's wonderful you know what you should do miss Lena you should take yourself a trip somewhere to Europe or South America or something I'm serious just pack up and leave go on away and enjoy yourself some forget about the family and have yourself a ball for once in your life what I look like wandering around Europe by myself here rich white women do it all the time they don't think nothing of packing up their suitcases and piling on one of them big steam ships and stay gone child something always told me I was no rich white woman well what you gonna do with it then I ain't really decided some of it got to be put away for beneath her in her schooling Ain't Nothing Gonna touch that part of it nothing I've been thinking that we maybe could buy a little old two-story somewhere with a yard where Travis could play in the summertime if we use part of the insurance for a down payment and everybody kind of pitch in I could maybe take on a little day walk again two days a week wow Lord knows we put enough rain and it is here rat trap to pay for four houses by now I remember the day me and big Walter moved in here we wasn't planning on living here no more than a year we was going to set away little by little don't you know and buy a little place out in Morgan Park we had even picked out the house to ride dumpy today but Lord child you should know all the dreams I had about buying that house and fixing it up and making my little Garden in the back and didn't none of it happen yes life can be a barrel of disappointment sometimes honey big Walter would come in here some nights back then and just slump down on that couch there and just look at the rug and I know he was down there really down and then Lord when I lost that baby I almost thought I was gonna lose big Walter too oh that man grieved himself he was one man to love his children nothing can tear to you like losing your baby God knows there was plenty wrong with Walter younger hard-headed mean kind of wild with women plenty wrong with him but he sure loved his children always wanted them to have something be something he was a good man Mr younger what could be so dirty on that woman's rugs that she has to vacuum them every single day I wish certain young women around here would take inspiration how much cleaning can one house need for Christ's sakes just listen to her just listen oh God if you use the lord's name just one more time just so this girl well if the salt loses its Savor now that will do better I just need gonna have you around here reciting the scriptures in vain you hear me how did I manage to get on everybody's Wrong Side by just walking into a room if you weren't so fresh Ruth I'm 20 years old what time you home from school today kind of late Madeline's gonna start my guitar lessons today yo what kind of lessons guitar oh Father Lord child how long it gonna be before you get tired of this now like you got tired of that little play acting group you joined last year and why the worst of the year before that Ruth the horseback riding club why you got a flint soul from one thing to another baby I just want to learn to play the guitar is there anything wrong with that and I don't flit ah hi experiment with different forms of expression like riding a horse people have to express themselves one way or another but want to express me me and don't worry I don't expect you to understand [Music] you going out with tomorrow night George Murchison again oh you're getting a little sweet on here no I like George all right Mama I mean I like him enough to go out with him and stuff but others and stuff meme mind your business stop picking at her now Ruth doesn't mean oh I just mean I could never really be serious about George shallow hello he's Rich he knows it too well what are the qualities a man got to have to satisfy you little girl you wouldn't even begin to understand anyone who can marry Walter could not possibly understand Manny hush your mouth you mean you would have married George Mercy son if he asked you someday honey I knew he was odd no Ruth I would not marry him if all that fell for him is what I feel now besides George's family wouldn't really like it why not oh mama the murchison's of honest to God real life Rich colored people and the only people in this world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people you must not dislike people cause they well off honey why not it makes just as much sense as disliking people because they're poor and lots of people do that listen I'm gonna be a doctor I'm not worried about who I'm gonna marry yet if I ever get married if oh probably will but first i'm gonna be a doctor and George for one still thinks that's pretty funny I couldn't be bothered with all that I'm gonna be a doctor and everybody around here better understand that because you're gonna be a doctor honey God willing God has got nothing to do with it beneatha that just wasn't necessary well neither is God I get sick of hearing about God beneatha I mean I mean it I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time what's he what's he do with anything does he pay tuition you bout to get your fresh little jaw slapped why why can't I say what I want around here like everybody else me and your father went in trouble to get you and brother to church every Sunday mama you don't understand it's all a matter of ideas and God is just one idea I don't accept it's important it's just that I get tired of him getting the credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort there simply is no blasting God there's only man and it is He Who Makes Miracles no you stay after me in my mother's house there is still God in my mother's house there is still God my mother's house is still good there are some ideas we ain't gonna have in this house not as long as I am head of this family you think you're a woman Banny but you still a little girl what you did was childish so you got treated like a child I see and also see that everybody thinks it's all right for Mama to be a tyrant but all the tyranny in the world will never put a God in the heavens okay [Music] they frightened me Ruth my children you got good children Lena they just a little off sometimes but they good no there's something come down between me and them that don't let us understand each other and I don't know what it is you just got strong real children and it takes a strong woman like you to keep him in hand they spirited all right my children I gotta admit they got Spirit Betty and water got this little old plant that ain't never had enough sunshine or nothing look at it you sure loves that little old thing don't you well I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah hello is uh Willie there Benny you better get over there behind the bureau I see the biggest cockroach marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday I don't really it ain't come yet it really isn't only one way to get rid of them mama it'll be here in a few minutes did the lawyers give you the papers yeah set fire to this building good good I'll be right over I don't know I'll see you later I don't know mama where did Ruth go oh to the doctor I think the doctor well what's the matter you don't think now I ain't saying what I think but I never been wronged by the woman either well when did you get back and how was it yeah of course I missed you in my way this morning no no house cleaning and all that mama hates it if I let people come over when the house is like this you have oh well that's different what is it oh what the hell coming over right I'll see you then who is there you inviting over here with this house looking like this you ain't got the pride you was born with as the guy doesn't care what the house looks like Mama he's an intellectual who asked the guy Joseph as a guy he's an African boy I met on campus he's been studying in Canada all summer he's from Nigeria oh that's that little country that was founded by slave way back no mama that's Liberia I don't think I never met no African before well do me a favor and don't ask him a whole lot of ignorant questions about Africans I mean do they wear clothes and all