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[PHONE RINGS]

I got it!
It's for me! I'll get it!

Hello.

Aren't you glad you let
your fingers do the walking?

Because you got Kid Dy-no-mite
doing the talking.

Oh, Henrietta. Yeah--

Do y'all mind?
This is private.

Hey, now.

Hey, Henrietta. You know,
I'm glad you called,

because I was trying
to get in contact

with you last night,
but--

What? You went out
with Leroy Dopson?

Well, what's he got
that I ain't got?

And what else?

And what else?

And what else?!

J.J., she only got a dime,
she can't talk forever.

Well, we got our date together

for the Ike Hayes concert,
right?

No, I don't have
the tickets yet,

but I'm about
to get the bread.

And here come the baker now.

Thelma, where's
your mother?

She's not home yet.

She said she'll
be a little late from work.

Oh, that's too bad. I got some
news for her, some good news.

Hey, Dad. It's so good
to have you home.

Yeah, this news is the best
this family's heard ever, boy!

Oh, yeah. What?

Well, you are looking
at the new assistant foreman

of shipping and receiving for
the Brady Manufacturing Company.

Yeah!
Yeah, all right!

Dad, I'm so happy for you!

What about
the car wash?

What about the car wash,
Michael?

I already gave
them my notice.

I dried my last Dodge,
buffed my last Buick

and shined my last Chevy.

Yeah!

From now on, this is the only
kind of suds I wanna see.

Boy, I can't wait
to see the expression

on your mother's face
when I give her the news.

And speaking
of news, Dad,

and the high cost
of dating Henrietta.

You know,
I think it's time

we had one
of our man-to-man talks.

Don't you think
we're a man short?

But, seriously, Dad.

You know, there comes a time
in every boy's life

when he has to ask
his father 5 dollars.

Yeah? Well, Junior, there comes
a time in every Dad's life

when he's gotta say no.
I ain't got paid yet.

Oh, what am I gonna do now?

Hi, kids.

Hi, Ma.

Hey, my favorite mama.

You know, Ma--

Not now, J.J., I got some
exciting news for everybody.

You know, Thelma,
it's occurred to me

that our relationship
hasn't progressed

to the point
that it should.

Forget it.

Even though it is chump
change, you're not getting none.

Chump.

And the primary
reason why,

Thelma, is that
you're a deadbeat.

Oh.

Michael. My main man.

No.

Florida, wait till
you hear what I--

Wait till I tell you
what I just did.

You're not going
to believe it.

Well, baby,
it can't be half as good

as the surprise
I got for you.

I just came back
from an appointment

at the high school
principal's.

Florida, I got a job.
A good job!

Oh, James, that's wonderful!
I'm so happy for you.

And I'm gonna get
my high school diploma.

I just enrolled
in night school.

Hey, that's great.
When do you start?

That's a great idea!
Say what?

I'm gonna study for my
graduate equivalency test.

You know, the G.E.D.?

And anyone who passes it
gets their diploma

no matter how long
they've been out of school.

Oh, Ma, that's great.

You'll pass that test.
No problem at all.

Yeah, this is great.
I love this.

Florida, didn't you hear
what I said about the--?

Oh, James,
you don't know how long

I've dreamed
about doing this.

Yeah, but, Florida--

I get excited just
picking up my books.

Florida!

You know that this
is the best thing

that ever happened
to me?

Florida! You ain't even
coming up for air.

Damn, I tell you I got
the best job I ever had,

and you won't even let me
get a word in edgewise.

Oh, James, I'm sorry.
I got carried away with myself.

Tell me all
about your job.

Well, baby,
it's an assistant foreman job.

I really got lucky.

Well, honey,
that is so wonderful.

And I got lucky too!
Florida, it's a good job.

I mean, I gotta chance
to work my way up.

It's got a future.

Me too.

With a high-school diploma,
I'm bound to do better.

Florida, your listening ain't
caught up with your talking yet.

