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Tonight, we present a special and important episode

of A Different World.

Because it deals with mature subject matter,

parents may want to view this program with their children.

So, I see you started Dwayne's birthday early.

Yes!

But the big celebration is tomorrow night.

Candlelit dinner, romantic music, The Perfect Man.

Oh, that sounds like a special evening.

I think it will be.

Kim�

when you were with someone for the first time,

how did you know it was time to be with that someone?

You mean "with" with?

Yeth.

It's something you just know.

Well, I'm feeling very knowledgeable.

Ooh!

Wait.

You and Dwayne haven't�

Stop!

Of course not. I would have told you.

Wow.

Now, you're not just doing this

because you can't afford a birthday present?

No.

I'm really ready.

Really ready�

for the first time in my life.

But didn't you think you were ready with Julian?

That was like wanting to polish off a box of jelly doughnuts.

This is more than a craving, Kim.

I love Dwayne!

Ooh�

? I know my parents loved me ?

? Stand behind me, come what may ?

? Mmm ?

? I know now that I'm ready, yeah ?

? For I finally heard them say ?

? It's a different world ?

? Ooh ?

? Than where you come from ?

? Yes, it is now, yeah ?

? Here's our chance to make it ?

? And if we focus on our goal ?

? You can dish it! ?

? We can take it, hey ?

? Just remember that you've been told ?

It's a different world

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? Yeah, than where you come from ?

? Ooh ?

? Than where you come from! ?

Josie, Josie Webb!

I got a pile of dishes in here taller than Mount Kilimanjaro.

Josie's in the ladies room, Mr. Gaines.

Again?

Oh, my goodness. You would think the child never saw indoor plumbing.

Oh, Miss Webb, so nice of you to join us.

I'm sorry, Mr. Gaines. I'm having stomach trouble today.

Mmm-hmm. And the day before that, and the day before that.

Now, working here part-time

doesn't mean that part of the time you're here, you work.

- Hey, Kim. - Hey.

- What time you want to rehearse tonight? - 7:00 cool?

That's fine with me.

With you ladies singing, I know Kappa Lambda Nu

is going to make enough money to buy that giant-screen TV!

Television is precisely what is eroding the national intellect today.

Yeah.

But the honeys like it when they come to the frat house.

Ain't that right, Josie?

I guess so. I don't hang out there much.

One of life's great pities.

Excuse me.

I do not believe this trash!

Excuse me. Did anybody read the paper today?

50% of the people polled thought

Malcolm X was "Malcolm the Tenth," a British king.

Very funny.

What does that tell you?

They polled some stupid people.

Well, laugh it up while your history falls into collective amnesia.

Like I was saying, the party starts at 9:00-

- Now, I'm going to- - Excuse me.

This is no time to be shaking your little groove thing.

This is a time to be finding out who we are and where we come from.

I know who I am.

And I came from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant, ignorant.

"For this and many other reasons, liberal arts education is not outdated."

Nice shoes.

It's a shame they don't have eyes and ears.

Your audience is out here.

Now, do you really hate this all that much?

No, not that much.

Let me put you out of your misery. Sit down.

Ladies and gentlemen, this course is called Public Speaking.

Not public mumbling, not public slouching.

Thank you.

Remember, this is not radio.

It matters what you look like.

So, please, do not stand in front of an audience,

hunched over like Igor,

finger in your nose, scratching your body parts.

Hear, hear!

Nice outfit.

Why, thank you.

It won't do a thing for your grade.

Burned you, burned you.

Listen. You've got to learn to speak from your hearts.

You've got to grab that audience and make them believe what you're saying.

Then get the hell off the stage before they turn on you.

Now. We've covered rebuttals and orations,

so tomorrow's assignment is to be speakers at your own funerals.

You mean, deliver our own eulogies?

So bright, so fast, so Black.

Yes.

I find that tres morbide.

Well, it's a way to examine your goals� in English.

Professor�

it is also an opportunity for each and every one of us

to ponder our place in American history.

And I can see yours is going to be too long.

So, 15 minutes is all you get, people.

Professor�

must we dwell on death

on Dwayne Wayne's birthday?

Sit down.

I just don't like the idea.

Yes.

Now, ladies and gentlemen,

when you get up to this podium,

I want you to look out at that audience and I want you to think to yourself,

"I am a voice in this world, and, damn it, I deserve to be heard."

Now I want you to stand up and I want you to say-

- I'm a voice- - We're going to say it together.

I'm a voice in this world and I deserve to be heard.

I'm a voice in this world, and I deserve to be heard.

Over the mountain tops!

? Everybody's going crazy ?