that well now I guess if you think we so ignorant around here maybe you shouldn't bring your friends here it's just that people ask such crazy things all anyone seems to know about when it comes to Africa is Tarzan but why should I know anything about Africa why did you give money at church for the missionary work well that's to help save people you mean save them from Hedonism yes I'm afraid they need more salvation from the British and the French well I guess from all the happy faces everybody knows Ruth you pregnant Lord have mercy I sure hope it's a little old girl Travis ought to have a sister how far gone are you two months did you mean to I mean did you plan it or was it an accident what you know about planning on not planning she's 20 years old Lena did your planet Ruth mind your own business it is my business where is he gonna live on the roof I didn't mean that Ruth honest gee I don't feel like that at all I I think it's wonderful wonderful doctors say everything gonna be all right she said everything's going fine she what doctor you went to what's the matter with her mama oh she'd be all right women get right depressed sometimes when they give her wings she just relax just lean back don't think about nothing at all nothing at all I'm all right oh my God that must be USA guy call Mom now honey you need to lie down and rest a while and then have some nice hot food hello welcome in and please excuse everything my mother was very upset about me letting anyone come here with a place like this that too is something wrong yes we've all got a cute ghetto artist how was Canada in Canadian I'm very glad that you're back are you really yes very why you were quite glad when I went away what happened you went away ah before you wanted to be so serious before there was time how much time must there be before one knows what one feels what did you bring me open it and see oh I asked the guy you got the robes for me oh how beautiful and the records too I shall have to teach you how to drape it properly ah more bigger you wear it when very well mutilated hair and all in my hair what's wrong with my hair were you born with it like that no of course not oh then you know perfectly well how as crinkly as yours that's how and it is ugly to you that way oh no not ugly but it's so hard to manage when it's well raw and so to accommodate that you mutilate it every week it's not mutilation I'm only teasing you do you remember the first time you met me at school you came up to me and you said and I thought you were the most serious little thing I had ever seen you said Mr asagai I want very much to talk with you about Africa you see Mr asagai I'm looking for my identity yes well it is true that this is not so much a profile of a Hollywood queen as perhaps a queen of the Nile but what does it matter assimilationism is so popular in your country I'm not in a simulationist such a serious one so you like the ropes you must take excellent care of them they are from my sister's personal wardrobe oh he sent all the way home for me for you I would do much more well that is what I came for I must go who you call me Monday yes we have a great deal to talk about I mean about identity and time and all that time yes about how much time one needs to know what one feels you never understood that there is more than one kind of feeling which can exist between a man and a woman or at least there should no no between a man and a woman there need be only one kind of feeling I have that for you now even right this moment I know and by itself it won't do I can find that anywhere for a woman it should be enough I know because that's what it says in all the novels that men write but it isn't I'm not interested in being someone's little episode in America or one of them that's funny as hell huh it's just that every American Girl I have known has said that to me white black in this you are all the same it's how you can be sure that the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all you all talk about it too much oh Mama this is Mr ask a guy how do you do how do you do Mrs younger please forgive me for coming at such an outrageous hour on a Saturday well you are quite welcome I just hope you understand that our house don't always look like this you must come again I would love to hear all about your country I think it's so sad the way our American Negroes don't know nothing about Africa except Tarzan and all that and all that money they pour into these churches but they ought to be helping you people over there drive out them French and Englishmen and then take away your land yes yes how many miles is it from here to where you come from many thousands I bet you don't have to look after yourself being away from your mama either I speak you better come around here from time to time and get yourself some decent home-cooked meals thank you thank you very much well I must go I will call you Monday what's that he call you oh oh hello I hope you don't mind it's what you would call the nickname I think it's a universe you didn't tell us what a liar means well I know you might be calling me a little idiot or something well um let me see just how to explain the sense of a thing can be so different when it changes languages it means it means one for whom bread food is not enough is that all right thank you well that's nice you must come see us again Mr Assad yes do come again goodbye goodbye Lord that's a pretty little thing just went out of here yes I guess I see why we don't commence to get so interested in Africa around here missionaries my aunt Jenny oh mama Travis baby run next door and ask Miss Johnson to please let me have a little kitchen cleaner I just and do what you told where you going Ben to become the queen of the Nile [Music] who told you to get up ain't nothing wrong with me to be lying in no bed so go ahead Benny go four hours after the makeup to Egypt what time is it getting to 10 20 and that mailman gonna ring that Bell this morning just like he done every morning for the last 15 years here she said to tell you she didn't have much love some people I could name it show toxicity boys you mean it don't really come oh miss Lena well I don't know what we all so excited about around here for we know it was coming for months that's a whole lot different from having it come and being able to hold it in your hands hey Grandma Lord have mercy I wish more to leave was here open it Grandma now y'all be quiet just a check open it now don't act silly we ain't never been no people to act silly about no money we never had none before open it oh Travis is that the right number of zeros yeah ten thousand dollars mommy you rich ten thousand dollars put it away somewhere else ten thousand dollars what's the matter with Grandma don't you want to be rich mama you going out and play now baby go on now I expect if it wasn't for y'all I would just put that money away or give it to the church or something don't upset yourself what kind of talk is that Mr Young would just be playing mad if he could hear you talking foolish like that yes he sure would got nothing to do with that money all right Ruth where did you go today girl to the doctor now Ruth you know better than that oh Dr Jones is strange enough in his way but there ain't nothing about him can make somebody slip and call him she like you've done this morning well that's what happened my tongue slipped you wanna see that woman didn't you what woman you talking about that woman who gets you to come can you give people a Christian greeting before you start asking about money did it come ten thousand dollars mama look oh Willie Harris put everything on paper son I think you ought to talk to me I'm going out and leave you alone I think you killed somebody please listen to me today no yelling in this house Walter Lee and you know it and there ain't gonna be no investment in no liquor stores and I don't aim to have to speak on that again oh so you don't aim to have to speak on that again so you have decided well you tell that to my boy tonight when you put him to sleep on the living room couch and talk to my wife Mama tomorrow when