I'm trying to tell you I got
the best job I ever had,

and you ain't even
getting excited.

But, James, I am excited.

You're getting the break
you've always deserved.

But so am I.

Yeah, but where you come off
making a big decision like that

without talking
to me about it first?

James, I never thought you'd
be against me going to school.

Well, it's not that, Florida.

It's just that in this family,
we always talk things over

before we make
a big decision like that.

You're right, James,

I should've asked
you first, and I'm sorry.

So I'm gonna ask you now.

I'd like to go back to school.
Is it okay with you?

No.

No?

No. Now, we done talked about it
and made a decision.

James, what's wrong
with me going to school?

You won't be seeing me
for three nights a week.

But when you see me,
I'll be a better me.

I don't need
no better you, baby.

I like you just
the way you are now.

Daddy, why don't
you let Ma go back?

You always telling us that
a good education is the most

important thing you can have.
Well, that's true, Thelma, but--

You haven't changed
your mind, have you?

No, Michael, but-- Look,
at y'alls' age, I mean,

going to school make's sense,
but your mother's school days

are long behind her now.

You can't teach
an old dog new tricks.

Who's an old dog?

Florida, now, you know
I didn't mean that.

I didn't mean it that way, now--
You're never too old to learn.

Yeah, we can help Ma
with her homework.

Yeah.

How come you never
made me that offer?

Because you can't teach
a dumb dog nothing.

J.J., y'all stop fighting.

James, I'm only trying
to improve myself.

Give me one good reason
why I shouldn't go.

Because I say no.

That's the one
that always stops me.

You know, Dad, maybe you should
let Ma go to school.

She'd have it knocked.
She wouldn't even have to study.

What do you mean
by that, J.J.?

Well, why do you study?

To get good grades
so your parents

will sign your report card.

And, Ma, it is obvious
that you are old enough

to sign your own
report card.

So you have meliminated
the middle man.

Junior, you don't
get out of here,

I'm gonna meliminate you.

James, I don't understand you.

You dropped out of school
in the sixth grade.

I dropped out in the 10th.

Now, we both know how hard
it is to get a decent job.

Well, I got it worst of all.

I'm black,
I'm a woman,

and I don't
have a high-school diploma.

Now, in the job market, that
makes me the low-priced spread.

Well, Florida, you ain't
got time to go to school.

You got a family
to raise.

James, have you looked
at your family recently?

They're practically grown.

Well, if you go
to school at night,

who's gonna do the cooking
and the cleaning?

Maybe we can get a white woman
to come in twice a week.

Well, all y'all doing a lot
of fat-mouthing for nothing

because I still
say the answer is no.

That's it, the case is closed.

Now, what's for dinner?

One hell of a fight.

You kids go study. I'll call you
when we get ready to eat.

Oh, Ma!

I don't wanna go and study.

Children, go in the room
and study like I said.

Come on, Michael.

Now, Florida, I ain't gonna
argue with you about this,

but I do want to know one thing.
Who put this idea in your head?

Nobody.

Willona told me
about that course

that they're offering
in the school and--

Willona. Willona.

I should've known. The galloping
gossip of the ghetto.

Now, James, you shouldn't say
things like that about Willona.

She's practically family.

Yeah, baby,
tell me something.

You been knowing
Willona longer than me.

What does she look like
with her mouth shut?

Hi, y'all.

Well, I guess
I'll never know.

Hey, Flo, you here the news?

The cops just caught a mugger
in the laundry room.

What was he doing
down there?

His underwear, I think.

Willona? Where you get off
filling Florida's head

full of this school garbage?

Now, what's wrong with Florida
going back to school?

I done already gave her
a whole lot of good reasons why.

Oh, James, don't stop her now.

Going back to school is
her chance to get underway.

You know, as usual, Willona,
your mouth is working overtime,

but your brain done
took the day off.

I give up.

Hey, wait a minute, Willona.
Tell me something.