? Watch out, baby ?

Oh, I like that.

Fernanda Chantilly, on sale.

Wait. Whitley, you have no money,

so why are you buying yet another nightgown?

No reason.

Don't look at me.

What was that song you'll were singing?

No, no, no, no. I am still in the lingerie department.

Now, are you planning on wearing this

at Dwayne's birthday dinner tomorrow night?

It will be there if I need it.

Ooh, look out!

So, how long would you like me to stay out of the apartment?

I don't know. I've never done this before.

Never?

Whitley, you and Dwayne have never�

Why is that so shocking?

Well, the restraint.

The willpower.

Dwayne is a gentleman.

I was talking about you.

It wasn't easy, but I'm glad I waited.

There's nothing wrong with being 22 and inexperienced.

Oh, nobody said there was.

Whitley, Dwayne has probably got this under control,

but just in case, there's something I want you to have.

It's a very important accessory, necessary for the evening.

A condom.

And you just happen to have one in your purse?

No, you keep it closed!

Keep it in there!

Whitley Gilbert, you are being absolutely ridiculous.

What do you propose I do, Jaleesa?

Offer it to him with an after-dinner mint?

No, I suggest that at the appropriate moment,

that you ask him to put it on.

And shatter the mood?

Better that than to find out a couple weeks from now

you've gotten an STD.

Why drag the florist into this?

STD. Sexually-transmitted disease.

Oh�

I can assure you my Dwayne has not been consorting with a disease.

And my beautiful evening will not be marred

by the presence of� that contraption.

Whitley, awaken thine mind and join us in the 20th century, okay?

You have got to protect yourself-

I'm not listening, I'm not listening!

All right, ladies and gentlemen. It is eulogy time.

Yes. Yes.

So let's hear from someone who really likes to talk.

Windley Gilbert.

That's� That's Whitley.

Yes, I know.

Oh, please, honey.

"In that year, she also celebrated"

"her 50th wedding anniversary to a distinguished engineer�

"and fellow Hillman alumnus,

"surrounded by her four children.

- And lots and lots of love-" - Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Please, please.

Professor, I have 20 more years to go.

Yes, I know, I know,

but I don't want my eulogy to say I died listening to yours.

Thank you.

Have a seat.

"It was the discovery of this alternate source of energy"

that won him the Nobel Prize."

Nobel, schmobel.

Where am I in this tableau?

Dr. Wayne's last moments

were spent in his beloved laboratory.

He died as he had lived�

Searching for truth.

Well done.

Bravo.

Beloved laboratory?

Spend your birthday in there.

Mr. Johnson, you're up.

Now, what is wrong with you?

I'm broken up over this.

"And at the age of 98, leaving behind his eighth wife"

"and only true love, Sheila E�

"Ron Johnson did not go out with a whimper.

He went out� with a bang."

Cymbals?

Very nice touch.

Now, sit your behind down.

Sit down.

Show time, Josie, you're up.

"On Josie Webb's 13th birthday,"

her aunt gave her a book."

Pick up those eyes and enunciate.

Her aunt gave her a book that changed her life.

It was a volume of Maya Angelou poems.

After Josie read And Still I Rise,

she knew she didn't want to be a ballet dancer or a nurse.

She wanted to be a poet.

Stop fidgeting.

You are a voice in this world.

So, it was a proud day when she graduated from Hillman

with a degree in English Literature and high honors.

That was the spring of 1992.

By the following spring, Josie Webb had died

of acquired immune deficiency syndrome�

the disease we all know as AIDS.

I didn't get AIDS from a blood transfusion

or by doing drugs.

I got it by having unprotected sex with my boyfriend

junior year in high school.

I knew Frank was smart, fine,

team's star quarterback.

Neither of us knew he was HIV positive.

Lying on the grass on a humid night,

looking up at the stars,

you just know you're going to live forever.

Lying on the grass,

it's impossible to imagine that five years later,

you'll be lying in a hospital bed

with pneumocystis pneumonia and a few years to live.

Nothing like an AIDS ward to teach you that youth is not immortality.

More than anything�

youth is the power to make choices.

Now that I'm gone�

I ask one thing of you.

Remember� always to choose life.

Thank you for your honesty.

How long have you known?

Since last summer.

Professor, I am so sorry that I am late.

But you're just in time for an "F."

Sit down.

Excuse me, Josie.

What's it like?

I mean, how do you feel every day?

Some days, fine.

Other days, not so fine.

I take a lot of medicine.

I don't, um�

I� I don't understand. This is not�

a woman's disease.

Tell that to the 16,000 women who have it, Whitley.

They use drugs and they do perverted things.