she has to go out there and look after somebody else's kids and tell to me mama every time we need a new pair of curtains and I have to watch you go out and work in somebody else's kitchen yeah you tell me then where you going I'm going now where just out of this house somewhere I'll come too I don't want you to come I got something to talk to you about water that's too bad you want to leave sit down I'm a grown man mama ain't nobody said you wasn't grown but you still in my house and my presence and as long as you are you'll talk to your wife's civil now sit down oh let him go on out and drink itself to death he makes me sick to my stomach and you turn mine too baby she was my greatest mistake Walter what is the matter with you matter with me ain't nothing to matter with me yes there is something eating you up like a crazy man something more than me not giving you this money the past few years I've been watching it happen to you Mama I don't need no nagging up me today seem like you get into a place where you always tied up in some kind of not about something Ruth's a good patient girl in her way but you're getting to be too much boy don't make the mistake of driving that girl away from you why what she do for me she loves you mama I'm going now I'm sorry about your liquor store son it just wasn't the thing for us to do that's what I wanted to tell you about got to go out Mama dangerous son what's baby when a man goes outside his home to look for peace then walk and there'll never be no peace in this house man you done found it in some other house no there ain't no woman why do women always think there's a woman somewhere when a man gets Restless mama I want so many things yes sir I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy mama look at me I'm looking at you you're a good looking boy you got a job a nice wife a fine girl I open and close car doors all day I'd rather man around in his limousine and I say yes sir no sir very good sir shall I take the drop sir that ain't no kind of job ain't nothing at all mama I don't know if I can make you understand understand what baby sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out in front of me plain as day just waiting for me big Blank Space full of nothing just waiting for me sometimes when I'm downtown and I pass them cool quiet looking restaurants with him white boys are sitting back and talking about things sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars sometimes I see guys don't look much older than me son how come you talk so much about money because it is life mama oh so now it's life Once Upon a Time Freedom used to be life and now it's money I guess the world really do change in my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the north if we could and how to stay alive instead of a pinch of dignity too now here you come and beneath her talking about things we ain't never even thought about hardly me and your daddy you're my children but how different we done become you just don't understand mama you just don't understand son do you know your wife is expecting another baby that's what she wanted to talk to you about this ain't for me to be telling but You Oughta Know I think Ruth is thinking about getting rid of that child no roof when the world gets ugly enough a woman will do anything for her family the part that's already living you don't know Ruth mama if you think she would do that if I were too old I gave her a five dollar down payment well well son I'm waiting to hear you say something I'm waiting to hear how you be your Father's son and say how we are people who give children life not who destroys them and say we don't give up one baby to poverty and that we ain't gonna give up on there another one I'm waiting if you a son of mine tell her you you are a disgrace to your father's memory oh nobody knows [Music] my sorrows Nobody Knows the Trouble I've seen [Music] what have we got on tonight you are looking at what A well-dressed Nigerian woman wears none oh come on what kind of dance is that it's a folk dance what kind of folks do that huh it's from Nigeria it's a dancer [ __ ] oh no who you welcoming oh the man back to the village where they been how should I know they've been out hunting or something anyway they're coming back now well that's good oh no oh yeah [Music] yes in Africa sure is claiming our own tonight my heart of hearts I'm much worried in your heart and hearts you were much play even speak bam that's it is a wicked a window do you hear the description of the Cox in Yonder Hills for the coming of the mighty War Oh Come Again hello George come in thank you do you hear the singer of the women singing War songs of our fathers to the babies oh do you hear my black Brothers I need the bathroom he's had a little to drink I don't know what her excuse is look honey we're going to the theater we're not going to be in it so go change it huh you expect this boy to go out with you looking like that that's up to George if he's ashamed of his Heritage promise you and your brother make an argument out of everything people say because I hate assimilation it's Negroes well somebody please tell me what a similar whoever means oh it's just a college girl's way of calling people Uncle Tom's but that isn't what it means at all well what does it mean it means someone who is his own culture and submerged himself himself a dominant and in this case oppressive culture oh dear here we go a lecture on the African past let's face it baby your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-ass spirituals and some grass cuts grass Huts see there you are standing there in your Splendid ignorance talking about people who were the first to smelt iron on the face of the Earth Danny get in that room and change the Ashanti were performing surgical operations when the Eagles go on now we're still tattooing themselves with blue dragons have a seat George um well I mean it I mean for September would you like a nice cold beer no thank you I don't care for beer I hope she hurries up what time is the show it's an 8 30 curtain that's just Chicago though in New York Standard curtain times 8 40. oh you get to New York a lot a few times a year oh that's nice I've never been to New York New York ain't got nothing Chicago ain't just a bunch of hustling people all squeezed up together for being Easter oh you've been plenty of times Walter Lee younger there's Mama Ruth she ain't come back yet we got to drink in this house why are you offered a man some refreshing thank you I really don't care for anything how's your old man making out Jordan I understand you're all gonna buy that big hotel on the drive true move your man is all right I mean he know how to operate I mean he thinks big you know what I mean I'd like to talk to him listen man I got some plans I could turn this city upside down it's hard to find a man on the whole South Side who understands my kind of thinking you did me and you ought to sit down and talk sometimes man I got some ideas yeah sometimes we'll have to do that Walter yeah well when you get the time man I know you were busy little boy Walter please I know ain't nothing in this world as busy as you colored college boys with your fraternity pins and your white shoes I see you all the time the books tucked under your arms filling up your heads with the sociology and the psychology but they teaching you how to be a man how to take over and run the world no just to talk proper and read books and where the faggety looking white shoes they're all whacked up with bitterness man and you ain't you been a man ain't you just about had it yet don't you see no stars gleaming that you can't reach out and grab you happy you contempted son of a [ __ ] you happy you got it made man I'm a volcano beer here I am a giant surrounded by ants ants who can't even understand what the journey talking about Walter ain't you with nobody no cause ain't nobody with me not even my own mother Walter that's a terrible thing to say okay let's go George oh hey you look great see you all later have a nice time thanks good night Ruth good night Prometheus who's Prometheus I don't