If you so hot on Florida
going to school,

how come you ain't signed up
for these courses?

Because I already
have my diploma.

How do you think I got the job
at the boutique?

I figured you was just working
off your clothing bill.

James.

Okay, Master James, sir.

If'n you don't want me
on the plantation no more,

I's going. I's going out there
where the snow is falling

and the ice on the river.

But it's a hundred degrees
warmer than it is in here.

Begging your pardon, sir.

I think I be saying
goodbye now, sir.

You won't have to see this
cotton-picking

cotton picker
picking cotton no more.

* Oh, the sun shine bright
And the master's always right *

* On his own
Ohh! **

We'll talk about this later
after you cool off.

Florida, if you go
to school at night, baby,

we ain't never gonna
get a chance to do

none of the things
we used to do.

What things, James?

You know, like playing cards
or checkers.

Checkers?

Yeah.

We played checkers once,
twelve years ago.

Well, I'm ready
to play again.

James, you're just
making up reasons.

What is there about me
going back to school

that can possibly
upset you this much?

Does it threaten you
in some way?

What are you
talking about?

How is something like
that gonna threaten me?

Well, you had to drop out
of school in the sixth grade

to support your family.

I just thought maybe
if I went back

and got my
high school diploma--

Florida, that ain't
got nothing to do with me.

I just don't like
this foolishness.

Okay, James, tell me no,
and I'll drop the whole thing.

But I wanna hear it
from your mouth.

You tell me, no,
I can't improve myself.

No, you don't want me
to get ahead.

No, I can't be anything more
than I am right now.

All right, Florida,
go on, go to school.

I don't care.
Go to college, damn it.

Get a PhD if you wanna.
Just leave me alone!

Ma, you still studying?

You haven't looked up
from those books

since I came home
from school.

I haven't looked up
for two weeks.

You know that it's kind of hard
getting back in this stuff,

but I think I'm finally
getting the hang of it.

Well, that's good, Ma.

You know, Ma, if you want
to cut your study time in half,

I think I'll start you off

with the J.J. Evans
speed-reading technique.

This I gotta see.

Now, I have never read
this book before, right?

Knowing you, I'd say
that's a safe bet.

Watch closely.

There you go.
Finished studying.

You mean, you know everything
in that book?

No, I don't know anything.

But if the teacher ask me,

I could say I laid
a eye on every page.

You fool, you!

Hey, now, come on!

Ma!

Hey, come on, now,
with that noise, now.

Junior. I thought I asked you
to take the garbage out.

Oh, I will, Dad.

That's what you said
a half-hour ago, Junior.

Oh, don't worry, Dad,
I got it covered.

Now, Junior!

James, you don't have
to yell at the boy.

You know, in that child
psychology course I'm taking,

they say that most parents

either reason with their
children or yell at them.

You are a yeller.

Florida, I don't need none of
them fancy schoolbooks

to tell me how
to raise these kids.

We've been doing
it this way for a long time now.

Yeah, but if you reason
with them,

it makes them feel more
responsible.

All right, baby.
All right.

Junior.

Yes, Dad.

Step here a minute,
please, son.

Now, that's nice.

Junior, you know why
old Dad asked you

to take the garbage
out right now?

Why, Dad?

Because if you didn't,
I was gonna yell my head off!

You right, baby.
It does work.

Hey, what's going
on in here?

What's going on around here?
Is everything all right?

Nothing. Go on back
in your rooms and study. Go on.

Come on, Michael.

You know, it wouldn't hurt you
to try a little patience.

Well, ain't you become
the expert on child raising

after just two weeks of school.

Oh, now,
I never said that.

Good. Because I ain't about
to let no textbook run my life.

Ain't no way.

That sounds terrible.

I don't care, Florida,
that's the way I feel.

No, no, no. I'm talking
about the way you're talking.

Do you realize you just used
three ain'ts in a row?

So what?

Well, I do it
all the time too.

But it's wrong.

We're setting a bad example
for the children.