AIDS is not a moral judgment.

How come she couldn't tell by�

by looking at him?

'Cause you can tell by looking at-

Looking at me, could you tell I was dying?

Girl, she lives down the hall from me. I got to change dorms.

Gina, to get AIDS,

there has to be an exchange of bodily fluids.

That's why people get it from transfusions, needles, sex.

I've never had any of the above.

I'm safe.

Safe�

Aren't I? I mean, you can't get it from kissing?

They're not completely sure, Terrence, but it's highly unlikely.

I want to thank all the women in this room who held out on me.

I know this is a strange way to end the class,

but I think it's better if we just call this a day.

Good afternoon.

Josie, I really wish there was something I could do for you.

You already have.

Dr. Jordan.

I just want to say thank you.

It was what you said the other day that gave me the strength to do this.

You didn't need me to give you any strength.

"I am a voice in this world."

And so you are.

Good luck.

It's not fair.

I've led a clean life.

No drugs. Hardly any hooch.

Okay, I had my fair share of women,

but I didn't mean any harm.

Dumb-dumb, what are you talking about?

I'm dividing the total number of times I've done the Don Ron thing

without a cape.

By the total number of times I've done the Don Ron thing.

Oh, grim reaper, I'm your next harvest.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold on there, Don Ron.

First off, your math is all wrong here.

- It is? - Yeah, it's way wrong.

And this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of, Ron.

You're right. I'm bugging.

What's that?

Oh. That's just a list of women that I'm tutoring.

- Yeah. - Let me see.

Jane. Sally.

- Kinu? - Hey.

This is your own personal score card.

Hey, Ron. I don't think of it all as scoring.

That's probably a good thing, 'cause your batting average would be low.

Oh. Well, the shorter the list, the smaller the risk.

I'm doomed!

Oh, no!

Get a grip, Ron.

I tried to be responsible.

You know how it is.

You just get caught unprepared and�

And you say to yourself, "Hey, it can't happen to me."

Yeah, that's how I used to think�

till today.

You know, I was only unprotected once, with Sharon Thomas.

But I was her first.

That's what she told me.

I'm getting checked out tomorrow.

What would you like?

Uh, that's okay. Kim's going to take my order.

No, Kim is helping someone else.

Oh, no.

This has nothing to do with you, Josie.

Absolutely nothing.

How can you be so ignorant?

Why don't you two go to the student health and read a pamphlet?

Kim, there's a lot they don't know about this particular disease.

Why aren't you serving the customers, Josie?

Lone Ranger there looks hungry.

I'm trying to help them, Mr. Gaines.

Mr. Gaines, I can explain.

- These two- - I'm bald, Kimberly Reese, not blind.

Now, Josie has immune deficiency syndrome.

Now, that means that you're more dangerous to her,

standing here breathing your germs on her

than she could ever be to you.

Thank you.

If you don't want Josie to serve you,

then take your germs

and your intelligence deficiency syndrome out of The Pit.

- I'm sorry, Mr. Gaines. - Well, you should be.

Excuse me!

Josie! Josie!

Josie! Josie!

Come on. Come on back here now.

I probably shouldn't have told them.

I probably shouldn't even be working here.

What you should have done is told me, and I had to find out from somebody else.

What did you think I would do?

Fire me.

Oh, do I look like Rip Van Winkle to you?

I know what's going on out there in the world.

Why do you think I had that condom dispenser

installed in the lavatory?

I haven't been doing a very good job lately.

Oh, nonsense, nonsense.

Now, starting tomorrow morning,

I want you to have a big bowl of my double-buttered grits and red-eyed gravy.

We've got to keep you going till we find a cure to this thing.

Thank you.

Oh, my. Don't cry.

Don't cry.

Don't cry. Don't cry.

You can't spare the water weight.

Ta-da!

Fresh out of the oven.

- Yay! - Your birthday souffl�.

Yay for me!

- It fell. - Um�

Well, it's okay, baby. It's all right.

No, it's not okay.

This evening isn't working out the way I had planned it, Dwayne.

I can't get Josie out of my head.

Oh, sweetie, we'll never get her out of our heads.

She's part of the age we live in.

- Well, I hate it. - I know you do.

I don't want to be thinking about dying the first time we make love.

Believe me, you won't.

I was so ready.

You were?

Now it just doesn't feel right.

It doesn't?

No.

Well�

we'll just wait until it does.

- It might be a while. - Really?

Oh, I mean, that's okay.

That's okay.

- I'm so sorry, Dwayne. - Oh, shush.

Baby, don't apologize for doing what you feel.

Someday.

Sunday?

Some day.

Some. Some.

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