know don't even worry about it see there they get to a point where they can insult you man to man they gotta go talk about something ain't nobody never heard of how you know it's gonna insult maybe Prometheus is a nice fellow Prometheus no such thing I bet that's simple-minded clean don't you're nagging where was that who was aware how much money did I spend quarterly why don't we just try to talk about it I've been out talking with people who understand me I guess that means people I really have yeah people like Willie Harris why don't you all just hurry up and go on into the banking business and stop talking about it you want to know why because we all tied up in a race of people who don't know how to do nothing but moan pray and have babies honey don't fight me who's fighting you who even cares about you well I guess I might as well go on to bed I don't know where we lost it but we have and I'm sorry about this new baby Walter I guess maybe I better go on and do what I started I just didn't realize how bad things was with us you want some hot milk hot milk yes why hot milk because after all that leaking you come home where do you ought to have something hot in your stomach I don't want no hot milk you want some coffee then no I don't want no coffee I don't want nothing hot to drink why are you always trying to get me something to eat what else can I give you waterly younger ain't it baby how we get to the talk softness to each other why do you think you gotta be like that Ruth what is it gets in the people ought to be close I don't know honey I think about it a lot the way something done come down between us there ain't so much between us Walter not when you come to me and try to talk to me try to be with me a little even sometimes I don't even know how to try Walter yeah honey life don't have to be like this I mean sometimes people can do things so that things are better you remember how we used to talk when Travis was born and by the way we were gonna live in the kind of house um well it's all starting to slip away from us mad themselves is longer than they used to be oh mama where you been how you feeling this evening Ruth mama where you been all day where's Travis I let him go out early and he ain't come back yet boy is he gonna get it Mama yes son where'd you go this afternoon how about downtown to tend to some business that I had a tend to what kind of business you know better than to question me like a child Waller where were you Mama you didn't go and do something with that insurance money something crazy Mama ah nothing you gonna get it boy get on in that bedroom and get yourself ready why don't y'all never let the child explain himself she's hotter than nalina a thousand times I've told you not to go off like that Travis well at least let me tell him something I want him to be the first one to hear come here Travis grandma you know that money we got in the mail this morning yes sir well what you think your grandma gone and done with that money I don't know Grandma she went out and she bought you a house what you glad about the house it's gonna be yours when you get to be a man yeah I always want to live in a house all right give me some sugar man um [Music] now when you say your prayers tonight you thank God and your grandfather because it was him who give you the house in his way now you get on out of here and get ready for your beating get on in there who you win and did it yes I did praise God please Walter honey let me be glad you'll be glad to owe Walter a home a home where Elena where is it how big is it how much it gonna cost well when we're moving first of the month praise God it's a nice house too three bedrooms nice big one for you and Ruth me and beneath us would have to share our room but Travis have one of his own and I figures if the new baby is a boy we could get one of them double decker outfits and there's a yard with a little patch of dirt where I could maybe grow me a few flowers that's a nice big basement honey be glad of course I don't want to make it sound fancier than it is it's just a plain little old house but it's made good and solid and it will be ours Walter Lee it makes a difference when a man can walk on Floors that belong to him where is it well it well it's out there in clap on Park where 406 club on Street clap on Park clap on Paul Mama there ain't no colored people living in clybon park well I guess it's going to be some now so that's the peace and comfort you went out and bought for us today son I just try to find the nicest place for the least amount of money for my family well of course nine one never been frayed and no crackers mind you but well weren't there no other houses nowhere them houses they put up for college and their Mary is way out all seem to cost twice as much as the other houses I did the best I could well all I can say is if this is my time in life my time to say goodbye to these goddamn cracking walls and these marching roaches and this crap little closet which ain't now or never was no kitchen then I say loud and good Hallelujah and goodbye misery I don't never want to see your ugly face again Lena yes huh is that is there a whole lot of sunlight yes child there's a whole lot of sunlight well I guess I better see about Travis Lord I sure don't feel like whooping nobody today son you understand what I've done don't you I I just see my family falling apart today just fall into pieces in front of my eyes he couldn't have gone on like we was today we was going backward instead of forwards talking about killing babies and wishing each other was dead trying to get like that in life you just gotta do something different and push on out and do something bigger I wish you'd say something son we should say how deep and sad you think I've done the right thing what you need me to say you dumb right before you the head of this family you run our lives like you want to it's your money and you did what you wanted with it so what you need me to say it was all right for so you butchered up a dream of mine you is always talking about your children's dreams Walter Lee sometimes I'm up sometimes I'm down oh yes Lord sometimes I'm almost [Music] oh yes Lord oh there's so much packing to do now don't you fool with any of this stuff Lena oh lose I just thought I'd start a few things out it is Walder here yes in the bedroom is he yes there Johnson hello there yourself how you receiving the roof bye Mr Johnson how are you fine ain't you starting to poke out none yet roof oh ain't we getting ready right here though yes sir look at here I'm telling you the youngest is really getting ready to move on up a little higher bless God bless God he's good ain't it oh yes he's good I mean sometimes he works in mysterious ways but he works don't it yes he does I'm just so happy for y'all where's all the rest of the family the band has gone to bed ain't no sickness done hit her I hope no she just tired she was out this evening uh ain't that lovely she's still going out that little Murchison boy that's lovely you show God lovely children young me and Isaiah talks all the time about what fine children you was blessed with we shall do Ruth give Mrs Johnson some sweet potato pie and milk I guess y'all seen the news what's all over the colored paper this week no I didn't get mine yet this week you mean you ain't read about them colored people that was bombed out their place out there let me see ain't something how bad these here watch folks is getting here in Chicago um no okay so you think you're right down in Mississippi I think it's wonderful how folks keep some pushing out you hitting some of those Negroes around here talking about how they don't go where they ain't wanted and all that but not me Johnson goes anywhere anytime she feels like it do you want some more pie no no thank you where's Walter he's lying down [Music] he show gets his Beauty Rest don't it good looking man I guess that's how can we keep on having babies right here well I'm saying about Walter he always knows how to have a good time and so ambitious I bet it was his idea y'all moving out to Clybourn Park Lord I bet this time next