There is no such word
as ain't.

No? It's in the dictionary.

No ain't ain't.
But isn't is.

You wrong, Florida.

Look it up.

Can't.
Why not?

Ain't got no dictionary.

I'm telling you, James,
that's bad grammar.

I knew it.
It's happening, it's happening.

What's happening?

This school stuff, Florida.
It's just changing you.

First you tell me
I ain't talking right.

Then you tell me I ain't
raising the kids right.

Oh, James, I didn't
mean nothing by it.

How long is it gonna be till
you come home from school

and tell me I isn't
doing nothing right?

Oh, I knew
this school foolishness

wasn't gonna work out.
I just knew it.

James, honey, you don't
understand.

No, Florida,
you don't understand.

See, we're going
in different directions now.

Right now you're going that way,
and I'm going this way.

And my way is this way!

James!

Hey, James Evans.

Hey, Willy!
What you know good, man?

What's happening, man?
Hey, sit down, man.

Yeah, thank you.

Say, how that new job
of yours coming on?

Oh, I can't complain, Willy.

Man, we sure do miss you
down at the car wash.

You know they replaced you
with a sister.

You jiving. You mean to say they
got a woman working down there?

Yeah, man, and she
ain't nothing but trouble.

She used to be a maid.

Well, what's wrong
with that?

She don't do no windows.

You crazy, man.
That's crazy, crazy.

Hey, I'll have one
of those too, please.

Yeah, Lord.

Yes.

Say, James, you wanna
play me for the beer?

Yeah, why not?
Okay.

Been a long time since
I beat you at pinball.

Say, what--? Where you been
keeping yourself, man?

I don't see you
around here much anymore.

What's the occasion?

Ain't no occasion, man.

I mean, can't a man
have a beer in peace?

Wouldn't have nothing with
Florida going back to school?

Now, where'd you hear that?

Oh, word gets around.
I could've warned you.

Take it from Willy J.
Washington.

You give your woman
a little education,

and you get yourself
in a whole lot of trouble.

Yeah, Willy, well, take it
from James Evans.

Just cool it
on that, hear?

Yes, sir,
if the good Lord

had of wanted a woman
to go to school,

he would've given
them brains.

Hey, man.
You can't use your hands.

You about do beat
the machine to death.

This machine
is just like a woman.

Now, every once in a while,
you gotta set them straight.

Come on, now,
no hands, man.

Thank you, baby.

Yeah, okay,
okay, man.

Hey!

Well, you ain't said
nothing about hips.

I ain't say nothing about
forklifts either,

but you ain't allowed
to use them.

I'm done anyway. See if you
can beat that score, man.

Go ahead, beat it.

Well, it's going
to be hard

to beat a man on a pinball
machine that uses his hips,

his mouth and his hands
all at the same time.

But I believe
I can do it.

Say, man, you never
should've let her start

that school business
in the first place.

Yeah.
You should've stopped her.

Now, you know you gotta keep
a woman in her place.

Yeah.

Hey, man,
I thought you--

I thought you said,
no body English.

That ain't body English, bro,
that's hip talk.

You got a whole lot
of soul.

I do believe you owe me
a beer, my brother.

James, you ain't nothing
but an old pinball hustler.

Yeah, well,
it takes one to know one.

Yeah, you dusted me
out pretty good.

Here you go.

Thank you.

Well, it's good
you won anyway.

Maybe it'll make you
feel better.

Now, I know what you
been going through.

No, Willy, let's cool
it on that, huh?

No, listen. About
six months ago, my wife

started complaining she wasn't
satisfied with herself.

She thought
she was wasting her life,

so she started going
to the free clinic

and seeing
this head-shrinker.

And I let her go. Worst mistake
I ever made in my life.

Yeah, what happened?

Well, she started coming home
with all these new ideas.

I couldn't figure it out.

Now, she was going there to find
out what was wrong with her,

but all she could find out was
what was wrong with me.

What was wrong
with you?