month you'll see all your names have been in the papers planet Negros and vague live on Park bombed we ain't exactly moving out there to get bombed hello there so thank you getting so she don't have much to say to nobody the child was on her way to the bathroom I know but sometimes she acts like she ain't got time to pass the time of day with nobody ain't being a college well I guess I better go on home because I understand how she must be proud and everything being the only one in the family to make something of herself I know just being a chauffeur ain't never satisfied well to know he shouldn't feel like that though ain't nothing wrong with being a chauffeur there's plenty wrong with it what planning my husband always said being any kind of serpent wasn't a fit thing for a man to have to be and my boy is just like him he wasn't meant to wait on nobody oh long as it's too much for me you show one proud act and bunch of colored folks you know me and you ain't never agreed about some things Lena younger I guess I better go good night good night oh and you can keep the paper nah good night Miss Johnson ignorance was gold don't talk about folks behind their backs you do I'm old and corrupted you was rude to Miss Johnson beneath her and I don't like it at all mama if there are two things we as that people have got to overcome one is the Ku Klux Klan and the other is Miss Johnson smart alec good morning this is a popular place tonight hello yes this is his wife speaking he lying down now he'll be in tomorrow he he's been very sick yeah yes I know we should have called but we were so sure he'd be able to come in today I'm very sorry yes thank you very much that was Mrs Arnold Walter what is it she said Mr Arnold has had to take a cab for three days Wally you ain't been to work for three days where you been Walter Lee younger you gonna lose your job that's right what you been doing for these three days son huh you don't know all the things a man my God Leisure can finally do in this city what's this Friday night well Wednesday I borrowed Willie Harris's call and I went for a drive and I drove and drove way out we passed South Chicago and I parked the call and I sat and looked at the steel mills all day long then I drove back and I went to the green hat on Thursday I borrowed the car again and I drove the other way for hours way way up to Wisconsin I looked at The Farms and then I drove back and I went to the green hat and today the day I didn't get the call today I just walked all over the south side and I looked at the Negroes and they looked at me and I finally sat down on the curb at 39th and South Parkway and I just sat there and I watched the Negroes go by and then I went to the green hat you all sad y'all depressed you know where I'm going right now where you going Roo I'm going to bed big water is this the Harvest of our days you know what I like about the green hat I like this little cat they got there who blows the sacks he blows talks to me yeah but about five feet tall and he got a calmed head and his eyes is always closed and he's all music I want her and there's this other guy who plays a piano I mean they can work on some music they got the best little combo in the world in the greenhouse I helped do it too you're having that son a Walter I've been wrong no you ain't never been wrong about nothing Mama listen to me now I say I've been wrong son I've been doing to you about the rest of the world been doing to you Walter what you ain't never understood is that I never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you there ain't nothing as precious to me there ain't nothing worth holding on to money dreams nothing else if it means it's gonna destroy my boy I paid the man thirty five hundred dollars down on the house that leaves sixty five hundred dollars Monday morning I want you to take this money and take three thousand dollars and put it in a savings account for beneath his medical school the rest to put in a checking account with your name on it and from now on any penny that come out of it or that go in it is for you to look after for you to decide it ain't much but it's all I got in the world and I'm putting it in your hands I'm telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you're supposed to be you trust me like that Mama I ain't never stop trusting you like I never stop loving you [Music] I feel like talking to you tonight about what oh about a lot of things son what you want to be when you grow up a bus driver a what man that ain't nothing to want to be why not because man it ain't big enough you know what I mean in seven years you're going to be 17 years old and things are going to be very different for us and I'll come home hung from my office downtown you don't work in no office Daddy no but after tonight after what your daddy gonna do tonight there's gonna be off this is a whole lot of offices what you gonna do tonight Daddy you wouldn't understand yet son but your daddy's gonna make a transaction business transaction is gonna change our lives and that's how come one day when you're about 17 years old I'll come home and I'll be pretty tired you know what I mean after a day of conferences and secretaries getting things wrong is the way they do it's an executive life is hell man and I'll pull the car up on the driveway and I'll come up the steps to the house in the garden I'll be clipping away at the edges and I'll say hello Jefferson how are you this evening and I'll go inside and your mama will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we'll kiss each other as you'll take my arm and we'll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogs of all the great schools in America around you all the great schools in the world and I'll see all right son it's your 17th birthday and what have you decided just tell me what it is you want to be and you'll be it whatever you want to be yes sir yes sir you just name it son and I'll hand you the world Hallelujah Daddy [Music] good oh Benny I meant to put a special note on that carton over there that's your mama's Good China and she wants them to be very careful with it I'll do it you know what I'm gonna do as soon as I get in that new house what honey I'm gonna run me a tub of water up there here and I'm gonna get in it and I'm gonna sit and sit and sit in that hot water and the first person who knocks to tell me to hurry up and come out get shot at Sunrise you just said it sister uh honey they ain't gonna read that from no airplane oh I guess that I always think things have more emphasis if they're big somehow you and your brother seem to have that as a philosophy in life Lord their man don't change around here you know you you did last night me and Wally what we went to the movies you know the last time me and Walter went to the movies together no me neither that's how long it's been but we went last night and we held hands oh Lord you're killing me that's music in here [Laughter] oh no old-fashioned [Music] you know when these new Negroes have their convention beneath the younger is going to be the chairman of the committee of unending agitation race race race girl I do believe you are the first person in the history of the entire human race to successfully brainwash yourself thank you I can just see that chick someday looking down at some poor cat on an operating table before she starts to slice him saying by the way what are your views on civil rights down there well Sticks and Stones man break my bones hello how do you do Miss I'm looking for a Mrs um Mrs Lena young oh yes that's my mother excuse me somebody's here come in please thank you my mother isn't here just now is it business yes wow I love a sword have a seat oh I'm Mrs Young the son I look after most of her business matters well my name is Carl Lindner this is my wife hello and my sister how do you do what can I do for you Mr Linda well I am a representative of the Clyburn Park Improvement Association and why don't you set your fangs on the floor oh oh yeah yeah thank you yeah well as I was seeing I am from the Clyburn Park Improvement Association and we have had it brought to our attention that you people or at least your mother has bought a piece of residential property at um 406 Clyburn Street that's right you can't no no really I mean thank you very much but but no no no thank you no no thank you nothing at all well I I don't know how much you folks know about our organization it's one of those Community organizations set up to look after well you know the things like block upkeeping special projects and we also have what we call our new neighbors orientation committee yes and what do they do what what you might call a sort of welcoming committee I guess I'm the chairman of the committee and I go around and see the new people who move into the neighborhood and sort of give them the lowdown on the way we do things out in Clyburn Park [Music] and we also have the category of what the association calls uh special Community problem yes and what are some of those Benny girl let the man talk oh well thank you I would sort of like to explain this thing in my own way go ahead well to get right to the point I'm sure you people must be aware of some of the incidents which have happened in various parts of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas well not only do we deplore that kind of thing but we are trying to do something about it we feel we feel that most of the trouble in this world when you come right down to it exists because people just don't sit down and talk to each other you can say that again Mister that we don't try hard enough in this world to understand the other fellow's problems the other guy's point of view now that's right yes yes that's the way we feel out in Clyburn Park and that's why I was elected to come here this afternoon and talk to you people friendly like you know the the way people should talk to each other and see if we couldn't find some way to work this thing out what do you mean well you see our community is made up of people who've worked hard as the Dickens for years to build up that little community and at the moment the overwhelming majority of us feel that people get along better or take more of a common interest in the life of the community when they share a common background I want you to believe me when I tell you that race Prejudice simply doesn't enter into it it is a matter of the people of Cleveland Park believing that for the happiness of all concern that our negro families are happier when they live in their own communities this friends is the welcoming committee is this what you came marching all the way over here tell us well now we've been having a fine conversation I hope you'll hear me all the way through go ahead man you see in the face of all the things I have said we are prepared to make your family a very generous author yeah our association is prepared through the collective effort of our people to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family Lord have mercy ain't this a living God all right you through well I want to give you the exact terms of the financial arrangement I want to hear no exact terms of no rain I want to know if you got any more to tell us about getting together well I don't suppose that you feel never mind how I feel you got any more to say about how people ought to sit down and talk to each other get out of my house man well I don't understand why you people are reacting this way well what do you think you were going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren't wanted and where some elements well people can get awful worked up when they feel that their whole way of life and everything they've ever worked for yes well I'm sorry it went like this get out here to take my car you just can't force people to change their hearts son [Music] [Music] please well Travis you see where we go out it's all the packing that got done since we left out of here this morning I testify before God that my children got all the energy of the Dead what time the moving men do four o'clock you had a caller Mama sure enough who the welcoming committee who the welcoming committee they said they sure is going to be glad to see you when you get there yeah they said they hardly can't wait to see your face what's the matter with y'all us we just telling you about the gentleman came to see you this afternoon from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association well what do you want to welcome you honey he said they can't hardly wait he said the one thing they don't have that they are just dying to have out there is a fine family of colored people ain't that right yeah yeah he left his car just in case oh Father give us strength did he threaten us oh mama they don't do it like that no more he talked Brotherhood he said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian Fellowship you should hear the money those folks race to buy the house from us all we paid and then some who they think we're gonna do eat them no honey marry him well that's the way to crack is crumbled oh what are you doing fixing my plan so you won't get hurt none on the wait mama you gonna take that to the new house uh-huh that raggedy looking old thing it expresses me I'm coming in mama look out now boy you're gonna make me mess up my thing here you know what it means to climb up into the chair get away from me now what are those songs say mama um boy get out of my face [Music] Kevin ain't going I don't know you think we ought to give it a present seems to me she ain't being very appreciative around here what is that well what you think should we give it to him oh she was pretty good today good you open it Mama open it Mama it's gardening tools oh my roof made up the note breathe to our own Mrs Miniver love from Walter Ruth and Bonita oh ain't that lovely day can I give a mine now no it's not Travis didn't want to go in with the rest of us mama he got his own we don't know what it is here grandma oh Lord have mercy baby open it open I have his honey what is that it's a gardening hat let the ladies always wearing the magazines when they're doing their Garden we're trying to make Mama Mrs Mena but not Scarlett O'Hara [Music] what's that matter with y'all this here's a beautiful hat I always wanted me one just like you know bless your heart Travis this is a prettiest hat I ever owned oh that couldn't be the movers it's not Harley too yet wait wait I'll get it I'm gonna go and pack my books you expecting company son yeah yeah well let them in some we're gonna need some more strips oh Benny I think you got some string in a box under the bed Travis come on we gotta pack your clothes why don't you answer the door man because sometimes it's hard to let the future begin I got Wings you got Wings all I got children got wings hmm where's me man he ain't with me huh come on in you know my wife yes how are you his room hello Bobo you were right on time today right on time that's the way sit down let me hear could I please get a drink of water before I tell you what Walter Lee roof ain't nothing wrongs then let me tell you a man nothing go wrong let me tell you here you go I gotta tell you how it was I mean first I gotta tell you how it was our way I mean about the money I put in Wadley what about the money you put in well it wasn't as much as we told you me and Willie I'm sorry Walter I got a bad feeling about it and I I got a real bad feeling man what are you telling me all about this fool tell me what happened in Springfield Springfield what was supposed to happen in Springfield this deal that me and Walter went into with Willie well me and Willie was going to go down to Springfield spread some money around so we wouldn't have to wait so long for the liquor license that's what we were going to do everybody said that was the way you had to do you understand this rule man what happened down there I'm trying to tell you Walter then tell me God damn it what's the matter with you man I didn't go to no Springfield yesterday why not because I didn't have no reason to man what are you talking about I'm talking about the fact that when I got the train to the station yesterday morning eight o'clock likely planned man it could never show up why was he where is he