Yeah. Before she got
with that shrinker,

she thought I was
the whole enchilada.

After he finished with her,

I was just
down to the bean.

She left me, James.

She left you?

Yeah. All of a sudden.

She was going her way,
and I was going my way.

Mama, I still say
you're making a big mistake

by not going
to school tonight.

I know what
I'm doing, child.

Michael's right.

If you don't go to school,
you're cheating yourself.

A woman has the right to go as
far as her mind will take her.

And, Ma, once you make your
mind up, I know you can do it.

That's right, Ma,

and I ain't ashamed
to admit that we equal

in brains as well
as in beauty.

Mama, Daddy will find out
that you're right,

and he'll get used to you
going to school.

That's right, Ma.

It's a good time to--

Now listen, all of you.

What's right is my husband
and my family.

What's wrong is anything
that comes between us.

And that's exactly what
this school's been doing.

So to heck
with the diploma.

CHILDREN:
Oh, Ma--

For now.

From now on, I'll read
these books at home,

and learn the same
as if I'd gone to school.

This way, I'll get an education
and keep my family happy too.

Florida, I got something
to tell you, baby.

And I got something
to tell you too, honey.

Now, look, I've been thinking
about this school business,

and I figured that--

You don't have to worry
about that no more.

That's what I wanna talk about.
Well, me too. Look, I--

Honey, it ain't worth what
we've been going through.

Right, so--
So I made a decision.

Florida, will you just let me
get one word in so I can--?

You don't have
to worry about it.

I'm not going
to school anymore.

I'm going
to study at home.

Damn it, Florida,
you're doing it again.

Well, look, if you
ain't gonna let me talk,

at least let me
show you something, huh?

Hey, Mama,
that's a book bag.

All the kids
at school have them.

Yeah, I got it for you.

But, James, I thought you didn't
want me to go to school?

Yeah, well, baby,
I was wrong.

Look, I took a good,
long, hard look at myself,

and what I saw was
a selfish guy

who was just afraid of something
he didn't understand.

Florida, you're supposed
to be in school.

You're a smart woman.
That's where you belong.

Right on, Dad.

Making progress around here.
All right. That's good.

Oh, James. Just when
I think I know you,

I find out something more
wonderful all the time.

It's like Michael
said, baby,

you ain't never
too old to learn.

And that ain't all.
Look here.

Oh, two book bags? Oh, honey,
I don't have that many books.

Well, that one ain't--
That one isn't for you.

It's for me. I'm gonna sign up
for the classes too.

James!

Right on, Daddy!
All right!

Well, we better get going, baby,
we're gonna be late for school.

Oh, James.

Honey, this
is so wonderful.

Well, look,
if things are changing.

I'm gonna have
to change with them.

From now on, we're both
going the same way.

Let's go.

Now, isn't that--?

I mean, ain't that nice?

Can I carry
your books to school?

Come on, James.
See you all, yeah.

Hey, Ma, Dad, how'd it
go in school?

Yeah, tell us
all about it.

Well, things sure have changed
since we went to school.

For one thing,
the desks got smaller.

Yeah, and the girls
got older.

And the teachers
got younger.

Oh, by the way, J.J.,
your principal was there.

We had a nice,
long talk with him.

Oh, whatever he said,
I deny it!

Well, he said he's seeing more
of you than your teachers are.

Matter of fact,
he's thinking of making

the principal's office
your homeroom.

Yeah, but how about you?
Did you dig it?

Oh, we both loved it.
It's gonna be tough, though.

But we'll
see it through.

Won't we, James?

That's for sure, baby.
All right.

And another thing, Dad.

Now with you and Ma going
to school together,

you don't have to worry about
a date for the senior prom.

Oh, J.J.

[***]

* Mmm *

* Just lookin'
Out of the window *

* Watching
The asphalt grow *

* Thinkin' how
It all looks hand-me-down *

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Above water *

* Makin' a wave
When you can *

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