that's what I'm trying to tell you I don't know I waited six hours I called his house and I waited in that train station six hours that was all the extra money I had in the world man Willie's Gone Gone what you mean when he's gone gone where you mean he went by himself you mean he went off to Springfield by himself to take care of getting the license you know when he got his own ways maybe you was late and he just went on down there without you maybe maybe he's been calling you at home trying to tell you what happened to someone maybe he just got sick somewhere he got to be somewhere we just gotta find him me and you we gotta go and find him we got two doesn't matter what you are when a cat take off with your money he don't need no man really don't do it please don't do it man not with that money oh God don't let it be true trusted you and I put my life in your hands man that money was made out of my father's flesh had my life speak on this deal too song is it gone son I gave you sixty five hundred dollars is it gone all of it beneath his money too mama I never went to the bank at all you've been your sister's school money that too th Walter yes all of it it's all gone acid him not at the knife I seen him grow thin and old before he was 40. what can that work and I'm walking like somebody's old a horse killing himself you you give it all away in a day oh god look down here show me the strength mama [Music] [Music] nobody knows my sorrow s [Music] [Applause] [Music] I had some free time I thought I might help with the packing I like the look of packing credits household in preparation for Journey it depresses some people but for me it is something full of the flow of life you understand movement progress you gave away the money as the guy who gave away what money the insurance money my brother gave it away he made an investment with a man even Travis wouldn't have trusted and it's gone gone I'm very sorry and you now me me I'm nothing me when I was very small we used to take our sleds out in the winter time and slide down a hill all day and it was very dangerous you know far too steep it's showing off one day this kid named Rufus he came down too fast and hit the sidewalk he saw his face just split open right there in front of us and I remember standing there looking at his bloody open face thinking that was the end of Rufus but then the ambulance came and they took him to hospital and they fixed up his broken bones and they sewed it all up and the next time I saw Rufus he just had a little line down the middle of his face I never got over that what that was what one person could do for another fix him up sew up the problem and make them whole again this was truly being God you wanted to be God no I wanted to cure it used to be so important to me I wanted to cure it used to matter I used to care I mean about people and how their bodies hurt and you stopped caring yes I think so why it was a child's way of seeing things or an idealist children see all things very well sometimes and I deal this even better I know that's what you think because you were still where I left off you with all your talk and dreams of Africa you still think you can patch up the world with all your talk of Independence yes and what about all the crooks and thieves and just plain idiots who will come into power and steal and Ponder the same as before only now they will be black and do it in the name of the new Independence what about them that will be a problem for another time first we must get there and where does it end an end to the misery the stupidity while I was sleeping in my bed things were happening in the world that directly concerned me they just went out and did things and changed my life don't you see there isn't any real progress as a guy there is only one large Circle that we just March around and around each of us with our own little picture in front of us our own little Mirage of what we think is the future that is a mistake what it isn't a circle it is simply a long line as in Geometry you know one that reaches into Infinity and because we cannot see the end we also cannot see how it changes man is foul and the human race deserves its misery and the truth is that people are puny small and selfish truth why is it that you despairing ones always think that only you have the truth you talk about what good is struggle what good is anything where are we all going and why are we bothering and you can't answer it I leave the answer in my Village at home it is the exceptional man who can even read a newspaper or whoever sees a book at all I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my Village but I will teach and work and things will happen slowly absolutely and perhaps perhaps I will be a great man I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of Truth and find my way always with the right course and perhaps for it I will be butchered in my bed some night by the Servants of the Empire through all the Martyr or perhaps the things I believe now for my country will be wrong and out about it and I will not understand and will just want Power don't you see that there will be young men and women my own black countrymen to step out of the Shadow some evening and slit by then useless throat don't you see they have always been there and that such a thing as my own death will be an advance they who might kill me even actually replenish oh as the guy I know all that good then tell me what you plan to do do I have a bit of a suggestion what that when it is all over that you come home with me oh as a guy at this moment you decide to be romantic oh my dear young creature of the new world I do not mean across the city I mean across the ocean home to Africa to Nigeria I will show you our mountains and Our Stars and give you cool drinks from God and he queue the old songs and the way of our people time we will pretend that you have only been away for a day hmm you're getting me all mixed up oh why too many things too many things have happened today I must sit down and think I don't know what I feel about anything right this minute all right I shall leave you just sit around and think never be afraid to sit a while and think how often have I looked at you and said I so this is what the new world have finally rocked [Music] crying well ain't it a mess in here though I guess we all better stop moping around and get some work done all this unpacking and everything we gotta do Benny call the moving people and tell him not to come tell him not to come of course baby ain't no need of them coming all the way here and having to go back they charge us for that too but Miss Nina Lord ever since I was a little girl Ruth I always remember people saying Lena Lena Agustin you aims too high all the time you need to slow down and see life a little more like it is that's what I always used to say to me down home Lord that Lena Eckerson is a high-minded thing she'll get her due one day me and big Walter just didn't never learn right Lena no no we gotta go Benny tell tell her we can still move the no thing about 125 a month we got four grown people in this house we can work just ain't too high I'll work I'll work 20 hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the flaws in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to but we got to move we got to get on out of here no I see things differently now but thinking about some of the things we could do to fix this place up some I've seen a second-hand Bureau over on Maxwell Street just the other day that could fit right there sometimes you just got to know where to give up some things and hold on to what you got where you been son made a call to hoosa to the man what man baby the man mama don't you know who the man is like a guy saying on the streets The Man Captain boss Mr Charlie old Captain Please Mr Boss Man that's right that's good I told him come right over for what what do you want to see him for we're gonna do business with him what you talking about talking about life mom you always telling me to see life like it is who gets and who don't get mama you know it's all divided up life is sure enough between the takers and the token I finally figured it out yeah people like Willie Harris they'll never get took them and you know why the rest of us because we all mixed up mixed up bad we get to look around for the right and the wrong we worry about it and cry about it and all the time let them take us is out there operating just taken and taken but I'll say one thing for old really hairs he taught me some he taught me to keep my arm what counts in this world yeah thank you Willie you talking about taking them people's money to keep us moving to that house I ain't just talking about it baby I'm telling you that's what's gonna happen oh God where is the bottom where is the real honest to God bottom so we can't go any further you and that boy that was here today you all want everybody to carry a flag and a spear and sing some marching songs huh you want to spend your life looking into things and trying to find the right and the wrong part huh yeah you know what's gonna happen that boy someday he gonna find himself sitting in a dungeon locked in forever and the takers will have the key forget it baby there ain't no causes there ain't nothing but taken in this world and he who takes the most is the smartest and he don't make a damn bit of difference how you make something inside of me cry son some awful pain inside me don't cry mama understand that white man is gonna walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had it's important to him and I'm gonna help him I'm gonna put on a show Mama son I come from five generations of people who were slaves and sharecroppers but ain't nobody in my family never let nobody pay him no money that was a way of telling us we wasn't fit to walk the earth we ain't never been that tall we ain't never been that dead inside well we're all dead now all the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house all dead what's the matter with you all I didn't make this world it was dead to me this way hell yeah I want me some yes someday yeah I want to hang some real pearls around my wife's neck ain't she supposed to wear no pearls I tell you I'm a man and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world baby How You Gonna feel on the inside fine I'm gonna feel fine you won't have nothing left than Walter Lee I'm gonna feel fine mama I'm gonna look that's son of a [ __ ] in the eyes and I'm gonna say all right Mr Linda that's your neighborhood out there you got the right to keep bunk I like to have it like you want in the house is yours and you you people just put that money in my hand and you won't have to live next to this bunch of stinking [ __ ] Maybe maybe I'll just get down on my black knees Captain Mr Boss Man yes thank my father just give some of the money for God's sake and we ain't gonna come out there and dirty old white folks neighborhood that is my man that is nothing but a toothless rat yes death don't come in this house don't come walking in my house on the lips of my children you were supposed to be my beginning again you Benny you mourning your brother he's no brother of mine what you say I said that that individual in that room is no brother of mine you feeling like other than he is today what'd you tell him a minute ago that he wasn't a man you done wrote his Epitaph to like the rest of the world well who give you the privilege so I just did Mama you saw him down there on his knees taught me to just he's going to do yes I taught you that me and your daddy but I thought I taught you something else too I thought I taught you to love him no there's nothing left to love there is always something left to love and if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing have you cried for that boy today I don't mean for yourself and for the family because we lost the money I mean for him what he'd been through and what he'd done to him child who do you think is the time to love somebody the most when they done good and made things easy for everybody well then you went through learning because that ain't the time at all it's when he's at his lowest and can't believe it himself because the world done whipped him so when you start measuring somebody measure him right child you measure him right make sure you don't take it into account what Hills and Valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is gonna dance this the truck just pulled up are they baby they downstairs hello Walter is he well I certainly was glad to hear from you people Mr Linda life can really be so much simpler than people let it be most of the time well with whom do I negotiate you Mrs younger or your son here Travis you go downstairs no Travis you stay right here and you make him understand what you're doing Walter Lee you teach him good like Willie Harris taught you you show where our five generations don't come to go ahead son well Mr Linda we called you because well me and my family well we are very plain people yes I mean I've worked as a chauffeur most of my life and my wife here she does domestic work in people's kitchens so does my mother oh yes Mr younger and uh well my father he was a laborer most of his life yes my father almost beat a man to death once because he called him a bad name or something you know what I mean no I'm afraid I don't well what I mean is that we come from the people who had a lot of pride and that's my sister over there and she's going to be a doctor and we are very proud well I'm sure that's very nice but what I'm telling you is that we called you over here to tell you that we are very proud and this is foreign who makes the sixth generation of our family in this country you have thought about your offer and we have decided to move into our house because my father my father he earned it we don't want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes we will try to be good neighbors and that's all we got to say we don't want your money I take it then that you have decided to occupy that's what the man said then I would like to appeal to you Mrs younger you're older and wiser and understand things better I'm sure I'm afraid you don't understand my son said he was going to move and there ain't nothing left for me to say you know how these young folks is nowadays mister can't do a thing with him goodbye well if you're that final about it there's nothing left for me to say I sure hope you people know what you're doing oh it's sake if the moving matter here let's get the hell out of here oh look at all this hair mess put Travis put jacket on him Walter Lee fix your tie and tuck your shirt in look just like somebody Lord have mercy where is my plan oh no you all start on down Travis child don't go empty-handed a roof where did I put that box in my skillets in it over here oh thank you honey I want to be in charge of it myself I'm gonna make us the biggest dinner we ever had tonight Vanessa what's the matter with them stockings pull them things up girl Mama asked the guy asked me to marry him today and go to Africa and then you ain't old enough to marry nobody please handle it so we can sit in it again sorry man I had that chance 25 years Mama be a doctor in Africa yes baby Africa what do you want to go after for to practice that girl if you don't get them silly ideas you better marry yourself a man with some loot what did you got to do with who I married let me now I think George Murchison will be a perfect man will you marry me yeah they something all right my children yeah that's something let's go Lena yep I'm coming Ruth yes he finally coming to his manhood today didn't he kind of like a rainbow after the rain yes Lena coming lady you forgot your plan my plan my plan oh Lord [Music] when they get to heaven want to put on my robe I'm gonna wear it all over God's heaven him [Music] I'm gonna wed all over God mama was played by Donna Crowe Walter was Danny's panty Ruth natey Marshall beneath the Nora critchlow and Travis the Shea gone for Wally ask the guy and Bobo was Jude awudacay Mrs Johnson was Cecilia Noble Linda with Sean Baker and George was Richard peckle [Music] A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry and directed by Pauline Harris [Music]